state power and the execution of the rosenbergs

Two recent developments are illustrative of this changing political climate: (i) the defeat the reauthorization of the Patriot Act and (ii) the widespread popular opposition to recommitting a large number of U.S. ground troops to Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State.  ..

rumsfeld plays down shiite influence

During this week's pilgrimage of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites to the city of Karbala, protesters denounced United States, called on U.S forces to leave the country and pressed for the creation of Islamic state.. ... Yesterday, during the day of Muslim prayers, hundreds of..

they’re only sleeping

Yuldashev made several impossible demands—for example, that Karimov declare Uzbekistan an Islamic state. . ... When the I.R.P. was slow to demand an Islamic political state, the young militants in Namangan set up the Adolat, or Justice, Party, which called for an..

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