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In the early years after World War II, the Soviet dictator launched a campaign against Jewish intellectuals, scientists, and writers, who were accused of disloyalty to the Soviet Union and bias toward the West.
Leadership and commitment are what is required, and Obama’s “Yes, we can” campaign has already shown that he has both.
Having promised to shut the base in the campaign, and having also pushed for its removal while in office, Hatoyama’s reversal forced the Socialists to exit the coalition.
But step back for a moment from these political clichés, as I did earlier this month when I fled the British election campaign to attend the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles.
Also on the panel is Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who courageously defied the Taliban to campaign for girls’ access to education.
In a series of speeches starting with his famous commencement address at American University in Washington, DC, Kennedy built a campaign for peace on a combination of vision and pragmatic action, focusing on a treaty to end nuclear tests.
President Barack Obama was silent on the issue in his re-election campaign, and breathed scarcely a word about it in his first campaign, too.
One of the positive consequences of the squalid Brexit campaign is that it demonstrated that referenda and plebiscites are demagogic, not truly democratic.
It can forget about US support in its campaign to gain a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
Obama has made it a campaign issue to criticize the Bush administration for neglecting Afghanistan and diverting resources needed there to the misguided war in Iraq.
Recently, for example, he denounced the idea that Australian sacrifices in the Gallipoli campaign of 1916 during World War I had somehow made and redeemed his nation.
During the campaign, Trump said that he would be prepared to impose significant and comprehensive tariffs on imported goods.
The Remain campaign completely failed to respond to this, because it concentrated on the question that was literally on the ballot, and addressed the costs and benefits of EU membership.
Because the Leave campaign successfully combined a multitude of different grievances, May now claims the referendum as an open-ended mandate.
Mueller, a widely respected former FBI director, will keep alive for some time the investigation into whether Trump’s campaign or political associates colluded with Russia in its effort to elect Trump.
It was particularly encouraging to see hundreds of global youth ambassadors from 100 countries descend on New York recently to demand the right to education and to support the Bring Back Our Girls campaign in Nigeria.
Bring Back Our Girls is the highest-profile campaign highlighting discrimination against girls.
The campaign for the 219 Nigerian girls – kidnapped simply because they wanted to go to school – is an iconic battle of this freedom struggle.
The campaign of hatred that followed underscored the country’s utter lack of free speech.
In the United States, Trump’s presidential campaign began to crumble only when it was revealed that he boasted about sexually assaulting women.
Beyond sanctions, the EU and the United States must become much more proactive and efficient in combating the massive disinformation campaign that has become a potent weapon in the Kremlin’s “hybrid war” against Russia’s neighbors and the West.
The global ethical challenge that has been most prominent in the campaign is climate change.
With Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi freed from two decades of house arrest to campaign vigorously for a seat in parliament in the special election to be held on April 1, Burma’s commitment to rejoining the international community appears to be genuine.
For example, just as many countries did with car seatbelts a generation ago, a public-safety campaign could be paired with legislation to explain and promote two-step verification.
A World Health Organization campaign finally got the disease under control by 2008, with only about 10,000 people contracting it each year.
The alternative was to pursue a full policy agenda aligned with the priorities and commitments enunciated in Obama’s election campaign.
A similar story unfolded in the UK’s Brexit vote, where the “Leave” campaign asserted that the EU’s supposedly burdensome regulations and exorbitant membership fees are holding back the British economy.
Trump and the Leave campaign appealed to voters by raising the possibility that transatlantic powers can reassert control in a quickly changing world order.
They ply their targets with plausible-sounding arguments, talking points, and suggestions that campaign or “super-PAC” contributions will find their way to politicians whose policies reward discrete, organized interests, even if they are very bad for America’s amorphous and unorganized consumers.
The first two falsehoods – deceptions as large as I can remember witnessing during an election campaign – are being peddled by the country’s two most successful populist parties: the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP).
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