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In the 1950s, Soviet influences (characterized by heretical clinical theories whereby particular forms of political and religious dissent were attributed to specific varieties of “dangerous” mental illness) dominated.
Yes, he has critiqued policies, such as the inhumane war in Yemen and how Saudi rulers deal with dissent.
As a result, austerity reigns, and dissent is left to populists like France’s Marine Le Pen or Italy’s Beppe Grillo – whose economic proposals seem even less likely to be effective.
All around the world, it seems, the walls are closing in on the space that people need to assemble, associate, express themselves freely, and register dissent.
There is no simple formula for regulating public space or safeguarding peaceful political dissent in an age of terrorism and globalization.
First, the world needs stronger international governance of the movement of people and money, and fewer restrictions on speech, association, and dissent.
There are four fundamental ingredients of such man-made disasters: repression of the market, suppression of information, systematic persecution of dissent, and attribution of blame for the disaster to the victims (which justifies radicalizing the policies that led to the problem in the first place).
The biggest danger to US democracy, he believed, was the tyranny of the majority, the suffocating intellectual conformity of American life, the stifling of minority opinion and dissent.
More and more, populist leaders regard their election by the majority of voters as a license to crush all political and cultural dissent.
Nevertheless, de Gaulle’s insights left a legacy that still causes some mistrust and dissent within NATO.
The Chinese Communist Party, which controls virtually all state institutions, shows no sign of relinquishing any power, or even tolerating peaceful dissent.
A special 30,000-strong police unit monitors and screens Internet traffic, advanced technology is deployed to block access to overseas Web sites considered “hostile or harmful,” and Internet service and content providers, both domestic and Western, must comply with onerous restrictions designed to suppress political dissent and track down offenders.
But, even before the khrushchevki protests, there were signs that dissent had not fully been quelled.
Putin now has two choices: to suppress dissent as he did before 2012, and stake his popularity on another big conquest – say, the seizure of Kyiv – or to give the people what they want, revising the khrushchevki demolition plan to respect property rights.
Indeed, his government’s crackdown on dissent may well have cost Istanbul the 2020 Olympics.
By failing to reach out meaningfully to the Tamil-speaking minority, and by cracking down on opposition voices and any kind of dissent in Sri Lanka, the government is throwing away a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
Bush makes no allowance for the possibility that he may be wrong, and he tolerates no dissent.
They were swept out of power by hardliners who used the country’s jittery sense of security – accentuated by the presence of tens of thousands of American troops in neighboring countries – as a pretext to rig elections, stifle dissent, and reverse political and social freedoms.
And the proposed security legislation includes use of the bogeyman of “terrorism,” which is pretty much nonexistent in Brazil (but always useful to police states), to stifle dissent.
Last July, the UN General Assembly passed, without dissent, a Bhutanese-initiated resolution recognizing the pursuit of happiness as a fundamental human goal and noting that this goal is not reflected in GDP.
As a political activist in the final days of Yugoslavia, I tried to build upon the philosophy of nonviolence, leading demonstrations and other forms of peaceful forms of dissent.
Responsibility While ProtectingNEW YORK – Ten months ago, the United Nations Security Council, with no dissent, authorized the use of “all necessary measures” to protect civilians at imminent risk of massacre in Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Libya.
After all, people are more willing to consent if their dissent has been heard.
Why are Magufuli and his supporters so intent on stifling dissent?
To that end, organizations can be created to channel protest and dissent into the democratic process, so that certain voices are not driven to the political fringe.
In a triumph for parliamentary democracy, the motion passed without dissent.
But Egypt’s Islamists are likely to draw the opposite conclusion: Morsi’s ouster will reinforce their fear that their accomplishments can never be fully secure, and that they must carefully manage dissent.
Again, China’s authoritarian politics means that it cannot profit from the innovations that depend on software, as that is an instrument through which dissent can flourish and become subversive of total control.
One important development is the growing influence of non-partisan voices of dissent.
And yet the ruling Communist Party has remained brutally intolerant of peaceful dissent and morbidly fearful of the information revolution.
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