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...fronts for drug gangs, who want to present themselves as public guardians while running their own criminal rackets. But whomever is really behind these particular groups, the growing demand for justice by any means necessary raises concerns about the security situation in Mexico if the government remains unable to suppress the crime wave...
...most curious and revealing part of the whole mess, however, was the media response to it: As the Chinese government struggled to suppress all footage of the incident (caused by their own TV personnel), blogs and tweets carried cell-phone photos and videos around the world. Ultimately, the government’s inability to stifle the flow of information encapsulates the internal inconsistencies and long-term inviability of the Chinese political system...
History is written by the victors, and that's plainly the case in Tom Ricks' gritty volume on the surge phase of the Iraq war. Generals David Petraeus and Ray Odierno are the flawed but authentic heroes who pushed through a strategy to suppress Iraq's festering civil war; the losers are warlords like Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, who agitated for the invasion and then lost control over its outcome through naiveté or ineptitude. Much of the Beltway intrigue here was reported by Ricks' Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward in last year's The War Within. Military strategies--even...
...plaintiff in a court case that ultimately banned Bible classes in Dayton's public schools. "For us, this billboard was really symbolic," Gaylor admits. "We didn't really expect Dayton to be a fertile recruiting ground for us. It's just our statement that they should not suppress knowledge by teaching religion in schools. Their belief is holding them back...
...supporters, including many members of the opposition party, say the purported charge is erroneous because the government, led by the Grand National Party, did indeed ask for dollar buying to be reined in. They further allege that the move reflects a concerted effort by the current conservative government to suppress freedom of speech in cyberspace, especially if it is anti-government in nature. "It's back to the past" says Song Yong Gil, a member of the opposition Democratic Party...