Word: authoritarians
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...Similarly, the need for basing rights for the Afghanistan operation prompted the U.S. to crown Uzbekistan's authoritarian President Islam Karimov as an ally. But Human Rights Watch this week noted that President Karimov is using the war on terror as an excuse to mount a massive crackdown on all Muslims who want to practice their faith independently of the government. Some observers believe that this week's outbreak of bombings and shootings directed against the police in Uzbek cities may be rooted not only in local al-Qaeda linked groups, but also in response to President Karimov's repression...
...Firstly, empire=economic development does not translate into empire=good. Economics is a useful tool, but it has no inherent value system. Economics could be used to justify any number of systems that today give us pause: apologists for empire, slaveholders in the old South, indeed even present-day authoritarian regimes tell us that the material well-being of their “subjects” are far better under their respective regimes than they would otherwise have been...
...aims - and denied responsibility for the attacks. And after all, says one Western diplomat in the country, Karimov faces a "tricky period" as the U.S. and international organizations ponder whether his government's dismal human-rights record merits more economic aid. The U.S. State Department calls Uzbekistan an "authoritarian state with limited civil rights." A day after the government fingered the HUT, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a scathing 300-page report alleging that the Karimov regime's campaign of religious persecution had "resulted in the arrest, torture, public degradation and incarceration in grossly inhumane conditions of an estimated...
...investment, which is desperately needed in a country historically short of capital. And as long as Putin proceeds to better the business climate—along with Russian civil society and the middle class—the country’s leadership may eventually be forced to suppress its authoritarian instincts...
...December meeting. And Kirby asked a bunch of questions in his annual letter on which the Faculty might have commented [if a March meeting had been held].” Several, though, suggested that Faculty meetings were irrelevant, anyway, in Harvard’s current authoritarian climate. “He just doesn’t stand up for our interests like [former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles] did,” one professor lamented...