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...ruled out meetings with the group out of respect for Egypt's laws. And Egyptians across the political spectrum say the Brotherhood's vague slogan "Islam of the solution" masks a militant agenda. "If the country continues to go this way, we are going to move from a military dictatorship to a theocracy," says Hisham Kassem, chief of the liberal Al-Masry al-Youm daily newspaper...
Nikolai Statkevich tried to buck the system in 2001: he ran for President of Belarus. The country calls itself democratic, but President Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 11 years, runs it like the last dictatorship in Europe and brooks no challenges to his neo-Stalinist rule. That's why Statkevich, 49, leader of the opposition Social Democratic party, found himself confined to a prison barrack in the town of Baranovichi, 120 km west of Minsk, the nation's capital. Last March, the government sentenced him to three years of forced labor for "resisting the authorities and obstructing traffic" during...
...course you'll elect me," the Batska declared earlier this month. "What else can you do?" Western nations have criticized Lukashenko's regime, but have done little else. Last April, while attending a nato meeting in Lithuania, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Belarus "the last remaining true dictatorship in the heart of Europe," and said "it is time for change to come." Lukashenko and other officials have been barred from traveling to the U.S. and Europe, and last month, the European Union threatened Belarus with sanctions for suppressing freedom of speech. Still, Belarus' opposition leaders fret that Western...
...which wishes, according to the Curricular Review report, to “help students develop their capacities…for responsible judgment”—to invest in the arms trade, in ecological disaster, in the terrorizing of workers in Colombia, in the military dictatorship in Burma, or until last spring, in genocide in Darfur...
...personally chose Spain's King, who jailed homosexuals. Today, I can spout republicanism in my village bar to Rafael, a captain in the Guardia Civil reserve. He can try to shout me down with "Viva el Rey, Viva Leonor!" Yes, semantic democracy is definitely more fun than iron dictatorship. And Franco? May he rust in peace...