Sentences with phrase «governments build alliances»

While our governments build alliances with Big Oil, we have no choice but to build more powerful alliances of our own.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Not exact matches

One government official says that top leaders met last spring to consider the worst possible scenarios and concluded they should build new alliances with China, Persian Gulf states, and others, and begin creating their own products in order to end their dependence on the West.

AT&T has also spent decades building a national alliance of local government officials and nonprofit groups — particularly from black and Hispanic communities — that it will certainly be asking to weigh in again in Washington, as it tries to get the merger approved.

The International Baby Food Action Network works by building alliances, protecting people from baby food corporations» misleading propaganda, advocating with governments to hold the baby food corporations accountable, providing technical and planning support to governments, campaigning, training and capacity building.

«Mindful» that as a minority government «alliances» would be necessary to pass the next Budget, she said the time was right to «open a discussion about how responsible and progressive use of our tax powers could help build the kind of country we want to be».

John Healey, a minister in Tony Blair's government, said he agreed with the Unite union general secretary, Len McCluskey, that the party's standing in the opinion polls was «awful» but said the answer was not building alliances with other progressive parties, such as the Liberal Democrats or the Greens.

Not «esp in the USA», «only» in the USA BMW has better sales than Tesla in Europe, and European carmakers have an alliance building their own network It's worse in China, where Tesla isn't even natively compatible with the massive 200,000 government built superchargers around the country, and that number will likely go up to a million by next year.

Founded in 1993, Sustainable Conservation's effectiveness lies in building strong alliances with business, agriculture and government and establishing models for environmental and economic sustainability that can be replicated across California and beyond Frequency about 1 post per month.

Learn how your Realtor ® association works to preserve and protect homeownership, and how the powerful alliance of more than 1 million Realtors ® works to build political strength at every level of government.