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7 ore fa · By Francine Prose. Harper: 272 pages, $27.99. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The paradigm ...
2 giorni fa · From the founding of WikiLeaks to Climategate. Assange, a noted computer hacker, pleaded guilty to a host of cybercrime charges in 1991, but, because of his youth, he received only minimal punishment. He was inspired to create WikiLeaks by Daniel Ellsberg ’s 1971 release of the Pentagon Papers.
5 giorni fa · Raziq went on to author the most brutal campaign of enforced disappearances in his country in decades. And it often targeted this rival tribe, the Noorzai, many of whom supported the Taliban. That is something the Americans generally failed to understand: A tribal and family dynamic, not just a hatred of the Taliban, animated Raziq’s war.
4 giorni fa · Goldwater had gained fame across Dixie for his opposition to the Civil Rights Act earlier that year; King called him “the most dangerous man in America.” Though he won only the states of the Deep South and his home state of Arizona, his run galvanized a grassroots right that also defeated fair housing in California that year.
4 giorni fa · Marisa Schwartz Taylor/The New York Times. By Carol Rosenberg. May 24, 2024, 4:23 p.m. ET. The Crime. Five men are facing charges in the United States military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay of...
4 giorni fa · As the “war of liberation” in Iraq turned into a counterinsurgency war in the summer of 2003, Rumsfeld revived the Pentagon propaganda program, creating a plan to “re-energize surrogates and message-force multipliers” who could deliver administration “themes and messages” to millions of Americans “in the form of their own opinions.” [159] According to a Washington Post survey ...
3 giorni fa · Pentagon, large five-sided building in Arlington county, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., that serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, including all three military services— Army, Navy, and Air Force. Constructed during 1941–43, the Pentagon was intended to consolidate the offices of the War Department, which had ...
