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"totalitarian" Definitions
  1. (of a country or system of government) in which there is only one political party, which has complete power and control over the people

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Why, for example, is the totalitarian socialism of Nazi Germany poles apart from totalitarian socialism of the Soviet Union?
The same things that make it possible for an oppressed group to communicate undetected in a totalitarian country allows a totalitarian force to communicate undetected about that oppressed group.
Everything points to Grindelwald as an allegorical Aryan totalitarian leader.
It's a totalitarian way of life with a religious component.
It would be hilarious if it weren't so totalitarian. pic.twitter.
No totalitarian regimes or mass wasteland to be seen here.
In the withered totalitarian wasteland of Chicago, a spark flickers.
He derides "totalitarian Europe" telling member states what to do.
He is a participant in the exchange of totalitarian machinations.
Even a totalitarian state like North Korea cannot stop progress.
To me, they look like citizens of a totalitarian state.
The tactics bore all the hallmarks of a totalitarian purge.
Oppressive, totalitarian regimes are not noted for flexibility or responsiveness.
In this totalitarian state, men and women have strict roles.
Over the years, totalitarian regimes have banned or bowdlerized it.
Would an indefinite future in a totalitarian state feel better?
" He added that the government "repudiates totalitarian and genocidal ideologies.
Only totalitarian societies make it obligatory to love one's country.
Some Orthodox scholars view Jehovah's Witnesses as a 'totalitarian sect'.
Speaking as an architecture critic, this is insane and borderline totalitarian.
"Hussein as in Saddam Hussein was a totalitarian dictator," Green said.
The US turning totalitarian covers an incredibly wide swathe of fiction.
There's no way to legislate such behavior; that would be totalitarian.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a totalitarian communist monarchy.
Stripping citizenship has been, historically, a favored weapon of totalitarian regimes.
But in the end, democracy and a totalitarian regime cannot coexist.
"Of course it's a totalitarian country," Novak said, with a shrug.
It's a about extreme carbon rationing under an increasingly totalitarian government.
Throughout history, violence has been a primary tool of totalitarian regimes.
It's important to remember that Marx did not advocate totalitarian government.
Totalitarian tactics of oppression brought about much of the world's unrest.
And liberty from tyrants and totalitarian rulers may require armed struggle.
"One has to distinguish people who leave totalitarian countries," she said.
She was writing in response to what she saw as totalitarian thoughtlessness.
The show follows Offred, a handmaid, living in Gilead, a totalitarian society.
You believe in a totalitarian marxist system of one party enforced beliefs.
Well, not just for the Kremlin, but all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
"You shouldn&apost be giving assurances to a totalitarian leader," he said.
One show, "The Dictator's Doom", recounts the messy fates of totalitarian rulers.
"It's just another totalitarian regime," says a Kurdish journalist who fled abroad.
We are not talking about authoritarian or totalitarian forms of socialism, right.
It&aposs in their self-interest to stop playing this totalitarian card.
European-derived anti-totalitarian focus, they could not adapt to a region
Totalitarian regimes, Big Brother, and a population that doesn't trust its government?
Our emerging post-privacy order isn't quite totalitarian, but it's getting there.
"This is how totalitarian states behave," Israeli media reported him as saying.
Free speech can more easily penetrate totalitarian regimes that would suppress it.
Traditional media — "one transmitter, millions of receivers" — contain an inherently totalitarian structure.
"One film is about ordinary life under a totalitarian system," he explained.
Its priority is the survival of the totalitarian regime as a buffer.
MIC Bidco compulsory totalitarian takeover offer on Engineering shares ends (1003 GMT).
Some Orthodox members believe Jehovah's Witnesses are a "totalitarian sect," Reuters reported.
For example, Hungary has been a totalitarian regime for a few years.
When Arendt warned that "totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes" and return disguised in otherwise free countries, things like this and Mr. Anton's perverse proposals may be the sort of things she had in mind.
In the misogynistic totalitarian world of The Handmaid's Tale, they have to be.
Their goal is not to craft a totalitarian, authoritarian communist state like Venezuela.
They are a suppressive totalitarian dictatorship that the western -- the west has financed.
Mr Ma's critique of the totalitarian mindset recalls that of Soviet-era dissidents.
The criminalization of politics is a hallmark of totalitarian states and banana republics.
So, they&aposre acutely aware of what happens when these totalitarian dictatorships collapse.
The policy calls for the ban of all totalitarian symbols, including Soviet monuments.
Of course it would greet people fleeing Castro's totalitarian misery with open arms.
Yet the United States continues its unquestioning support of this repressive, totalitarian regime.
Rather, it's the embryonic first step of a totalitarian approach to maintaining order.
His was an evil, totalitarian regime that America was morally bound to oppose.
Why did she and Unity find the shimmer of totalitarian violence so attractive?
"Kim is about as powerful as a totalitarian leader can be," said ret.
"A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive," Ms. Alexievich said.
North Korea is trapped under the yoke of its own dark totalitarian system.
Its emblematic figures, Lenin in particular, were cast as cynical manipulators, totalitarian fanatics.
And this totalitarian state, they try to establish it from Pakistan to Nigeria.
"It's a tough gig, being a totalitarian dictator," she said with a laugh.
Our critic found the music liberating in a dark era of totalitarian ideologies.
And today, the West has finally recognized the dangers of China's totalitarian regime.
AI researcher or not, we should be sickened by totalitarian abuses like these.
With few exceptions, North Korea's totalitarian government forbids citizens from mixing with outsiders.
He put an end to the totalitarian system created by Lenin and Stalin.
Eritrea is a totalitarian one-party state, with no independent judiciary or media.
"Philip is an emotional totalitarian," she wrote in her journal, in March, 1957.
" Bolsonaro on Friday also said that his government "repudiates totalitarian and genocidal ideologies.
"Only totalitarian societies make it obligatory to love one's country," he once wrote.
It is almost universally understood that North Korea is a horrific totalitarian regime.
But such concerns, when dealing with a totalitarian and mendacious regime, are misplaced.
Neither was it cast as a beacon of freedom or a totalitarian hellscape.
In the 20th century, it led the Free World against the totalitarian netherworld.
That's what turns the tide for the revolution and destroys the totalitarian government.
But it's use in a one-party, quasi-totalitarian state is cause for concern.
His worst critics have seized on the illiberal, even totalitarian, implications of that phrase.
The Handmaid's Tale did that through its setting in a deeply misogynist totalitarian future.
The technology itself could change the balance of power between democratic and totalitarian systems.
The Founding Fathers of America, a totalitarian regime, still has control of the government.
Perhaps we are not heading to the totalitarian nightmare pictured in George Orwell's "1984".
"This is absolutist and totalitarian," opposition leader Carlos Legrand told local newspaper La Prensa.
Daenerys Targaryen turned into a totalitarian dictator (if that can, indeed, be a thing).
" Two months later, he claimed Obama would turn the country into "a totalitarian dictatorship.
Their declension recalls the totalitarian communist and fascist ideologies of the early twentieth century.
Those sent back to the totalitarian state risk incarceration, forced labor and even execution.
He treats the U.S. as being equal to the totalitarian murderous regime of Russia.
The result was a surprisingly stage-worthy parable of totalitarian oppression and spiritual resistance.
It's totalitarian psychology that helps to explain why the two things actually go together.
Or that the NDP government is trying to inflict a "totalitarian" regime over schools.
The Catholic Church already has a checkered record dealing with fascist or totalitarian states.
They could even surf South Korean websites, a rare privilege in the totalitarian state.
"Diego" stands for any opponent of totalitarian regimes who were arrested, tortured and murdered.
The Taliban's ambitions for an Islamic emirate, a theocratic totalitarian government, have not changed.
How do you get to be a high-ranking person within a totalitarian dictatorship?
When (if) it gets beyond that, its illiberal roots and totalitarian tendencies will show.
Mr. Trump isn't a dictator — not yet, anyway — but he clearly has totalitarian instincts.
Red cloaks and white bonnets have become signs of both totalitarian regimes and resistance.
In the Washington Post, Marc Thiessen called antifa "totalitarian" and compared them to Stalinists.
That's why in 2014 the totalitarian North Korean government decided to ban the snack.
The brochures also disclose some unusual details about vacation habits in the totalitarian state.
Lenin used Marx's analysis and rhetoric to justify establishing a secret police-controlled totalitarian system.
Emissaries have also traveled to the country to rescue detained Americans in the totalitarian country.
The world's top basketball league is now on record as bowing to a totalitarian government.
If and when that is done, China would have the world's first digital totalitarian state.
Havel's post-totalitarian bullshit would be reinforced and undergirded by a state-controlled media apparatus.
This is war by a totalitarian movement that wants to dominate Muslims and anyone else.
" The ad then addresses Soviet Georgia, where a "totalitarian regime" had confiscated "66,000 personal firearms.
They emphasize acts of strategic physical and emotional mobility within the totalitarian and coercive slavocracy.
And we now owe more than 3 trillion dollars to the world's largest totalitarian nation.
A fear of sharing political opinions, a legacy of Russia's totalitarian past, may taint results.
Off it, he defied the Nazis and refused to be courted by their totalitarian regime.
Yee described the politician as "totalitarian" and compared him unfavorably to Jesus and Mao Zedong.
But the leak nevertheless offers a fascinating look at online life under a totalitarian regime.
An ideal totalitarian regime would find a way to obtain sociological data without the sociologists.
Deeply offended by Lysenkoism, he threw himself into the work of an anti-totalitarian activist.
First, China is a totalitarian communist dictatorship, whose leader has just assumed power for life.
"When you do business with a totalitarian government, you have to set conditions," Soler said.
It's not Muslims in general, it's Muslim extremists who want to establish a totalitarian state.
" Describing the government's stance as "totalitarian," he said, "They're taking us 15, 20 years back.
Should China become our role model, just because it mastered this crisis using totalitarian means?
And as it turns out, they weren't the only totalitarian rulers with a poetic side.
Take Gilead, the totalitarian world imagined in the novel (and Hulu series) The Handmaid's Tale.
One cannot really label Russia as totalitarian in the absence of a strongly mobilizing ideology.
It's only logical then that totalitarian regimes have made their destruction such a visible priority.
Every thriving democracy's mere existence is inherently a threat to totalitarian regimes and their leaders.
Mr. Kim has managed to rule for almost six years as a brutal totalitarian dictator.
After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, when the totalitarian regime was crushed, all that changed.
Which … is kind of a fascinating choice, given that she's living under a totalitarian theocracy!
One reason is that the word is associated with the totalitarian controls of the Mao era.
Which is why she insisted that all totalitarian societies were defined by a kind of thoughtlessness.
Equally as worrying should be what our inaction says to other totalitarian leaders across the world.
He has called for the Koran to be banned, and says Islam is a totalitarian faith.
Authoritarian regimes are proliferating all over the world and if they succeed, they will become totalitarian.
The government crackdown had "provoked an unacceptable totalitarian situation using state violence," student Albert Lopez said.
Modern telecommunications technologies "have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes," Rupert Murdoch claimed in 1993.
As a fish, War learns about absolute monarchy; as an ant, he learns about totalitarian communism.
While all societies promote a collective history, totalitarian states tend to advocate a single authorized version.
The new Iranian regime embodied the ideal of a totalitarian society shaped by Islamic religious law.
The totalitarian governments of the 20th Century made extensive and remarkably effective use of mass media.
In contrast, totalitarian and authoritarian states are proud of their nuclear firepower and celebrate nuclear weapons.
Governments fear bitcoin restoring the people's monetary independence, and simultaneously, the erosion of their totalitarian control.
There is no such thing as "bourgeois science" they would say: That is a totalitarian slur.
In typical totalitarian style, the Communist Party regime deployed tanks and troops to crush the demonstrators.
" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "Long a staple of academia, the totalitarian impulse is spreading.
In the 20th century, the Cold War was premised on democracy versus authoritarian or totalitarian government.
Under his totalitarian dictatorship, economic impoverishment, political oppression, and human rights abuses have ravaged the country.
Well, let's talk about one of those patterns, namely the discrediting of truth in totalitarian regimes.
Vice Marshal Hwang has been widely considered the No. 2 man in Mr. Kim's totalitarian regime.
"Totalitarian" is the wrong word for the capitalist project because totalitarianism is a disease of governments.
We also forget that you can never have a truly good agreement with a totalitarian regime.
In the story, every woman in the totalitarian society is expected to play a submissive role.
That argument is just as applicable in China, a totalitarian state that tracks American diplomats closely.
Nothing is more threatening to a totalitarian regime than the unfettered flow of information and ideas.
Ukraine has struggled -- as have most post-Soviet states -- with the corrosive legacy of totalitarian rule.
The establishment of powerful surveillance apparatus is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes, which require complete fealty.
Arendt was not simply concerned with mapping out the totalitarian conditions into which humanity had descended.
He dreamed of creating a totalitarian society where every individual's behavior could be predicted and controlled.
