technoccult articles in october, 2011

The big worry about gangs in the US military is a repeat of what happened in Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed. When the Soviet Union collapsed economically, hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers with fresh combat experience in Afghanistan (and little to offer in terms of..

who is fernando haddad?

After graduating from the prestigious private Bandeirantes high school, alma mater of generations of prominent paulista politicians and intellectuals, Haddad received his Bachelor’s from the law school of the equally prestigious University of São Paulo, a traditional training ground for future politicians,..

american politics turn from ugly to violent

These changes to Cuba’s Soviet-era Constitution are supposed to make the nation’s brand of socialism more sustainable. ... The threat of a naval blockade is why the U.S. took Cuba from Spain in 1898 and tried to oust the Soviet Union from Cuba in 1962. . ..

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