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Much of the rest of the speech warned of the backlash against perceived American arrogance in foreign affairs...
Former Cold War politician Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke about the dangers of American unilateralism and its potential to spark a terrorist backlash at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night...
...Yeah Yeah Yeahs. In response to the exposure, Valle comments, “There’s a lot of diversity in the music scene, and right now it’s hard to tell if it’s moving forward or if it’s a backlash...
...impose ideas on them.” One Al-Hayat writer put it even more bluntly, denouncing “the imperial tendency” of “spreading democracy in the Middle East as a way to take over the region.” Nor has the backlash been limited to the Arab world. Our European allies—shockingly—have been cool to the plan as well, with one EU diplomat predicting it would precipitate a “clash of civilizations...
...feet. Nestle and Kraft, unwilling to jack up costs, do zero Fair Trade business. They are taking a page from an old Nike playbook, which could be risky in today's politically charged market. When the shoemaker originally balked at changing work conditions at its contracted factories, a consumer backlash damaged the company's reputation and sales. Humanitarian groups such as Oxfam and Co-op America are now asking big wholesalers to switch at least 2% of their purchases to Fair Trade. And last November, Catholic Relief Services launched an effort to persuade the nation's 65 million Catholics...