And in the end, their love story is instrumental to bringing down the evil totalitarian government.
But this is exactly what was wrong with the totalitarian political ideologies of the 20th century.
While calling the Russian president "a totalitarian dictator and a thug," Flynn can also see his strengths.
Atwood's dystopian world of Gilead was modeled after an America that had succumbed to totalitarian theocratic rule.
To the degree that a totalitarian dictator has to answer to anybody, but that&aposs exactly right.
Residents of the hotel have forty-five days to meet an apt mate, apparently by totalitarian fiat.
Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, was born into a totalitarian age.
His mode of provocation was a construction of a sensibility and style in opposition to totalitarian logic.
Wilders argues that precisely that tolerance is threatened by Muslims, who he says practice a "totalitarian" faith.
If you look up totalitarian regime, if you look up police state, what they're doing is textbook.
"The IOC has a real problem, unless they can find more hosts in totalitarian states," says Brownill.
Democracy arrived only recently in the totalitarian states that until mid-1980s were behind the Iron Curtain.
That shockwave brought to power in Tehran an Islamic totalitarian regime committed to exporting its ideological revolution.
Her novel is set in what was once the United States — but is now a totalitarian theocracy.
During campaigning, the now President tweeted his condemnation of human rights abuses conducted by Cuba's totalitarian government.
The Eyes came for her in the night, much as you'd expect from a totalitarian secret police.
This right is what makes us unique, what separates us from the totalitarian nations we oft-decry.
Ikeda's relentless, overwhelming audiovisual works evoke the totalitarian grip that digital media holds on our daily lives.
A. Michael Sebek [a Czech psychoanalyst] wrote about the "internal totalitarian object" in Eastern European Communist societies.
YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE A TOTALITARIAN SAY THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN RAILING ABOUT IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.
It's a Soviet-designed totalitarian state that works so well it outlasted its creators by 30 years.
It's a significant move, since negotiating with a totalitarian regime is challenging -- and it's not always successful.
But television is what you'd expect under a totalitarian state: Every program is about the Great Leader.
The incident reveals a social mechanism that is deeply entwined with habits of long-established totalitarian reflexes.
In many ways, it was a uniquely cruel totalitarian rule, characterized by thought control and mass mobilization.
She has just published her second book, Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems.
Seemingly totalitarian states go to all kinds of ends to try to control the populaces they rule.
She has just published her second book,  Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems .
Most people, especially artists, aren't so kind to Brutalist architecture, which has come to symbolize totalitarian bureaucracy.
For decades, the united West saw the Kim dynasty's totalitarian principality as a murderous anti-Western dictatorship.
We are the nation that survived World War II and were the victims of both totalitarian systems.
" Its website warns, "Islam is not merely a religion, it is a totalitarian ideology with global aspirations.
But we're talking about national security and the totalitarian ideologies that drive the groups that threaten America.
Pyongyang, with its totalitarian, dynastic Kim regime, has bedeviled American presidents, both Democratic and Republican, for decades.
The unholy matrimony of dynastic totalitarian control and regime-sanctioned commercial activity breeds corruption, oppression and abuse.
Totalitarian regimes refine the arts of social control and political murder, but they also announce their intentions.
Atwood's Gilead is a totalitarian theocracy, and like all such governments, it is not kind to women.
In fact, it is uniquely un-American in that it's a tactic rooted in a totalitarian government.
Without the rule of law, there is little that stands between us and totalitarian rule or anarchy.
Communist leaders engage in modern-day totalitarian brainwashing, bizarre lies and industrial-level indoctrination to suppress Muslims.
In "Barbara," to voluntarily remain in a totalitarian dictatorship is an ethical choice, a form of resistance.
The country's totalitarian regime does its best to keep anyone from seeing what life there is really like.
The Handmaid's Tale depicts a totalitarian dystopia in which women are raped, tortured, and stripped of all rights.
The visual message of Cruz's poster is clear: Obama is an un-American totalitarian who threatens our freedom.
Apple — if it takes the effort — might be able to defend its trademark in the reclusive totalitarian state.
She resides in Gilead, a portion of the US now operating under a totalitarian and Christian fundamentalist theocracy.
On their own, without the context of an election, they smack of a totalitarian regime, or a dictatorship.
For Kim Jong Un, this means shattering America's alliances and reunifying the Korean Peninsula under his totalitarian rule.
In totalitarian societies, power is maintained in part by the control of memory and reinvention of the past.
Yet, no one knows how long this could take given the ruthless effectiveness of the DPRK's totalitarian regime.
People survive in totalitarian regimes by becoming informers, and those regimes were often tipped off by double agents.
Not the worst way to learn something about the false promises and dangerous mechanisms of a totalitarian ideology.
But let's not forget something else: North Korea is by far the most totalitarian country in the world.
There are no crystal rooms, no "color therapy" experiences, and, thankfully, no uniforms reminiscent of a totalitarian regime.
Bookends Charles McGrath The totalitarian rulers in Huxley's book give their citizens exactly what they think they want.
Bloomberg appreciates the can-do nature of a totalitarian government that invests in green technologies and prioritizes "results."
That's why this project is dedicated to all the victims of totalitarian regimes, all the victims of terror.
If we believe that tourism can change totalitarian societies, we should send tourists to North Korea and Iran.
Sometimes invention emerges from quirky, stubborn isolation and greed, and unfortunately sometimes from repressive, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.
As a young man in the 1950s, he fled communist Bulgaria, then part of the totalitarian Soviet imperium.
Instead, we are referred to the more universalizing question of the role of art under a totalitarian regime.
Benito Mussolini founded and led Italy's Fascist Party from the 1920s, consolidating power and creating a totalitarian state.
I find it totalitarian and frightening, but my family in Turkey is used to these kinds of messages.
"When I later on at Harvard and elsewhere heard about the totalitarian tendencies in America and the battles that had to be fought against the dictatorial Americans who were trying to deprive us, I thought, you don't know how lucky you are because you've never seen a totalitarian country," he said.
We are left with the question of just how such an apparently* peaceful world could fall under totalitarian rule.
The book follows people in a totalitarian state called Oceania, where "newspeak" —the official language — contains no negative terms.
That's because the South Korea military has turned off its dozens of giant speakers aimed at the totalitarian state.
"You had real misuses of personal information to achieve totalitarian and fascistic goals [during World War II]," said Wugmeister.
Russia had been subjected to totalitarian rule for so long that it had no memory of life before it.
Ordinary life, she goes on to say, has always had plagues, floods, totalitarian extermination, refugees thirsty in the desert.
We've never lived in this sort of world, even those of us who have lived through previous totalitarian regimes.
Its regime is racist, uncaring and totalitarian, in the sense of aiming to affect every aspect of people's lives.
The best guides we have to this emerging reality may be failed 13th-century totalitarian experiments and science fiction.
American viewers, forced to live under a totalitarian Diet Coke-slurping bigoted bunion, were also increasingly attuned to it.
Activists say the whole place exudes a totalitarian air and is an insult to the memory of the victims.
"1984" depicts a totalitarian future society controlled by a single political party amid perpetual war and endless government surveillance.
We see despotic women at the head of totalitarian governments leading genocides, and women leading cults and criminal empires.
The most populous country on earth, he said, is building AI systems that could become tools for totalitarian control.
"The idea that I, an anticommunist conservative, would throw in with a totalitarian regime is bullshit," Stone said Tuesday.
"All totalitarian systems need an external enemy to sustain themselves," says Dagoberto Valdés, editor of Convivencia, a Cuban magazine.
As part of his immigration process, he would have been required to disclose membership to any totalitarian-affiliated group.
Photographer Eric Lafforgue has visited Kim Jung Un's North Korea six times to photograph life in the totalitarian country.
The television series is about a fictional totalitarian world in which women are treated as property of the state.
The book has captivated a generation of readers with its depiction of a totalitarian takeover of the United States.
Remarkably, the harrowing experience of living under totalitarian regimes did not destroy Milosz's conviction in the need to act.
We're in a perpetual state of anti-originalism now, in which taste is dictated by a totalitarian recommendation algorithm.
" This is why, Gandhi predicted, even "the states that are today nominally democratic" are likely to "become frankly totalitarian.
The dismissal of climate science as "liberal science" rather than just science, has not occurred under a totalitarian regime.
"What the authorities are building here are instruments of totalitarian submission on a level never seen before," said Hoffmann.
So it's baffling to me that an American would have found anything to admire in our totalitarian Communist regime.
"History shows that nationalism always uses the same totalitarian methods: fracture society and spread hatred," he wrote on Twitter.
"Cambodia is in danger of returning to being a totalitarian state," said Mao Monyvann, a Cambodian former opposition lawmaker.
Essay North Korea may be the most secretive and totalitarian country in the world, as well as the wackiest.
It was an evil totalitarian state, it was wonderful, it was a great empire — there's all sorts of interpretations.
It was an evil totalitarian state, it was wonderful, it was a great empire — there's all sorts of interpretations.
What matters most to his radical cadre is preserving the supremacy of their totalitarian Communist dictatorship and its principles.
"This fits into the whole tradition of totalitarian mass events, parades, collective celebrations of sporting events," said Mr. Gudkov.
In the totalitarian regime imposed on Hungary by Communist Moscow, politics was practiced in impenetrable, smoke-filled back rooms.
Third, the CCP has invested heavily in emerging 5G technology to establish technological dominance and accelerate its totalitarian agenda.
"I repeat our rejection of totalitarian and genocidal ideologies, as well as any allusion to it," read the statement.
I felt like I was no longer conditioned by those childhood and teenage years living in a totalitarian world.
This well-researched tribute provides unconventional but persistently intriguing perspectives on the major totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.
Since the rise of its totalitarian regime, North Korea has been largely shrouded from the rest of the world.
Which is why, without even intending to, and like a moon to the night, it disrupts the totalitarian narrative.
France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism.
On the surface, the Republic of Gilead, Atwood's imaginary successor to America, is a place of totalitarian religious austerity.
He also likes to compare the threat of "Islamic fascism" to the threat of Cold War–era totalitarian communism.
The thing about a totalitarian state is that, just like its name, it tries to control the total person.
So Adorno and the other critical theorists saw culture as inherently totalitarian, and this was particularly true in America.
In an overarching way, this is a show about living in a totalitarian state and how that oppression shapes your psyche, but it can't sustain that level of tension for multiple seasons; it has to show the totalitarian government changing and failing and mutating over time in order to keep the show dynamic.
A lot of it may be vacuous, but we're not — despite our frustrations — in a totalitarian society of Orwellian Newspeak.
With the resistance fighting against the totalitarian regime, it's (hopefully) only a matter of time before the religious zealots fall.
The fact that Facebook is going to simply show you less news makes it more efficient than Orwell's totalitarian state.
The stage version of Orwell's dark vision of a totalitarian state will open on June 22 at the Hudson Theatre.
Arendt theorized about the nature of totalitarian societies — how they work, what they prey on, and why they spring up.
Total control of the press and its message for the purpose of propaganda is the cornerstone of any totalitarian regime.
"There is totalitarian rubbish and paranoiac rubbish, but in each case it is rubbish," he wrote in the New Statesman.
The summit and Trump's subsequent comments were perceived as legitimizing the brutal North Korean totalitarian government without holding them accountable.
The Viennese could articulate a more convincing defence of freedom because they had direct personal experience of the totalitarian enemy.
Postman's thesis was that the ominous warnings of an Orwellian future, complete with totalitarian censorship, had badly missed the mark.
And even in Pyongyang, Western and South Korean pressure groups attest, the deadening totalitarian system is as intrusive as ever.
And it's a totalitarian system that encompasses every aspect of life and it should not be protected (under U.S. law).
By conflating "socialism" with totalitarian communism, Mr Trump was taking a swipe at Democrats who have recently adopted that word.
This is not the first time the president has taken the side of a totalitarian leader on the global stage.
It's not new for the US to turn a blind eye to totalitarian regimes in the name of political stability.
Their novel du jour: The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's iconic book about a totalitarian theocracy that overtakes the United States.
Like all acts of the totalitarian regressive left, this will blow up in their faces, netting me more adoring fans.
" The play is set in the future where citizens under the rule of a totalitarian regime lead by "Big Brother.
"Totalitarian regimes historically have confiscated property from individuals whose sole 'crime' consisted of supporting the previous government," the letter states.
" Austen couldn't be "too explicit, too obvious" in her writing, because she lived in a society "that was, essentially, totalitarian.
This attempt to tie the president of the United States to the actions of actual totalitarian states is patently ridiculous.
The practice, some academics argue, was intended to assert totalitarian control by weakening the bonds of family, community and religion.
For a novel about life under multifarious forms of totalitarian control—political, gendered, sectarian, communal—"Milkman" can be charmingly wry.
A totalitarian state where "Big Brother," the government, was always watching you and telling you what to think and believe.
Putinism seems as pervasive in that country as Soviet rule was, and all without the machinery of a totalitarian state.
