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NEWS ABOUT: liberal democracy

liberal democracy 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

(Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today again denied the Holocaust and excoriated the concept of liberal democracy, AFP reports. “Liberal democracy has been exposed to the world by its protection of the most criminal regime in the history of humanity, the Zionist regime,” he said in a campaign speech,... More »

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Iran • Israel • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Holocaust • Islamic law • election • liberal democracy

OPINION

Modern Bullies Aren't
World's Real Threat

Putin, Jintao no Stalin, Mao; today's rulers can't ignore democracy

Aug 23, 08 4:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The world's strong-arm autocrats are surging to the fore, ignoring human rights, denying election results, and barging into neighboring nations. But Hu Jintao, Robert Mugabe and Vladimir Putin are not Mao, Hitler, or Stalin, Francis Fukuyama writes in the Washington Post. That “sort of ideological tyrant no longer... More »

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Robert Mugabe • Vladimir Putin • Hu Jintao • Hugo Chávez • authoritarianism • Francis Fukuyama • autocrat • liberal democracy

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