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st few years: The United States hired Islamic State terrorists to sabotage the Russian commercial airliner that was destroyed after takeoff in the Sinai in 2015. A three-year-old boy was crucified by the U.S.- backed Ukrainian army in Slovyansk in 2014. The United States is planning a major war in E
and persecution. They are frequent- ly jailed on trumped-up charges of defamation, tax fraud, or drug trafficking, among others. 12 EFTA00804736 Freedom House 2. Marginalizing the opposition: As noted above, authoritarian leaders use their media power to paint critics as knaves or buffoons. Especially t
uld withhold financial aid from Egypt if it violates the Camp David peace treaty with Israel (because Cairo is sending more military assets to the Sinai to combat terrorists attacking both Israel and Egypt). While world attention in our region focuses on Syria, transformations across North Africa, t
places I experienced firsthand as an economic adviser. Bolivians enjoyed greater political and civil rights than the Vietnamese did, as measured by Freedom House, yet Bolivia's economy grew slowly whereas Vietnam's attracted foreign investment like a magnet. It is easy to see why: Bolivia is a landlocked mou
war al-Sadat. In fact, by signing the peace agreement with Israel, he saved the Egyptian people a hundred years or more in efforts to liberate the Sinai soil, which the Egyptians now rely upon as a reliable source of one-third of the country's economy. In Syria, the so-called "Fortress of Arabism",
tional Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, which are allied with the two main U.S. political parties, as well as from Freedom House and some European groups. Their crime was trying to teach Egypt's young democrats how to monitor elections and start parties to engage in the very
uld withhold financial aid from Egypt if it violates the Camp David peace treaty with Israel (because Cairo is sending more military assets to the Sinai to combat terrorists attacking both Israel and Egypt). While world attention in our region focuses on Syria, EFTA_R1_02211666 EFTA02724660 trans
places I experienced firsthand as an economic adviser. Bolivians enjoyed greater political and civil rights than the Vietnamese did, as measured by Freedom House, yet Bolivia's economy grew slowly whereas Vietnam's attracted foreign investment like a magnet. It is easy to see why: Bolivia is a landlocked mo
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st few years: ¢ The United States hired Islamic State terrorists to sabotage the Russian commercial airliner that was destroyed after takeoff in the Sinai in 2015. ¢ A three-year-old boy was crucified by the U.S.- backed Ukrainian army in Slovyansk in 2014. ¢ The United States is planning a major war
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019249 →tions with other regional states. Turkey similarly claimed a policy of “zero problems” with its neighbors in the period before the Syrian civil war. Freedom House's Tyler Roylance has described a “common set of concessions" that 21st-century au- thoritarians made to the prevailing democratic ethos in the wake of
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Jeffrey Epstein
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George W. Bush
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Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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United States
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Lebanon
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Bill Clinton
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Hosni Mubarak
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Cairo
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Damascus
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Middle East
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Jerusalem
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Tehran
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Yemen
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Fatah
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Marc Rich
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Saddam Hussein
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Tunisia
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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