The extinction or assimilation of tribal people has been predicted for over 500 years.
http://www.survivalinternational.org The extinction or assimilation of tribal people has been predicted for over 500 years.
Clue to the Mystery American Pioneers in Advancing Same-gender Couples and Marriage
STTPML CONTEST: IDENTIFY THIS PIONEERING AMERICAN SAME-GENDER COUPLE
Introduction to a Thought Experiment and Exercise: NAME THIS MYSTERY SAME-GENDER COUPLE
Welcome to one of STTPML’s many experiments in various venues, approaches, sources and perspectives for exposing, presenting, discussing and hopefully acting on the critical issues of our times to diverse audiences from diverse cultures.
STTPML Collective’s Member Backgrounds Influencing The Exercise
Some of us at STTPML were veterans during the early Vietnam-era and before and saw segregation formally in the Southern states of the U.S. and supposedly hidden, but not really, in the North. Some of us saw “Men Women and Colored” Signs personally, and some of us actually sat in at a lunch-counter desegregation protest in Atlanta in 1963, and thus saw both some of the depth and scope of racism against African-Americans and many of the changes that have occurred since. We remember the evolution in common terms used inside and outside of the African-American communities from “Negro” to “Colored” to “Black” to “African American” and not always a unidirectional or linear process with some steps back and others more than one step ahead in different communities. But the changes in terms reflected some paradigm shifts inside and outside of the African-American communities.
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Contractors of the US private security firm Blackwater secure the site of a roadside bomb attack in central Baghdad, July
Washington (AFP) – The top manager in Iraq of the notorious private security firm Blackwater threatened to kill a US State Department investigator for probing the company’s performance, The New York Times reported Monday.
The Times, citing an internal State Department memorandum, said the threat came just weeks before Blackwater guards shot and killed 17 civilians on September 16, 2007 in Baghdad’s Nisour Square.
In an August 2007 memo detailing the threat made to her, lead State Department investigator, Jean Richter, said it “sent a clear message that the Blackwater contractors saw themselves as ‘above the law’ and actually believed that ‘they ran the place.’
However, US embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater and the State Department team was ordered to leave, The Times said.
Four former Blackwater employees are currently on trial in a US court for the Nisour Square deaths.
The killings, seen as an example of the impunity enjoyed by private security firms on the US payroll in Iraq, exacerbated Iraqi resentment toward Americans and was part of the reason the Iraqi government refused to reach a treaty allowing US troops to stay beyond 2011.
Richter warned in her memo dated August 31, 2007, that little oversight of the company, which had a $1 billion contract to protect US diplomats, had created “an environment full of liability and negligence.”
Daniel Carroll, Blackwater’s project manager in Iraq, told Richter after an argument “that he could kill me at that very moment and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq.”
The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in world affairs. In these comments, I can only provide a few hints as to how I think the subject can be productively explored, keeping to the United States for several reasons. First, the U.S. is unmatched in its global significance and impact. Second, it is an unusually open society, possibly uniquely so, which means we know more about it. Finally, it is plainly the most important case for Americans, who are able to influence policy choices in the U.S. — and indeed for others, insofar as their actions can influence such choices. The general principles, however, extend to the other major powers, and well beyond.
There is a “received standard version,” common to academic scholarship, government pronouncements, and public discourse. It holds that the prime commitment of governments is to ensure security, and that the primary concern of the U.S. and its allies since 1945 was the Russian threat.
There are a number of ways to evaluate the doctrine. One obvious question to ask is: What happened when the Russian threat disappeared in 1989? Answer: everything continued much as before.
The U.S. immediately invaded Panama, killing probably thousands of people and installing a client regime. This was routine practice in U.S.-dominated domains — but in this case not quite as routine. For first time, a major foreign policy act was not justified by an alleged Russian threat.
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your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.—1 Samuel 12:17
If ISIL were happy with the boundaries it controlled upon its declaration of the Caliphate, Israel would have said “let it be.” Iraq and Syria never were close friends of Herr Herzl. However, the Caliphate wants also Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Hatay Province of Turkey and Cyprus.
If ISIL had no chance to succeed, Israel would have said “let it be.” However, the Sunni areas of Iraq fell under control of the Caliphate and neighboring regimes are trembling and bracing for war.
If ISIL had not declared the end of the Sykes-Picot map, Israel would have said “let it be.” A Sykes-Picot offspring, Israel will not let ISIL to undermine its already disputed legitimacy.
Iran 1953: US Envoy to Baghdad Suggested to Fleeing Shah He Not Acknowledge Foreign Role in Coup?
Iran 1953: US Envoy to Baghdad Suggested to Fleeing Shah He Not Acknowledge Foreign Role in Coup National Security Archive 7/02/14 Newsletters To: NSARCHIVE@HERMES.GWU.EDU
Iran 1953: US Envoy to Baghdad Suggested to Fleeing Shah He Not Acknowledge Foreign Role in Coup
Shah “Agreed,” Declassified Cable Says
Document Casts Doubt over Accuracy of US Reports from Tehran — and Adds to Debate over Responsibility for the Coup
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 477 Posted July 2, 2014
Edited by Malcolm Byrne
For more information contact: Malcolm Byrne 202/994-7043 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., July 2, 2014 — On August 16, 1953, the same day the Shah of Iran fled to Baghdad after a failed attempt to oust Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the agitated monarch spoke candidly about his unsettling experience to the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. In a highly classified cable to Washington, the ambassador reported: “I found Shah worn from three sleepless nights, puzzled by turn of events, but with no (repeat no) bitterness toward Americans who had urged and planned action. I suggested for his prestige in Iran he never indicate that any foreigner had had a part in recent events. He agreed.”
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“Let me control the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of pigs” – Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels turned words into a weapon of mass destruction. Dangerous lies spread by the Nazi regime lead to brutal murders and cruelty that continue to shake minds. Join RT to examine some myths of the Goebbels propaganda that shaped the contours of the human catastrophe of WWII.
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