Inequality and Discontent

This attack by Israel has sparked indignation in Malaysia.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous but who is able to stand before envy?

When America does not adhere to the principles that it preaches to others, it breeds resentment.

Isolationist policies, by contrast, always lead to shortages and discontent.

If the US goes into recession, the acrimony will get a lot worse.

This is the least likely scenario, owing to deepening internal Party disagreements and rising popular discontent.

At the same time, selective repression can contain social frustrations and discontent only temporarily.

But inequality and a sense of deprivation do contribute to resentment and social instability, threatening security.

With memes, tweets, songs and jokes, the Lebanese internet exploded with disbelief, outrage, or just plain old sarcasm.

The obvious answer is yes. But how society responds will mean the difference between a prosperous world and a world torn apart by slow growth and resentment.

Yes, there have been strikes, marches, and growing anger at political leaders, but protests have been largely peaceful.

This is why Calderón s opponent in July s presidential election, the populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, obtained such a large percentage of the vote compared to the Mexican left s previous high water mark in the election of 2000.

Progress must be made on both tracks simultaneously, if the frustration and anger resulting from the continuation of the occupation were not to result in a social shift towards extremism.

Recently, the revelation that the Life in the UK test tries to instill respect for the practice of queuing standing in line, that is caused as much ridicule as indignation.

But this ironic vision of today s France is much too simplistic or romantic, and does not comprehend the combination of fear and social discontent that are now visible in the current French maelstrom.

Worse, the mines displacement of residents, underpayment of workers, and environmental damage have generated resentment in local communities, which is likely to grow in the future.

If, reflecting the mood in the member states, the elections result in a fragmented Parliament possibly rendered less representative by low voter turnout paralysis, disaffection, and ineffectiveness are guaranteed.

Isolated, destitute, and in a state of permanent rage, the French banlieues and immigrant ghettos of British cities have turned into powder kegs where young Muslims easily fall prey to radical religious preaching and political extremism.

The right to public speech and peaceful assembly must be defended for those who feel marginalized and indignant at what they and most Europeans view as injustices committed against the Palestinians, the Chechens, and the Iraqis.

Through private discussions with trusted friends, everyone sensed that discontent was common, yet no one knew, or could know, the extent of it.

For others, exasperated by football and the emotions it stirs up, the sport is no longer a game, but a type of war that stokes the basest sort of nationalist emotions.

Those of us who live with wet weather tend to curse it, but if we faced week after week of blistering sun with no prospect of clouds in sight, we would be in real trouble.

Re equilibration The Party protects its legitimacy, keeps the military subordinate, and manages to put a lid on popular dissent.

The combination of economic growth (now in reverse because of the global crisis) and atrocious levels of inequality and social segmentation will continue to breed the same unmet expectations and social resentment that cleared Chávez s path to power.

European leaders are arguing, with some justification, that their exporters are paying the price for America s huge trade imbalance with Asian and oil exporting countries. If the US goes into recession, the acrimony will get a lot worse.

Opinion within Ethiopia turned against Haile Selassie I owing to the worldwide oil crisis of 1973, which caused a sharp increase in gasoline prices starting on 13 February 1974 food shortages uncertainty regarding the succession border wars, and discontent in the middle class created through modernization.