United States
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Brown, Seyom

The charge has been made that the United States has shipped weapons to Iran in ransom payment for the release of American hostages in Lebanon, that the United States undercut ...
( Category: Diplomacy September 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-27 | Author:Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. [Schwarz, Frederick A.O.]

There are times when a decision not to investigate speaks as loudly as disclosures of hidden information. Early in his first term, President Barack Obama squelched a drive to investigate ...
( Category: National July 31,2015 )
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 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Liu, Eric & Hanauer, Nick [Liu, Eric]

Markets as Machines vs. Markets as Gardens Understanding economics in this new way can revolutionize our approach and our politics. The shift from mechanistic models to complex ecological ones is ...
( Category: United States June 29,2015 )
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 | 2009-08-20 | Author:Cornel West [West, Cornel]

A WORLD OF IDEAS This interview was my first television appearance in America. Of course, Bill Moyers is a master interviewer. He teased out features of my style and substance ...
( Category: African-American Studies 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, 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 | 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 |eng | | Author:Jeff Connaughton [Connaughton, Jeff]

10: THE BLOB A KING HAS HIS RETINUE, a celebrity his entourage, and Pig-Pen his cloud of dirt. Washington has The Blob. The Blob (it’s really called that) refers to ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Glenn Thrush [Thrush, Glenn]

Another headache hidden behind the no-drama veil soon cropped up, in the person of the Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Obama’s choice to head the Democratic National Committee. After a ...
( Category: Elections June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Draper

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Winning Message On the morning of April 7, 1965, the chairman of the Democratic Study Group, Congressman Frank Thompson of New Jersey, sent out a memo to ...
( Category: Legislative Branch June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-16 | Author:Chris Mooney [Mooney, Chris]

From the standpoint of understanding and ultimately curing diseases, the existing lines have yet another deficiency, as Stanford University pathologist Irving Weissman explained to me in June 2004 when we ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-05 | Author:Dinesh D'Souza

A light rain begins to fall, and Obama feels a tap on his arm. His half-brother Bernard says, “They wanted me to see if you were okay.” Obama smiles. “Yeah, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-23 | Author:David Limbaugh

THE MADMAN THEORY OF THE PRESIDENCY: OBAMA WANTED TO BE FEARED The Chrysler case was even worse. The creditors competing against the UAW were secured creditors, presumably entitled to priority ...
( Category: Executive Branch June 13,2015 )