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When civil society -- the press, private business, religious and community groups -- is weak, corruption can go unchecked.
This stance characterizes populist governments, often sustained mainly by gas and oil, that practice autocratic democracy, ignoring any formal constitutional division of powers and running roughshod over independent institutions and the press.
In his first press conference as president, he shocked the world with his depiction of the Soviet Union, with which a détente had been emerging, as willing “to commit any crime” to gain an advantage over America.
They can hold more press conferences and be less platitudinous in explaining their policies.
Now it is up to export-oriented EU countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Austria to press for action on the American offer of negotiations.
The media industry in Kenya is more lucrative than in most African countries, which has led some to assume that Kenya’s press is free.
But the growth in media outlets and liberalization of the country’s politics did not translate into more press freedom.
But it has also demonstrated that press freedom means much more than letting journalists say what they want, when they want, and how they want.
Institutions designed for liberal democracies – such as an independent judiciary, a comptroller-general, and a free press – become assets to be seized and used in the class struggle.
At the beginning of the decade, Brazil showed a certain aspiration, along with Turkey, to press ahead with an alternative nuclear deal with Iran.
Already, it has threatened the independence of the judiciary, the autonomy of universities, and freedom of the press.
Let’s press our governments to make real progress when they meet; otherwise they will merely be adding to the problem.
Political repression and press restrictions remain common in Belarus.
Will Palestinian leaders know how to encourage the new moderation in Israeli politics, or will they press too hard?
As one of her advisers told me in a TV debate, Clinton’s approach was not to address any pain that she might have felt, as that would have been “the biggest press conference ever.”
If she had held a press conference and said something like, “I feel what anyone would feel at this painful time, and I ask for privacy for myself and my family as we try to get through this,” the scrutiny of her would have ended much sooner, along with the story itself.
Abe’s three main economic policies, dubbed “Abenomics” by the global press, are known at home as the “three arrows” approach – a reference to the sixteenth-century daimyo (feudal lord) Mori Motonari, who had three sons.
In pursuing them, Varoufakis felt empowered by the scale of Syriza’s electoral win and compelled by economic logic to press three issues that many economists believe must be addressed if sustained growth is to be restored: less and more intelligent austerity; structural reforms that better meet social objectives; and debt reduction.
Bush and Schroeder will make up for the paucity of substance with a good deal of friendly banter and bonhomie before the press assembled in Mainz.
The press asks, “Why should we believe that the growth rate will magically accelerate just because you become president?
Easy access to cheap funding and high commodity prices alleviated the need to press ahead with difficult reforms of infrastructure, utilities, education, and health care, to name a few areas.
These moderates think that Iran's government should press America for extradition of Iraq-based members of the Mujahdin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), as well as its total dismantling.
Most importantly, Iran ought to press for an American assurance that its cooperation will be reciprocated by an American guarantee that Iran will not be a target of American military action in the future.
The financial sector will press governments to ensure full repayment, even when it leads to massive social waste, huge unemployment, and high social distress – and even when it is a consequence of their own mistakes in lending.
Until then, China will continue to press its claims by whatever means – fair or foul – it deems advantageous.
Ireland has nothing like the mendacious, jingoistic gutter press that thrives in the UK.
However, it is surely incumbent on them to learn from the biggest financial meltdown of the last 80 years, rather than to press on, regardless, with policy approaches that so signally failed.
International measures of press freedom and corruption reveal persistent deficits as well.
Although the ECB left open how this would be carried out, its commitment whetted investors’ appetite, reduced interest-rate spreads in the eurozone, and made it possible to reduce the funding of crisis-stricken economies through the printing press (Target credit).
Yet, far from making space for diplomacy, Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka recently told the press that, “The idea that Secretary Tillerson is going to discuss military matters is simply nonsensical.”
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