By prosecuting critics as news fakers, the government can stifle legitimate dissent.

The Hong Kong communists now use the political tactics of the Cultural Revolution, attacking teacher Lam Wai sze in public.

But, in pursuit of these difficult objectives, the West must get both its ambitions and its methods right.

Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip mine the earth for a particular commodity.

Yet in pursuing partial goals he will not lose sight of higher objectives.

By July 1944, the Red Army was deep into Polish territory and pursuing the Germans toward Warsaw.

In pursuing these goals, Russia must remember that imperialism is expensive and will incite confrontation with the West.

By pursuing these strategies, President Barack Obama could restore America s position as the engine of the global economy.

Indeed many among them are deeply enmeshed in politics, pursuing agendas and vendettas of their own.

This would be a Russia that acts in pursuit of its own interests the same way that the US and the EU act.

Hunting after his own ghost an obvious sign of inner unhappiness Hidalgo searched for a place where dreams, reality, sainthood, love, and justice coexist.

In doing this he has not hesitated to use his semi monopoly over television to exalt his government s alleged accomplishments.

In Albania, instead of developing and strengthening our infant democratic institutions, the OSCE, in its desire to see its policies implemented, often seeks to bypass or override them.

But Berlusconi is also a master of ambiguity, someone who appeals to liberal values while pursuing an anti liberal, populist, and corporatist agenda. Giulio Tremonti, Berlusconi's Economy and Finance Minister and ideologue of the alliance with Umberto Bossi's xenophobic Lega Nord , declared in a recent interview Let's be done with the utopia of privatization.

But Berlusconi is also a master of ambiguity, someone who appeals to liberal values while pursuing an anti liberal, populist, and corporatist agenda.

For a time, I actually dreamed of becoming a political reporter, chasing lawmakers down the corridors of power for a living.

Individual actors, by essentially pursuing their own self interested ends might be doing more for society than than if any of them actually tried to promote the overall well being of society.

In response, the government declared martial law in Mindanao to pursue the attackers and prevent the spread of ISIS in other towns.

We should remember this as we pursue the elusive objective of democracy in Iraq, so that we are not surprised if the upcoming election fails to generate a legitimate government.

In the past month, the junta has set a new standard of intimidation by arresting a journalist, summoning a journalist s wife, prosecuting an activist s mother, and pressing charges against children under the legal age.

Monetary subsidies to consumption are also often granted in developed countries for a variety of purposes, not least of which is fighting tax evasion. One such subsidy is permitting deduction of a fixed percentage of certain expenses from income tax.

Monetary subsidies to consumption are also often granted in developed countries for a variety of purposes, not least of which is fighting tax evasion.

In pursuing it, immigrants may also begin to free their longer established fellow Europeans from their attachment to a fortress that, if taken to extremes, could well become a prison for all.

Under Japan s last two prime ministers, Japan has steadily been making practical contributions to the stabilization of the international security environment as a way to benefit its national and international interests.

These were off the agenda in earlier trade rounds, as the US pushed for liberalization of financial services thus serving its own comparative advantage.

As we know from decades of Japanese and Swiss experience, selling a low interest rate currency simply to chase higher US yields is often a costly mistake.

NDH followed fascist regimes in Europe by forming concentration camps, and killing and persecuting Serbs, Jews, and Romas, not to mention Croatian partisans and their families.

And, by picking territorial fights with its neighbors and pursuing a muscular foreign policy, China s leaders are compelling other Asian states to work more closely with the US and each other.

NEW HAVEN Adam Smith famously wrote of the invisible hand, by which individuals pursuit of self interest in free, competitive markets advances the interest of society as a whole.

So, it was not necessarily a bad thing. By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.

America's Fed follows a rule of monetary policy whereby the prime objective of controlling inflation permits, according to precise parameters, a reaction to changes in the rate of growth.

The nation s right wing politics is one of socially acceptable ignorance saying things than run counter to reason and information, as a tool to maintain a group of people.

The lesson is that Commissioners should focus on their specific tasks, bearing in mind the interests of the EU rather than those of their country of origin. Mario Monti, the successful Commissioner for Competition, happened to be Italian, but nobody ever accused him of pursuing an Italian agenda.

He has also taken a page from Syrian President Bashar al Assad s book, not only demonizing the demonstrators, but also going after the medical personnel who care for them and the hoteliers who shelter them.

In the last century, coups d état were often the means by which (mostly military) rulers remained in power for many years, outlawing and persecuting the opposition.

Other autocratic rulers in the Muslim world are learning from Iran s example, cracking down hard on intellectuals, journalists, lawyers, women activists, or just about anyone who has ideas and wants to exchange them with others.

By reinforcing already strict labor market regulation, pursuing a misguided energy policy, and reversing pension reform, Germany is undermining its current economic position and will move in the direction of problem countries.

And in this picture they attack the owner of Hannibal TV Larbi Nasra, who is a relative of Ben Ali's wife, accusing him of supporting the former ruling party, then the revolution, and now Ennahda party, for his own interests.

While Merkel seems to believe that all eurozone countries should play by the same rules, she does not seem to realize that today it is Germany that is going it alone in pursuit of its own narrow national interests.

At the same time, China seems so drugged on business nowadays that it is hard to imagine many people marching for a cause that would do nothing for their bottom line.

The reason that it was not done in the case of the US and Chile is also clear protectionist interests in America have little interest in an agreement embodying true free and fair trade.

So those who are creating a disturbance and inciting hatred by terming the bloggers atheist and blasphemous by taking their words out of context should be identified and legal actions should be taken against them.

Santos says nothing, but replies in kind making peace with Chávez and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, prosecuting human rights violations under Uribe, and arresting several of his allegedly corrupt officials.

But Natalya also has strong opinions (archive) on allowing Iran to continue its nuclear program and wonders (archive) out loud if the Russian opposition movement murdered Boris Nemtsov as a sacrifice to further its own ends.

It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles, both of which were designed from conception to eventually become reusable, and the Dragon spacecraft which is flown into orbit by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle to supply the International Space Station with cargo.