Pressure on religious groups and ordinary pious Muslims has been ratcheted up.

Turks criticize WikiLeaks for promoting links to private citizens data

Politics as usual has failed most rank and file workers in the United States.

A comprehensive approach must recognize the speed of internal change, especially in the minds of ordinary North Koreans.

We do not get late night statements from the most powerful men and women alive and millions of online users.

Indeed, some American financiers were especially harshly criticized for seeming to take the position that they, too, were victims.

Kenneth Ip, a local architect, for example criticizes the licensing process for killing the grassroots spirit.

For example, companies increasingly augment standard wage packages with stock options, even for rank and file employees.

What it does have is the capacity to influence ordinary Chinese making them a valuable addition to a pro reform coalition.

The financial crisis has not helped improve the image of globalization, which has long been deeply unpopular among ordinary voters in most of the world s advanced countries.

But when such reforms involve sacrifices by ordinary citizens and benefit society s most privileged groups, political gridlock and instability invariably follow.

Liberals are known to favor more thorough economic and political reforms, such as democratization at the grassroots level and a free press.

It appears from press reports that the West finally gave the green light to the Egyptian military to overthrow Morsi, arrest the Muslim Brotherhood s leadership, and repress the Islamist rank and file.

Supporting democracy on Russia s borders can have a dangerous demonstration effect, by encouraging ordinary Russians to demand the same for themselves.

To rescue the vanishing local street food culture, a number of civic groups have proposed a food cart program, urging the government to re issue hawker licenses to grassroots street venders.

Much can be learned from each country s experience and from that of smaller EU member states, but labor market reforms inevitably have a strong national flavor. Employment objectives have been formulated for all EU member states since 1997 in the so called European Employment Strategy (EES), now part of the Lisbon Agenda, the set of goals established to boost EU productivity.

The government is fortunate to have my lawyer friend s faith in the legal system, but now it must earn ordinary citizens trust by enacting reforms.

Much can be learned from each country s experience and from that of smaller EU member states, but labor market reforms inevitably have a strong national flavor.

The grassroots project can promote a more diverse food culture, creating job and making use of small unused spaces in the community to provide inexpensive food to local residents.

But if it happens, it will not result from grassroots democratic experiments in towns and villages rather, it will be an elite driven transition, careful to preserve the government's control.

In an era of evaporated pensions and benefits for the rank and file, piggish pay packets for CEO s have led a cynical public to wonder where big business has gone wrong.

The blogosphere and headlines erupted with experts and Indian citizens wondering why the Government of India and the big players in TB treatment were arguing over what to call it, rather than what to do about it.

But while everyone and their mom wants to regulate and restrict online communications in Russia, not many government officials or even quasi independent Internet experts are rushing to take the side of the users.

The new property law won t be the breakthrough for rights protection that the government claims it is until it is matched by increased access to justice for ordinary citizens.

Institutional reform must therefore move beyond the BCB s inadequate price stability target, which is set according to a narrow inflation index that fails to reflect the experiences of ordinary Brazilian consumers.

Given the opportunity to govern honestly and peacefully for a few years, the administrations of Presidents Obasanjo and Wahid could make vast improvements in the lives of ordinary Nigerians and Indonesians.

Parties lose ground against the caudillist adventures of people like Lopez Obrador in Mexico and Chavez in Venezuela, and congresses are assured only of public antipathy.

The first, the US Census Bureau s annual income and poverty report, shows that, despite the economy s supposed recovery from the Great Recession, ordinary Americans incomes continue to stagnate.

In turn, the government encouraged the idea that ordinary citizens had legal rights as a way to ensure social stability, check petty corruption, and channel social grievances through a party controlled mechanism.

Last year Reuters ran an long investigative piece detailing the 95 billion dollar empire controlled by the Supreme Leader Khamenei, including the use of state power to seize assets from ordinary Iranians.

They wanted the assembled policymakers to know that their decisions affect ordinary people, not just the financiers who are worried about what inflation does to the value of their bonds or what interest rate hikes might do to their stock portfolios.