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But, according to research by Robert Benewick, a professor at the University of Sussex in England, village elections have been growing more competitive, with a greater number of independent candidates and increasing use of the secret ballot.
Look at Poland where President Kwasniewski and former President Walesa were almost banned from October's presidential election because of alleged ties to the communist era's secret police.
Trump makes no secret of his desire to “put America first,” and he reiterated that pledge at the UN dais.
The military – along with its rogue Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, comprising the country’s spies and secret policemen – is exempt from civilian oversight, enabling it to maintain and deepen its terrorist ties.
ISIS feeds off troubled states from which it can draw recruits and launch attacks – either by establishing an “official Province,” as in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Egypt, or by supporting secret cells and small combat units, as it has done in Tunisia and Turkey already.
From the secret of Being and salvation to the secret of matter, from treasures hidden on faraway continents to political values such as the dignity and liberty of the individual and equality of all citizens before the law -- these are areas in which Europe accomplished a remarkable work of discovery which it then spread, often to the world’s benefit, yet often, sadly, to the world's detriment.
After all, Serbia controlled the army, the secret police, and the ruling party.
In the former Soviet bloc, it was the poets, dramatists, cartoonists, and novelists whose works encoded forbidden themes of freedom, and who were targeted by the secret police.
What’s inside is a secret.
The only concrete things to result from the vast inflow of money are to be found in Russian-owned villas on the French Riviera, a money-laundering scandal at the Bank of New York, and the secret Swiss accounts of Kremlin officials.
No Escape from Empire’s GraveyardNEW DELHI – With the stage set for secret talks in Qatar between the United States and the Taliban, US President Barack Obama’s strategy for a phased exit from war-ravaged Afghanistan is now being couched in nice-sounding terms that hide more than they reveal.
The US envoy to the region, Marc Grossman, has already held a series of secret meetings with the Taliban.
These are not missing persons like the Albanians whom Serbian police executed and buried in secret graves during the Kosovo conflict of 1999.
Now the BBC has broadcast interviews with Albanians who were imprisoned in secret UCK camps in Albania.
Deciding whether a credit event has occurred is left to a secret committee of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, an industry group that has a vested interest in the outcome.
But it seems unconscionable that the ECB would delegate to a secret committee of self-interested market participants the right to determine what is an acceptable debt restructuring.
Last October, seventeen victims and survivors filed criminal complaints in Chad for murder, "disappearance," and torture against one-time members of Habre's secret service.
With Big Tech’s secret algorithms determining how we perceive the world, it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to make conscious decisions – what philosophers perceive as the basic dimension of free will.
So, as rumors fly of secret marriage ceremonies either already concluded or in the works, could the trouble brewing in India over the French president’s very public love life be behind the rush to have the couple legally wed?
What did Khrushchev actually say about Stalin in his secret speech of 1956?
In January, the New York Times finally reported on a secret 2013 Presidential order to the CIA to arm Syrian rebels.
Their position is that a vote by Congress 15 years ago authorizing the use of armed force against those culpable for the 9/11 attack gives the president and military carte blanche to fight secret wars in the Middle East and Africa.
This view holds that America’s secret war in Syria is illegal both under the US Constitution (which gives Congress the sole power to declare war) and under the United Nations Charter, and that America’s two-sided war in Syria is a cynical and reckless gamble.
The real truth of what happened in l989 was locked in secret Party archives in Beijing for over a decade.
The topic is too broad to be discussed solely among governments and secret services.
The revelations and resulting debates in recent months have shown that many US politicians are also uneasy about the liberties taken by the secret services.
One exception is the Czech Republic, where the process of lustration (disqualification for state posts as a consequence of previous senior membership in the communist party or secret police) dramatically weakened the communist party organization.
They were misfits who, long after the war had ended, insisted on keeping their wartime heroism a secret from their neighbors – afraid, it seems, that their own communities would otherwise shun, threaten, and ostracize them.
The US concluded secret negotiations on what may turn out to be the worst trade agreement in decades, the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and now faces an uphill battle for ratification, as all the leading Democratic presidential candidates and many of the Republicans have weighed in against it.
While many Shia Muslims worship the 12th Imam, a previously secret society of powerful clerics, now openly advising the new president, are transforming these messianic beliefs into government policies.
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