China has made unbelievable advances since they adopted a new platform in the 1980s, from a strict Maoist Communist platform, to one which integrated open trade agreements - generally referred to as Party-State-Capitalism . It is important, however, to keep in mind that while China has made incredible advances economically, and astounding progress in morphing their nation in the last several decades, those advances have NOT been in the realm of human and civil rights. On the

There are a lot of reasons in our contemporary times to be dismayed by what is happening; the dictators, the wars, the utter brutal disregard for lives as we see happening in Ukraine at the hands of Russia, the mass killing of Palestinians by a dictatorial Israeli regime, or even in the United States, a nation that once carried the torch of freedom and democracy, where one man and his decrepit party are threatening democracy and unilateral collaboration across the world - but

Photo from www.thethinkacademy.com The following article was posted at  International Writers Inspiring Change , which is excerpted from  www.thethinkacademy.com  (including the above image) - an excellent article about  Literacy and Democracy  and what we as authors face as a challenge to restore deep-reading (of books) in order to protect critical-thinking and freedom of thought. Read the article  HERE . Réal Laplaine Author of high-concept thrillers www.reallaplaine.com

The following definitions are borrowed from the  Merriam-Webster dictionary: Autocracy:  a state or society governed by one person with absolute power: Oligarchy:  a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes “a choice between democracy and oligarchy … the Greeks knew that social inequality was the route through which democracy turns to oligarchy. … Oligarchy is the rule of the few, and these few have been understood since

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