While "The Handmaid's Tale" explored how totalitarian regimes come to power, "The Testaments" delves into how they begin to fracture.
But it was more than repression and fear that kept him and his totalitarian government in power for so long.
A chaotic China is not in the best interest of the United States, just as neither is a totalitarian China.
The departure of Mao made the way for new Communist Party bosses but changed nothing within the Chinese totalitarian system.
Was it for this the British men and women sacrificed so much when facing down a previous, totalitarian "European union"?
He also embraced a political role, joining international collaboratives that denounced totalitarian regimes and participating in the 1968 Paris uprising.
"There are many similarities between these dangerous and vicious radicals and the totalitarian movements of the last century," he wrote.
The story of a totalitarian state ruled by Big Brother made a strong comeback last year for its prescient themes.
Everyone now agrees that without any totalitarian or coercive measures, populations will start declining; the big disagreement is simply when.
But, she countered, her point was that under a totalitarian rule, some will resist, but most people will simply comply.
It smacks of something you see in a totalitarian country — unless there's a genuine, earnest reason to be doing it.
Officials with the administration of President Ronald Reagan had claimed that the government was verging toward pro-Soviet totalitarian socialism.
The current trade war is a battle over the principles — totalitarian or democratic — that will guide the world for generations.
Jang was seen as an economic reformer within the totalitarian regime, and used his connections with China to attract investment.
Neither Mr. Mitchell nor Mr. Jessen had conducted real-world interrogations and they relied on techniques designed by totalitarian states.
Since inheriting power after his father's death in 2011, he has proved as Machiavellian as his forebears of the totalitarian dynasty.
It would be pretty genius to link that dark look at a potential totalitarian future with nostalgia for low-tech horror.
True to form, Marine Le Pen, leader of France's National Front, denounced the "totalitarian" EU for attempting to squash Wallonian democracy.
But what price are we willing to pay to try to force that to happen in totalitarian nations and rogue states?
But as with all the insane and borderline-totalitarian things Trump does, it can be partially explained by the man himself.
This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even George Orwell could have imagined.
A. The crushing of the individual in the name of a collective agenda is a common experience in all totalitarian societies.
A Slovak court also annulled last Thursday rulings clearing Babis of cooperating with former Communist secret police in then totalitarian Czechoslovakia.
Kim Jong Un is the one person who is able to make decisions under their authoritarian—uniquely authoritarian—or totalitarian system.
It's being marketed as 'convenient' and for 'public safety,' but it's putting us on a path to a totalitarian police state.
Given China's declining birth rate and the Chinese government's reactionary policies, this totalitarian theory isn't so far out of the realm.
The rise of the birthdayzilla has transformed birthday parties from simple one-offs to totalitarian birthday months, and everyone must comply.
Having lived under Nazi and communist totalitarian states, Germans, in particular, are deeply opposed to the notion of the surveillance state.
Yep, a tree — which seems a little too innocuous for the totalitarian, even in a world where the Whomping Willows exist.
Ty implores Mae to stop the Circle from continuing on the road to "completion," which could lead to a totalitarian regime.
But the regime has survived over seven decades and totalitarian governments can be remarkably stable, at least until they are not.
The totalitarian temptation was to force a singular Eden upon the masses, and to turn an Eden into a New Jerusalem.
The Iranian totalitarian theocracy is behaving just as he predicted, reminding the world that appeasement is a futile and foolish strategy.
Victor Klemperer, the outstanding German-Jewish linguist and student of totalitarian language, is inevitably cited in studies that take this approach.
So the idea that you can keep all these people on message all the time would be kind of totalitarian, right?
But he underestimated how unpalatable the idea was to Kim Jong-un, whose totalitarian rule would be undermined by such reform.
"However, it is the kind of thing that totalitarian regimes around the world do to people they perceive as their enemies."
I see the piece a priori for bio-politics of a system no matter if it's a totalitarian or democratic system.
But his reductive approach poses a false choice between an idealized order of noble sovereign nations and a totalitarian global government.
In the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy, each wealthy and powerful man has a team of women to serve him.
" He went on to compare Karpf's innocuous "bedbug" joke to the sort of rhetoric used "by totalitarian regimes in the past.
Losing face might prove a blow for Mr. Kim, who cultivates the image of a peerless leader in his totalitarian homeland.
When a totalitarian ruler is trying to take power, one of the first things they limit is their freedom of speech.
This is a nation where the only visible threat to the totalitarian regime (until the bombing) is a catastrophically low birthrate.
Having seen, firsthand, the war, poverty and displacement common to totalitarian regimes, they valued the freedom and democracy the U.S. represents.
A 2009 concert, in Cuba, was televised internationally but drew criticism that he was lending support to the totalitarian Castro government.
"The Handmaid's Tale" often illuminates the gaps through which desire and destruction can bloom, even in a totalitarian state like Gilead.
Saudi Arabia was once a consensus-based absolute monarchy, but under MBS's direction it is increasingly becoming a secularizing totalitarian dictatorship.
Opinion Columnist The People's Republic of China is the largest, most powerful and arguably most brutal totalitarian state in the world.
He spoke of solidarity with Venezuela, whose exiles are increasing in South Florida as the South American government becomes increasingly totalitarian.
By 1976, Mr. Azzawi sensed that Iraq was becoming a totalitarian state, with art serving only to glorify the Baath Party.
"We know that in the face of the world's largest totalitarian regime — to quote Captain America, 'Whatever it takes,'" Leung said.
"I said that we would leap from the gray, stagnating totalitarian past into a bright, prosperous, and civilized future," he said.
That would be well and good in a stable democracy, but is absolutely dangerous in a transition to a totalitarian regime.
As George Orwell and Aldous Huxley understood, if you want to be a good totalitarian, it isn't enough to control behavior.
"We have a new level of totalitarian thought crime legislation across New Zealand and shortly here in Australia too," Sewell added.
One thing I appreciate about the critical theorists was their willingness to identify totalitarian tendencies on the left and the right.
Among Ukrainians today, the best way to escape a totalitarian past is by developing a society that eclipses ethnic or state identities.
Totalitarian regimes the world over know the value and power of subjectivity – that is why they work so hard to destroy it.
Perhaps only totalitarian governments could deliver justice, extending their responsibility over every department of life, including the production and distribution of goods.
In the 2018 campaign, viral WhatsApp memes portrayed the PT as a totalitarian force aiming to overturn Brazilian society and inculcate homosexuality.
That show has a superhero fighting on behalf of indigenous marginalized people in New Zealand, against a near future totalitarian police force.
"Don't let the totalitarian censors win," Benny Johnson, chief creative officer at Turning Point USA and popular right-wing Twitter personality, said.
And the use of VPNs to bypass China's firewall has been prevalent there and in other totalitarian countries like Iran and Russia.
Atwood's popular novel imagines a totalitarian future when fertile women are forced into sexual servitude to repopulate a world facing environmental disaster.
Delgado, who was Spanish, left the U.S. shortly after Congressional hearings in which he was accused of developing "totalitarian" mind-control devices.
The service will allow people to binge-watch state-sponsored documentaries about the country's totalitarian government or other state-approved TV programming.
The case is a chilling example of how censorship and freedom of speech remain curtailed in totalitarian regimes like Saudi Arabia.   22017.
To deter jihadists and would-be recruits, it's crucial to demonstrate that their totalitarian vision is unrealizable, that their cause is doomed.
A clear-eyed opponent of two totalitarian governments, Milosz articulated a determined embrace of freedom that resonated during the cultural cold war.
Unified national sentiment, which all of us should desire, bears no resemblance to a totalitarian regimentation of opinion and treatment of news.
We are not, in fact, living in a totalitarian nightmare where Jews are slaughtered in camps, like most of my family was.
In an interview, Professor Meyskens discussed his blog, stereotyped views of the Maoist era and whether Mao Zedong's rule really was totalitarian.
IN OTHER WORDS, I CAN'T GO OUT, AND EVEN IN A TOTALITARIAN STATE YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO GO AGAINST THE DICTATOR.
Through mind control and body-snatching, these "reptilians" purportedly seek to install totalitarian world government, thereby bringing about rule of the Antichrist.
Kim Jong Un, perhaps the world's last truly totalitarian leader and an international pariah, sought legitimacy and recognition on the world stage.
Few characters are spared deformation, corruption or destruction by the totalitarian state, Nazi and Stalinist, or by the autonomous violence of war.
Yet tradition can also foster a revolt against a quasi-totalitarian popular culture that subjects everyone to the same bundle of products.
He attempts to don the mantle of the old anti-totalitarian, who has always presented himself as the sober student of reality.
He added the company should not become a "Ministry of Truth," a reference to the totalitarian propaganda bureau in George Orwell's 1984.
The move would eliminate the last vestige of democracy in Venezuela and pave the road for the consolidation of a totalitarian regime.
A sure sign of a totalitarian mind is one that insists that all education should be in the hands of the state.
However, experts say the totalitarian state is working at a feverish pace and could have this submersible as early as next year.
He asked: Why, over a long career, has Sanders praised aspects of the totalitarian regimes of the Soviet Union, Cuba and Nicaragua?.
Almost everywhere in Latin America, the totalitarian regimes that he opposed had collapsed — while free markets, democracy and sexual liberation found favor.
The Hanoi meeting was widely considered a huge embarrassment for Kim Jong-un, who is seen as infallible in his totalitarian state.
The meeting was widely seen as a huge embarrassment for Mr. Kim, who is supposedly seen as infallible in his totalitarian state.
The danger to the free press isn't a ham-fisted totalitarian crackdown—it's a culture that treats the media with increasing disrespect.
It's a similar psychology to the one totalitarian regimes use to torment their citizens—questioning things that are thought to be natural.
Lee Min-bok, a North Korean defector, said it was an eye-opening experience for many young people in the totalitarian state.
While important, just condemning China's ruthless practices is unlikely to be enough when Mr. Xi is doubling down on his totalitarian ways.
"Socialism is a totalitarian run government where you don't have individual choices, and that's to me the opposite of democracy," Cornyn said.
If Medicare-for-all were some kind of neo-Stalinist ploy, then Canada and much of Western Europe would be totalitarian nightmares.
Have you thought about the timing of this release, with concerns about the rise internationally of right-wing and possibly totalitarian movements?
"Enemy of the people" is a phrase with a near-perfect totalitarian pedigree deployed with refinements by the Nazis, Stalin and Mao.
North Korea's Ministry of State Security specializes in ferreting out people whose loyalty to Kim Jong-un's totalitarian regime is in doubt.
During the interview, which was conducted in Korean, both sons wore military officers' uniforms and lavished praise on their country's totalitarian government.
But "Why?" shows how the same weapon may be just as useful to totalitarian leaders who likewise want to make theatrical statements.
After the Cold War, socialism was tarred by the realities of Communism, and represented, to many, a totalitarian endangerment to personal liberty.
Others have written about algorithmic bias, the use of AI in weapons systems, or about AI as a tool of totalitarian control.
In part because of its totalitarian history, Germany has been reluctant to deploy the police surveillance tools used in other European countries.
But the proposal has been met with fierce opposition in a country whose totalitarian past has left it wary of centralized power.
You shone a light on the harrowing implications of the Chinese Communist Party's "social-credit system" ("Creating a digital totalitarian state", December 21940th).
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North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un went off on Donald Trump, and everyone is impressed with the totalitarian ruler's insult and dictionary skills.
For a very long time, we've looked at ideas of collective happiness as ugly or creepy or totalitarian, but they need not be.
With the totalitarian country kept in chronic isolation by current leader Kim Jong-un, information about food infrastructure there is hard to verify.
On May 11th police in the town of Pobierowo raided an academic conference on Karl Marx to check whether it "propagates totalitarian content".
You know under Xi Jinping, you have China returning from authoritarian - it&aposs sort of under Mao Tse-Tung as a totalitarian state.
The obvious implication—that the totalitarian methods chronicled by Orwell 70 years ago are now being recycled by supposed democrats—should concern everyone.
First created for the Havana Biennial in 211, Bruguera's installation-performance is a critique of the totalitarian structures that impact people's daily lives.
It was, however, precisely such a transition—or the lack thereof—which meant that old totalitarian infrastructures were allowed to keep going strong.
The move instantly evoked the "memory holes" in the novel's totalitarian dystopia, and it inspired about equal measures of shock, outrage, and jokes.
The danger they pose can be compared with the rise of totalitarian states and the Cold War's nuclear menace during the 20th century.
A closer look at Trump's campaign quickly reveals the parallels between him and a totalitarian leader working to advance their cult of personality.
Ryoji Ikeda's overwhelming sound and video installations, exhibited at Centre Pompidou, evoke the totalitarian grip that Big Data holds on our daily lives.
The concentrated spectacle, which Debord attributes to totalitarian and "Stalinist" regimes, is implemented through the cult of personality and the use of force.
