Word: totalitarian
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...just ignore. It is as though Bush can't allow the possibility that the enemy is motivated by its understanding of God's will lest his critics note that he believes the same of himself. So he portrays the terrorists as heirs of the Nazis and communists: totalitarian in vision, cynical by nature, manipulative in their appeal, certainly not devout. They "couch their language in religious terms. But that doesn't make them religious people," he told a group of religion writers late last month. "I think they conveniently use religion to kill." There are sound, practical reasons for resisting...
...weren't odd enough, his salary is paid by News Corp.-the global media conglomerate whose U.S.-based news channel, Fox News, is widely perceived as unabashedly pro-American and whose chairman, Rupert Murdoch, once infuriated China's leaders by stating that satellite-TV systems posed a threat to "totalitarian regimes everywhere...
...much for the controversy. How is it as a movie? ?Fahrenheit 9/11? - the title is a play on the Ray Bradbury novel (and Francois Truffaut film) ?Fahrenheit 451,? about a future totalitarian state where reading, and thus independent thinking, has been outlawed - has news value beyond its financing and distribution tangles. The movie, a brisk and entertaining indictment of the Bush Administration?s middle East policies before and after September 11, 2001, features new footage of abuse by U.S. soldiers: a Christmas Eve 2003 sortie in which Iraqi captives are publicly humiliated...
...piously declared in 1996, “I have 185 masters.” (He has more today.) Those “masters” in the General Assembly include the Castros, Mugabes, Assads and Kim Jong-Il’s of the world. Such amoral legitimizing of totalitarian thugs alongside democratic statesmen once prompted former U.S. ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan to call the United Nations “a theater of the absurd, a decomposing corpse, and an insane asylum...
...benefits of incumbency—fundraising ability and a readily-available bully pulpit. He has also utilized the politics of fear, making Americans believe (wrongly) that only he can safeguard them against the evils of terror. While this is despicable and the lowest form of politics, generally reserved for totalitarian regimes, it is also extremely effective. We Democrats need to fight back. We need to send the message loud and clear that we are patriots and want our country back from the corporations and right-wing nuts...