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epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Dominic Tierney [Tierney, Dominic]

Abdul Sattar Abu Risha pictured in 2007 (Curt Cashour, U.S. Army photo) The Awakening removed the majority of Sunni insurgents from the battlefield and broke the cycle of violence. The ...
( Category: Legislative Branch July 19,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tariq Ali

Which Europe could they be looking at? This is a view from inside the bubble. Even in Germany, the strongest of the EU states, there is growing unease with the ...
( Category: Democracy July 19,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Ralph W. McGehee [McGehee, Ralph W.]

rumors. Such crimes were punishable by death. Bernard Fall, in his book Last Reflections on a War, observed: “On May 6, 1959, the Diem regime passed Law 10/59, which provided ...
( Category: Political July 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Higgs [Higgs, Robert]

1. Paul K. Conkin, Big Daddy from the Pedernales: Lyndon Baines Johnson (Boston: Twayne, 1986), 209. 2. Herbert Stein, Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan ...
( Category: Specific Topics July 19,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Allen Weinstein

As a Johns Hopkins undergraduate, Class of ’26, Hiss (first row, third from left) was prominent in a number of student groups, including The Cane Club. Chambers in 1931, before ...
( Category: Specific Topics July 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Ian Fraser

26 Explosions at ABN At an investor lunch in Edinburgh’s New Club, the favoured watering hole of the Scottish establishment, Colin McLean, chief executive of SVM Asset Management, questioned Goodwin’s ...
( Category: Banks & Banking July 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Roger Dunham [Dunham, Roger]

Four shipmates at sea on board the Viperfish. The Viperfish firing a Regulus I missile during surfaced testing operations, early 1960s. The Viperfish during surfaced operations in the Pacific Ocean, ...
( Category: Specific Topics July 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Pankaj Mishra [Mishra, Pankaj]

Like many others, Phan was thrilled by Japan’s victory over Russia in 1905. ‘Our minds’, he wrote, ‘may now contemplate a new, exquisite world.’ Later that same year he travelled ...
( Category: Asian June 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Winkler, Adam [Winkler, Adam]

CHAPTER 8 BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY THE SEATING IN THE SUPREME COURT IS NOT DESIGNED well for spectators. The floor has no pitch, so when the courtroom is crowded you ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-21 | Author:Robert Scheer

In his view, it was war, as he stated back in 1951: “The Russians sent their first team, their ace string, here to take us over … We were up ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Scott Atran [Atran, Scott]

Altruism is the sacrifice of one’s own interests for the sake of others, as in giving to charity, lending a helping hand, or just taking time to offer directions to ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Laurie Penny [Penny, Laurie]

AND THE GEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH I’m a nerd-chasing nerd and I’m not sorry. For much of my twenties, I worked on the principle that if you knew about ...
( Category: Feminist Theory June 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Bernie Sanders [Sanders, Bernie]

(Mr. LEVIN assumed the Chair.) Mr. SANDERS. If these tax breaks for the wealthiest people are extended for two years, there is a strong likelihood they will be extended for ...
( Category: National June 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-01 | Author:Maass, Alan & Zinn, Howard [Zinn, Howard]

CHAPTER FIVE How Do We Change the System? One event at the end of the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency symbolized the gap between the promise of change that ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 21,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Samantha Nutt [Nutt, Samantha]

Aid is an imperfect response to a violently imperfect world. That aid can be manipulated to prop up corrupt, oppressive regimes or become a form of political and cultural imperialism ...
( Category: International & World Politics June 20,2015 )