Word: establishmentism
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According to the European Commission, Borisov will inherit a country where mobsters murder with impunity and where fraud and corruption have seeped deep into the political and legal establishment. "Killings linked with organized crime continue, and known criminals are not apprehended," the commission says in its report, released on July...
At the same time, while India hopes to be a global power, it has failed to articulate a strong position - let alone take a leadership role - even in its immediate neighborhood, whether on Sri Lanka or on Afghanistan, which has a direct bearing on Islamist terrorism in all of South...
Still, the Iranians are likely to return to the negotiating table at some point: when they do will depend on how soon the turmoil within the political establishment dies down. It could be months. Given the West's skepticism about Iran's election results, fresh Iranian government resentments will now...
What I didn't anticipate, though, is how much I'd miss American dishes. Daily, the other three international volunteers living in my village and I engage in conversations that could only be described as one thing: food porn. Cookie dough ice cream? McDonald's cheeseburgers? Bagels with cream cheese...
But with powerful establishment clerics like Rafsanjani shying away from open confrontation with the Ahmadinejad government, the protest movement may need to look beyond clerical leadership. Rafsanjani himself didn't have any suggestions for how the opposition should continue its struggle, other than that it should obey the law. Mousavi...