The Afghan jihadists of today, for instance, are legacy of Cold War when they were trained and armed by CIA against Soviet Union with the help of Pakistan's security agencies and Gulf's petro-dollars.. ..…
In Boston, some 7,000 people turned out to Boston Common on Saturday, in an event organized by March Forward Massachusetts. Despite the bitter cold and the ongoing national controversy, as many marchers came out as last year’s event in Cambridge. . ..…
By the end of Cold War and another one of Buckley's once signature positions, the defense of Senator Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism, also lost support on Right. ..…
Yet even during the Cold War, the European members of NATO consistently resisted Washington’s pressure to hike military outlays. ..…
The leader, recalled the long history of heavy-handed U.S interventions Latin America during Cold War as he asked his allies for support... ..…
The loss of the shah at in Cold War — and the humiliation of the hostage crisis underscored this judgment.. ..…
Over time, it would become clear that the costs of the in stoking paranoia, enabling repression, and undermining Pahlavis legitimacy outweighed its short-term benefits, and at the time the preoccupation with Cold War obscured Iranian resentment fueled by American intervention.. ..…
The fact is that already in 1944, a policy of Anglo-Saxon imperialism had been promoted subversively by British-run think tanks known as the Round Table Movement and Fabian Society, and the seeds had already been laid for the anti-Russian cold war by those British-run American fascists. It..…
Nuclear weapons have been an important component of U.S. national security since they were developed during World War II. During the Cold War, nuclear forces were central to U.S. defense policy, and a large arsenal was built. ..…
State Department paper says 'All policies toward Venezuela are affected in greater or less degree by the objective of assuring an adequate supply of petroleum for the U.S.'. . 1959: Democratically-elected leader Romulo Betancourt takes power in Venezuela, regarded by the U.S. as an anti-Communist ally..…
There is much material compacted into this short work comparing the first Cold War to the events of the new Second Cold War. ... Although Churchill was one of the supreme promoters of the post World War II Cold War, initiating the descriptor..…
Efforts to portray Trump as a Manchurian Candidate — from a classic Cold War book and film where a U.S.soldier is brainwashed into doing the Kremlin’s bidding — endanger whatever remnants remain of American democracy. ... By pledging to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan,..…
Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams The Democrat-controlled House followed Senate in passing legislation forbidding the president from withdrawing from NATO and affirming undying US support for Cold War alliance. ..…
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