Word: dissention
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...give people hope, however deep they buried it? Or did Nagy's fumbling inexperience - coupled with an insecurity in Moscow, still coming to terms with Stalin's death and the revelation by Nikita Khrushchev of his crimes - play into the hands of hard-liners, encourage them to crush dissent, and hence plunge half of a continent into a gloom that would last for another 33 years? Did the U.S., which had appeared to encourage resistance to Soviet rule - but did nothing to help those who resisted - betray Hungary? What about France and Britain, whose harebrained Suez adventure provided Moscow with...
...Culture has changed so much that to compare political dissent then and now is sort of like comparing apples and oranges," Frank Rich writes in an e-mail...
...Silencing the Voices of Dissent Inside the forced shutdown of Iran's most popular reformist paper, Shargh
...Silencing the Voices of Dissent Inside the forced shutdown of Iran's most popular reformist paper, Shargh
...Pyongyang has continually demanded direct talks with the United States, leading to some form of non-aggression treaty - it wants full recognition from Washington and a normalization of relations. But the idea of recognizing a tyrannical regime that starves its own people and violently suppresses any dissent obviously sticks in the craw of President Bush. That may be why Administration hawks who favor "regime change" appear to have had effective veto power over North Korea policy, pushing back against concessions to Pyongyang or any suggestion of direct talks. The White House on Tuesday reiterated its rejection of direct talks...