Regardless, politicians around the world—including ones in China China, North Korea's largest ally—were quick to issue statements denouncing the totalitarian government.
Moreover, these are multinational companies that might have to grant the same secrets-reading powers to totalitarian states where they also do business.
As a result, the entire society tends to talk only about entertainment, not state affairs, which is exactly what the totalitarian government expects.
In pursuing that plan, he constructed an image of the ruthless Soviet dictator and his totalitarian regime that bore no resemblance to reality.
This attitude has disturbing overtones of the mindset of totalitarian dictatorships or cultish religious groups in which insufficient zeal can make you suspect.
He wanted a similar event in the US, but critics were concerned about the cost — and parallels to military parades in totalitarian countries.
The audio comic — a comic experienced only with sound — starts off on the militarized southern border in a chaotic and totalitarian United States.
With Pokemon GO's totalitarian aggregation of your camera and geolocation, who knows what sensitive data future fast food chains will end up with?
A burlesque — Steve Buscemi, New York accent intact, plays Khrushchev — it's a vision of totalitarian madness as shudderingly pertinent as it is outrageous.
His executions have been attempts at consolidating power and eliminating threats decisively — a necessary kind of practice when you're running a totalitarian state.
Serenading North Korea: The provocative Slovenian rock group Laibach became the first Western band to perform in the totalitarian country back in 2015.
"Twelve years ago there was no mention of the idea of walls or borders, which were originally adopted by totalitarian systems," she said.
But they are also a sobering reminder of how far apart the capitalist South and the totalitarian North have drifted since the war.
It's a powerful visual, both culturally and politically, but one striking image can't sustain a 400-plus-page narrative about a totalitarian regime.
One of its main roles is keeping the country's 25 million people informed about exactly what the totalitarian leadership wants them to know.
Instead, the CCP has subverted Western openness, exploited weaknesses in U.S. power, and invested heavily in 5G technology to advance its totalitarian agenda.
One of its main roles is keeping the country's 25 million people informed of exactly what the totalitarian leadership wants them to know.
"This brazen endeavor reflects a totalitarian impulse to re-engineer people's thinking until they accept the supremacy of party rule," the group said.
As with many other forms of data collection, the more complete the information database, the more suffocating, dehumanizing — and potentially totalitarian — the society.
To the Editor: The best way to undermine a totalitarian regime is to trade with it and let the pressures build from within.
POTUS knows he needs to end the Cold War on our terms, and unite the West against the rise of a totalitarian China.
In contrast, the DPRK stagnated, a totalitarian backwater that was little more than an army with a state, as Prussia once was described.
Reporters Without Borders, a press freedom non-profit rights group, called the law "totalitarian" and said it was aimed at eliminating public debate.
They also uncover glimmers of decency, loyalty and solidarity — the tiny cracks in the totalitarian edifice that foretold its eventual and inevitable collapse.
If they lose, they can bang on about how trans people are spreading a totalitarian belief system that crushes anyone who might disagree.
MBS is a key figure in Trumpian policy in the Middle East and is posing as a moderate despite his bourgeoning totalitarian dictatorship.
A specialist in Russian media history, Gatov is currently working on a book about the re-emergence of totalitarian censorship in Putin's Russia.
His daughter Li Nanyang said in an interview that he had dared to speak out despite the totalitarian atmosphere in the Chinese capital.
Americans generally remember it as an unprovoked act of aggression by a vicious totalitarian power, or a war crime akin to 9/11.
"The military gets involved to promote democracy and protect the country from a totalitarian system?" he asks with his typical slightly detached scepticism.
And it does not change the character of the most brutally, bloody-minded, repressive, totalitarian state on the planet, which is what he runs.
Are these norms the only thing keeping us from becoming completely smartphone-addicted human slugs, or are they an artificial imposition by totalitarian cinephiles?
So North Korea actually took some of the worst elements of political systems in Asia and combined it into a very strong totalitarian system.
" He said that people who accept climate change science are motivated in part by the "totalitarian impulse" and they worship "a religion without God.
Back in 2013, Kim Jong Un's totalitarian regime made a state-sponsored Android phone ripoff, followed by a Mac OS X ripoff in 2015.
Fearing insurrection and separatism, China's rulers have reinforced techniques of totalitarian control—including the mass detention of Uighurs for re-education—with digital technology.
Mr. Passin dismisses such concerns saying that business with North Korea would benefit ordinary people and encourage the totalitarian state to become more open.
True, the Middle East is not the peaceful, democratic and productive region Americans might have thought that toppling dictators and totalitarian regimes would create.
This all makes sense, because they're disturbing as hell, like something the totalitarian Combine aliens would use to demoralize humankind in Half-Life 2.
If Bruguera's work aims to examine totalitarian structures, Castro's private life is a larger problem she had to deal with to accomplish her mission.
Hannah Arendt—a woman who fought totalitarian male rule her entire life—describes evil as a condition that flourishes when good people are inactive.
The country's current leader, Kim Jung-un, replicates his father and grandfather with a style of government that primarily revolves around the totalitarian leader.
Cooper, however insisted that "there is no good reason" to dismiss the idea that the totalitarian regime may in fact be prepping an EMP.
There's a diffuse feeling, a sense that there is an inner totalitarian power that can threaten one, and one has to submit to it.
South Korea welcomed the women and described them as having defected of their own free will after growing fed up with their totalitarian government.
"There is zero tolerance for any displays of promoting, affirmation, glorifying of criminal totalitarian regimes," Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski said in parliament on Thursday.
How the United States will work through its constitutional processes to guarantee the security and survival of a totalitarian dictatorship remains to be seen.
Once there, he saw that the Communist regime in East Germany offered a living illustration of totalitarian repression, and this became his new subject.
Meanwhile, he gave up something real—joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, which he called "provocative," the language of totalitarian and aggressive North Korea.
"It really sounds like a very totalitarian model of control of information," Daniel Bastard, head of Reporters Without Borders' Asia-Pacific desk, told CNN.
Open-ended, pluralist, anti-hierarchical—the supposedly totalitarian document of absolutist Enlightenment thought turns out, in every sense, to be a manifesto for freedom.
As ISIS retreats, al Qaeda resurfaces The caliphate is gone and ISIS' totalitarian ideology is stained, even among Sunni Muslims who first welcomed it.
Kremlin cash has kept Nicolas Maduro in business and helped him repress almost five months of protests while solidifying his increasingly communist totalitarian regime.
" I was, like, "Give me more examples of this kind of crazy shit happening in foreign countries during wartime in horrible, totalitarian regimes overseas.
Hannah Arendt once said that the definitive characteristic of totalitarian dictatorship is the ambiguity of the center of power—and Hitler personified that center.
As large tech companies and totalitarian regimes perfect their ability to aggregate and harness data, they will become more adept at influencing social behavior.
I&aposve made the argument that the totality of information the surveillance capitalist firms have amassed is not put to work as "totalitarian" power.
That line really struck me — the idea that change happens so incrementally, and all of a sudden you find yourself in a totalitarian nightmare.
Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman released a statement putting the blame on "Russia's totalitarian machine," while Russia's foreign ministry demanded the Ukrainian officials investigate.
It's true that in dictatorships or totalitarian regimes, those people stay in the system much longer than in democracies; therefore, the relationships last longer.
But 50 years ago today, the Soviets invaded, killing the dreams of the reformers and laying bare the totalitarian nature of the Communist regime.
But by recognizing the CCP's totalitarian need to maintain control and its aversion to freedoms, America and other Western nations can preserve their democracies.
From the mid-1920s and the early 1930s onward, much of the continent fell under the spell of two totalitarian ideologies, communism and fascism.
This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have imagined.
MORE and an administration comprised largely of soft-totalitarian "progressives" who showed little respect for the rule of law during their eight-year reign.
If Trump is the champion of anti-corruption, he should take on Russia, China and other totalitarian states, which are corrupt to the core.
To be sure, we do not now live in a totalitarian state, and women are legally able to make choices about assisted reproductive technologies.
The Allies had gained invaluable partners, ensuring that the war now would be a united effort against evil and totalitarian aggression across the globe.
The only way to guarantee that this doesn't happen – the fear-filled, totalitarian way – is to imprison everyone who commits a crime for life.
Perhaps the traditional narrative approach taken by Tolstoy or Nabokov cannot effectively depict the spare, hungry life of a child in a totalitarian state.
Kalder proposes Lenin as the originator of the modern totalitarian style in prose, adopting Marx's splenetic polemical tone for the purposes of Communist revolution.
This is a President who has openly praised a number of totalitarian leaders -- from Vladimir Putin in Russia to Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey.
This modern-day totalitarian brainwashing is revealed in a remarkable trove of documents leaked to The New York Times by an anonymous Chinese official.
Or the demented cheerfulness of the classroom car in 2013's Snowpiercer, which mixes devilish glee with the horror of the train's totalitarian regime.
"The clear statement that they won't facilitate violence or totalitarian surveillance is meaningful," University of Washington technology law professor Ryan Calo tweeted on Thursday.
In most totalitarian societies, you don't get to break down your caste divisions and sass people with the power to maim and torture you!
It is after a totalitarian theocratic coup has taken place in the U.S. The government is being run under very strict Old Testament Christianity.
This is far from the first adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic sci-fi novel about "firemen" who burn illegal literature in a dystopian, totalitarian regime.
The country, seeking to learn from its 20th century history of Nazi and Communist totalitarian rule, has privacy laws designed to protect individuals against intrusion.
When you crowd people into spaces, declare them invisible, declare them immaterial, those are the new spaces of what used to be the totalitarian camp.
Ofglen becomes a confidant to Offred (Elisabeth Moss), a woman searching for the daughter who was taken from her when the totalitarian regime took over.
Hundreds of millions of people in Europe were ushered from totalitarian misery to democratic decency under the protection of the United States and its allies.
"Just the latest example of an American tech company choosing to be complicit in the Chinese Communist Party's high-tech totalitarian state," the tweet reads.
Do you think "The Cowshed" can be compared to other accounts, either in fiction or nonfiction, of suffering at the hands of a totalitarian government?
It also runs through other utopian and totalitarian movements, as well as some of the Islamists' enemies, like the far-right political parties of today.
In seven pieces of fiction, Bandi (which means firefly) presents life in the DPRK and the daily anxieties that come with living under totalitarian rule.
Even the Truman Doctrine, which implies the U.S. will protect people in other countries threatened by totalitarian regimes, could be altered under a Sanders platform.
Gossip, word of mouth — if you trust the other person enough, and that in a totalitarian dictatorship is always a very dangerous thing to do.
To me, that was the moment it became a totalitarian state: When the state actually gets into your bedroom, then it controls the total person.
While Beck shared Overton's libertarian ideology, he was wary of the window as a strategy for change, imagining a totalitarian left that could hijack it.
Dresnok defected to North Korea in 1962 in a daring dash across the heavily fortified demilitarized zone that divides the totalitarian country from South Korea.
In 1953, he published The Captive Mind, his most famous book, a study of the allure of communism and the dangerous appeal of totalitarian thought.
Rather, he is the figurehead of a totalitarian political party that tries to break citizens of their free will, partly through warnings of persistent surveillance.
"Fiction gave me a very wide space to say what I wanted to say about totalitarian authority," Ms. Abdel Aziz said in a recent interview.
South Korean officials often cite such high-level defections, and purges like those announced Wednesday, as potential sources of instability in Mr. Kim's totalitarian regime.
This comes after the totalitarian state test launched an intercontinental ballistics missile on the Fourth of July that experts said was capable of hitting Alaska.
A technician was cuing up a sample from a song by Laibach, a Slovenian group that fuses totalitarian imagery with pop culture, to subversive effect.
It is hard to credibly suggest progress on weapons proliferation can be durable or verifiable if North Korea remains a completely closed and totalitarian state.
Their leaders operate in the same way as both totalitarian leaders and domestic abusers, and to understand that is to protect yourself from their coercion.
Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis warned that China's treatment of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong shows what the totalitarian regime is capable of.
President Trump's transactional style is a stimulus to totalitarian rule and a threat to democracy not only at home but also on a global scale.
Newer penalties target the party and military elite who support Mr. Kim's totalitarian rule by hitting its lucrative exports — the country's main source of income.
"It once again demonstrates the totalitarian nature of this regime," said lawmaker and Guaido supporter Williams Davila, his face and eyes red from the teargas.
But like other defectors, he struggled to make the transition from the North's highly regimented totalitarian system to the South's fast-paced, hypercompetitive capitalist society.
In Gilead, a theocratic totalitarian state, men and women are forced into strict roles; women are forbidden from having jobs, owning property or even reading.
He gave the South Korean conglomerate Hyundai the right to build and run a resort town there, in a joint venture with his totalitarian government.
R. In Okri's dystopian version of our reality, the world is a totalitarian state, ruled by an anonymous but powerful authority known as the Hierarchy.
Kelly points to the "totalitarian" nature of the British state, consumed as it was by hostilities, first with its rebellious colonies and then with France.
