Vote for Nobody
The system is geared towards the empowerment of politicians, when in reality we should be voting for no person to vote on our behalf, we should only be directly voting on matters of substance and we should be doing it ourselves.
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Every country is negotiating a plan to save nature. Except the US.
CALI, Colombia — The United States is, by many measures, a global environmental leader, barring four years under former President Donald Trump. It has some of the strongest environmental laws in the world, such as the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act. The country invests billions of …
Revolution and Papacy
Pope Gregory XVI believed that, even if it were true that immediate spiritual advantages might be gained by revolt, or by the introduction of liberal …
Indigenous Sovereignty Is Under Attack as Supreme Court Bends Rules for Settlers
The Supreme Court has made headlines in recent years for a variety of controversial rulings — for gutting affirmative action, granting the president …
Sovereignty for Sale
It goes way beyond tax havens and offshore banking. Enterprising countries have figured out how to put their legal systems at the disposal of corporate interests. In the past few years, a secretive consortium of technologists and investors has spent almost a billion dollars to purchase about ninety …
Digital sovereignty and data sovereignty
Digital technologies are data-driven. But who has access to the data, and who is allowed to use it? Digital sovereignty means that people can decide …
Somaliland Seeks Trump Backing for Sovereignty
Bloomberg Technology The only daily news program focused exclusively on technology, innovation and the future of business from San Francisco. Hosted …
How to overcome limits for quantum technologies to balance global cooperation with national sovereignty
Next year, the world will celebrate 100 years of scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs based on quantum mechanics, with the UN …
In history, context is everything
Te Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti outside Parliament Buildings, Wellington, November 19, drew tens of thousands opposed to the Principles of the Treaty of …
Minority rule is threatening US democracy
As any schoolkid might tell you, US elections are based on a bedrock principle: one person, one vote. Simple as that. Each vote carries the same …