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- 381: Has Political Islam Failed in Algeria?
- ... the Islamic ideological fanatics under its banner, getting over the differences of the streams between the groups forming this organization. This is why it is seen that FIS is a revolutionary type organization which is willing to take of power using all necessary means, as power is the major objective because it is the tool with which change might be a ... that in more than one case to assure reaching the domination of the National Popular Assembly. “The two most spectacular examples of this were the mobilization over the United Nations' war against Iraq in January 1991, and the mobilization over unfair electoral laws in May-June 1991” . This happened despite the fact that Iraq is dominated by the infidel Ba'athists ... the military transitional government and the FIS, which is still going on up till now with almost no significant government control over anything. The situation in Algeria is a civil war that no one can win. The dissolution of the FIS, although it seemed to be the only possible way to get rid of their huge influence, was a very ...
- 382: Gun Control
- ... of guns in the United States. Gun control and drug control are usually associated with opposite ends of the political spectrum. Presidents Reagan and Bush were eager to pursue the war on drugs but generally wary of gun control. However, President Clinton has made gun control a major goal, while his drug strategy is almost invisible. During President Clinton's administration ... as control it by making it a requirement to register and obtain a license to own one. As a result, sales of the Tommy Gun dropped to nothing until World War II when the weapon was used extensively by US forces, and those of other nations. Had the weapon been "banned," the Supreme Court would undoubtedly have overturned the law. The ... to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. This amendment was written in the wake of the revolutionary war, when the ability to raise arms against the imperial force made the new republic possible. Securing the ownership of arms, as a right, was central to creating a ...
- 383: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt
- ... rebuilt a centralized monarchy, inaugurating the Middle Kingdom. The intensity and causes of these disruptive events are uncertain. Later Egyptian writers, appalled by the deviation from accepted norms, exaggerated the revolutionary aspects; they also described an imaginary environmental deterioration, actually a poetic cosmological counterpart to social disorder. More significant were external pressure and internal political instability that long endured; even the ... by a coup, and the victor, Amenemhet I, was himself later assassinated. The 12th dynasty, which he founded (1991 BC), worked hard to restore royal prestige, seriously damaged by civil war and periodic famine. Its kings, living near Memphis, reduced provincial power and developed a loyal central elite, using subtly propagandistic literature to encourage recruitment and transform the royal image from insecure war leader to confident, semidivine ruler. The external situation remained dangerous. The northern Nubian and Sinai buffer zones were reoccupied and, for the first time, heavily fortified. Foreign trade and ...
- 384: The Computer Underground
- ... in its positive form constitutes an intel- lectual attack upon the atomized, passive and indifferent mass culture which, through the saturation of electronic technology, has reached its zenith in Post-War American (Newman, 1985: 5). It is this style of playful rebellion, irreverent subversion, and juxtaposition of fantasy with high- tech reality that impels us to interpret the computer underground as ... 1970s, a hacker was viewed as someone obs- essed with understanding and mastering computer systems (Levy 1984). But, in the early 1980's, stimulated by the release of the movie "War Games" and the much publicized arrest of a "hacker gang" known as "The 414s", hackers were seen as young whiz-kids capable of breaking into corporate and government computer sys ... hacking%, please read a %PHRACK% file on it. And whatever you do, con- tinue the fight. Whether you know it or not, if you are a hacker, you are a revolutionary. Don't worry, you're on the right side ("Doctor Crash," 1986). Computer software, such as auto-dialers popularized in the film War Games, provides a means for inexperienced ...
- 385: The Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine
- ... behind him. An excellent group of advisers was chosen in 1820 who played a major role in getting Monroe’s objectives fulfilled. Calhoun was picked as an effective secretary of war; Wirt as attorney general was one of the best lawyers in his day, and the highly regarded Crawford became the secretary of treasury. The best decision of all was in ... of interests which must not be subordinated to those of Europe. The insulated state in which nature has placed the American continents should so far avail that no spark or war kindled in the other quarters of the globe should be wafted across the wide oceans which separate us from them and it will be so. (Grube) Also while the Spanish ... He said: We are their great example. Of us they continually speak as brothers having similar origin…In many instances they employ the very language and sentiments of our own revolutionary papers. But it is sometimes said that they are too ignorant and too superstitious to admit of the existence of free government…I deny the alleged fact of ignorance… ...
- 386: The Colonial Economy
- ... economic system Western Europe's colonizing nations employed. Free markets, he argued, caused resources to be allocated to their most efficient uses; mercantilism did not. Mercantilists though trade was like war: for everyone who gained, someone lost. Smith said when trade is voluntary, because people are (generally!) rational and self interested, only transactions that benefit both parties will take place. (In ... was in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. (The Spanish had earlier established a settlement in Florida (St. Augustine), which was not one of the original thirteen states.) At the time of Revolutionary War, tobacco-producing Virginia was the most wealthy and populous of the thirteen colonies, and per capita income in the thirteen colonies possibly exceeded that of the Mother Country, England. ...
- 387: Cuba, Castro, and the United States
- ... if Batista would be seriously opposed, Washington recognized his government. Batista had already broken ties with the Soviet Union and became an ally to the U.S. throughout the cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape ... the relations of the United States government with Batista and his regime".(3) He accused us of supplying arms to Batista to help overthrow Castro's revolution and of harboring war criminals for a resurgence effort against him. For the most part these were not true: the U.S. put a trade embargo on Batista in 1957 stopping the U.S ... Cuba provided the catalyst for Russia to seek an advantage and install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The resulting "missile crisis" in 1962 was the closest we have been to thermonuclear war. America's gain may have been America's loss. A successful Bay of Pigs may have brought the United States one advantage. The strain on American political and military ...
- 388: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... in he affairs of the church. Women were robbed of their self-confidence and self-respect, and were made totally dependent on men. This was just seventy years after the revolutionary War, it is truly odd that this was the idealistic democracy. But the Declaration of Sentiments spelled out the status quo for European- American women in 1848 in America, while it ... and that is exactly what happened. The women of Seneca Falls, New York traveled around and embraced every part of the country from 1850 until the start of the civil war. Some conventions drew such large crowds that people were actually turned away due to lack of adequate meeting space. The Women's Rights Movement of the late 19th century ...
- 389: Articles of Confederation
- ... The product of some of the greatest minds to ever exist in this world, the Articles did have some positive effects on society. It successfully put an end to the Revolutionary War, it negotiated a favorable end to the war in the Treaty of Paris, and created a model for the admission of new territories courtesy of the Northwest Ordinance. Nonetheless, it was much too weak to give the ...
- 390: Fidel Castro 2
- ... if Batista would be seriously opposed, Washington recognized his government. Batista had already broken ties with the Soviet Union and became an ally to the U.S. throughout the cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape ... attacked the relations of the United States government with Batista and his regime". He accused us of supplying arms to Batista to help overthrow Castro's revolution and of harboring war criminals for a resurgence effort against him. For the most part these were not true: the U.S. put a trade embargo on Batista in 1957 stopping the U.S ... Cuba provided the catalyst for Russia to seek an advantage and install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The resulting "missile crisis" in 1962 was the closest we have been to thermonuclear war. America's gain may have been America's loss. A successful Bay of Pigs may have brought the United States one advantage. The strain on American political and military ...
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