In The Light of Day speaks to our blessed we are to live in a remarkable nation on a truly miraculous earth and how it is our sacred trust to remember this
truth and to protect this gift with our courage and our strength.

In The Light Of Day(1)

Inspiring look at democracy and why it is so valuable to humanity, the other species and our precious planet.  It is our sacred trust and our path to
higher consciousness.

Democracy Part Three

Another Inspiring Track That Speaks to Our Individual Responsibility in A Democracy from The Great American Anthem Roadshow & Song Book.   It also speaks to the blindness we have regarding this individual responsibility and how we are quick to look for someone else to blame.

I've Been Blind(1)

Foot To The Floor Call For Us All To Wake Up    = From The Great American Anthem Road Show and Song Book- is a plea, a prayer, a prompt, a demand
to each of us to do all that is necessary to save our democracy

Wake Up(9)

Love of The World, one of the primary themes of this series and how moving past limiting beliefs that divide us is one of the keys.   From The Great American Anthem Roadshow and Song Book.  Lyrics by George Cappannelli, Music by Dana Walden, Sung by Shane August

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At no time in our history have so many who claim to be elected officials and leaders utilizing lies and misinformation to destroy of nation.  Season of Treason explores this and encourages our citizens to wake up before it encourages us to move past the hate and division before it is too.

This Season of Treason(4)

The Dilusion like the Great Con speaks to the fact that the current election is not between two political parties each seeking to practice democracy and uphold our constitution from a different point of view, but instead it is a struggle between democracy and autocracy

The Dillusion(1)

The Revolution of The Heart is not only a key track in The Great American Anthem Song Book, but it is the essential revolution that must take place 
if we are to save democracy and as a result save humanity, the other species and our precious habitat.

The revolution of the heart

Ain't No Doubt About IT is a key track in the Great American Song Book.

Ain’t No Doubt About

This Rock Opera Track identifies a key track in The Great American Song Book that reminds us that we must wake up and save democracy before the noble
dream that helped birth democracy before it is too late.

Keep A Noble Dream From Dying

Beautiful, inspiring track about what is enough and that the search for more is part of the disease of our time.  It's also a reminder that the best things in life  are free and belong to you and me and all of us.

Sufficiency

Michael Doran, a senior fellow and director of the Hudson Institute, joins us to discuss why America must be a staunch supporter of Israel's right to exist.

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Should America Be Involved In Israeli Conflicts? | Michael Doran

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The Deceiver In Chief speaks to the sad and lonely man who cannot find his place in the world of man and therefore tried out of desperation to break the world.  This is an important song and theme that will be covered in the Great American Song Book Musical Review

the-deceiver in chief(5)

LAURA FLANDERS - COMMENTARY EXCERPT:  "I went into New York City to attend Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, but I couldn't get in. It was so oversubscribed, I was surprised. And as I stood there in the penned-in area with other would-be attendees, we watched on the jumbotron and I wondered about the other things I'd seen that had surprised me. Some of them right there at The Garden....."  Listen to hear the entire commentary.

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Bad Surprises, Good Surprises: Reflections on the Trump Rally in New York City | Commentary


Black Studies professor Darius Spearman at San Diego City College explores Novi Sad student protests and US activism, highlighting solidarity, corruption, and repression. Learn more at africanelements.org.

Angry Novi Sad Student Protests Reveal Bold New Tactics

In the early 21st century, democratic societies are at the height of their affluence, scientific brilliance, and institutional sophistication. Yet, their capacity to navigate the future has dramatically eroded since the turn of the century. While it has been the hallmark of democratic politics to sacrifice long-term and global policy commitments to short-term and local concerns, the postwar era witnessed an unprecedented rise in future-oriented institutions meant to lengthen the shadow of the future, both domestically and internationally, from the welfare state to international organisations.

Albena Azmanova and Kalypso Nicolaidis argue that times are changing in contradictory ways. Collective time is shrinking again under the diktat of emergency politics while at the very same time the need to act long term has never been so urgent, so pressing. Thus, democracies now seem to be in the grip of a paradox. On the one hand, they are afflicted by myopic tunnel vision: barely coping with one crisis after another, bereft of the capacity to think beyond their immediate concerns, people are increasingly focused on the here-and-now. On the other hand, the awareness is growing of the need for urgent action that is future-focused and planetary in scope – in order to safeguard nature, harness the digital revolution, fight poverty and disease, and prevent wars whose impact defies local borders. Indeed, democracies’ political ambitions for radical, transformative action are commendably bold.  

Azmanova and Nicolaidis set out to tackle this ‘paradox of democratic time’, as they call it: the fact that democracies are uniquely capable of harnessing collective intelligence in pursuit of grand political ambitions and thus anchor their present into a better future, yet keep chaining their future to an anxious present. The speakers consider three strategies for solving this paradox.

Meet our speakers and chair 

Albena Azmanova is Professor of Political and Social Science at City, University of London and Senior Fellow at OSUN’s Economic Democracy Initiative, Bard College. She is co-director of the Radical Critical Theory Circle and founder and co-editor of the journal Emancipations. Her analyses of contemporary capitalism have received numerous awards, among which the Michael Harrington Award of the American Political Science Association given for work that “demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world”. She has worked as policy advisor for a number of international organisations, most recently, as a member of the Independent Commission for Sustainable Equality to the European Parliament and as consultant to the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Kalypso Nicolaidis is Chair in Global Affairs at the School of Transnational Governance (EUI), where inter alia she convenes the EUI Democracy Forum. She is currently on leave from the University of Oxford and was professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and at Ecole Nationale d’Admistration, Paris. She has worked with numerous EU institutions, including as a member of the European Council’s reflection group on the future of Europe chaired by Felipe González (2008-10), and is a Council member of ECFR. She also served as advisor on European affairs to George Papandreou in the 90s and early 2000s, the Dutch and UK governments, the European Parliament, the European Commission, OECD and UNCTAD.

Abby Innes (@innes_abby) is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at LSE. She has published widely on the political economy of Central Europe and drew on this background for the comparison of Soviet and neoliberal economic regimes in Late Soviet Britain. In more recent years Abby has focused her research and teaching on the political economy of the green transition in Europe.

Regaining our futures: how to build democracies with foresight

In a new edition of I4I conversations, Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics) is joined by Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego) to discuss his new book, Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance.

Building State capacity for accelerating development through effective governance

Please listen and think, especially if you are a Supreme Court Justice.  The nation is at risk.  (Original lyrics, coverart by DALL-E, sound by Suno.)

Lapdog for Tyrants

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End of Western Civilization got you down? All is tickety-boo on The Andrew Klavan Show as Andrew laughs his way though Armageddon with political satire, cultural commentary, interviews and relentless mockery of racial pieties, sexual perversities, and feminist absurdities. Monday thru Thursday.

Shakespearean in the green mountains, with AI on the side.

New tracks tagged #Democracy,