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The Power of the Internet in China by Guobin Yang
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Guobin Yang

Source: CND, March 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999. *This number is based on my estimate. According to CND, it had 47,600 subscribers among an estimated total readership of 150,000 ...
( Category: Asian April 21,2016 )
The Hunt for Bin Laden by Tom Shroder
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-26 | Author:Tom Shroder

Covert War in Jeopardy As the Bush administration took office early in 2001, Massoud retained a Washington lobbyist. He wrote a letter to Vice President Cheney urging the new administration ...
( Category: Specific Topics April 20,2016 )
Preparing for the Possibility of a North Korean Collapse by Bruce W. Bennett
mobi |eng | 2013-04-19 | Author:Bruce W. Bennett

Strategies for Providing for North Korean Welfare Through Humanitarian Aid In providing humanitarian aid, a ROK and U.S. intervention should strive to keep people in their homes, jobs, and normal ...
( Category: Asian April 20,2016 )
Republic, Lost: Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Lawrence Lessig [Lessig, Lawrence]

1. Making Government Small When Al Gore was vice president, his policy team had a proposal to deregulate the Internet. As a “network of networks,” the Internet lives atop other ...
( Category: Elections April 20,2016 )
American Hysteria by Andrew Burt
epub |eng | 2015-04-18 | Author:Andrew Burt

In February of 1950, most Americans didn’t know much about Senator Joseph McCarthy. Born to an Irish-American family in northeastern Wisconsin’s Outagamie County, the forty-one-year-old senator had risen from an ...
( Category: History & Theory April 19,2016 )
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
epub |eng | 2015-10-03 | Author:George Psychoundakis

1. To Africa, that is. 2. A party. 3. An old revolutionary song against the Turks, dating from early in the last century. 4. Good-day. 5. In this case, a ...
( Category: Biographical April 19,2016 )
A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Brook

II: THE DARK AGES | Shanghai, 1937–1989 In the summer of 1937, the militarist empire of Japan, intent on subduing a vast swath of Asia, attacked China. That fall, vicious ...
( Category: Urban April 16,2016 )
Trade Is War: The West's War Against the World by Yash Tandon
epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Yash Tandon

The Myth of IP as Essential for Innovation and Development So I am not taken in by the myth created by Western hegemonic ideologues about the necessity of ‘intellectual property’ ...
( Category: Trades & Tariffs April 16,2016 )
Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Michael Walzer

The last of these is particularly problematic, for in the conditions of guerrilla war it must often involve releasing prisoners, something most guerrillas are no doubt loath to do. Yet ...
( Category: History & Theory April 15,2016 )
The Secessionist States of America by Douglas MacKinnon
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Douglas MacKinnon

* * * After reading this powerful essay from William Rawle, two certainties become abundantly clear: The first—all things being equal, his overriding hope was that as long as the ...
( Category: National April 14,2016 )
The Islamic Tsunami: Israel And America In The Age Of Obama by David Rubin
epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:David Rubin [Rubin, David]

A Shoe For Israel, A Message for the Islamic World: President Obama speaks to Prime Minister Netanyahu in this White House released photo, as heavy pressure is applied on Israel ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 14,2016 )
The British Dream by Goodhart David
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Goodhart, David

Multiculturalism, What’s the Big Idea? Academic multiculturalism faces two big intellectual challenges. First, how can its stress on group rights and the primacy of ethnic identities be reconciled with the ...
( Category: European April 13,2016 )
State of Terror by The Washington Post
epub |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:The Washington Post

Whac-a-Mole As the more established social-media companies become more aggressive in monitoring and removing terror-related content, groups such as the Islamic State are also migrating to lesser-known sites, where they ...
( Category: Radicalism April 11,2016 )
The Hidden Hand by Richard H. Immerman
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Richard H. Immerman

The Reagan Revival Reagan had been willing to excuse CIA abuses when he served on the 1975 Rockefeller Commission that Ford established to investigate the CIA's Family Jewels, even though ...
( Category: History & Theory April 11,2016 )
A Privilege to Die by Thanassis Cambanis
epub |eng | 2010-04-09 | Author:Thanassis Cambanis

We called Farah and she invited us to visit her a few days later, on Monday evening before the iftar. She gave us detailed directions to the apartment so we ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 10,2016 )

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