Word: antigovernmental
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In its latest attempt to quell antigovernment activities, Iran announced it would execute six people who had participated in a December protest. The sentence was announced one day before the start of the Feast of Fire festival, public celebration of which has been banned since the 1979 revolution, when it...
Many of the Tea Party movement's gripes are common complaints about government. But let's not sugarcoat what the people are at the core of this phenomenon: ultra-nationalist, right-wing Christian, militant, antigovernment, disproportionately Southern, overwhelmingly white, prone to conspiracy theories and slanderous toward a liberal African American...
From the time the sun set Tuesday evening, Tehran was filled with the sounds of small explosions and the smell of smoke. Police and Basij militia presence throughout the city was as high as it has been at any point since last year's controversial presidential election, but for the...
The government may have scored a tactical victory on Feb. 11, by preventing the opposition from organizing antigovernment demonstrations on the anniversary of the revolution, but beneath the surface little has changed. The government lacks legitimacy and is increasingly resorting to force to stay in power. Infighting at the é...
Third, more Ross Perots. Vicious-circle politics thrives because while gridlock sours the public on both parties, the out-of-government party (particularly if it's also the antigovernment party) benefits anyway. That might change were our political system filled with latter-day Perots, cranky independent candidates determined to punish...