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Medellin Moves to AfricaAn unfamiliar country keeps popping up in press reports about drug trafficking: Guinea Bissau.
Palestinian and Arab opinion is waiting for the US, as Israel’s ally, to intervene and press for concessions.
Zardari, in a joint press conference with Sharif, refused to answer a question about whether there is pressure from the US to ally with Musharraf.
According to Sarkozy, “The virulence of the press and a portion of French elites against the United States reflects a certain envy of your brilliant success.”
But recently the pressure has intensified, especially with the publication of “Charter 08,” a manifesto signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals, journalists, lawyers, and ordinary citizens, condemning the government’s human rights record and demanding more democratic reform, press freedom, governmental transparency, and societal openness.
Singapore’s press sometimes struggles to carry out its watchdog role.
In the vast majority of the world’s least corrupt countries, a free press, a robust civil society, and a competitive political environment work together to keep dishonesty in check.
Indonesia's courts are cleaner at the top, and the Head of the Supreme Court is a staunch advocate of democracy and press freedom.
No country knows better than Indonesia that free speech and a free press are proven indicators of democratic development, and that criminalizing journalists is an early symptom of authoritarianism.
Indonesia was a liberal democracy in the 1950's, before President Sukarno, supported by the military, began a crackdown on the press in 1956.
For the first few years after Sukarno's fall in 1966, all the benefits of genuine democracy, including freedom of the press, were restored (except for the communists).
But President Suharto's regime began another press crackdown in the early 1970's, ultimately banning various media and jailing many journalists.
With the press under control, other political rights were quickly curtailed and Indonesian democracy failed again.
The Immorality of Boris Johnson and Donald TrumpLONDON – In a 2013 press conference, then-recently inaugurated Pope Francis famously said that, when it comes to sexual orientation, including past homosexual acts, “who am I to judge?”
The printing press was a revolutionary – and exponential – technology for the dissemination of ideas.
By Luther’s time, the daily printing rate of a single press had increased to roughly 1,500 single-sided sheets.
Luther quickly grasped the potential of the printing press to spread his message, effectively inventing new forms of publishing that were short, clear, and written in German, the language of the people.
The printing press greatly expanded the accessibility of the religious controversy that Luther helped fuel, galvanizing the revolt against the Church.
Research by the economic historian Jared Rubin indicates that the mere presence of a printing press in a city before 1500 greatly increased the likelihood that the city would become Protestant by 1530.
In other words, the closer you lived to a printing press, the more likely you were to change the way you viewed your relationship with the Church, the most powerful institution of the time, and with God.
For starters, in the context of the modern era’s “Fourth Industrial Revolution” – which Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum defines as a fusion of technologies blending the physical, digital, and biological spheres – it is tempting to assess which technologies could be the next printing press.
Moreover, in 2015, just as the press began labeling him a lame duck, Obama achieved a string of foreign-policy successes – namely, a much-needed nuclear agreement with Iran, normalization of relations with Cuba, and agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Kuwait now allows women to vote, Qatar has embraced an ambitious reform program, Bahrain has shown great tolerance of mass demonstrations, and the U.A.E. is allowing something like a free press.
Those who submitted had their passports withdrawn, lost their jobs, and were forbidden to speak to the press.
Karzai's Crisis of LegitimacyReading the press of late, you might conclude that all Harmid Karzai, Afghanistan's chief, needs to pacify his country is an expanded international peacekeeping presence and faster delivery of aid.
On its Web site, Wikileaks quotes the US Supreme Court ruling in that case: “only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.”
In the years ahead, such firms are likely to press for economic reforms at home, serving as a force for increased integration of their home countries into global trade and finance.
The Bundesbank’s monetary rigor will be just one voice among many in the monetary union; other voices will press for monetary expansion and a weakening currency in midst of continuing frustrations with unemployment, and new frustrations with financial sector crisis.
Trichet somehow garbled the Council’s message in his press conference, making it sound as if the ECB wanted to shift to an easing bias instead of “wait and see” neutrality.
The filters that give users “what they want” had the effect of polarizing populations and eroding the legitimacy of fundamental democratic institutions (most notably, the free press).
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