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The value of the ballot is to seize power and then harass, detain, or even kill your opponents.
Moreover, both major US parties routinely use their power when they win to redraw electoral districts’ lines to favor themselves and hurt their opponents.
BUENOS AIRES – Today’s global currency war resembles real war in two important respects: a face-off over the structural imbalances between two large opponents – China and the United States – has forced uncomfortable smaller allies to take one side or the other, and third parties that may not be directly engaged are suffering collateral damage from both sides of the dispute.
The prospect that the Party could come to power in an electoral alliance with the Socialists struck fear in opponents.
In doing so, he sent his Western allies – which have criticized the arrests of thousands of perceived opponents, including many journalists, following last month’s failed military coup – a powerful message: “I don’t need you.”
The Geneva conference ended earlier this month in a stalemate between President Bashar al-Assad’s government and its opponents.
And, in fact, opponents of the move are intractable, describing Crimea as occupied territory.
That is why, in advance of the September parliamentary elections, the regime is increasingly directing citizens’ attention toward internal “threats” – that is, political opponents and supposed “traitors.”
To varying degrees, these governments have undermined their democratic credentials by failing to protect civil and human rights and employing heavy-handed tactics against their opponents.
So it behaved exactly according to its fear, launching a series of show trials targeting senior military officials and other perceived opponents.
Grounding Syria’s KillersNEW YORK – As Syria has descended into all-out civil war, much of the worsening slaughter has been attributable to aerial bombardments of urban neighborhoods that President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents control, with such attacks causing especially high casualties in recent weeks in the ancient city of Aleppo.
Since then, the sharp rise in bloodshed has made it increasingly unlikely, or even impossible, that Assad’s opponents would consent to any arrangement that kept him in power.
If we are to encourage democratic trends in political Islam, we must learn to think of Islamists as political opponents rather than as violent adversaries who may have medical and engineering degrees.
The only way to overcome Europe’s existential crisis, and to respond to citizens’ demands for change, is to confront Europe’s domestic opponents head-on: politics without palliatives.
Now even the last holdouts among the regime’s opponents will be appearing on the roads of Europe.
Indeed, the most popular tactic among liberals nowadays is to unite with all opponents of the regime.
His political opponents are not the Japanese, but the Korean left.
Or were conservative US anti-abortionists justified in sending actors with a false story into the offices of Planned Parenthood in order to discredit their opponents?
The new slogan for Trump’s opponents is “Abolish ICE” – that is, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency charged with implementing many of the administration’s immigration policies.
The OMT scheme’s German opponents argue that it is unconstitutional, because it is not monetary policy, but fiscal policy aimed at financing insolvent and lethargic eurozone governments.
Some point as a cause of Putin’s absence to recent tensions between Russia and the United States arising from Putin’s increasingly harsh response to the protests by his opponents at home.
For months, President John Magufuli has been targeting his political opponents, attacking journalists, and closing news outlets.
Feeling marginalized and resentful, they may turn to public platforms like social media and the streets to advance their causes and undermine their opponents’ authority.
While the government must deliver for its constituents, it must also protect its opponents’ rights.
For example in Guatemala, where the findings of a UN truth commission has at last sparked a serious judicial investigation of former President Rios Montt for crimes against humanity committed during his scorched-earth attacks on perceived rural opponents in 1982-83.
It speaks of prosecuting Milosevic for corruption or the murder of a few Serb political opponents, but not for mass atrocities committed against other ethnic groups.
But of all the charges thrown at President Barack Obama by his domestic political opponents, the hardest for most outsiders to accept is that he is too emotionally disengaged: all brain cells and no red-blood cells.
But, having deftly out-maneuvered his opponents for three years, Zardari seems to have misread the current political environment, for Pakistan is not the same country in which his wife and father-in-law wielded power.
Obviously, none of this will please Thaksin’s opponents.
Against this background, AIPAC should have known that its attempt, in close cooperation with Obama’s Republican opponents, to block the Iran nuclear deal (one of Obama’s most important achievements) would fail.
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