Among NGOs, some operate entirely within countries, whereas those of more global interest are international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), which have transnational membership. Both allow for input directly from ordinary people. 236 M. HAAS Anti-Slavery International, formed in 1839, was ...
The first phases of his education were in neighboring Arab countries, Bahrain and Egypt. He then went on to a masters in the US and a PhD from the University of London. He then came back to Riyadh in 1971 to work as an academic at King Saud University. However, that did not last th...
Each day when we opened the newspaper we expected to see in it the death warrant of our happiness. Poland, Dantzig, the Corridor….When the terms of the Treaty of Versailles had become known, persons of intelligence had believed that from this bizarre map, from these impacted countries, the...
Latin- American countries are watching with keen interest the economic and political progress of Puerto Rico, the only Latin-American area under the American flag. Steps taken in connection with this constitution demonstrate the sincerity of this Nation in subscribing to the United Nation's Charter ...
Textile mills in the North processed slave-picked cotton, as part of the Industrial Revolution during those times--which attracted immigrants from various European countries.DeWolf family members were pillars of their town's Episcopal Church, and were personal friends of President Thomas Jefferson. ...
This plan was accepted by the Jewish community but rejected by the Arab states and Palestinian Arabs, leading to the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948 and a subsequent war involving neighbouring Arab countries. During this war the new state of Israel carried out the violent displacement...
As you'll recall from my podcast episode on Bretton Woods 2.0, the Bretton Woods Agreement required signatory countries to peg their currencies to the US dollar, which itself was convertible to gold bullion at $35/ounce. The idea was that in the post-war era, currencies would on...
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Why would Putin send the Russian military to Syria? Because it was a soft target. Like the Soviet Satanic Union, they would attack countries when their odds were in favor 100:1. The smaller the country, the easier it was for the USSR to subjugate the people and government to the Soviet...
(seehere) apparently is on Whitfield’s classroom agenda. But again, we shouldn’t expect her to point out that Muslims worked the slave trade for centuries before the Europeans or that Africans originally captured those who were enslaved or that it was white people who abolished slavery. No,...