List of articles for ‘Politics’ 
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Participatory Action Research: Some Personal Reflections
The highlight of the long awaited return of the PROUT UTC was the activist workshop on Participatory Action Research. This system helps us learn about ourselves and our environment through teams that explore the needs and solutions to problems in our communities. First, all participants gathered to hear brief, yet inspiring introductions to the history [...]
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Participatory Action Research in the Missouri Ozarks
“The aim of participatory action research is to change practices, social structures, and social media which maintain irrationality, injustice, and unsatisfying forms of existence. … [It] is emancipatory, it leads not just to new practical research, but to new abilities to create knowledge. In action research knowledge is a living, evolving process of coming to [...]
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Constitutional proposals for Venezuela
INTRODUCTION Prout is the acronym for the Progressive Utilization Theory, a new socio-economic paradigm proposed by the late philosopher and spiritual master Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. It proposes the maximum utilization and rational distribution of all physical, psychic and spiritual resources, for the dynamic progress and equilibrium for all beings. Political democracy requires a population that [...]
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Venezuela: Not a Banana-Oil Republic after All
The Counter-Coup It looks like Venezuela is not just another banana-oil republic after all. Many here feared that with the April 11 coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela was being degraded to being just another country that is forced to bend to the powerful will of the United States. The successful counter-coup of April [...]
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Popular Uprising in the Barrio’s of Argentina May Spell Hope for Argentinean Proutists
Argentina was the poster child of U.S.-sponsored globalization in the 1990’s. As Dani Rodrik pointed out in the New Republic, “The country undertook more trade liberalization, tax reform, privatization, and financial reform than virtually any other country in Latin America.” So why were finance minister Cavallo and president de la Ru’a forced out of office [...]
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Coup in Venezuela: An Eyewitness Account
The orchestration of the coup was impeccable and, in all likelihood, planned a long time ago. Hugo Chavez, the fascist communist dictator of Venezuela could not stand the truth and thus censored the media relentlessly. For his own personal gain and that of his henchmen (and henchwomen, since his cabinet had more women than any [...]
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Economic Democracy, World Government, and Globalization
From a political and moral perspective, the US-led war against Iraq was an unjust war. While military force against a brutal tyrant like Saddam Hussain may be justified, it should always be a last resort, after all diplomatic means have been exercised. Moreover, if such a military action is finally undertaken, it should be led [...]
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The Future of Iraq and the Middle East
The war against Iraq was driven by vested rather than moral and humanitarian interests. The US-led forces should therefore leave Iraq as soon as possible. Given the absence of a World Government and a World Militia, the next best alternative is that a coalition of forces, led by the UN, will restore law and order [...]
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Benefits of global government
Question: What will be the benefits and advantages to be enjoyed by people if a global government is formed? Answer: There are several benefits and advantages: The huge expense of maintaining a militia in each country will be saved and this saving can be used by people for their benefit. Human beings will be saved [...]
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The Axis of Evil is Now for Real
I am starting to believe Bush. The Axis of Evil really exists. In an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times, former US State Department official Bennet Ramberg reminds us, quite chillingly, that the Axis of Evil is now for real. For a while, it looked like the three most evil countries in the world–Iraq, [...]