Stephen Harper has travelled to Afghanistan to pay tribute to the last rotation of Canadian combat troops, marking the coming end of a bloody five-year mission in Kandahar.
The Prime Minister, who flew into Afghanistan under tight security and secrecy Monday, mounted a Chinook helicopter to serve lunch to Canadian troops at a battlefield base in Sperwan Ghar, in the still hotly-contested Panjwai district of Kandahar. He also laid a wreath at a memorial for fallen soldiers and spoke to hundreds of assembled Canadian troops at Kandahar Airfield.
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Democracy Gone Astray
Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.
All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.
[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]
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