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...President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected by a huge margin, gaining 83% of the vote. Bouteflika campaigned on his record of taming the country's 12-year-long Islamic insurgency. His main rival, former Prime Minister Ali Benflis, came second with just 8%. Benflis said the poll was a sham marred by fraud...
...Rules almost everyone obeys. Let’s face it—even murderers stop at red lights. So it’s really a shock to the system when the basic fairness of the world is exposed for what it is—frankly, a big sham. Thou shalt not swindle thy shareholders out of their life savings, thou shalt not deceive the public about a major war, thou shalt not steal thy neighbor’s bicycle. When these commandments are broken, the real tragedy is to watch as the carefully painted drop cloths of Justice fall lifeless...
...reporters, editors and publishers are doubtless proud of their remarkable demonstration of the uses and abuses of the fourth estate’s power, but they should be ashamed of themselves. The commercial media’s coverage of Dean was often no more than an irresponsible, unfair, unprofessional sham. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst notoriously followed through on a promise to supply the Spanish-American War so his photographers could have a juicy assignment. More than a century later, the media took down Howard Dean. Then they wrote about...
Ventura ruffled more than a few feathers when he told Playboy magazine that religion was a “sham and a crutch for weak-minded people...
...comparison, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission—and many other countries’ model of this process—have helped transition states from sham democracies or military dictatorships into full democracies, as is envisioned for Iraq. The Commission model allows victims to confront those who abused the authority of the state at the highest level and punish them. It also allows for those complicit in a regime’s everyday functioning—in this case, a large portion of the Sunni minority—to recant their involvement with the regime...