Word: authoritarianism
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Approximately 100 people marched from MIT to the Cambridge Common yesterday to celebrate the victory of Ethiopian rebels over the authoritarian regime of Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam and the establishment of a provisional government in the war-torn, East African region of Eritrea...
...idea that each concession is answered only by a demand for more concessions. At some point the Western powers need to work out a specific position: we offer so-and-so-many dollars in return for this or that reform. Given Gorbachev's penchant for zigzags between the authoritarian hard-liners who seemed to be in ascendancy as recently as mid-April and the democratic reformers who again are gaining strength now, that agreement ought to come sooner rather than later...
...profound? Because Salle, as everyone now knows, has discovered important metaphors of the meaningless overload of images in contemporary life. Thus his pictures enable critics to kvetch soulfully about the dissociation of signs and meanings, and to praise what all good little deconstructors would call their "refusal of authoritarian closure," meaning, roughly, that they don't mean anything in particular. It's as though those who bet on him can't bear to face the possibility that his work was vacuous to begin with, so that the charade of admiring the acuteness of his "strategies" can keep going, despite...
...Gacem claims that Pan-Arabism is "only rooted in the Arab masses," and that "it is exploited by their authoritarian dictators to manipulate people for their own sake." Only the second half of his claim is believable; Saddam Hussein shamelessly exploited Pan-Arab nationalism in his quest to decimate Kuwait and the unscrupulous King Hussein of Jordan invoked the same principle to aid Saddam's brutality surreptitiously, probably in violation of U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Ironically, Pan-Arabism, or what is left of it, has thus become almost synonymous with inter-Arab rapacity...
...point I am trying to make here is that none of the Arab leaders care about Arabism, neither the Kuwaiti government nor the Iraqi president. Arabism is only rooted in the Arab masses. It is exploited by their authoritarian dictators to manipulate the people for their own sake. Dear Bader, you fell in the same trap Saddam Hussein planted for the Arabs as your fellow Palestinians did. Saddam tried to manipulate the Arab masses by claiming that he was fighting for the Pan-Arab cause--equality between the Arabs and the freedom of the Palestinians. Palestinians, Jordanians and North African...