Word: dictatorship
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...along with getting an escape valve for 50,000 dissatisfied citizens, Fidel is closer than he has ever been to seeing at least a partial end to the U.S. embargo and a formal recognition of what has been the most brutal dictatorship in the history of a country remarkable for its brutal and corrupt dictators. The New York Times has recently reported that a "blueprint" for talks between Cuba and the U.S. are imminent...
...leftist quarterly Dissent (est. circ. 10,000), Genovese argues that many American radicals were, in effect, accomplices to mass murder. Many U.S. advocates of a Viet Cong victory in Vietnam, for example, have never accepted that what they considered a radical egalitarian democracy was in fact a cruel totalitarian dictatorship. Until the left is willing to re-examine its ideological premises and admit its past mistakes, argues Genovese, it will have no moral credibility to attack such ongoing societal ills as racism and sexism. "The left will have to clean up its act if it wishes to survive or deserves...
...what have we learned so far? Millions of people languish in a brutal military dictatorship in Haiti. Thousands more try to flee to the U.S. every day. President Clinton linked himself to helping the Haitian boat people during the campaign, although many Americans are opposed to allowing those people in the country. There is no place else that will accept them besides the U.S. That leaves two questions left: what ought to be done and what will be done...
What if similar statements were made by a politico of another country? "I say given quite plainly--when I come to power, there will be a dictatorship!" Sound absurd? People in the Kremlin aren't laughing. Enter the world of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, self-appointed savior of the former Soviet republic...
...there is an explanation for Zhirinovsky's unique appeal, perhaps it is to be found in the parallel between the young boy who grew up feeling rejected, humiliated and despised and a nation that has just emerged from seven decades of dictatorship feeling abused, deprived and defeated. Little wonder that ordinary Russians respond to this man; his feelings of persecution, which he has honed to an exquisitely raw edge, reify their own dislocated sense of what has happened to their country and their lives. And by projecting the angers and fears of his dysfunctional childhood onto the national stage, Zhirinovsky...