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NEWS ABOUT: autocracies

autocracies stories: 3 news summaries
OPINION

Lay Off Israel, Human Rights Watch: Founder

Group founded to light closed societies has gone astray

Oct 20, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Human Rights Watch has lost its way, writes founder and chairman emeritus Robert L. Bernstein. The once even-handed organization has launched a jeremiad against Israel—a liberal democracy with a “vibrant free press”—while effectively ignoring abuses in closed, autocratic societies in the region it was created to... More »

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Palestine • Israel and Palestinians • watchdog • human rights abuse • Human Rights Watch • autocracies • liberal democracy • HRW • Robert L. Bernstein • closed societies

ANALYSIS

In China and Russia,
a 'Springtime for Autocrats'

Is the Age of Authoritarianism upon us?

Aug 17, 08 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The autocratic world powers that were crumbling in the late 1980s may yet have their day, and sooner than we think, writes executive editor Bill Keller in the New York Times. As China keeps its stranglehold on free speech despite promises to the IOC, and Russia tests how far it... More »

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China • Russia • communism • democracy • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • Cold War • foreign policy • George W. Bush • autocracies

OPINION

McCain's Foreign Policy Could Ignite Cold War II

Republican's 'cowboy antagonism' would sow discord with Russia, China, others

Jul 16, 08 4:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s foreign policy—“combustible” and “idealist”—could provoke a second Cold War, pitting the world’s democracies against its autocracies, John Judis writes in the New Republic—at best creating “gratuitous tensions” and at worst wholly “reproducing” the USSR-US “confrontation.” Mac’... More »

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China • Iran • Russia • John McCain • Saudi Arabia • G-8 • League of Democracies • autocracies

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