Thus ideological militancy and more totalitarian-type rule by an absolute leader at home will also entail a less cooperative and more truculent China abroad.
As business is incrementally tolerated yet monitored by the regime — everyone from millennials to wealthier professionals are bootstrapping ventures inside the world's most totalitarian state.
Without Chinese banks, technologies, industries and imports of North Korean goods (particularly coal), the totalitarian regime in Pyongyang would have been stopped in its tracks.
Prior reporting by the New York Times has hinted at the scale of Qahtani's online efforts to root out opposition to the totalitarian Saudi monarchy.
North Korea's totalitarian system, as long as it endures, makes it virtually impossible to ensure full monitoring and compliance even when a deal is struck.
In the series, Yvonne Strahovski's character Serena Joy, was a dynamic, conservative woman who was instrumental in selling the Christian totalitarian state to the nation.
But they often find it hard to make the transition from the North's highly regimented totalitarian system to the South's fast-paced, hypercompetitive capitalist society.
As the filmmakers chart the evolution of the policy, which grew to include international adoptions, the movie evolves into an unsparing rebuke of totalitarian rule.
Totalitarian North Korea's governing ideology of "Juche", which champions self-sufficiency, has brought little but decades of economic stagnation, widespread poverty and, at times, starvation.
The direct support for the controversial claim in the book's subtitle, that Putin's system can fairly be described as "totalitarian," is scattered and spread out.
In them, Winston Smith, who previously questioned everything he knew about the totalitarian society he lives in and nearly became a revolutionary, has been broken.
His meticulous documentation and careful preparation helped the defence team humiliatingly derail the prosecution: South Africa's legal system was vicious and bigoted, but not fully totalitarian.
What she understood — more than someone like [George] Orwell — is that you don't need to be a totalitarian state to exhibit the characteristic features of totalitarianism.
Soviet-era archives have often proven to be tricky for historians, since the totalitarian state was arbitrary in keeping documents, some of which had deceptive intent.
The episode's entire plot centers on the way they're pushed from relationship to relationship by a totalitarian dating app, which even catalogs and analyzes their resistance.
In his blog post from 2014, which is still live, Caracciolo compared the way the EU and the euro work to "Nazifascism," and other totalitarian regimes.
" The post lambasted the Japanese retailer, arguing that it's "not the time to start glamorizing the sack-like oxblood dresses that stalk this drama's totalitarian regime.
"Hong Kong people, regardless of our religion ... we come here to say no to our totalitarian government," he told Reuters, adding he wanted to protest peacefully.
"Hong Kong people, regardless of our religion ... we come here to say no to our totalitarian government," he told Reuters, adding he wanted to protest peacefully.
The tough penalties reflect concern about political propaganda and manipulation dating back to Germany's history of totalitarian rule - both fascist and communist - during the 20th century.
A lot of things have happened since last year and I've learned a lot about the shape that totalitarian control is going to take in China.
Because the biggest problem of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, which eventually led to their downfall, is that they couldn't process the information efficiently enough.
"In a Breitbart post, Yiannopoulos said, "Like all acts of the totalitarian regressive left, this will blow up in their faces, netting me more adoring fans.
I'm not saying your wealthy democracy will become a totalitarian hellscape overnight, but I am saying that whole nations do fall into sudden and shocking decline.
"This insistence on removing or ousting a totalitarian leader, we've already been through it, we know very well what happens when you do that," Lavrov said.
" The independence movement had ignored those in Catalonia who were not in favor of breaking away from Spain, he added, saying: "This is a totalitarian attitude.
We saw the first path when a totalitarian movement on college campuses glorified the suppression of free speech, making wusses (and worse, little dictators) of students.
Elian's mother gave her life to ensure his freedom, and it was a "free" country that took him from his law-abiding family with totalitarian force.
"This just once again reinforces this inexplicable affinity that the president has toward basically totalitarian dictators, but in particular to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin," Hirono said.
" In the 48-minute film, Monae and Tessa Thompson are on the run from a memory-clearing, totalitarian government that refers to its citizens as "computers.
Our political conversations are unmoored from the history of totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century: factually, ideologically, and in the field of empathy with the dead.
Today, the long totalitarian winter has thawed across Eastern Europe, where residents are now generally able to live lives free from political coercion or central dictate.
Mateer, in an appearance with Young in October 2014, compared actions taken by Houston Mayor Annise Parker to that of the Nazis and other totalitarian governments.
That elimination status is now over as the totalitarian state of Venezuela has had sustained transmission of the same strains of measles for over a year.
"The State Security was constantly watching [Czechoslovak citizens living abroad]," said Libor Svoboda, a historian from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague.
" Although Mr. Mieszkowski's theater and its sellout performances show that Poland is no totalitarian society, he and others compared the present to George Orwell's novel "1984.
He could be the synth player from a mid-2000s landfill indie band, but he's not: He's the totalitarian communist as a young, bafflingly handsome, revolutionary.
There seems to be water scarcity, and a totalitarian government, and some of the "world gone to rot" tropes you'd expect to see (gangs, motorcycles, etc.).
It's possible to think of Chávez as a totalitarian or a tyrant for suppressing his opponents while rejecting the term "dictator" to describe a popular president.
On Tuesday, responding to reports that the murdered half brother of North Korea's Kim Jong-un was a C.I.A. source, Trump sided with the totalitarian dictator.
Security Mr. Kim's top priority is the security of his nation and the survival of the totalitarian regime that he inherited from his father and grandfather.
Perhaps more than any other event during the Cold War, the invasion laid bare for the world to see the totalitarian nature of the Soviet regime.
No pope, however, has visited North Korea, whose totalitarian government has repressed religious activities and promotes a personality cult around Mr. Kim, his father and grandfather.
We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state beneath.
For centuries Hungary has been subject to monarchic, autocratic, despotic and totalitarian governments that were occasionally disrupted by revolutions, only to find relative stability in 1989.
It can have its bureaucratic overlaps and frustrations, but it helps mitigate the risks of concentrated power and hoarded information found in totalitarian or autocratic governments.
Stalin might have sat out the conflict as it raged in the West, biding his time, then possibly consolidating with Hitler a condominium of totalitarian superstates.
The totalitarian regime of North Korea, led by leader Kim Jong Un, stages mandatory elections where people submit a pre-filled ballot with a single candidate.
Critic score: 88%Based on the feminist dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, the story is set in a totalitarian society that sees fertile women as property.
This objective, along with the party's ties to the Soviet Union, and its organizational structures, made it a totalitarian and revolutionary movement that hated socialist reforms.
Josep Borrell, the foreign minister, who is Catalan, accused Mr Torra of a "totalitarian attitude" in denying the Catalan-ness of those who disagree with independence.
Across the internet in those days, propaganda sites pumped out all manner of stories claiming Russia had stepped in to protect Ukrainians from a "totalitarian" West.
He praised the country's ability to overcome "totalitarian ideologies," a reference to the Nazi occupation during World War Two and Soviet domination from 1944 to 1991.
Victory in a war with adherents to a religiously fueled totalitarian ideology will only come when the message peddled by our enemy is undermined and delegitimized.
Our hero, Winston Smith, has been arrested by the totalitarian government under which he lives, and which is beginning the process of slowly reprogramming his brain.
He chose to ignore the actions of the mass-murdering totalitarian government that the United States was confronting around the globe and support a Communist for president.
Hulu's hit series comes back next month with Elisabeth Moss' Offred quietly searching for allies to help her fight against the totalitarian society she's been enslaved by.
How do we participate with this looming specter of this totalitarian government masquerading as something that has our best interests at heart, something that's allegedly protecting us?
This disjuncture is also evident in the delicate paintings of Natalia Vitsina, which depict the icons, elements, and symbols of totalitarian art as a catalogue of objects.
Juan Chicharro, wrote that the foundation must defend itself from "the staggered outlawing of everyone who doesn&apost bend to the totalitarian demands" of the Spanish left.
The place to start is by recognizing that we face not some nebulous threat from "terrorists" or "violent extremists," but a distinct enemy: the Islamic totalitarian movement.
Pocoyo: Season 4 1983: NETFLIX ORIGINAL In a totalitarian Poland, law student Kajetan Skowron and detective Anatol Janów unravel a terrible conspiracy stretching to the country's foundations.
A high ranking Japanese government official credited China's rapid ascent in the technology sector to its totalitarian nature that lets it disregard consumer welfare considerations like privacy.
Whether in Stalinist Russia or George Orwell's "1984," totalitarian governments want to eradicate erotic love so that the only legitimate form of love will be comradely love.
The recent crackdown on freedoms in Hong Kong shows how seemingly progressive tools like social media, smartphones and big data can also be harnessed for totalitarian purposes.
The Hulu show, which was ordered before the 2016 election, focused on the plight of women's rights, and reproductive rights in particular, under a fictional totalitarian regime.
The figure of the ghost represents not only the veil of ignorance that separates the living from the dead, but also the individual from the totalitarian state.
More sinister still, the original compromises that elevated these rights to the status of human rights have enabled totalitarian regimes to sit at the human-rights table.
Most striking of all is what President Trump has managed to achieve in just 25 weeks with regard to the totalitarian menace that is the Islamic State.
His problem is that the totalitarian communist rulers garner support from their citizens and justify the deprivation and suffering as being surrounded and threatened by hostile forces.
A think tank report published Monday, entitled "Undeclared North Korea: Missile Operating Bases Revealed," claims a network of undeclared missile facilities is spread across the totalitarian state.
Pyongyang, the capital of hyper-isolated and totalitarian North Korea, might not sound like the obvious location for a beer-sodden knees-up with the jolly boys.
Its repression of Sunnis is indicative of its true nature as a totalitarian dictatorship, and is not a reflection of an interfaith struggle between Sunnis and Shiites.
Although that is a form of power that wants to control human behavior, just as totalitarian power does, it goes about this in a very different way.
Similar to a number of other Muslim nations, it is facing jihadist insurgents who seek to overthrow government and establish totalitarian rule in accordance with their ideology.
Third, Kim knows what happened to Gorbachev, whose spectacular fall served as a lesson to dictators everywhere about the folly of attempting to reform a totalitarian system.
For a time just after the fall of the totalitarian regime and just before the establishment of a democratic order, instability and political crisis gripped the country.
And in the book, because it's a totalitarian regime that permits only one of version of religion, they are shutting down people who belong to other religions.
It was the first Soviet work to equate Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, the two totalitarian regimes that confronted each other as enemies in the war.
And, perhaps, by allowing the player to succeed in building a stable totalitarian state, it ignores that real fascist regimes tend to end in flames and ruin.
Since a famine hit their totalitarian homeland in the mid-22014s, more than 30,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea, most of them fleeing through China.
Unlike the United States, Germany has very strict laws governing hate speech and comments that denigrate ethnic and religious groups, a legacy of its dark, totalitarian past.
American-led sanctions against North Korea are hurting Kim Jong-un in a new way: by targeting the party and military elite who support his totalitarian rule.
She is believed to be a deputy director of the ruling Workers' Party's Department of Propaganda and Agitation, a key post in the propaganda-heavy totalitarian state.
Western readers may find the allusions frustratingly indirect, but Kadare has accustomed himself to telling his tales slantwise, even in a post-totalitarian era where anything goes.
Communist East Germany's ministry for state security, commonly known as the Stasi, became legendary among intelligence agencies for its pervasive network of informants and totalitarian surveillance activities.
Arguing that Austen wrote under "totalitarian" conditions and was obliged to veil her political messages, Kelly performs an interpretive coup that is dazzling, dizzying, and, occasionally, dubious.
Recent scholars have argued that it wasn't until liberalism became the default "other" of totalitarian ideologies that inner coherence and intellectual lineage were retrospectively found for it.
"We strongly denounce and oppose the totalitarian impulses, violent terrorism, xenophobic biases, and bigoted ideologies that are promoted by white nationalists and neo-Nazis," the resolution reads.
"We are not fighting against Europe, but against the EU, which has become a totalitarian system," said Le Pen of Rassemblement National (RN, the former Front National).
It's about extraordinary women who do speak truth to power, who are revolutionaries, who manage to fight back against their totalitarian government without ever getting ground down.
To intervene on behalf of experts against the family is sometimes necessary but always dangerous, fraught with totalitarian temptations to which the modern West is not immune.
Statements such as these are the base of a dictatorship rule, this school, as well as this country cannot and will not fall prey to these totalitarian behaviors.
Since his arrest, Kavala remains in a Turkish prison along with hundreds thousands of others swept up in government raids meant to consolidate Erdoğan's totalitarian grip on power.
Totalitarian nationalism is extinct except in North Korea, where the ruling family preaches a weird mixture of Marxism and racial purity, enforced with slave-labour camps for dissidents.
The show is based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel which imagines that World War II resulted in totalitarian rule of the United States by Germany and Japan.
The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a fictional version of New England where the US government has been overthrown and rewritten into a totalitarian state known as Gilead.
