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  The Peace Encyclopedia: Double Standards
The "Double Standard" is that all must view favorably the self-styled claims of Islam while dismissing the Jewish claim to the Land of Israel which dates back 4000 years.
"Double Standards" applied against the Jews in the 30s and 40s that spawned the Holocaust have been delineated competently in many, many books.(4) It is merely necessary to note that the simple phrase "Double Standard" was the very foundation operative in causing and actuating the Holocaust.
The lesson should not be lost that reliance upon hatred of an external enemy is the hallmark of dictatorships generally, and particularly in the Middle East.
www.yahoodi.com /peace/doublestandards.html   (3751 words)

  
 ALU Archive: WTO - A Dictatorship of Secrecy and Double Standards
This is where the concept of the 'race to the bottom' in international labour standards is very clearly demonstrated.
In a similar case to the banana dispute, because of the EU refusal to import US beef which is largely produced with the use of growth hormones, in March 1999 the WTO legitimated USA import sanctions on US$117 million worth of goods from the EU.
Although GATT liberalised aspects of trade in the interests of industrialised countries, it was protectionist towards ownership of technology and intellectual property rights, and refused Third World suggestions to liberalise the movement of labour between member states.
www.amrc.org.hk /Arch/3201.htm   (2761 words)

  
 Africa Action: Africa's Debt & Iraq's Debt - Washington's Double Standard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The following talking points explore the double standard in U.S. policy that brings the White House to advocate for the cancellation of Iraq’s unsustainable debt burden but causes it to ignore the massive debt crisis faced by African countries.
Such a blatant double standard in U.S. foreign policy must be exposed and rejected outright.
Declare a moratorium on debt repayments by African countries until such time as an inventory of these debts has been compiled and the costs of 100% cancellation have been determined, these two studies providing a foundation for moving towards a just resolution to the continent's debt crisis.
www.africaaction.org /newsroom/index.php?op=read&documentid=493&type=14&issues=2   (1977 words)

  
 In Defence of Marxism - Pakistan: the retreat of the generals - from here, but to where?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The possibility of tolerance, harmony and stability by the action of the Musharraf dictatorship being propagated by the regime and echoed by liberals and ex-lefts is nothing but a vicious deception.
To create illusions in such a dictatorship is criminal and tantamount to the subjugation of a mass workers' movement to a reactionary and vicious bourgeois state.
Hence it is vital to expose the hypocrisy of the dictatorship, its double standards and its real class character.
www.marxist.com /pakistan-retreat-generals150102.htm   (3677 words)

  
 Issues & Views: Double Standards
The published report, entitled, "CMR Special Report: Double Standards in Naval Aviation," made clear the lowered standards at work in the Navy, when it came to the training of women pilots.
This news may not have caused much stir in a military that is fast feminizing, were it not for the in-flight death of a female pilot and the dismissal of another.
Naval flight instructor, Lt. Patrick Burns, has gone public with his disclosures of the double standards that are now part of Navy procedure.
www.issues-views.com /index.php/sect/2003/article/2043   (699 words)

  
 DR Willner AMP Floracel - Original MoloCure Formula - Help for UC / IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome Molo-cure Digestinol
The true orthodox physician, if one uses Hippocrates as the standard, is now referred to as the "alternative" or "holistic" physician.
The actual occurrence of the cover-up and masking of the failures in the "infallibility" of the double-blind criteria of proof is much greater than admitted or known, because of the limitations inherent in the allopathic philosophy and its intolerance to any other point of view.
As long as the dictatorship of allopathic medicine reigns, fostered by the powerful and politically influential pharmaceutical industry, the public will be denied the right of informed freedom of choice in health and disease care.
ampfloracel.com /html/willner.html   (1888 words)

  
 Some Reflections on Honesty in Politics - Maley - Talks - Uniya
We have reached a sad pass where not only have standards of honesty fallen at elite level, but the willingness of the mass public to make honesty a criterion of where to allocate their votes has also diminished.
However, there are three other forms of departure from high standards of honesty which also deserve attention: ‘recklessness’ with the truth, the telling of ‘half-truths’, and ‘hypocrisy’.
Hypocrisy, the application of different standards to situations which should be treated similarly, is a deeply insidious form of dishonesty.
www.uniya.org /talks/maley_jss-feb05.html   (2392 words)

  
 [lbo-talk] Nawal El Saadawi: Women, Islam, and Democratization
It created double undemocratic national and international laws and double standards in all the domains of life; whether political, economic, sexual, social, moral, cultural, legal, religious or other.
They developed the knowledge and courage to challenge the double standards in the bible and in state laws.
They adopt double standards, violence, terrorism, and dictatorship whenever these serve their economic interests in what they call the Third World, or the Middle East.
mailman.lbo-talk.org /pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20070319/005388.html   (1868 words)

  
 BrothersJudd.com - Review of Jeane Kirkpatrick's Dictatorships and Double Standards : Rationalism and Reason in Politics
Dictatorships and Double Standards : Rationalism and Reason in Politics (1982)
In it she argued that it was incumbent on the United States to differentiate between authoritarian regimes and totalitarian regimes.
The fact that Kirkpatrick became a major player in the administration the defeated Communism and won the Cold War, the degree to which her ideas were turned into official U. policy, and the prophetic quality of much that she wrote, makes them well worth your while.
www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/608/Dictatorship.htm   (1679 words)

