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Despotism & Democracy
Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - 1946
Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?
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Retired Colonel and foreign affairs expert Andrew J. Bacevich on Bill Moyers speaks about the crises that are threatening our democracy.
(Premiers August 15, 2008 at 9 p.m.
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Iranian expert Bahman Batmanghelidj briefs viewers on the regime in Iran and how to promote democracy. He is the Chairman of the Alliance for Democracy in Iran. This is an edition of Conservative Roundtable, the nationally broadcast conservative television program hosted by Howard Phillips, and produced by The Conservative Caucus. http://www.conservat iveusa.org
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Interview with "Nemisis: Last Days of the American Republic" author Chalmers Johnson; CIA analyst, scholar and author of best-selling "Blowback" and "Sorrows of Empire", gives as somber lesson on the problems with US democracy and Empire. 1of 2 parts