Word: propagandas
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...encroach on the President's diminishing powers. Yanukovych has purged Yushchenko's nominees from his own cabinet. The Rada and the Cabinet now oppose the President's policies, aimed at joining the European Union and NATO, playing on fears of joining the Western alliance fanned by Russian propaganda. The ever looser Orange alliance of Tymoshenko and Yushchenko was being abandoned by parliamentarians, who were defecting to Yanukovych?s better funded and organized Party of the Regions and its coalition partners. That coalition now has 258 votes against the Orange alliance's 202. If it musters 300 deputies in the Rada...
...Vietnam's highest-profile political case in years, the five defendants were found guilty of "conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic" after a raucous, half-day trial Friday in which the priest loudly denounced the court as "the law of the jungle." At that point he was hushed up and hustled out to follow the proceedings by loudspeaker in an adjoining room where he eventually heard his sentence: Eight years in prison for helping set up and publicize a small, illegal opposition party, known as the Progression Party...
...Vietnam's government routinely denies that it has any political prisoners, but only punishes "criminals." Technically, at least, that's true. Under the country's criminal law, Article 88 - under which Father Ly and his colleagues were charged - forbids "conducting propaganda" against the state, with penalties from three to 12 years in prison. Articles 87 and 89, respectively, lay out punishments of up to 15 years for "undermining national unity" and "disrupting security." Recently, Vietnam has been cracking down against a small but determined group of dissidents - collectively calling themselves Bloc 8406 - that have recently been using the Internet...
...Harvard, we are so immersed in the immense modern world that we seldom get the opportunity to truly pretend we’re living in the 1940s, chatting about the Lend-Lease Act, before all this “green campus” propaganda kicked into gear. Perhaps it’s time Harvard started relentlessly exploiting its long, gilded past...
...supposed confession), we should expect a confrontation. For instance, in the late '80s Hizballah, under IRGC orders, sent plastic explosives to secret cells around the world. Only one shipment was intercepted. The others are presumably still in place. If Asgari helps us dig one up, the Administration has a propaganda weapon it never had going into the Iraq...