"The reality is when you get in office, when you have to work with different branches of government, it is just not a totalitarian system here," he said.
Quintana, who is banned from entering the hermit kingdom, is putting together an investigation into conditions within the totalitarian state, which he is expected to present in March.
This may sound like one of the many bizarre consumer goods relics of the Soviet era—a product born of thrift, pragmatism, and centralized, totalitarian production and distribution.
It takes place in a dystopian vision of America called "Gilead," one in which a religious cult has staged a coup and instituted a totalitarian government by theocracy.
Her criticisms of totalitarian structures are openly influenced by Hannah Arendt's theories — Bruguera even named her ongoing project after the German-American philosopher: Instituto de Artivismo Hanna Arendt.
Rohrabacher inherited Reagan's moral clarity that always leads him to fight for those who are under the thumb of totalitarian oppressors, even when to do so is unpopular.
Given the parallels between the current US administration and totalitarian regimes of the past, the museum seems like an ideal place to examine troubling and instructive historical precedents.
"We condemn and reject the anti-democratic and totalitarian actions of the Spanish state," he said, adding Catalans should turn out in force to vote in the Oct.
"  The Seattle Times reported on severe working conditions at one of the tech giant's U.K. warehouses, which one employee said was like a "prison and a totalitarian state.
There is the sprawling and corporate Dark Side, totalitarian-leaning in aesthetic: Foster + Partners, the late Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
And this impulse, combined with the totalitarian control of the Chinese leadership, made the question of the ethics of the camp system an even harder question to ask.
It is, without a doubt, the beating heart of the show: Negan's strongman, totalitarian worldview is the distorted, oppressive version of Rick's more merciful, collaborative conception of leadership.
Terror, she claims less convincingly, may be necessary only to establish a totalitarian foundation, and can be "maintained by institutions that carry within them the memory of terror".
To say that he is an autocrat rather than a totalitarian is not to excuse his methods or misdeeds, but to advocate a clear-eyed assessment of reality.
Chinese central planners have a very long-term plan to solve this issue, which they can implement with ruthless efficiency because of China's one-party totalitarian political system.
"We American dips would dutifully respond with our legitimate points about the human-rights abuses on the island, the soul-crushing nature of a totalitarian system," Feeley said.
He wrote "Rhinoceros" in 1958 as a response to totalitarian movements in Europe, but he was influenced specifically by his experience of fascism in Romania in the 1930s.
" Conversely, the left-wing magazine Current Affairs highlighted Hefner's "totalitarian control" of the women who lived in the Playboy mansion, calling him a "tyrant" and "an abusive creep.
Bukele "would not be willing to support a totalitarian government that represses its people and disrespects human rights," he said, referring to the administration of President Nicolas Maduro.
Mr. Kim's clampdown on phones linked to Chinese mobile networks also heightens the risk for those who help bring news about his totalitarian country to the outside world.
They've been less interested in how totalitarian governments control people in general and women in particular than in how onscreen violence and rape can be entertaining and sexy.
If the new, all-powerful constituent assembly turns Venezuela into a communist totalitarian state, the refugee crisis it would trigger could dwarf anything the Americas have ever seen.
Another thing that's changed: Donald Trump is president, and he's signaled he plans to run hard against socialism while conflating Sanders' brand with totalitarian failed states like Venezuela.
When Google pulled out of China in 2010, Mr. Brin said it objected to the country's "totalitarian" policies when it came to censorship, political speech and internet communications.
In the aftermath of the totalitarian horrors of the 20th century, freedom of speech was embraced by all of the countries that now make up the G-7.
Kim's totalitarian regime is working furiously on the miniaturization and other technological advances that would enable it to fire a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile at Los Angeles.
The totalitarian regime in Saudi Arabia The disappearance of Khashoggi is of a piece with much that the Saudi regime of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is doing.
Like all defectors from the isolated, totalitarian North, she went through 12 weeks of mandatory classes, learning basic skills like using a credit card and driving a car.
The country has built its legitimacy on its totalitarian cult of personality, its controlled economy and its militarization for too long to give those up, Mr. Kelly said.
As bedtime reading, Ms. Iskisel turned to the 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel "It Can't Happen Here," which envisions the election of an American populist who imposes totalitarian rule.
If you're attracted to the proto-totalitarian, overly spiritual Plato, or if you're skeptical of the value of blood, sweat and tears, then I recommend reading more Aristotle.
While the internet and social media appear to be the most effective communications media, this is not so in a totalitarian system which monitors and impedes internet usage.
Pyongyang's response provoked new fears that a tenuous detente between North Korea and U.S. could already be nearing an end, even amid overtures from the totalitarian Communist regime.
Probably we would be normal people who got chewed up and spat out by the regime, because historically, that's what generally happens to people living in totalitarian governments.
Star Wars and Harry Potter are both about fighting totalitarian regimes, but their sequels insist that fascism isn't nearly as bad as what happens when evil wizards nut.
Some experts warn that under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt is sliding from authoritarian rule into a totalitarian system where even a smidgen of dissent is intolerable.
Tito, who led former communist Yugoslavia from the end of World War Two until death in 1980, was criticized as a totalitarian dictator by some at home and abroad.
The slightest crack in a ruthless totalitarian dictatorship's control – enforced in this case through Soviet-style gulags and massive repression – and people lose their fear of protest and revolt.
"I am confident that the Russian totalitarian machine did not forgive him his honesty and principled stance," Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said in a Facebook post late Tuesday.
Even if you dismiss climate change as a totalitarian delusion for years, as long as you're willing to publicly acknowledge the most rudimentary science, the rest is fair game.
Atwood's novel has become an increasingly relevant read in recent years, about the rise of a totalitarian theocracy that strips away the rights of women in the near future.
The confidence and virtuosity required mean that—to a surprising extent for a production line in a totalitarian state—individual artists are able, even encouraged, to develop personal styles.
The show, which is set just beyond present day, has drawn praise from critics for its representation of a totalitarian universe where women have been stripped of their rights.
Living under totalitarian rule, where the state regularly transgressed into the private lives of citizens is not a theoretical risk for many EU citizens — it reflects their recent history.
Charisma: If there is a defining characteristic of Negan, it's that he is a sociopath in every critical way, allowing him to sway from charismatic leader to totalitarian maniac.
Image: Norway PoliceA public backlash has emerged in Norway in response to a proposed police uniform that's been compared to outfits worn by science fiction villains and totalitarian dictators.
It is a clunky narrative device, suggesting that the film-makers did not have faith in viewers to understand the evils of totalitarian censorship without an Orwellian name-drop.
The 10-episode series, which debuts on Hulu on April 26, takes place in a dystopia called Gilead — a totalitarian society, once the U.S., rooted in twisted religious fundamentalism.
But rather than become a supplier of raw goods to the Soviet Union, as then-leader Nikita Khrushchev wanted, Romania's totalitarian government launched the country into full-scale industrialization.
Inevitably, politicians came to seem ungenuine, all wearing the same approved dark suit and power tie, all mouthing the same scripted party lines like apparatchiks from some totalitarian system.
" The Russian foreign minister cautioned that the two countries should learn from history, criticizing Western countries for being "fixated on eliminating this or that dictator, authoritarian or totalitarian leader.
Chinese authorities briefly detained Yu in October after he wrote an open letter saying Xi was unsuited to lead China as he had strengthened "totalitarian" rule over the country.
The play is based on George Orwell's iconic novel "1984," which is set in a dystopian, totalitarian future ruled by an all-seeing party leader known as Big Brother.
" Mateer responded, saying, "No you're right, and I truly believe because we know, history teaches this, totalitarian governments, what they first attack is freedom of religion, freedom of beliefs.
Yet as totalitarian leaders have always known — and as recent Saudi and Russian assassinations of journalists remind us — killing even one prominent member of a group terrorizes countless others.
The Vietnamese Communists did what totalitarian regimes do: they took over the schools and universities, they shut down the free press, they pursued programs of enforced relocation and reëducation.
Opinion polls show that 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its totalitarian socialist regime, a significant portion of Americans embrace some form of socialism today.
Blame lies squarely on the shoulders of former president Hugo Chavez, his successor Maduro and their "Chavista" movement, which have turned Venezuela into a totalitarian, socialist and kleptocratic state.
And it really does look like we are facing some developments that, if we are not very careful, could lead to something that is very similar to totalitarian structures.
America incarcerates more people than any other country in the world — even more than totalitarian countries like Russia and China — and there are big racial disparities throughout the system.
But her emphasis on what she calls "the connection between totalitarian regimes and political ignorance" not only applies to Soviet Russia but constitutes a warning for the United States.
On display are examples of this totalitarian style pioneered by the artist El Lissitzky whose designs employed rigid right angles to mirror the ordered utopia of the Communist state.
American-led sanctions against North Korea are hurting its leader, Kim Jong-un, in a new way: by targeting the party and military elite who support his totalitarian rule.
At the chamber's dais, British prime minister Winston Churchill thanked Americans for their sacrifice in defeating fascism and warned of coming tests with the Soviet Union and totalitarian socialism.
The group that overthrew the United States government and founded Gilead was named Sons of Jacob, and the biblical story of Jacob looms large in the totalitarian state's mythos.
Officials there called the move "preemptive," as no cases have yet been reported in the totalitarian country, but it is possible that the secretive regime is hiding an outbreak.
"What really makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other kind of dictatorship to rule is that the people are not informed," she remarked in a 1973 interview.
This equation of divine and political power runs counter to the American principle of the separation of church and state, and propounds an elitist, even totalitarian view of politics.
A piece of speculative fiction that might not seem so speculative, this new Wallace Shawn play is set in the future, when a totalitarian regime has ended live performance.
But for 70 years, the United States has been a beacon for dissidents in totalitarian nations, acting as a guarantor of democracy and peace in Europe and Northeast Asia.
Earlier on, she was more confrontational in her approach: her 1976 filmed opera, "Quarry," which recently returned to circulation, is a brutal parable of a totalitarian society in formation.
Its publicity photos, the personas of band members and their music videos have, since the group's 1980s beginnings, borrowed from the imagery and style of 20th-century totalitarian regimes.
One of the few programs that historically succeeded in boosting the population took place in Communist-era Romania, a totalitarian dictatorship in which abortions and birth control were banned.
Adorno seemed to think it was a prop for totalitarian capitalism, and that it was all the more insidious because it was more camouflaged than it was in Germany.
For each of her characters, Maggie Shen King presents such an insidious, totalitarian trap that each person is only able to wiggle out with a mixture of luck and bluffing.
One way to read Hydra's involvement in WWII is that it has a fascist and totalitarian worldview, and its members therefore saw the Nazis as a means to an end.
So when UNIQLO added a crop of dark red dresses to its website, The Debrief was quick to peg the gown as a relic from the totalitarian regime of Gilead.
Conway's comments drew comparisons to Orwell's term "doublethink" — the ability to believe two contradictory things simultaneously — and "Newspeak," the deliberately misleading language of the totalitarian state described in the book.
The constitutional protection office, founded after the second world war to stifle totalitarian tendencies, placed Junge Freiheit "under observation" until Mr Stein won a court case against it in 443.
But as I read "The Cowshed" I was reminded of Arthur Koestler's work: the totalitarian nature of the society, the terrible plight of the individual against the forces of evil.
Once we're free from the shackles of our own dopamine drives and screen addictions, we can focus on other dystopian issues, like staving off the totalitarian despots and killer robots. 
As Timothy Sandefur wrote last year in The Claremont Review of Books, series creator Gene Roddenberry was a World War II veteran deeply concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments.
Terrorist attacks elsewhere in Europe are gradually leading Germany to change its leery stance towards aggressive security and surveillance policies, rooted in its historical experiences of totalitarian Nazism and Communism.
Large-scale military parades these days evoke the totalitarian aesthetic of North Korea or the Soviet Union, where aging despots would demonstrate the perseverance of their regimes to the world.
If it didn't, please reinforce the AGG's just imperatives or risk further abuse in the future and the sure erosion of what distinguishes our system of justice from totalitarian regimes.
Killer robots have the potential to do a lot of harm, and make the means of killing lots of people more available to totalitarian states and to non-state actors.
It's strange knowing that the music scene where you spent your most formative teenage moments has been whitewashed by some kind of totalitarian nostalgia committee for being in bad taste.
Second, they say: By going to North Korea, you simply become a mouthpiece for a country that you admit is the most totalitarian country in the history of the world.
This makes sense, in terms of the necessity of designed space to safely hold its occupants, but for many, design goes beyond that, and into the realm of the totalitarian.
The demonstration was what the international newspapers reported about Russia the day before, and their stories confirmed and reinforced the larger story about a downtrodden people in a totalitarian state.
These days, younger South Koreans in particular are far more likely to see the idea of reintegrating their prosperous capitalist democracy with the impoverished, totalitarian North as unrealistic and undesirable.
What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?
