Word: denialism
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...powerful get short-circuited from their power base. Too often, people whose job it is to lead by listening have the tendency to go politically deaf in times of crisis - to proceed as if nothing had happened, to sleepwalk in a state of bland or numb denial...
...world today. Amanpour introduced the documentary, “Journalist & the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl,” saying that the refusal of both politicians and the general public to believe journalists’ reports on the war in Iraq is a dangerous “denial of reality.” The film, which is directed and produced by Ahmed Jamal and narrated by Amanpour, follows the story of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl before and after his 2002 kidnapping by Omar Sheikh and other Islamic extremists. Amanpour said she hopes that the film will...
...have State of Denial. The title alone is a departure for Woodward. His books during the Clinton years - The Agenda, The Choice - all carried neutral titles that revealed little about how the people in power were portrayed. The same can be said of Bush At War and Plan of Attack. From the moment the title of the third book leaked, White House officials knew they were in trouble...
...belong to a faction of the far-right Flemish group Blood and Honour. Raids on army barracks and homes found weapons including a homemade bomb, rifles and land-mine detonators. The federal prosecutor's office described the suspects as people "who clearly express themselves through racism, xenophobia, Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism...
...There have been other warning signs, of course. But until that day at the beauty salon, I had ignored any hint of a return to 7th-century mores, preferring to savor a few extra weeks of denial before the government-issued burqa arrived at my doorstep. A month ago I met a few girlfriends for coffee at a caf? popular with young people. Upon lighting a cigarette, one of them was informed by the embarrassed owner that smoking is now illegal for women in caf?s. Now half the women I know don't go out for coffee anymore. An ingenious...