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Hace 4 días · Wartime propaganda suggested that most men in the military were engaged in combat, but statistics show otherwise: “Of sixteen million military personnel, 25 percent never left the United States, and less than 50 percent of those overseas were ever in a battle zone,” states Michael C. C. Adams in The Best War Ever: America and World War II (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
Hace 4 días · Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment!
Hace 4 días · Its goals reflected the government’s misgivings about the “war on drugs” and coercive law enforcement policies that many observers, including Crisis Group, have shared. 26 Yet, from the outset, critics have noted that details of the practical steps needed to meet López Obrador’s stated goals were absent from the plan.
Hace 1 día · Cold War 12 March 1947 – 26 December 1991 (44 years and 9 months) Part of the post-World War II era NATO and Warsaw Pact states during the Cold War era The "Three Worlds" of the Cold War era, between 30 April and 24 June 1975: First World: Western Bloc led by the United States and its allies Second World: Eastern Bloc led by the Soviet Union, China (Independent), and their allies Third World ...
Hace 1 día · In broad strokes, the book documents the takeover of the American economy by British banking interests. Their methods entailed periodically flooding the economy with credit and generating a boom. Then, when the bankers’ nets were full and everyone was in debt, the bankers would abruptly withdraw credit. The practice was simply predatory.
Hace 4 horas · The Constitution was founded on the laws of gravitation. The government was to exist and move by virtue of the efficacy of ‘checks and balances.’. The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life.
Because gas is cheap, the lanes are wide, and parking is plentiful. There is no disincentive to driving a large car in America like there is in other countries. If gas was $7-$8 gallon tomorrow the demand for all these large trucks and SUVs would largely dry up. It’s exactly what happened in ~2008 when gas got relatively expensive for a short ...
