is this vote really a significant step forward? First let's consider the Saudi electoral system within the context of an absolute monarchy. The ruler is always a male and inherits his position. All powerful government positions from ministers to governors are appointed by the King. The 150-member Consultative Council, known as the Shura Council, is also appointed and has only advisory power.
The struggle for women's rights offers many lessons on effective organizing and pitfalls that can and should be avoided in building a movement to to overcome corporate rule and establish real and transformative democracy.
NPR Story Facilitates U.S. Apologetics for Saudi Extremism
The LAUSD seems to forget that California law says that the public has a right to inspect the documents of government agencies.
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
My warning that the neoconservatives have resurrected the threat of nuclear Armageddon, which was removed by Reagan and Gorbachev, is also being given by Noam Chomsky, former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, and other sentient observers of the neoconservatives’ aggressive policies toward Russia and China.