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It is impossible to silence independent politicians and independent media without choking off independent sources of money, which is why Putin’s Kremlin has concentrated its attacks on the so-called “oligarchs.”
Instead, all we hear from them is a deafening silence – and, in Haiti and elsewhere, the silence of the grave.
But I wonder whether the curious silence about the fundamental value of a decent life, liberty—old, very old liberty if you wish—will not involuntarily make this political episode one further element in a dangerous development.
Their size and silence mean that they can be used for covert surveillance, raising concerns about industrial espionage, sabotage, and terrorism.
Yet the strangest aspect of the Assange affair is the deafening silence on the part of those actors and institutions whose existence and legitimacy emanates from the completeness of the rule of law.
The European Union’s silence is perhaps the most disturbing.
Governments, monitoring agencies, or the United Nations could use unarmed drones to assess accurately whether and how an authoritarian regime is attempting to silence its people.
So far, the most striking feature of the Putin administration's handling of the US-Iraq situation has been its silence.
For President Putin it makes sense to stay on the sidelines over Iraq, at least for now, and to be repaid later for his helpful silence in the form of US influence on the successor Iraqi regime concerning repayment of the country's Russian debts.
The merits of this “community” approach – which reflects a more Eastern perspective than the backward-induction approach – cannot be overestimated, especially in a highly fraught situation like that with Iran, where the consequences of stubborn silence could be catastrophic.
But it is an important first step – a step towards peace – a step towards reason – a step away from war.”Saudi Arabia’s Decade of DenialLONDON – Saudi Arabia may not have been directly implicated in the conspiracy that killed more than 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, but it has been consumed in a conspiracy of silence ever since.
But, among Washington’s oldest allies in the Middle East – those with the most to gain from a partisan president leaning their way – the response has largely been silence.
Compare those responses with the silence from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the suggestion of a “fresh start” from Turkey, and the approval expressed by the UAE’s foreign minister.
The Silence of China's IntellectualsPublic opinion, as the crisis over the US spy plane demonstrated, now matters in China.
State-sponsored repression, however, only partially explains the silence since 1989.
So, the "silence" of Chinese intellectuals has several causes, and is in part illusory.
There has been senior-level radio silence between the two sides since mid-May, when Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He last visited Washington.
A novice autocrat whose attempts to silence his critics have been clumsy, at best, Trump may attempt to emulate his Russian role model.
Our proposal was greeted with deafening silence.
Hunger is not a new phenomenon, but as long as the rural poor endure it in silence, as they have for a long time, governments can comfortably ignore it.
Havel captured this idea perfectly when he criticized Obama’s silence in Beijing on human rights.
So continued silence when poets, writers, or lawyers – people like Shi Tao, Yang Tianshui, and Tan Zuoren – are treated like criminals will only assure that China’s markets are eventually lost alongside Chinese freedoms.
A dismal silence greeted its publication, which left Germany’s pro-European establishment isolated and dispirited.
And William Calley, who commanded the platoon that massacred hundreds of Vietnamese civilians at the village of My Lai in 1968, has now broken his media silence and apologized for his actions.
As power dynamics shift, victims overcome the belief that they must suffer in silence, and come to trust that enough people will actually listen to them.
The lack of evidence of casualties has left many Egyptian analysts believing that the military’s aim was not to target jihadis, but rather to silence its domestic and international critics.
Taking a page from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s playbook, tax police are prosecuting civil-society organizations in the hope of cowing them into silence and irrelevance.
Consider the soothing impact of PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan’s recent statement (following a long and baffling official silence on exchange-rate policy) that the central bank would keep the renminbi “basically stable” against a basket of currencies and the dollar.
Trump’s silence on the latest North Korea intelligence – to say nothing of his siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies on charges of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election – will further deepen allies’ anxieties.
So I cannot sit back in silence as Europe stumbles blindly into a new appeasement.
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