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Campaign 2007

Dear Readers, Contributors and Members,

Our "Think Long Term" campaign has just over a month to run, and we need more than 10 new donors per day to make our target. Please help us get there! You can donate by clicking here.

One of the themes of the campaign is how we as democrats, should respond to the generalised retreat from a belief in Democracy and Human Rights in the face of the US's borrowing of that language to justify its foreign policy.

This theme was particularly resonant to me in the two articles we have carried on the Kenyan crisis. Michael Hollman asks how much the west has turned a blind eye to misgovernment because of Kenya's "good ally" status, while Peter Kimani recounts the historical, Kenyan, Cold War and colonial roots of the Macchiavellian manipulation of tribe for the power of fiefdoms. Both underline the damage that has been done to democratic government by their fig-leaf adoption of the principles of democracy. Kenya is a failure of non-democracy, not of electoral processes.

These articles are a demonstration of the sort of long term, independent, pro-democracy writing and thinking that your donation will help to sustain --- please donate by clicking here.

With best wishes,

Tony Curzon Price

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