Word: paranoias
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...ineligible for government services, including college financial aid and public housing, the sense of alienation and nihilism that many young black men and women feel is very real and very dangerous. America needs an immediate and honest conversation about the role of incarceration in a democracy and how racial paranoia has led us to warehouse and surveil millions of citizens. Prisons are thus the new frontier for the civil rights struggle. And though this movement will certainly be less photogenic than old church ladies being brutalized by racist police officers while trying to vote, we must not shy away from...
...killings. The militants are driving a wedge between communities that used to live in relative harmony. "When I grew up here, Muslims and Buddhists got on like brothers and sisters," recalls a monk at Ba Pai temple near Narathiwat. Today what both sides share is fear, paranoia and a simmering anger that the violence now threatens their homes. In the Buddhist village of Tung Kha, 54-year-old headwoman Penporn Suranatukul sits in the shade of a postcard-perfect temple, watching soldiers fill sandbags. Penporn lives in dread of Islamic militants. "They want to chase the Buddhists out," she says...
...kidnapped by North Korean agents and brainwashed, as some family members and supporters claimed? Was he a privileged and pampered ward of the Hermit Kingdom, a trophy apostate to America's wicked capitalist ways? Or was he forced to suffer the same deprivation, hunger and paranoia visited upon almost every other resident of one of the world's harshest, most despotic regimes...
...board members from all eight male final clubs that dealt with disciplinary issues, was disbanded in 2000. Some feared that a lawsuit against one club could affect the Inter-Club Council and thus the other clubs, says Sears, former president of the council. But that was “paranoia,” he says. “It’s like a bunch of small Baptist churches. Each one rises and falls...
What’s more important than Kerry’s statements on the campaign, of course, is his record. He voted against significant anti-Cold War efforts, and spoke against our “paranoia about the Russians” in a 1971 speech before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 1970, he told the Harvard Crimson that U.S. troops should only be spread around by world at the order of the U.N. And recently Senator Kerry said that he “went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before...