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...created a debt whose annual interest approaches France's total annual income-tax revenues. Against this backdrop, Villepin has managed to drive onto the streets not just youth who are locked out of the labor market, but also civil-servant trade unions, which habitually block reform on the pretext of resistance against what they sloppily label "ultraliberalism." Such unholy alliances have characterized France's numerous civil wars. In 1358, the jacqueries (peasant uprisings), which gave birth to the modern state, united peasants against the nobility. The nobility, in turn, revolted to protect their privileges against the growing power...
...routinely attacked for dissident opinions. Yet these same human rights activists oppose foreign interference and invasion (including the U.S.’s ongoing economic sanctions), because outside pressure is counterproductive and undermines positive, grass-roots change. Foreign interference destroys civilian lives, institutions, and infrastructure, and provides a pretext for heightened repression. Solidarity with Iranian dissidents must be sophisticated enough to avoid manipulation by the neo-conservative agenda. Make no mistake, the first victims of any U.S. aggression against Iran—completely left out of the agenda of the “Freedom Concert?...
...black is the reputation of the National Police, that after the Feb. 22 bombing of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, many Sunnis said the perpetrators were Interior Ministry troops who were looking for a pretext to start a civil war. Their fears were further fueled in the bloody two days after the attack, when Iraq became a sectarian slaughterhouse. Instead of protecting citizens from each other, National Police units stood by as Shi'ite rioters - and rival militiamen from Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army - stormed Sunni mosques and swarmed over Sunni neighborhoods, according to numerous reports, including some confirmed...
...used to enforce political orthodoxy. "Instead of one big Saddam, we have a hundred small Saddams in Kurdistan," says mullah Ahmed Wahab, a member of the Iraqi parliament for the KIU and the head cleric of mosque in Erbil until he was fired by the Erbil Awqaf on the pretext that he held two jobs...
...catalytic remarks. Whether it was from depths of the African and African American Studies department or due to his heretical lack of manners that professors consistently complained about, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) members had set their sight on Larry far before last February. Yet they used that pretext to launch the first no-confidence vote. Because you were unfairly pre-judged, you should not go, Larry...