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June 16 - The backlash begins, but round one goes to M.S.S.: the advertising standards authority in Great Britain dismisses complaints about the Ryanair advertising campaign, which used images of M.S.S. They want to tell the world changes thought - as a matter of fact, they do not respect the world, they want to tell taxpayers and the domestic public to keep them deceived
Mondoweiss - The War of Ideas in the Middle East
7 Scenes from a Sanders presidency US Politics Katie Miranda on July 22, 2015 Katie Miranda imagines what life will look like if Bernie Sanders is elected president
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Shot from as close as a few hundred feet, or as distant as a million miles, the variety and beauty of our home planet depicted in these photos continues to amaze
From the other stares a haunted Gavrilo Princip, who, on the street below 100 years ago, shot to death the archduke and set in motion Europe's Great War
The officials say the leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delegates authority to his cabinet, or shura council, which includes ministers of war, finance, religious affairs and others. But as the Islamic militant group ISIS maintains its hold in Iraq and Syria and intensifies its grisly public executions, Europeans and Middle Easterners most frequently cite ISIS as their main concern among international issues
20th Century History: Events and People of the 1900s
Share Who Bombed Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior? On July 10, 1985, Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French secret agents while it was berthed in Auckland, New Zealand. Share What Was the Scopes Trial? On July 10, 1925, the Scopes Trial began, featuring two famous lawyers battling to decide whether creationism and evolution should be taught in schools
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War: Max Brooks: 9780307346612: Amazon.com: Books
http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Oral-History-Zombie/dp/0307346617At the point where they were rounding up zombies to send them towards highly efficient sniper emplacements I thought they should have been using a mobile slaughterhouse corral and pneumatic bolts to destroy the brain. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time
The Israeli influence was revealed most clearly by a story floated by unnamed senior US officials in the American press, suggesting the reason that no banned weapons had been found in Iraq was that they had been smuggled into Syria. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise
The long read The reckless plot to overthrow Africa's most absurd dictator In December, a handful of middle-aged American immigrants attempted to topple the autocratic ruler of the Gambia. French tobacconists dump carrots outside ruling party HQ Angry French tobacconists dump four tonnes of carrots outside the ruling Socialist party's headquarters in Paris French tobacconists dump carrots outside ruling party HQ Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video
The Mongol War Machine: How were the Mongols able to forge the largest contiguous land empire in history? :
However, if the Mongols were to conquer the world, they would need to be disciplined and be loyal to something or someone more than to themselves and loot. Once the Mongols became master besiegers, the tactic of hiding behind massive stone walls instead of fielding armies to face the Mongols in the open, actually helped the Mongols to beat them, because the Mongols just took every city and town they came across one by one, defeating enemies in a piecemeal fashion
It was recognised that Abstract Expression- ism was the kind of art that made Socialist Realism look even more stylised and more rigid and confined than it was. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War
The physical and mental strain of the long hours at dispersal, the constant flying at high altitudes (two or three sorties a day were normal, six or seven not uncommon), must have been prodigious. General Tojo was a strong supporter of the Tripartite Alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan and his militaristic and aggressive outlook hardened the Japanese position towards a wider war
All the elements of the story point forward to that moment: the decision to build a bomb, the secret research at Los Alamos, the first impressive test, and the final culmination at Hiroshima. In the 48 years since, many others have joined the fray: some echoing Alperovitz and denouncing the bombings, others rejoining hotly that the bombings were moral, necessary, and life-saving
World War II
Fascism, was a promise to respond to the needs of the people more effectively than a democracy could and to assure defense against the state becoming communist. There was the development of new weaponry, such as the long-range rocket and the A-bomb, as well as radical advancements in the mechanized units and the air force
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