Dictators

I Take "The Pollywog EP" On Consignment From Adam Yauch, I Play In A Band With Richie Teeter

Binky Philips | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: St Mark's Place, Rich Teeter, Binky Philips, Adam Yauch, Def Jam, Beastie Boys, Dictators, New York Rock, Twisted Sister, Entertainment News

I won't take up too much of your time here. Just had a few thoughts on Adam "MCA" Yauch... and Richie Teeter. We lost Richie Teeter about 3 weeks before we lost Adam. F**king cancer!

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Dictator's Survival Manual

Imran Garda | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Hosni Mubarak, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Strongmen, Dictators, Humor, Satire, Comedy, Comedy News

No costumes. This isn't Mardi Gras. Gaddafi was the last of the costume-wearers; they're over. Wear a suit and tie. And shave, for heaven's sake.

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PHOTOS: The Dictator Yearbook

Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Dictator Yearbook, Vladimir Putin, Hosni Mubarak, Kim Jong Il, Moammar Gaddafi, Dictators, Ali Abdullah Saleh, World News

On the first anniversary of the ouster of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak and less than a year after the likes of Muammar Gaddafi and Kim Jong ...

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2011: The Death of the Despots. The Death of Fashion.

Kareem Tabsch | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Fidel Castro, Muammar Gaddafi, Fashion, Kim Jong Il, Dictators, Comedy, Humor and Satire, Osama Bin Laden, Comedy News

Let's face it. While the deaths of Hussein, bin Laden, Gaddafi, and the recent passing of Kim Jong Il have been good news for democracy they have really been terrible blows to the echelons of theatrical world leaders.

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Kim Jong Il's Strange Food And Drink Cravings

Food Republic | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Korean, Dictatorship, Korean Food, Kim Jong Il, Dictators, North Korea, Food, Eating, Kim Jong-Il's Eating Habits, Kim Jong-Il's Eats, Kim Jong-Il's Food, Kim Jong-Il's Eating, Food News

The elder Kim kept such draconian control of information that very little is known about the country. What we do know comes from the handful of dissidents who have escaped.

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PHOTOS: 7 Reasons That America Made The World More Dangerous

Andrew Feinstein | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Dictators America, Mubarak, Fidel Castro, Dictators, Augusto Pinochet, Books News

The arms trade stretches across a continuum of legality and ethics from the official, or formal trade, to the grey and black markets, what I refer to as "the shadow world." In practice, the boundaries between the three markets are fuzzy.

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The Deaths of Dictators: Neither History Nor Their People Will Ever Absolve Them

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Libya, Raul Castro, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Trial, Gaddafi Killed, Muammar Gaddafi, Dictators, Gaddafi Dead, World News

I would have liked to see Muammar Gaddafi before a court, indicted for the crimes he committed against his country. I think the violent deaths of the satraps only gives them an aura of martyrdom they do not deserve.

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More PR Shame: Associated Press Cooperates With Dictatorial Propaganda Machines

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Mussolini, Barbara Demick, Che Guevara, Hitler, Fidel Castro, Associated Press, Mao, Pinochet, Cuba, Syria, Dictators, North Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Media News

Is any of the dark, undeniable reality of life under Castro mentioned in a single caption of the thousands of photographs offered by the AP? Not once. Castro, they repeat, is a "revolutionary hero."

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The History Of Dictators Brought To Trial

Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, Dictators Tried, Hosni Mubarak Trial, Dictators, Dictator Trial, World News

Six months after the start of the protests on Tahrir Square, Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak was brought before a Cairo court on Wednesday, ch...

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No Way Out: Ancient Wisdom On Putting Bad Guys Up Against A Wall

Marc Gopin | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Arab Spring, Biblical, Conflict Resolution, Torah, War, Dictators, Judaism, Religion News

There is an ancient law in the Jewish Torah that forbids combatants from surrounding an enemy on all four sides, requiring instead that there is always an escape route.

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A Jewish Perspective On The Dangerous Charisma Of Power

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Religion, Politics, Humility, Mao, Power, Bin Laden, God, Charisma, Cult of Personality, Dangerous Power, Absolute Power, Dictators, Judaism, Religion News

What is the Jewish attitude towards rulers? The person before you may seem a god. He is a person, with the same stubborn flaws that afflict us all, if anything, they may be magnified by power.

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Chasing Demons: Visiting Pol Pot's Grave

Peter Winter | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Communism, Cambodia, Khmer, Motorcycling, Pol Pot, Dictators, Khmer Rouge, Travel News

We loaded up the bikes early. Our destination for the day was Prasat Preah Vihear, a mountaintop temple currently the sticking point between Thai and Cambodia military forces.

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Propaganda: Art Of Gaddafi, Hussein And Kim Jong Il

BLTWY | Posted 05.25.2011

Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses I...

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The Hypocrisy Of War

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Wallis, Protests in Bahrain, Dictators, Libya, Democracy in Egypt, Deficit Hawks, Cruise Missiles, The Cost of War, Cost of War, Democracy, Budget Cuts, Moammar Gadhafi, Hypocrisy of War, American Foreign Policy, Conflict in Darfur, Defense Spending, Intervention in Libya, World News

The U.S. just started another war. We're good at starting wars. We're not good at ending them, but we start them really well. They say this is for "humanitarian" reasons. But aren't they all?

