Word: authoritarians
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...cannot get the enormity of the crimes their clergy have committed, they are even further from acknowledging their own role in enabling them. No one has resigned. No one has taken responsibility. And on the two central issues behind this scandal, there is no movement. The first is the authoritarian governing structure of the church, whereby a self-selected elite makes every decision for hundreds of millions of people. When you have a structure like this - immune from outside input - it is bound to create crises like this one. It has no real means of self-correction. The system creates...
...With Iraq halting petroleum exports to protest Israel’s war against Arab terrorism and the rest of the Arab world urging the U.S. not to invade Iraq and end Hussein’s murderous regime, the conditions are good for a serious challenge to OPEC and the authoritarian governments it keeps in power. Russia and the former Soviet republics are the best candidates to make that challenge. Venezuela’s experience shows that challenging the Saudis is possible...
...some point, consumers will realize that their spending subsidizes those who pollute the water, and at some point they will realize that wasting cheap gasoline carries with it costs in the form of respiratory illness, the threat of climate chaos, and pathetic deference to authoritarian and anti-American regimes in the Middle East. When these pennies eventually drop, some consumers may think, "gee, maybe I'll buy a Honda" (Honda was the sole auto company to support an increase in fuel efficiency). If just a tiny percent of consumers decide to choose brands that are friends of the earth, that...
Toledo also criticized recently-deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a supporter of Fujimori, for exercising authoritarian power under the guise of democr
...laughs]. That I’m violent. People get wrong about me that I’m authoritarian. That’s what they get wrong...