Dictatorships

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• Montazeri’s death a blow to green opposition, but new protests present regime with dilemma

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  As tens of thousands of mourners turned the funeral procession of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran’s most senior dissident cleric, into a major anti-government protest, another opposition leader cautioned the West against exploiting the regime’s weakness to frustrate Iran’s ‘peaceful’ nuclear ...
  5 days ago

• Penny Wong jeered, Hugo Chavez cheered ( Copenhagen )

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  THE Copenhagen climate summit was pretty much summed up in the high-level segment yesterday when Penny Wongs speech was interrupted by whistles and chanting and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got a standing ovation. President Chavez brought the house down. When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Speaks (Some) Truth From Power

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 486
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• Why is the West So Easily Fooled by Middle East Dictators? Case in Point: Syria’s “Independent” Media is Owned by the Regime

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 150
  From Rubin ReportsWhy is the West So Easily Fooled by Middle East Dictators? Case in Point: Syria’s “Independent” Media is Owned by the RegimePosted: 12 Dec 2009 06:00 PM PSTPlease subscribe for accurate reportage and stories you’ll get nowhere elseBy Barry RubinIt’s remarkable how easy it is for Middle ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz to advise Myanmar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Yangon, Dec 14 (DPA) Nobel laureate and former chief economist at the World Bank Joseph Stiglitz is due to visit Myanmar this week to advise the government on its development policies, media reports said Monday.On Tuesday the renowned economist is to attend a seminar in Nay Pyi Taw, the military’s new capital, which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama bears witness to democratic reformers

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  “We will bear witness…to the hundreds of thousands who have marched silently through the streets of Iran,” said President Obama in his acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony today.Referring also to “the quiet dignity of reformers like Aung Sang Suu Kyi” and “the bravery of Zimbabweans who cast ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taiwan’s former dissidents recall Kaohsiung catalyst for democratic transition

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  In some cases it starts with a plumber scaling a Polish shipyard wall or a group of schoolchildren protesting the compulsory teaching of Afrikaans. Other times, it is activists mobilizing to challenge attempts to steal an election or referendum.Recent history provides plenty of cases in which individual or collective ...
  2 weeks ago

• US-Iran history an ‘object lesson’ of cost of failing to stand for democracy

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  With this week’s protests confirming the resilience of opposition to Iran’s Islamic Republic, the regime will inevitably react with its familiar narrative that the green movement is a tool of the hostile West and, more specifically the Great Satan itself.While this narrative has lost much of its appeal inside ...
  2 weeks ago

• Six Charged in Murder of Former Chilean President Eduardo Frei

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 137
  In one of the more intriguing human rights cases in the Southern Cone, six men have been charged in the murder of former Chilean president Eduardo Frei . Frei had been president of Chile from 1964 to 1970, and while Frei wasnt a "radical," he did launch some significant reform programs in Chile, including ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Middle East: Reporting an Enigma … Alan Caruba

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  The Middle East: Reporting an Enigma By Alan Caruba ************** When President Obama delivers a speech on why he is going to send more thousands of U.S. troops and spend more billions on the eight-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, it would be a good idea to better understand why so much of what is ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Middle East: Reporting an Enigma

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 138
  The Middle East is very different from the West and Luyendijk believes that few in the West are even vaguely aware that those who live there live in a parallel universe; one that functions by the rules of ruthless dictatorships, by tribes, and by a religion that is hostile to all others.
  4 weeks ago

• An Argentine-Chilean War?

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 137
  This certainly would have been interesting had it happened: The last Argentine dictatorship headed by General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri had plans to attack Chile following the invasion and recovery of the disputed Falklands/Malvinas Islands in 1982 revealed on Sunday the former chief of the Argentine Air Force at ...
  5 weeks ago

• Berlin Wall Series: German Democratic Republic

  
  Liberty Scott — Authority: 513
  The Berlin Wall itself was a response to one simple point. The abject failure of socialism to satisfy the citizens of the German Democratic Republic to want to stay. For with many east Germans able to receive west German television, and all able to receive western radio broadcasts, the contrast was clear. ...
  5 weeks ago

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