Democracy seen in decline around the world: U.S. study

World Jan. 16, 2013 - 03:41PM JST ( 5 )

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Elbuda MexicanoJan. 16, 2013 - 05:55PM JST

I really do not think we would really want to see a "free and democratic" China.
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Thunderbird2Jan. 16, 2013 - 09:04PM JST

There “is a critical need for leadership from the United States and other democracies,” the “Freedom in the World 2013” report said, arguing in favor of a greater U.S. engagement with civil society in oppressed nations.

There you are... self-procliamed defenders of democracy, protectors of the Earth.
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vollandJan. 17, 2013 - 07:52AM JST

Truely funny !

"There “is a critical need for leadership from the United States and other democracies,” the “Freedom in the World 2013” report said, arguing in favor of a greater U.S. engagement with civil society in oppressed nations."

It is precisely BECAUSE of their kind of activity that democracy is in decline!

It is does not take too much education to see that a product that has to be "sold" by an invading army causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, cannot not very desirable.
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Truong LeJan. 17, 2013 - 12:43PM JST

It even declines in US...Look at USA now, high unemployment, the poor keep getting poorer and bigger, high crime, corruption, the rich get richer..etc....A lot of issues and problems at home but the USA government keeps ignoring.....
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Herve Nmn L'EisaJan. 18, 2013 - 10:15PM JST

Democracy is in decline, especially in the USA, which mistakenly believes democracy can be spread by military intervention. Iraq is a picture of success, isn't it?