Politics & Government
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Brian Tuohy [Tuohy, Brian]

Posse Comitatus The question that immediately follows becomes is it legal for the military—that being the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or some unit contained within those branches—to operate within ...
( Category: National June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Zachary Carver [Carver, Zachary]

On the other hand, under martial law, this right is terminated. Arrests are to be made by the military upon a hint of suspicion without the need to present a ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 18,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Ward Wilson [Wilson, Ward]

Those living in the three generations after Waterloo had wondered at the long peace and sought explanations in events that were happening simultaneously. They noticed that international peace coincided with ...
( Category: Arms Control June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Slavoj Zizek

4 Melancholy and the Act in which the reader will be surprised to learn that anyone who is not a melancholic, or does not agree that we are thrown into ...
( Category: History & Theory June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-01 | Author:Arundhati Roy [Roy, Arundhati]

For instance, from the early 1990s, we have seen the systematic dismantling of laws that protect workers’ rights and the fundamental rights of ordinary people (the right to shelter/health/education /water). ...
( Category: Democracy June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

Sylvia Woods, “You Have to Fight for Freedom” (1973)11 I was born March 15, 1909. My father was a roofer. In those days they put slates on the roofs and ...
( Category: History June 17,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Noam Chomsky [Chomsky, Noam]

the breakdown of the Nicaraguan talks also implemented the game plan urged several weeks ago by Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams: that the administration was urging the contras not ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Alexander Nicholson

12 OLD PARTNERSHIPS The growing restlessness within the progressive community in the spring of 2010 put a whole new level of pressure on HRC, which up to then had only ...
( Category: Americas June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Annie Lobert & A. J. Gregory [Lobert, Annie & Gregory, A. J.]

A few months later I finally went back home to visit my family. I hadn’t seen them in years, and I missed them and wanted to spend some time with ...
( Category: Women's Issues June 16,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

THE ABOLITIONISTS There is no denying the anger, the bitterness, the irascibility of the abolitionists. William Lloyd Garrison, dean of them all, wrote in blood in the columns of the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

All efforts to impose a monolithic set of motives on the assembled delegates at Philadelphia, whether economic or ideological, have been discredited. And the very effort to do so misses ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:Staughton Lynd

“We Are All We’ve Got”: Building a Retiree Movement in Youngstown, Ohio Introduction On July 17, 1986, LTV Steel Company, the second-largest producer of steel in the United States, declared ...
( Category: Radicalism June 16,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

Our general diplomatic and strategic position would be considerably weakened—by our loss of Chinese, Indian and South Seas markets (and by our loss of much of the Japanese market for ...
( Category: History & Theory June 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

The Freedom of Information Act was one of the remarkable gains that came out of the 1960s. It has been tremendously useful for scholars and for citizens who want to ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Francis Beckett [Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan]

Under the kafala system, Qatari employers can prevent their foreign workers from leaving the country or changing jobs. The rules surrounding the exit permit that foreign workers need to leave ...
( Category: European June 16,2015 )