Exiled opposition groups have little influence, and pressure from the outside, given Turkmenistan's large mineral reserves, is shamefully muted.There is, though, much speculation about the 66-year-old Turkmenbashi's health.
Exiled opposition groups have little influence, and pressure from the outside, given Turkmenistan's large mineral reserves, is shamefully muted.But without a mechanism for an orderly transfer of power, coupled with the lack of any democratic tradition in a conservative, tribal society, there is a fear of instability in the country.
Finally, European and prosperous non-European nations should welcome larger numbers of refugees than the shamefully low numbers currently being accepted.
When large, profitable corporations like Dollar General employ workers at shamefully low wages, employees are forced to resort to public assistance programs to provide their families with necessities.
As I wrote recently, the recent West Point Combating Terrorism Center "think tank" report on right-wing terrorist groups shamefully ignored the incalculable national security damage wrought by the at-large institutional endorsement of fundamentalist evangelical Christian dogma throughout the corpus of the entire U.S. military, including at West Point itself.
It also looks disconcertingly large, underscoring its status as a proud object to be admired, not shamefully hidden away.
The racism and discrimination that Muslim minorities face in many countries — such as France, which has the largest Muslim community in Europe, and Britain, where two members of the xenophobic British National Party were shamefully elected to the European Parliament — are very real.
To hold shamefully underpaid and overworked public school teachers solely responsible for the performance of students in a poor community with a large immigrant population is reprehensible and shortsighted.
What shamefully, shoddy journalism.