And this kind of calculated play makes perfect sense in the System Shock universe, where traditional cyberpunk corporate wars have given way to a ruthless monopoly that approaches totalitarian socialism.
Most of these nations, Milanovic continues, experienced the events of 1989 primarily as a national liberation, and only secondarily as a victory for liberal principles over totalitarian or authoritarian alternatives.
Indeed it feels like only one conceivable future, and not the worst imaginable: It's a better organized, more utopian and also more totalitarian society than any we have yet created.
North Korea remains one of the world's most isolated countries, and its totalitarian government cultivates a personality cult around Mr. Kim and his father and grandfather, who ruled before him.
I'm not worried about the Russian stuff — Bernie's self-described "very strange honeymoon" to the totalitarian hell of the Soviet Union in 1988, and his kind words for similar regimes.
In other countries, like Cuba and Venezuela, socialism morphed into totalitarian dictatorships that have benefitted the elite while destroying the livelihood of the many and curtailing the liberties of most.
Walter Lange died this year, at the age of ninety-two, and the success of his company can be seen as a form of revenge against the totalitarian Soviet interregnum.
First published in 1985, "The Handmaid's Tale" imagines a totalitarian near future when fertile women are forced into sexual servitude in a bid to repopulate a world facing environmental disaster.
"The Handmaid's Tale," which takes place in near-future New England as a totalitarian regime has taken power and stripped women of their civil rights, was published 32 years ago.
The revolution was born out of the lethal mix of despair and destruction brought about by World War I and the witches' brew of Leninist totalitarian ideology rooted in Marxism.
Trump once went to great lengths to highlight atrocities by Kim's totalitarian regime; but since the pair began corresponding and meeting, the U.S. president has gone mute on that topic.
International outrage could turn that into a wake-up call for China's leaders, despite their totalitarian swagger, if the world begins to see them as pariahs, not just trading partners.
Telling ourselves that Iran is not just an adversary but also an unqualified totalitarian state makes thinking about the country, and setting policy toward it, easier and less morally complicated.
If you&aposre shutting off the money and you&aposre working to open social networks in the Iranian society, that society does not really want to be governed by totalitarian Islamists.
Yet the latter two were used in dystopian societies with totalitarian regimes, while Oval, idealistically, is "merely" designed to activate a response of generosity in the brain to combat income inequality.
"We're in a world war against a messianic mass-movement of evil people, most of them inspired by totalitarian ideology: radical Islam," he wrote in a book published earlier this year.
The totalitarian states Keynes worked so hard to defeat showed that the "central mobilisation of resources" and "the regimentation of the individual" could destroy personal liberty, as he himself once noted.
WASHINGTON – The highest-level North Korean defector in two decades says America should bring change peacefully by challenging the totalitarian regime&aposs grip on information rather than resorting to military action.
Clinton quotes a line about anti-democratic leaders who sow distrust of facts from Yale history professor Timothy Snyder's 2017 bestseller about lessons that can be learned from past totalitarian regimes.
It's reminiscent of The Westport Independent, a game about running a newspaper in a totalitarian state, except that there's no ideological justification here — just the endless quest for clicks and eyeballs.
It is not only conservative types who see military service as a patriotic duty in a country which is technically still at war with North Korea, its nuclear-armed totalitarian neighbour.
The 10-episode series, which debuts on Hulu on April 26, follows people in a dystopia called Gilead — a totalitarian society, once part of the U.S., rooted in twisted religious fundamentalism.
" But, 13 years later, it is jarring to read her lament about Bush Republicans moving "from what might be conventionally thought of as right-wing to something a little more totalitarian.
There's a hole in the traditional argument that the Great Depression explains the rise of the Nazis: Lots of other countries suffered during the Depression, too, without collapsing into totalitarian dictatorships.
"The demonstration of the power of the central figure-- to say 'you're out,' and you're gone -- is central to totalitarian regimes," says Micheal Madden, associate at North Korea thinktank 38 North.
Sen. Dick Durbin noted this week that the U.S. Immigration Services department screens for affiliations with nazis or totalitarian parties for anyone trying to become a citizen or a permanent resident.
The "anti-religious totalitarian state" motif has its own place in dystopian science fiction, whether in allegories for Communism like Ayn Rand's Anthem or the End Times predictions of Left Behind.
Then, after just a few more pages of travel and exposition, they arrive on the mysterious planet of Camazotz, where they must enter a sinister, totalitarian society and find Meg's father.
The works in Dark Matter are 3D-printed combinations of things that have been banned by Iran's totalitarian government—a Barbie crossed with handguns, a dog fused with a satellite dish.
Oliver's gag evokes the tale of Ella Minnow Pea (from the novel of the same name), where a totalitarian state bans the use of certain letters in its rise to power.
Totalitarian governments often want to censor and silence pastors, and that's exactly what the mayor of Houston, she's in that company, when she makes this type of affront on religious liberty.
Democratic have joined with some GOP lawmakers to speak out against the parade, with many saying it could come off as "totalitarian" and would evoke demonstrations in North Korea and Russia.
That's a mystery that Mr. Cannan and Mr. Adam play up, though defecting to a totalitarian country seems like a deranged career move, even for a filmmaker down on his luck.
Secondly, North Korea's totalitarian political system allows it to hold onto its nuclear policy even in the face of catastrophic instability, like the 1990s famine that killed half a million people.
Perhaps the most familiar example came after the Reichstag fire in 1933, when German lawmakers declared a state of emergency that set Adolf Hitler on an irreversible path toward totalitarian rule.
At times, they come off as whiny and totalitarian, yes, and they choose the wrong pretexts, such as Halloween, but clearly, the impetus comes from a place of respect and decency.
The worker collectives of Yugoslavia were thus able to develop a "third way" between Western democracy and Soviet totalitarian communism, one that began to crumble only after Tito's death in 1980.
The sculptures, as he tells The Creators Project, represent the idea that history tends to repeat itself, and that we might soon see a rise of totalitarian regimes throughout the West.
Younger Americans, after all, have spent their lives hearing that even popular, market-driven policies like Obamacare are part of a grand socialist plot, steps on the path to totalitarian ruin.
Sitting in the theater, I felt like I had a new apprehension of what it might be like to be young, idealistic, and at the mercy of nearly totalitarian economic forces.
Should the totalitarian attitudes of those very students who smear Mr. Murray as a fascist be able to intimidate their peers into shutting down voices that disrupt their ideological "safe space"?
In an effort to compensate for this dependence, Kim's regime devised the nativist, isolationist ideology of "Juche," which would undergird his totalitarian rule over North Korea until his death in 21945.
A law completely banning indoor smoking is "a totalitarian idea," said Motoki Takeda, the director of the general affairs department of the Japan Tobacco Federation, which represents 60,000 cigarette sellers nationwide.
Brecht scrubbed the play clean of references to Greek deities and shifted the emphasis away from one family's personal tragedy to the downfall of a society that embraces a totalitarian system.
Historians, however, warned the Post that such a parade may be less evocative of American patriotism and more aligned with totalitarian or nationalist regimes like North Korea and the Soviet Union.
I think they're seen now as a perhaps not totalitarian force for evil and getting more interested in ... But which of the Frightful Five do you think is most frightful then?
Finally, a cultural recoil from the tyranny of the digital and the virtual and the Very Online, today's version of the technocratic, technological, potentially totalitarian Machine that Jacobs's Christian humanists opposed.
When older Americans hear the word socialist, they think of socialist economics — specifically, the planned, failed, economies of the 20th century, and the totalitarian nightmares they birthed — not the socialist ethic.
Because of Germany's painful experience with totalitarian government, the threshold for legal surveillance is high, and the prosecutors' statement said they had had no further justification to keep him under watch.
They could also pay a severe price for their opportunism if they allow themselves, as Schmitt did, to go along with a totalitarian movement, or a reasonable American facsimile of one.
And since I had just gotten a clingy gold cocktail dress for a fancy awards dinner and New Yorkers are so critical, I felt a restrictive, possibly totalitarian, garment was necessary.
One of the haunting elements of The Handmaid's Tale is seeing how a confluence of factors — ecological disaster, economic precariousness, and the like — create an environment ripe for a totalitarian takeover.
This is probably the first exhibition in Mexico that do not speak in totalitarian terms and shows that the indigeneity isn't hegemonic, is multiple and in a constant state of emergency.
In the year 1984, the actor John Hurt starred in the film "1984," winning praise and awards for his portrayal of a citizen caught in the grip of a totalitarian government.
Governments and people are separate entities — especially in a totalitarian monarchy like Saudi Arabia — and I don't believe in holding an entire population accountable for the acts of a corrupt few.
I put it like this: I think that power and control work really well in a baboon troop or a totalitarian regime, but that's not what we're shooting for here, right?
So I think that the history of democracy versus more totalitarian systems is it always seems like the totalitarian systems are going to be more efficient and the democracies are just going to get left behind, but, you know, smart people, you know, people start discussing these issues and caring about them, and I do think we see that people do now care much more about their own privacy about data issues, about the technology industry.
ANTI-KREMLIN RUSSIAN JOURNALIST SHOT AND KILLED IN UKRAINE Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said the "Russian totalitarian machine" had not forgiven Babchenko for his "honesty and principled stance," Sky News reported.
"[The region of Xinjiang] is a 21st century totalitarian police state powered by 21st century surveillance technology, with over a million Uighur Muslims and ethnic minorities in concentration camps," Cheng told Gizmodo.
I thought that totalitarian regimes behaved like no one believes anything and it's just sides and that democracy was an alternative space in which propaganda played a different and perhaps smaller role.
Yuval Noah Harari:​ And I fear that the new technologies are inherent– are giving an inherent advantage, not necessarily overwhelming, but they do tend to give an inherent advantage to totalitarian regimes.
"The Handmaid's Tale," based on a 1985 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, imagines a totalitarian future when fertile women are forced into sexual servitude to repopulate a world facing environmental disaster.
It was in this context that Gottfried von Cramm became one of Germany's most celebrated athletes, and so was asked to represent a country that was quickly sinking into the totalitarian abyss.
" He balks at any formal assessment of firearm use among people with dementia, saying it could lead to "a totalitarian system that decides when you can have rights and when you cannot.
It was the tournament of a high-handed monarch, the cup of a republican president, the one-time kickabout of Spain's socialist militias and the long-time plaything of a pompous totalitarian.
No one thinks the Trump administration will transform the U.S. into Panem, Suzanne Collins's post-apocalyptic North America where a totalitarian government forces children to fight to the death on national television.
I don't want to be the pompous joke police any more than I want to come across like a "low-level secret policeman in a new totalitarian state," as Roiphe put it.
Just as our Nazi enemy in World War II was motivated by a totalitarian ideology, as was our Cold War foe, the Soviet Union, today we face a new totalitarianism: global jihadism.
Arendt was also concerned with the ways certain totalitarian tendencies and attitudes could persist in democratic societies, and "Vita Activa" includes some especially chilling implications for the current state of American politics.
Were atypical hybrids like the one derailing before my eyes the solution to the unending torrent of uninspired and downright "totalitarian" tastings lamented by the likes of Corby Kummer and Pete Wells?
Steeped in political paranoia and intellectual pretense, the film concerns a failed production of Shakespeare's "Pericles" and a shadowy totalitarian cabal, and it is distinguished more for its atmosphere than its performances.
Today, because of the Internet's lawless nature, totalitarian regimes without the constraint of rule of law are harnessing the power of data to shape political, economic, and security environments in their favor.
And when it reaches a point where the language and the policy are completely at odds, we call it Orwellian, after George Orwell's 1984 and the totalitarian Ministry of Truth it depicted.
CreditCreditPatrick A. Burns/The New York Times Whatever else he was — liberator, totalitarian despot, bombastic blowhard — Fidel Castro was a showman, and Americans, as we know, can be suckers for a showman.
On Saturday evening, Mr. Ma told a packed auditorium that the totalitarian society that George Orwell had described in his dystopian novel "1984" had now been "completely and totally" realized in China.
Otherwise, we would have no basis to criticize China's totalitarian persecution of Uighur Muslims or the illiberal bans on "religious symbols," including the Islamic head scarf, in France and, more recently, Quebec.
Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it.
Second, there was the example of a rival civilization, totalitarian Communism, in which the Apollonian model had been pushed to its materialist-utopian conclusion and discovered only a ruthless, inhuman dead end.
The collapse of a totalitarian dictatorship that had overthrown an absolute monarchy forced Russians to confront a painful task of choosing what to glorify, what to condemn, and what to gloss over.
Regrettably, this will be the last major tribute to the greatest generation of aging American soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who saved the nation — and the world — from a bleak totalitarian future.
Ironically, if these buildings began as a creative rebellion against Stalin's status quo, they would soon become closely linked — both temporally and ideologically — with the totalitarian rule and economic shortages of Communism.
Lenin had his first debilitating stroke, opening the way for his successor, Stalin, to quash the founding father's economic reforms and double-down on the imposition of the century's first totalitarian state.
