Posts Tagged ‘freedom of speech’

When People Turn a Blind Eye and Leaders Go Deaf

10 Feb 2011 at 08:57

Rio Helmi

Modern Indonesia, modern trends, politics from the sidelines

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Rio Helmi, 10 February 2011

Democracy is a term whose precise meaning is elusive, especially so in developing nations. For leaders more worried about superficial legitimacy than actually taking on the task of improving the lot of their people, ‘democracy’ revolves around elections and how to get through them intact. It has become something of [...]

LEAKS DON’T LIE – PEOPLE DO

07 Apr 2010 at 11:07

Rio Helmi

politics from the sidelines, social media

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Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks , has posted more than 1,2 million leaks in the last 3 years, and claims to receive something like 10,000 (yes ten thousand) leaked documents a day. The current super leak is the video from the US gunship helicopter shooting up a van in Baghdad in 2007 along with a [...]