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U.S. Banks Oppose Stricter Money Rules

Wall Street Journal | DEBORAH BALL AND CASSELL BRYAN-LOW | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Money-Laundering, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Tunisia, Banks, Egypt, Financial Action Task Force, Swiss Banks, Libya, Regulation, Dictators, Business News

Even as governments freeze assets tied to regimes in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia, U.S. banks are resisting efforts to tighten international rules to prev...

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Toppling Dictators with a Lethal Dose of Technology and Nonviolent Action

Stephanie Rudat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Demonstrations, Egypt Protests, Congress, Youth Movement, Political Repression, Nonviolent Conflict, Socioeconomics, Facebook, Dictators, Tunisia Revolution, Political Reform, Albert Einstein Institution, Social Media, Tunisia Protests, Emergency Law, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Revolution, Political Activism, Protest, Nonviolent Resistance, Political Corruption, Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak, Technology, Demonstrations, Tunisia, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Repression, Citizen Journalism, Gene Sharp, The Guardian, Dictatorship, Egypt Emergency Laws, Egypt State Tv, Nonviolence, Human Rights, Ahmed Salah, Oppression, Youtube, Nonviolent Action, Political Prisoners, Khaled Said, Torture, Impact News

Ahmed Salah, an Egyptian journalist and activist who had survived torture while incarcerated in jail for pushing against the regime, brought his mission to the United States.

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Hillary Dusts off Iranian Bogeyman...Again

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Shia, Persian Gulf, Arms Sales, Senate Authorization Committee, Politics, Regime Alteration, Houthi, Yemen, Hezbollah, Regime Change, Bahrain, Dictators, World News, Iran, Bogeyman, Robert Gates, Arabs, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Military, Foreign Policy, Sunni, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

When I first read about Washington's new Mideast strategy, I winced at the lack of inventiveness in both the phrase "Regime Alteration" and the idea that we can somehow subvert these popular movements for change.

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Witnessing Revolutions

Ann Medlock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Ngo Dinh Diem, Tunisia, Belgium, US Foreign Policy, Self-Determination, Kinshasa, Aspirations, Democracy, Foreign Service, Soviet Union, Power, Capitalism, Cold War, Viet Nam, Congo, Dictators, Foreign Policy, Founders, History, Uprisings, Nato, Human Rights, Real Politik, Freedom, Revolutions, Libya, Minerals, Status Quo, Stability, Saigon, Leopoldville, World News

With all the news of uprisings, I've been rocketed back in time and space to the Congo, to Vietnam, where I got some first-hand experiences of what it's like when people make such dramatic moves.

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The Domino Theory Strikes Again: Who's Next?

Eric Lurio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ali Khamanei, Eastern Europe, Civil War, Tunisia, East Germany, Egypt, Algeria, Revolution, Ussr, Iran, Solidarrity Movement, Ahmadinejad, Gorbachev, Dictators, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, World News

The next regime to go is Algeria. You may ask, "How do you know this? Didn't the police there just beat the crap out of the demonstrators a day or two...

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Democracies Dancing With the Devil

Dovid Efune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mubarak, Democracy, Hamas, Treaties, Israel, Egypt Revolution, Agreements, Dictators, World News

Backhanded handling with imposed leadership structures throughout the world may be a sad necessity for democracies; comprehensive agreements with concrete commitments including the ceding of land is downright irresponsibly dangerous.

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Are We All Egyptians?

Laura Mola | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Politics, Army, President Obama, Egypt Protests, Tahrir Square, Middle East, Mubarak, God, Dictators, World News

"We own their Army. They won't fire on their citizens. Don't worry." An Arab friend calmed me in one instant while the next found me thinking: who is ...

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Arab Uprising's Winners and Losers

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Youth, Arab, Bravery, Tunis, Western, People, US, Wikileaks, Dictators, Tyrants, World News

The newly found bravery of Arab youths has spread from one country to another. The right to free expression and assembly, long restricted in Arab countries, has now been extracted as a result of the sacrifices in the streets.

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Mubarak's fortune equals...

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: #jan25, Mubarek, Egypt, Dictators, World News

Here's a compilation of tweets giving perspective to the Guardian's report that Mubarak's fortune could add up to $70 billion. (Apologies for misspell...

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Getting in Line for a Revolution

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Democracy, Tunisia, Arab Masses, Yemen, Palestine, King Abdullah, Ben Ali, Hamas, Hezbollah, Bahrain, Dictators, World News, Iran, Middle East, Arabs, Israel, Mubarak, Algeria, Foreign Policy, Revolution, Qatar, Uprisings, World News

What is interesting about the tsunami of change sweeping through the Middle East this past month is that the "dumb, undeserving-of-democracy" Arab mas...

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Harry Reid Calls Chinese President 'Dictator' On Eve Of Visit

Politics Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry Reid, Politics, State Visit, World, Hi Jintao, Diplomacy, Dictatorship, China, Dictators, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Politics News

LAS VEGAS -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid branded Chinese President Hu Jintao a "dictator" on a TV talk show on Tuesday night, a remark likely to...

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