  
 Research Topics
She gave the big speech at the 1984 GOP convention, leading the massed Republicans in a chant of "they always blame America first."
Kirkpatrick's article, "Dictatorship and Double Standards," was a ferocious attack on President Jimmy Carter for trying to "impose liberalization and democratization" on other countries.
She mocked "the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances." Democracy, she said, depends "on complex social, cultural, and economic conditions." It takes "decades, if not centuries."
www.defenddemocracy.org /research_topics/research_topics_show.htm?doc_id=273827&attrib_id=7448   (667 words)

  
 Political Affairs Magazine - US Foreign Policy Double Standards
Pakistan is groaning under a military dictatorship following General Musharraf's coup d'etat, but he has paid lip service to the US war on terror, so his regime is regarded as objectively pro-democracy.
Such double standards are not a problem for Ms Rice, since she has taken her lesson from her commander in chief.
Just weeks after proclaiming the rebirth of democracy in Iraq, where the US continues its illegal war, Mr Bush was blissfully unaware of any irony in lecturing the Syrian government to remove its troops from Lebanon on the grounds that free elections under military occupation were impossible.
www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/851/1   (610 words)

  
 Double Standards: Bill Clinton and the “Anybody But Bush” Movement : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Double Standards: Bill Clinton and the “Anybody But Bush” Movement : SF Indymedia
The "Anybody but Bush" (ABB) movement is founded on a basically irrational hatred of Bush that completely ignores the record of the Democrats the last time they were in power.
The ABB movement practices a double standard: when Republicans do something it’s wrong but when Democrats do the same thing it’s okay (or didn’t happen at all).
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1704332   (3551 words)

  
 PML leader slams MMA’s ‘double standards’ -DAWN - National; November 20, 2006
PML leader slams MMA’s ‘double standards’ -DAWN - National; November 20, 2006
He denied these achievements were the outcome of any deal with any of the opposition parties.
He said the PML believed in free and fair elections which was evident from the fact that contrary to tradition the ruling party lost the by-poll for the National Assembly seat vacated by federal minister Shaikh Rashid and recently on a Sindh Assembly seat in Shikarpur where a PPP candidate was declared winner.
www.dawn.com /2006/11/20/nat1.htm   (297 words)

  
 Pakistan News : Qazi Hussain Ahmed accuses West of Double Standards, ( Kerala news, India News,Us,UK,Kerala ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the Amir of the Jamaat-e-Islami, told the European Commission Ambassador Ilkka Ussitalo that supporting a military dictatorship, while espousing the cause of democracy, is something that is unbecoming of the West.
He said that if the West continued to support such an undemocratic rule, people will believe that the West has double standards on democracy, adding that "the notion will be a fatal blow for the West", reports the Daily Times.
He said that a government headed by a military General was no different from martial law and should not be in any case termed as a democracy.
www.keralanext.com /news?id=200153   (269 words)

  
 Armies of Liberation » Blog Archive » A Glaring Double Standard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jane Novak notes a double standard in the outrage over the Marine who shot an insurgent vs. the treatment of the insurgents who killed Margaret Hassan (link via Tim Blair).
Remember the concern that was expressed on the is blog for the child victims of the Beslam outrage in Russia.
Althought these new international standards of behaviour and custom were initiated and defined due to the unprecedented horrors visited upon non-combatants in WWII.
armiesofliberation.com /archives/2004/11/18/a-glaring-double-standard   (4642 words)

  
 Neoconservatism’s Liberal Legacy by Tod Lindberg - Policy Review, No. 127   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was thus possible to assert a rank order among regime types: democracy, good; authoritarian, ranging from benevolent to brutal dictatorship, not good to bad; totalitarian/communist, worst of all.
This policy would necessarily entail support for certain unsavory authoritarian governments in their efforts to combat local communist insurrections (which, inevitably, traveled under the flag of national liberation movements).
The seminal article is Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, “Dictatorship and Double Standards,” Commentary (November 1979).
www.policyreview.org /oct04/lindberg.html   (8181 words)

  
 Press Action ::: Syria and the Double Standards of John Kerry
Syria’s inhabitants are ruled by a dictatorship that maintains a tight grip on most aspects of public life.
If members of Congress were also to sanction the Bush administration for its illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and if they were to sponsor an Israel Accountability Act, then the Syria act would appear less of a farce.
The U.S. government would need to be careful, however, not to fall down the slippery slope whereby its pronouncements evolve into mandates for the use of military force against the targeted nation or into restrictions on U.S. citizens from conducting business or other affairs in the targeted nation.
www.pressaction.com /news/weblog/full_article/hand02192004   (1373 words)

