Word: authoritarianism
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Increasingly, commentators, members of Congress and policymakers, including a minority within the Bush Administration, are questioning the closeness of the U.S.'s relationship with this backward, authoritarian, fundamentalist state. Maybe the 600 families that lost loved ones in 9/11 and are holding the House of Saud accountable in a $1 trillion lawsuit have a point. This July a bill to add Saudi Arabia to the U.S. list of states that sponsor terrorism garnered 191 votes in the House before going down. Some critics of Saudi Arabia are even suggesting that the U.S. invaded the wrong country and seized the wrong...
Facts on the ground seem to argue for the ordination of women and for allowing priests to marry. But beyond such sexy controversies, the deeper question is how the inherently authoritarian leadership of the Catholic Church--in many ways sclerotic, brittle, self-defensive in the manner of all aging bureaucracies--can preserve what is best and permanent, what is sacred, while letting in fresh air and new life. Can what is changeless be preserved only by the intelligent application of change? --By Lance Morrow
...Still, there was determined optimism among Western diplomats that a glimmer of something useful had been accomplished: by sitting down with neighbors, enemies and erstwhile allies?all insistent that North Korea renounce its nuclear weapons-development program?the North's authoritarian leadership received the clearest message yet of how isolated it has become. Moreover, U.S. officials hope the North's latest displays of intractability will finally convince its only friends, Russia and China, to express their impatience with the regime's bluster and brinkmanship...
Kane stressed that he did not see himself as an authoritarian or activist registrar...
...Hong Kong's Velvet Revolution It's inspiring to witness so many of Hong Kong's citizens standing up to the threats posed by China's one-party, authoritarian government [July 14]. But the odd and unfortunate thing missing from these protests is the noticeable lack of solidarity being shown them by anti-oppression protesters in the West. Shouldn't there be massive displays of outrage from like-minded organizations overseas, from musicians and even Hollywood? Surely, the socially aware, so clearly brought to life in recent years in response to America's foreign policy, should be addressing the current...