Word: dictatorship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...signature sound bite of Benedict XVI's papacy may have been delivered the day before he became Pope. Just hours before entering the Sistine Chapel to help choose John Paul II's successor, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave an impassioned sermon in which he decried the "dictatorship of relativism." The conservative German theologian used the phrase to warn against modernity's creation of a secular ideology "that does not recognize anything as definitive, and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's ego and desires." The "dictatorship of relativism" quote has become a rallying cry for some Roman Catholic conservatives...
...Your story refers to the Haditha incident as "an alleged atrocity committed by a small group of Marines that promises to haunt the hearts and minds of liberator and liberated alike." Liberated? From what? From living under a dictatorship, but in relative peace, to living under foreign occupation, in fear, poverty, civil war and terror? Under blatantly false and illegal pretenses, the U.S. invaded a country that had not attacked it or its allies. About 40,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, not to mention untold thousands of Iraqi conscript soldiers; the Americans are too arrogant to even keep count...
...took out the facts, it looks like we're talking about a Third World dictatorship," says Jay Stewart, executive director of Chicago's Better Government Association, a nonpartisan watchdog group formed in the 1920s out of concern for the rising influence of mobster Al Capone...
...fight a senseless and unwinnable war. Bill Blackwell Timonium, Maryland, U.S. Your story refers to the Haditha incident as "an alleged atrocity committed by a small group of Marines that promises to haunt the hearts and minds of liberator and liberated alike." Liberated? From what? From living under a dictatorship, but in relative peace, to living under foreign occupation, in fear, poverty, civil war and terror? Under blatantly false and illegal pretenses, the U.S. invaded a country that had not attacked it or its allies. About 40,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, not to mention untold thousands of Iraqi...
...After a while, you get numb reading these stories. They read like accounts of a South American dictatorship, not an American presidency. But we learn one thing: once you allow the torture of prisoners for any reason, as this President did, the cancer spreads. In the end it spreads to healers as well, and turns them into accomplices to harm...