The US War on Communism, Drugs, and Terrorism in Colombia
After the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union the communist threat no longer justified U.S. counterinsurgency operations in Colombia or elsewhere in Latin America. The US Military's Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) therefore welcomed the drug war ...dissidentvoice.org
Barack Obama facing unprecedented Latin America revolt over US-led drug war ...
President Barack Obama will face an unprecedented revolt by Latin American countries against the U.S.-led drug war during his second term and he also may struggle to pass new trade deals as the region once known as "America's backyard" flexes its ...news.nationalpost.com
Oliver Stone on the Untold US History from the Atomic Age to Vietnam to ...
Drawing on archival findings and recently declassified documents, the filmmakers critically examine U.S. history, from the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War, to the fall of communism, and continuing all the way through to the Obama administration ...www.democracynow.org
The Sins Of Our Fathers... - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Review
As tensions escalate between China and the United States immersed in a high-tech cold war, David Mason will be tasked to find the man responsible for bringing the world to the brink of extinction.gamerliving.net
Pot votes in 2 states challenge US drug war
The House is set to remove a Cold War obstacle to trade with Russia that has stymied American exporters seeking to take advantage of Russia's newly liberalized trade practices.www.keyc.tv
Migrants Are Also Neighbors
For decades, public opinion about our southern neighbors - particularly with respect to immigration - has moved sharply to the right, with devastating consequences for transnational relations and for Latin American migrants in the United States. It ...www.nytimes.com
Defence spending: the most expensive 'free ride' in history
The War on Drugs did good duty for a time; the phrase "narcoterrorist" was coined and even that cool avatar of Cold War propaganda, James Bond, took on the cartels. But it was the War on Terror that provided the best excuse for reflexively ramping up ...www.crikey.com.au
Reckitt Benckiser Offers $1.4 Billion for Schiff
Reckitt Benckiser bought U.S. drug maker Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, maker of Mucinex, in 2008. The Mucinex brand has since expanded and added cold and flu liquids, though it faced a setback earlier this year when a federal court ruling paved the ...online.wsj.com
Theater Listings for Nov. 16-22
Alongside Seth Numrich ("War Horse") in the title role, the large ensemble cast includes Danny Burstein, Ned Eisenberg, Jonathan Hadary, Tony Shalhoub and Yvonne Strahovski.www.nytimes.com
Mexican drug violence could affect US national security: expert
While some violence may be going north, the more immediate concern is the violence that has migrated south of Mexico and has put central America "back on the U.S. radar in a major way for the first time since the end of the Cold War," he said.news.xinhuanet.com
For 'preppers,' every day could be doomsday
Getting ready for the end is not new, of course, or strictly American. Recall how people across the USA dug fallout shelters during the Cold War. Doomsday prophets have been around as long as civilization. The federal government was the ultimate ...www.usatoday.com
Gaza Tunnels
When Yussef did die, on a cold night in 2011, his end came much as they'd imagined it might, under a crushing hail of earth.ngm.nationalgeographic.com
Lost to history: Missing war records block benefits for Iraq, Afghanistan vets
DeLara's case is part of a much larger problem that has plagued the U.S. military since the 1990 Gulf War: a failure to create and maintain the types of field records that have documented American conflicts since the Revolutionary War. .... "Iraq and ...openchannel.nbcnews.com
Debate Hangover: Obama Scratches Horses, Bayonets, And Romney Off His Kill ...
Last night President Obama and Mitt Romney came together to talk about "crippling" Iranian sanctions, Syria's coastline, bayonets, horses, teachers—pretty much anything but global warming and the war on drugs. The president was aggressive in attacking ...gothamist.com
Our Pass-Fail Moment: Livable Ecology, Capitalism, Occupy, and What is to be ...
The neutral or ambiguous stuff that gets mentioned include globalization, the rise of the personal computer and the Internet, and the end of the Cold War. Lefties I know tend to be split ... The disappearance of any single credible military deterrent ...truth-out.org
Children of the Storm: Education and Social Mobility
In How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, New York Times journalist Paul Tough presents an alternative explanation for why American students do so poorly. ... about the long and depressing history of US policies ...www.thenation.com
Capote's Swan Dive
Seventeen years later, in 1965, In Cold Blood, his extraordinary "nonfiction novel" about the brutal murder of the Clutters, a Kansas farm family, brought him international fame, sudden wealth, and literary accolades beyond anything he'd experienced ...www.vanityfair.com
Obama is loved in Latin America, but still gets 'collective shrug' on reelection
Because of this, analysts across the region say the US is not expected to pay attention to the issues Latin Americans find most crucial, from immigration reform in Mexico, to a new bilateral relationship with an emerging Brazil, to the peace process ...www.alaskadispatch.com
Book review: AM Homes's strange novel reflects Nixon's downfall
He wasn't entirely responsible for the character of the era we now live in, but he happened to be there at its birth, presiding over the tentative beginning of the end of the Cold War, the opening up of relations between the West and China, and a ...www.thenational.ae
Bond One Liners: 007's Best Pre- And Post-Death Zingers (VIDEO)
A more serious direction for the series doesn't mean the villain has to have such a boring get-rich-via-the-Cold War scheme, but that's the case with this double-crossing informant.www.huffingtonpost.com
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