In which case we are left to choose between its darker rivals, between a comfortable decadence in which virtue erodes and the reaper beckons, or else some variant on Efrafa's totalitarian alternative.
" To that end, he suggests collaborate with the German's "war efforts," and establish a Jewish state on a "national and totalitarian basis," which will be "bound by treaty with the German Reich.
Churchill and Orwell, dissenters on the right and the left, were attuned early to totalitarian threats, and spent their prime years fighting upper-class consensus in the twilight of the British imperium.
Aware of her own country's failure to uphold basic civil liberties for all its citizens, she nevertheless drew sharp distinctions between immovable totalitarian regimes and flawed democracies on the pathway to reform.
In a 2018 report on Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch warned that China was building a "digital totalitarian state," where draconian technologies used in the far west were quietly becoming the norm nationwide.
Rather, he argues persuasively, it is the Thirty Years' War of our time, growing out of the ruins of twin totalitarian regimes in Iraq and Syria, and it is far from concluded.
When Google pulled out of China in 2010, Sergey Brin, the company's co-founder, said it objected to the country's "totalitarian" policies when it came to censorship, political speech and internet communications.
Today, almost all defectors from the totalitarian North flee through its border with China, though Mr. Kim has taken steps to tighten that border in the five years since he took power.
" In it, he called the prime minister "undoubtedly totalitarian," and likened him to Jesus, calling them both "power hungry and malicious" figures who "deceive people into thinking they are compassionate and kind.
Written in meticulous longhand on the coarse brown manuscript paper used in North Korea, the book — a collection of seven short stories — was a fierce indictment of life in the totalitarian North.
The protestors' costumes resembled the dress of the "handmaids," who in the television show are forced into sexual servitude under the totalitarian government that has taken over part of the United States.
This is still the most totalitarian country in the world, but it does have an amusement park, a water park, a ski area and a dolphin show — North Korea's version of SeaWorld.
As the art world becomes ever more market dominated, and free speech remains endangered under totalitarian regimes and supposed democracies alike, independent publishing itself can be seen as an act of resistance.
As Dara Lind explains, even a proposed registry of Muslims can be implemented in ways that may not violate the current rule of law or Constitution, despite the headline policy sounding rather totalitarian.
Moscow has dismissed accusations by Ukraine's prime minister that the "Russian totalitarian machine" was responsible for the assassination of prominent Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who was killed outside his apartment in Kiev Tuesday.
Speaking on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis, Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski compared the promotion of gay rights with the totalitarian ideologies which Poland had endured during the 20th century.
He said the Obama administration was not only creating a dangerous precedent but was demanding the creation of a dangerous tool — a skeleton key that could be used by hackers and totalitarian governments.
Nilay can't stand Mark Zuckerberg's video about his home AI, Dieter doesn't know what laptop to take to CES, Paul feels that emoji is too totalitarian, and Ross...is already in holiday mode.
Groups like ISIS and al Qaeda are the latest manifestation of a dangerous strain of totalitarian thinking that rejects and subordinates all universal norms and values to a single, violent, all-encompassing dogma.
The symbolic complexity that the piece unfolds to the audience through a sensorial dispositive is key to understanding the artist's persistent critique to totalitarian thinking and the perversity of its attack against subjectivity.
Clad in blood-red robes with white, face-shielding hoods, the women of Gilead, a dystopian nation (after the collapse of the United States), face a totalitarian society in which men are superior.
The Communists have been part of several regional governments but remain a pariah for other parties at national level given the country's totalitarian past and their foreign policy views, including support for Russia.
When Director Comey appeared before Congress shortly after his decision not to seek criminal charges, Republicans from every region of the country and every ideological bent from Right to Totalitarian viciously attacked Comey.
Memories of two 20th-century totalitarian surveillance states make privacy issues especially sensitive in Germany, where competition authorities have since last year been probing the social network's use of data from partner websites.
Indeed, space and, in particular, the space of the artist's studio, becomes incredibly pertinent in this regard: under a totalitarian regime, one must be cautious of what one says or does in public.
In Germany, where the experience of living under two different totalitarian regimes in the 20th century has created enormous concern at the privacy implications of social media, platform usage is lower, but growing.
Triumphant a quarter-century ago, when liberal democracy appeared to have prevailed definitively over the totalitarian utopias that exacted such a toll in blood, it is now under siege from without and within.
What began with a hospital's deadly policy against a child with apparently permanent disabilities ended with a shocking totalitarian intervention by the state, annihilating his parents' rights in order to ensure Alfie's demise.
They gave little thought to the fact that these were the institutions of a long-running totalitarian regime: They did not doubt that they had the will and strength necessary to transform them.
The "all crimes are legal for one night each year" conceit, an idea dreamed up by the totalitarian figures presiding over the United States of America (fictional ones), is central to the story.
So one can only imagine the ineffable sadness he felt over the weekend, when Trump stepped into North Korea to shake the hand of his friend Kim Jong-un, North Korea's totalitarian leader.
Authoritarian and totalitarian states, insecure in their power, have always fought mass privacy with their spies and extensive networks of secret police, as have democratic countries at war or in times of unrest.
As recently as this year, he faced the prospect of defending himself against a criminal complaint filed by the son of a dissident who died in custody after anti-totalitarian protests in 1987.
He was the best known of a small group of rebel poets and writers who brought hope to a young generation with poetry that took on totalitarian leaders, ideological zealots and timid bureaucrats.
People who have escaped to Sweden from totalitarian regimes must feel safe to enjoy their basic freedoms, such as the right to protest against a regime without their relatives being put at risk.
Arrested and struggling to survive under a totalitarian regime with segregated communities (recalling divisions over religion and caste), Shalini endures grueling conditions as she uncovers the truth about what happened to her daughter.
Turkish media has seized on a tweet purportedly made by Pompeo after a failed coup in July 2016 - and before he became CIA director - which referred to Turkey as a "totalitarian Islamist dictatorship".
If the majority of Muslims reject the imposition of Sharia law, then an unequivocal stand against the totalitarian grip of Sharia law cannot be viewed as an attack on the religion of Islam.
It&aposs his tailor," GQ  wrote of Xi. "Xi gets totalitarian style cues from his hero, the mass murderer Chairman Mao, who enforced a dour and plain dress code for the Communist Party.
"We are different than dictatorships and totalitarian governments because we have a free press and every president -- Republican or Democrat -- should be defending and supporting our free press even when it criticizes him."
Over the past couple of weeks, protests in Iran over high gasoline prices prompted that totalitarian government to shut down the internet, leaving 85033 million people untethered to the rest of the world.
From lobbying for global kimchi superiority to attempts at wowing Western tourists with bland, lavish banquets, Kim Jong-un's totalitarian regime does not hesitate to make bold claims about its food and liquor.
But Turkish media has seized on a tweet purportedly made by Pompeo after a failed coup in July 2016 - and before he became CIA director - which referred to Turkey as a "totalitarian Islamist dictatorship".
After the first half of its season seemed to inordinately wallow in violence and brutality, "The Walking Dead" appears to be entering a more political phase, devoted to building coalitions against a totalitarian regime.
Its tale of a future in which a totalitarian regime has assumed full control over an individual's body and mind strikes a nerve in a world where privacy and truth seem constantly under threat.
He was an early adopter of the familiar talking-points of European Islamophobia, warning of a coming tsunami of Muslim immigration, denouncing Islam as a totalitarian ideology rather than a religion and so forth.
I'm not sure anybody could sell "secrets are lies" as a friendly startup slogan, but he has enough charisma that I could buy him telling dad jokes while announcing our impending totalitarian nightmare world.
The Tax Justice Network argues that Switzerland "corrupted its courts" to teach Mr Elmer a lesson and discourage would-be whistleblowers, meting out "the sort of treatment one might expect from a totalitarian regime".
It's also about free speech—a principle that's under increasing attack by President Trump, who has declared America's free press an "enemy of the people," using ominous language reminiscent of totalitarian dictators like Stalin.
At this point, it looks like Simon (even though he was bested in this particular battle) has a better idea of what it takes to lead a totalitarian post-apocalyptic cult than Negan does.
As totalitarian-minded ideological blocs congeal on both the left and right, the idea of an apocalypse caused by group-thinking zombies out for fresh blood becomes ever more terrifying with each passing day.
It asking you to do terrible things to your tenants: spy, learn their secrets, and, depending on your actions, rat them out to the totalitarian government who made you landlord in the first place.
" Each day at work, Rowling would read "hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them.
If Google — and the tech world more generally — is sexist, or in the grips of a totalitarian cult of political correctness, or a secret hotbed of alt-right reactionaries, the consequences would be profound.
Any suggestion that Poland remained under communist influence despite ending totalitarian rule in 19783 - notably that Walesa might have been controlled by former secret police as president in 1990-95 - strengthens the PiS narrative.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said in a social media posting late on Tuesday he was convinced what he called "the Russian totalitarian machine" had not forgiven Babchenko for what Groysman called his honesty.
"A country like China, a more totalitarian regime, will perform better than the democratic countries," said Tadashi Maeda, governor of the state-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
This is the most totalitarian state in the history of the world, because it has computers, closed-circuit cameras, mobile phones and other monitoring technologies that Stalin or Mao could only have dreamed of.
But Kim will be perfectly happy to pocket the flattery, and a few years' worth of concessions, without actually giving up the things that maintain his grip on power — nuclear weapons and totalitarian repression.
Newsbook North Korea is a true Orwellian society: The totalitarian government, currently led by Kim Jong-un, keeps its citizens disconnected from the internet and controls radio stations and newspapers, filling them with propaganda.
Her victory aligns the nationalist island more firmly with Hong Kong protesters, who are also resisting the mainland's totalitarian bear hug -- and could have ramifications for already-strained relations between the US and Beijing.
But it is impossible to imagine that the United States will accept vulnerability to Kim Jong Un or suddenly appreciate North Korea's strategic value and pursue a normal relationship with North Korea's totalitarian regime.
Under Aunt Lydia's expert tutelage, two teenagers are able to bring down a totalitarian government with relatively little difficulty, relying on an array of old-fashioned tricks (microdots, secret codes) and clean, straightforward heroism.
Last year, the center gave Senator Jeff Sessions, who has warned of the "totalitarian threat" posed by radical Islam and is Mr. Trump's nominee for attorney general, its annual "Keeper of the Flame" award.
His diplomatic courtship with Mr. Kim, despite its inerasable creepiness, also had a rationale: The voluntary denuclearization of the world's most totalitarian state could never occur without the assent of its ultimate decision maker.
The country has held no elections for the last 26 years, a period in which Afwerki has cemented his grip on a totalitarian society that human-rights advocates compare to that of North Korea.
I wanted to defend nationalism, but I also wanted to make the case that nationalism is a very old phenomenon, a natural phenomenon, something empires and totalitarian regimes have tried and failed to eliminate.
Everything in this movie is terrifying: the horse that gets turned into glue... the rebellious goat that speaks out against the totalitarian regime... hell, these animators even made a talking Border Collie vaguely spooky.
"The biggest problem from a legal perspective is what, exactly, 'totalitarian state' means," Ms. du Vall said, explaining how contemporary scholars — political scientists, sociologists, lawyers and other experts — cannot agree on one binding definition.
In principle, I'm for every story being told, irrespective of its implications, because erring the other way threatens to lead to the sort of censorship-for-the-greater-good you see in totalitarian states.
The president of the European Parliament apologized on Thursday after he said that Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist former leader, had done positive things despite leading his country into war and installing a totalitarian regime.
On Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, the former United States of America was violently transformed into the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian state in which only the worst people have a say in the political process.
In this way, social control no longer needs to be exerted in the old "totalitarian" mode, through open domination—we are already manipulated and regulated when we act freely, just following our needs and desires.
"When a conservative says that totalitarian communism is an absolute enemy of human freedom he is not theorising—he is reporting the ugly reality captured so unforgettably in the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn," said Reagan.
Yet some fear that government intervention could backfire in Germany, where memories of totalitarian rule and propaganda are still fresh, while others have downplayed the effect that fake news could have on the political landscape.
The series, based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a modern-day totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States.
Sophie Dannenberg, an author who in 2011 drew attention to the student movement's totalitarian elements in "The Pale Heart of the Revolution", was deemed "crazy" and "one of the worst 100 Berliners" for her pains.
Before the full establishment of the totalitarian government and the Gilead (the name for the new United States), Moss' character and Moira were just friends who'd go on runs and enjoy a cup of coffee.
In the dystopian world of the play (and the book before it), Winston works for the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to revise history to conform to the totalitarian Party's version of events.
But after seven decades of division, the capitalist South and the totalitarian North have drifted so far apart that the yearning for reunification is not what it used to be, especially among young South Koreans.
Babis has pledged to keep the country on a firmly pro-Western course despite the pending deal with the Communists, who have had no role in national government since their totalitarian rule ended in 1989.

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