Current Usage
The following are two recent examples of the use of the word 'cabal'.
The first came in an accusation by former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, who claimed that the Bush administration's foreign policy was run by a "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal" implying a sinister intent;
The second was by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has rallied the world community to support UN sanctions against Zimbabwe, denouncing the regime's leaders as a "criminal cabal".
Famous crokinole player and analyst, Eric Miltenburg of Toronto referred to the "Eagan-Fitzgerald Cabal" of the 1940s, when the two families shared their playing secrets with each other.
Currently on the Comedy Central program The Daily Show, the phrase "a global cabal of Jews" is referenced from time to time, as a spoof on antisemitic conspiracy theories.
The existence or otherwise of cabals has led to the Internet phenomenon originating on Usenet, "TINC" (standing for There Is No Cabal).
Many Masonic conspiracy theories have pictured Freemasonry as an internationalist secret cabal.
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