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Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.
But no American president would want their legacy to include allowing so unfriendly a regime to acquire such a dangerous weapon – even if doing so meant avoiding greater strategic costs.
Its main weapon was the language of freedom.
Ireland’s greatest weapon against the ensuing debt deflation was its ability to attract US-based tech giants, by offering them a combination of EU law, a well-trained English-speaking workforce, and a 12.5% corporate-tax rate.
This holds the potential to be a potent weapon in dealing with outsiders like the IMF, or when foreigners buy (at bargain prices) into banks, public utilities and big companies.
The violence in Pakistan is the latest example of what is becoming a horrific pattern: armed men using schoolchildren as pawns in their conflicts, turning access to education into a weapon of war.
The North Korean Missile CrisisNEW YORK – On January 2, then-President-elect Donald Trump, referring to North Korea’s effort to develop a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States, assured his Twitter followers, “It won’t happen!”
But he has been enough of a pragmatist not to ram the point home against the opposition of NATO's three nuclear weapon states.
But when governments do so, history can easily become a weapon to be used against political opponents – and thus be as damaging as banning historical inquiries.
For example, we do not know whether Iran is conducting secret activities at undisclosed sites, or when Iran could develop a crude nuclear weapon, with estimates ranging from several months to several years.
Politicians acknowledge, in their more rational moments (yes, they have them), that they can’t be trusted with the interest-rate weapon, especially as an election approaches.
Revaluation of its currency is necessary in part because the undervalued renminbi has become yet another a source of friction in Asia, as many in the region now believe the Chinese are using their currency as a “policy weapon.”
But Yeltsin’s bold decree was, in some ways, superfluous: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), once a fearsome organizational weapon, had already been decimated by its own incompetence and brutality, to the point that the public was simply indifferent to it.
Understood in this light, the real threat is not Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon, but Israel’s attempts to halt it, which would surely incur Iranian retaliation through blockade of the Strait of Hormuz – sending oil prices soaring to more than $200 a barrel and driving the world's major economies into sustained free-fall.
Even in the highly improbable event that an uncontrolled escalation could be avoided after “a limited nuclear employment,” one tactical weapon alone could generate an explosion comparable to those that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
To prevent a regime imbued with an absolute ideology from gaining possession of the “absolute weapon” is Israel’s paramount priority.
Everything must be done, even a unilateral military strike, to prevent or at least delay Iran’s acquisition of such a weapon.
Securing Europe’s Energy FutureMost Europeans agree that reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy is crucial to Europe’s security and prosperity; that energy can be used as a political weapon, as when Russia shut off gas to Ukraine in January 2006; and that Europe is far too dependent on energy supplies from undemocratic and unstable countries or regions.
A similar result, dubbed a “functional cure,” has been achieved with a simian vaccine aimed at inducing a response by the monkeys’ “killer T-cells,” another weapon in the immune system’s arsenal.
Beyond sanctions, the EU and the United States must become much more proactive and efficient in combating the massive disinformation campaign that has become a potent weapon in the Kremlin’s “hybrid war” against Russia’s neighbors and the West.
There is no reason to believe that they would fall if Iran built its own weapon.
The Rape of Freedom in BurmaGender-based sexual violence obstructs peace and development, particularly when it is a weapon used by military dictatorships against their own peoples.
SWAN and SHRF argue that rape is used as a weapon in the Burmese military’s war against ethnic minorities.
Moreover, Trump’s threats of trade and currency wars are fueling fears that the US dollar could become a weapon in geopolitical disputes.
The pen, at last mightier than the sword, became a weapon of glorious retribution, wielded with style.
It’s not that generals ever think they will face the same weapon systems and the same battlefields.
Generals are sometimes slow to get around to developing plans and ordnance for those new weapon systems and battlefields.
And the most powerful weapon in the fight against poverty is the one that got us where we are today: broad-based economic growth.
The prosecutors had claimed that Knox’s blood was on the murder weapon.
History in the hands of manipulative politicians and incorrigible ideologues can be either a dangerously inebriating weapon to mobilize the masses, or, as James Joyce put it in Ulysses, “a nightmare” from which it is difficult to wake.
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