War of Independence. The principal communities are Cold Spring, Brewster, Lake Carmel, Putnam Lake, and Carmel, which is the county seat. Putnam county was created in 1812 and named for Israel Putnam, an American Revolutionary general. The main economic activities are services and retail trade....
and Kenya, and like most girls of her background, underwent genital mutilation. When in her early twenties she found herself being forced into marriage with a distant cousin she’d never met, Hirsi Ali escaped and sought political asylum in The Netherlands (under circumstances that were later ...
I once watch a great Vimeo short video by Jorge Luengo Ruiz showing images from both films, simply stunning! Have a watch. Lost in Translation // Her: An Unloved Story by Jorge //Three persons. Two cities. One feeling. Directed by Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,...
updated with a modern biometric program the US military-industrial complex has incorporated into its operations since, in particular, the beginning of the so-called “War or Terror.” (
not the mythical line of realism going back to Machiavelli and Thucydides, not the immaculate conception of a Cold War politics, not anarchy as the founding condition, and not abstractions concerned with statics or dynamics of inter-state relations. Rather, Vitalis demonstrates, it is racist theori...
“Conquer, expel and resettle”. I’m not just talking about an area of Gaza. I’m not just talking about northern Gaza. I mean every area of land. This is the only way to prevent our boys from constantly going to war. To all those in Europe who have an opinion about what is ...
It took 249 years, but archaeologists appear to have unearthed the musket ball that led to the start of the American Revolutionary War.
Venustiano Carranza was a leader in the Mexican civil war following the overthrow of the dictator Porfirio Díaz. Carranza became the first president of the new Mexican republic. A moderate who was tainted by his association with Díaz and his alliance w
An interactive TV news showis one that talks to you AND lets you talk back to it!A Two-Way Street! Ground Breaking U_News@4 In the ground-breaking KOMU U_News@4 premiering today (Sept 12th) 4pm CST,Sarah Hill, an eight time Emmy award winning reporter, will use Google+ Hangout to...
As progressive as the CIO was, Black trade unionists still had to fight against racial discrimination within it. During the war, the Communists emerged as the extreme right-wing in the labor movement. They also advocated sacrificing the rights of Blacks in the interests of the war. So when ...