  
 Double Standards : Fool Moon
Some of the double standards of American English..............
These are only SOME of the things people in the Arab world spot about the Americans.
I wonder if anyone has some other double standards to add.
foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php?Number=76162   (424 words)

  
 dictatorship - OneLook Dictionary Search
Dictatorship : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
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Words similar to dictatorship: absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, monocracy, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, one-man rule, more...
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China’s human rights abuse receded in the background of strategic alliance with the United States against the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, but has loomed large as a center of dispute in the bilateral relationship since the end of the cold war.
Sukarno’s "guided democracy," the Indonesian style, was as laughable as Mao’s "dictatorship of people’s democracy." Authoritarian leaders in Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Thailand have had to reckon, strategically or tactically, with popular clarion calls to democracy and press freedom.
The Maoist mass-line model came closest to being most radical and romantic of all participatory democracies, to the extreme point that it was thoroughly anti-organizational, anti-legal, and anti-professional, both in politics and in media.
www.nottingham.ac.uk /iaps/CCLee3.htm   (5791 words)

  
 TCS: Tech Central Station - Dictatorships and Double Standards, Revisited   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
U.S. to enlist and strengthen cooperation with these same countries, because they're on the front lines of the war on terrorism.
It's all a flashback to the Cold War and the dilemma described by Jeanne Kirkpatrick in her famous treatise on "Dictatorships and Double Standards." Back in the early 1980s, the Reagan official said the
from military dictatorship in the 1980s to multi-party democracy and free-market economy by the end of that decade.
www.techcentralstation.com /052305A.html   (929 words)

  
 THE BIG CLAMPDOWN: The rise of the New Right - NI 133 - The Prussians v the Traders
Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick set the tone for the new militarism in a 1979 article called Dictatorship and Double Standards - a piece which reportedly brought her to the attention of the President.
If it wasn’t for the ‘socialist threat’ of equality and social progress, the argument went, there would be no push for revolutionary change in the Third World.
Somehow for Ms Kirkpatrick lousy living standards, hunger, illness; these simply don’t figure as reasons why people might want to struggle for something better.
www.newint.org /issue133/prussians.htm   (1890 words)

  
 India's Double Standards on Burma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Guwahati: India has been accused of maintaining double standards vis a vis Burma.
Maintaining a political and military relationship with the Army rulers of Rangoon is nothing but an example "double standards" by New Delhi.
Delivering the first L. Phukan Memorial Lecture in Guwahati today (June 11) on "Aberrations of Democracy," Mr Bezboruah argued that the available administrative structure in today's India is not concerned about the aspiration and the mandate of the people.
www.mizzima.com /mizzima/archives/news-in-2005/News-in-June/12-Jun-05-13.htm   (473 words)

  
 The Curmudgeonly Clerk: May 2004 Archives
My point really concerns the fatuous double standard wielded by the members of the media establishment who are all too willing to condemn Scalia for conduct that they decline to notice when it is engaged in by his brethren—unless they are shamed into being consistent.
This is the double standard to which I am referring.
But being that the issue has been raised, the whole flap over the hunting trip is partisan in character, and reflects the very double standard that I maintain exists.
www.curmudgeonlyclerk.com /weblog/archives/2004_05.html   (12419 words)

  
 zonitics.com
The troops are not on the border to threaten the North Korean dictatorship, but rather to help it keep its citizens imprisoned in the North.
Dean was already having trouble reconciling his promise that he wanted to renegotiate NAFTA and other trade agreements with his insistence that the United States must trade with other countries in order to turn them into sedate, bourgeois societies.
Fairly or not, self-styled straight-talking candidates are held to a higher standard of honesty, and Dean's having trouble meeting it.
zonitics.blogspot.com /2003_09_01_zonitics_archive.html   (11346 words)

  
 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Smelly Cat, own up to your double standards and soft bigotry.
If I said fls are a bunch of racists, would that have been ok? I don't believe that they are, but you probably would have thought that counted as derogatory.
That's a fair point, but, besides private property being sort of a dictatorship, I have a right to voice my own complaints and try to change things, and I think I'm being pretty reasonable in doing so.
But in your eagerness to prove you are right can lead to consequences like this.
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=292125   (1569 words)

  
 Belarus Is Last Dictatorship in Europe — Rice - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Belarus “is really the last dictatorship in the center of Europe, and it’s time for a change in Belarus,” AP quoted Rice as saying Wednesday after a visit to Russia.
During her meeting Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Rice offered assurances that the United States is not interested in a power grab in former Soviet republics.
The organizers even have liquid ammonia on hand to resuscitate anyone who faints at the sight of the disfigured faces of drug addicts or the embryo of an addict’s baby in formalin.
www.mosnews.com /news/2005/04/21/ricebelarus.shtml   (670 words)

  
 Scathing Putin brands US a dictatorship - World - www.smh.com.au
"Even when dictatorship is beautifully gift-wrapped in pseudo-democratic phraseology, it has never been capable of resolving systemic problems.
Unilateralism increased "the danger of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their coming into hands of terrorists", and fed regional conflicts, he said.
"Dictatorship, the more so dictatorship in international affairs, has never solved and could not have solved such problems in the history of mankind," Mr Putin said.
www.smh.com.au /news/World/Scathing-Putin-brands-US-a-dictatorship/2004/12/05/1102182160934.html?oneclick=true   (605 words)

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