Word: dissenting
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...purloined phone book was apparently printed in 1995. And yet a Japanese academic who has scrutinized it over the past month contends that it is of even greater significance than the video. The very fact that it was smuggled out suggests dissent at the pinnacle of North Korean society, says the academic, who declined to be identified for fear of retribution from North Korean agents: "The phone book can only have come from somebody within the establishment?and someone opposed...
...nonlethal-weapons programs are drawing their own fire, mostly from human-rights activists who contend that the technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...
...full spectrum dominance have controlled foreign poli cy thinking inside the Bush administration from Iraq and the war on terrorism to the environment and nuclear disarmament. Precisely because many Americans cannot see the threat to their own interests posed by such an ideology—and largely because political dissent on foreign policy has been all but silenced since Sept. 11—we need Britain’s help, but not as a partner in crime. We need a critical friend with the guts to look her erstwhile son in the eye and tell him to get back...
...nonlethal-weapons programs are drawing their own fire, mostly from human-rights activists who contend that the technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...
...that he wanted the al-Qaeda leader dead or alive. But with the trail growing cold, White House aides have lately offered a new definition of victory. "If he's unable to perpetrate terrorist attacks, we win," says one. That's not enough to quiet the private grumbles of dissent in both parties about the failure of the Pentagon and CIA to plink their top target. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a Vietnam war hero and Democratic presidential aspirant, is among those who argue that the Administration's fear of casualties and reliance on Afghan proxies allowed bin Laden...