"Qadhafi talks up 'direct democracy'"
US News & World Report
March 19, 2007
By Dan Morrison

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The unusual "conversation" among Qadhafi, Giddens, American political scientist Benjamin Barber, and the British interviewer David Frost was an effort to show the world a Libya in transition from socialism to free markets and from dictatorship to something--perhaps one day less than dictatorship.