Word: cabal
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...government, although ICANN does have a “memorandum of understanding” with the Department of Commerce. ICANN’s activities, according to human rights icons like China and Iran, are an unconscionable infringement of other nations’ rights by the American corporate-governmental cabal. Of course China and Iran (and for that matter Tunisia, the aptly chosen sight of the conference) would, if they controlled domain-name assignments, never, ever misuse this power to crush dissidents. His Excellency Mohammad Solaymani, Iran’s minister of communication and technology, for one, said that...
...rather than on the decision to go to war. But even before the Libby indictments, the wall of silence had been crumbling. First there was the Oct. 19 speech by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, in which Wilkerson charged that a "cabal" of Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had "flummoxed" a President who is "not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either." Even more stinging was the interview given by Brent Scowcroft--National Security Adviser to Bush's father during the first Gulf...
...Reagan and Gorbachev were educating each other on their divergent world views. Gorbachev charged that America was run by a military-industrial complex that tries to fatten defense spending by inducing U.S. paranoia about the Soviet Union. He told Reagan that the President was in the thrall of a cabal of archconservatives. He claimed that American think tanks, citing the Heritage Foundation in Washington and the Hoover Institution in California, were feeding Reagan plans "designed to break down the Soviet economy." Reagan replied with astonishment to Gorbachev's conspiracy theories. Indeed, he said, he had always operated on the belief...
...ruler for 24 years, has scheduled multiparty presidential elections for later this year, and even Saudi Arabia has held its first municipal elections. Around the world, people are casting off oppressive authoritarian regimes at an unprecedented rate. Could it be that the President Bush and the neoconservative cabal were, god forbid, right? Right about Iraq, right about the universal appeal of freedom and democracy, and right about the aggressive use of American might to pressure for democratic reforms...
Harrigan and his Democratic allies blame a G.O.P. cabal backed by business interests for trying to slow CalPERS's shareholder activism. "This is payback by the big corporate special interests who fight our reform efforts and their ally Governor Schwarzenegger," asserts Democrat Phil Angelides, the state treasurer and a CalPERS board member. The Governor, state Republicans and business groups all deny conspiring to oust Harrigan. But his demise shows just how much harder Schwarzenegger's rise has made it for even the state's most powerful Democrats to throw their weight around...