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Mintpress News (blog)
February 16, 2018
Guerilla insurgents, branded “brigands” and “thieves” by President Theodore Roosevelt, faced torture techniques such as waterboarding, savage beatings, and summary execution by troops under the command of storied U.S. military heroes like Generals John J. Pershing and Arthur MacArthur Jr., theÃÂ ...
The Intercept
February 15, 2018
On a Thursday afternoon in November 2015, a light snow was falling outside the windows of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, despite the relatively warm weather, and Julian Assange was inside, sitting at his computer and pondering the upcoming 2016 presidential election in the United States.
The Canberra Times
February 2, 2018
It was freely suggested, by Labor and Liberal ministers, that Assange was guilty of treachery, or some sort of offence, in Australia, the country of which he was (at least until he fell into the bosom of Ecuador), but no one seemed to be able to say what. Even the senior levels of the Australian Federal Police,ÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
January 25, 2018
So those are all led by four-star generals or admirals, and the Coast Guard works in direct support of those Department of Defense combatant commanders. ... In 2014, we knew where about 80% to 85% of the activity was taking place, to include when a go-fast [boat] was leaving Colombia or Ecuador orÃÂ ...
IISD Reporting Services
January 25, 2018
Ecuador, Chile and Mexico said the UN's Regional Commissions need to keep their leading role on policy-making in regional development. China asked for DESA to be the main entity in implementing the 2030 Agenda. Armenia stressed the need for dispute mechanisms for governments as they are theÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
November 17, 2017
President Xi Jinping has been praised by state media for his anti-corruption drive which, it claimed, has taken down more generals than the number killed in the fight to establish the People's Republic of China. A lengthy profile of Xi published by Xinhua on Friday said: “Since the 18th National Congress [inÃÂ ...
New Republic
December 7, 2017
But there's another way to break a democracy: not at the hands of generals, but of elected leaders who subvert the very process that brought them to power. ... Elected leaders have similarly subverted democratic institutions in Ecuador, Georgia, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkey,ÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
November 29, 2017
1967: Generals (L to R) Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan and Uzi Narkis enter Jerusalem following 1967 war. ... Valerie Carmel, a member of Ecuador por Palestina, has held protests and actions across Quito advocating for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to pressure Tel Aviv intoÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
November 23, 2017
After the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986, a series of generals ... The 150 soldiers who marched on Saturday had trained in Ecuador under ...
Salon
November 22, 2017
Their intervention, the generals insist, is a patriotic act that will improve life ... Argentina and Chile are the most famous examples, but Ecuador, ...
NBCNews.com
November 14, 2017
Fiery video shows Ecuador's 'troublemaker' volcano erupting. 00:46. Boy's 911 call saves Christmas from ... One of Kim Jong Un's top generals has vanished. 01:34. How the GOP tax bill will affect ... Fiery video shows Ecuador's 'troublemaker' volcano erupting. 00:46. The next breakthrough in medicineÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
November 14, 2017
... a southern state along Colombia's border with Ecuador, dismissing ... are pushing for the generals to be tried in Colombia's criminal courts in ...
Patheos (blog)
November 3, 2017
Gran Colombia is now Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador. ... in it, he worked with generals such as Victoriano Lorenzo, before being ...
The Intercept
November 2, 2017
DJT: I have generals that are great generals, these are great fighters, these ..... My parents were both born in Ecuador, they moved to New York, ...
Hellenic News of America
October 10, 2017
... and after his sudden death in August 1964, Dr. Galo Plaza (Ecuador). .... under successive Secretary-Generals (Waldheim, Perez de Cuellar, ...
Arab News
October 9, 2017
A Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang on Monday.
Progress Index
October 2, 2017
Students in Virginia Tech's Tropical Biology and Conservation in Ecuador course visit Yanayacu Biological Station in the Napo Province of ...
Hetq Online
September 30, 2017
... in Central America, eco-socialists, the elected President of Ecuador, .... and more repressive than Greece under the generals, Spain under ...
Times of India
September 27, 2017
... Maharashtra Tourism and Consul Generals from many parts of the ... Ecuador, Brazil, Latin America, Rwanda , as well as implementation of ...
Times of India
September 27, 2017
... Maharashtra Tourism and Consul Generals from many parts of the ... Ecuador, Brazil, Latin America, Rwanda, as well as implementation of ...
Times of India
September 27, 2017
... Maharashtra Tourism and Consul Generals from many parts of the ... Ecuador, Brazil, Latin America, Rwanda , as well as implementation of ...
Human Rights Watch
September 25, 2017
Outrage is mounting at Burma for atrocities committed in the last month in the northern part of the country's western Rakhine State.
Albany Student Press
September 12, 2017
Fourteen years ago, she came to the United States from Ecuador. ... Prior to the decision, ten Republican attorney generals threatened legal ...
Salon
August 19, 2017
Nature abhors a vacuum, and the military nature abhors a power vacuum, as the convulsions of the Trump administration in the first week in ...
BBC News
August 15, 2017
Authorities in Ecuador have detained the crew of a Chinese fishing boat suspected to have caught endangered sharks in the Galapagos ...
HuffPost
August 13, 2017
You don't hire generals to rein in a civilian leader, or at least you shouldn't if you care to keep a semblance of democracy in America.
Wetinhappen Magazine (blog)
May 18, 2017
Prophet TB Joshua has been accorded a presidential reception in far away Ecuador. The amiable clergy was welcomed by Generals of the ...
Waging Nonviolence
March 29, 2017
The runoff election for Ecuador's next president is on April 2, and it .... The Ecuadorian army's Council of Generals called on the authorities to ...
PanAm Post
March 7, 2017
Ecuador: General Fired by Correa Claims Vote Security Was Breached. By: David Unsworth - @LatinAmerUpdate - Mar 7, 2017, 12:23 pm. 0. A general recently ...
Huffington Post
March 1, 2017
If Donald Trump's brief history as commander in chief is any guide, he might want one that says: “Actually, it stops with the generals.”.
Huffington Post
February 21, 2017
If you're going to surround yourself with generals in the Oval Office, as Donald Trump has done, that means one thing in these years: you're ...
Huffington Post
February 21, 2017
If you're going to surround yourself with generals in the Oval Office, as Donald Trump has done, that means one thing in these years: you're ...
STRATFOR
February 21, 2017
At the behest of Army General Commander Luis Castro, the Ecuadorian Army's Council of Generals issued a statement Feb. 20 that democracy ...
W*USA 9
August 31, 2017
Those nine states, governors and attorney generals, have listed a ... But I don't even remember anything about Ecuador,” said Aldaz, who saidÃÂ ...
The Jamestown Foundation
August 18, 2017
Many retired Taiwanese generals travel to China, attending political ... also placed pressure on Dubai and Ecuador (Central News Agency,ÃÂ ...
CSS Resources (blog)
August 16, 2017
His comrades from the military academy are now well-placed generals. ... Venezuela's Latin American allies – namely Ecuador, Bolivia andÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
August 12, 2017
The best hope is that some of the generals around him, who presumably ... Ecuador reiterates the call for dialogue as the only way to solve theÃÂ ...
The Australian
August 8, 2017
The Venezuelan military and National Guard answer to Cuban generals. ... with Venezuela the Cubans have taken Nicaragua, Bolivia, EcuadorÃÂ ...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
July 27, 2017
... all bishops, vicar generals, provincials… leadership of the Church in ... I repeat this also to bishops in India, Fiji, Ecuador, Malawi or Kenya,ÃÂ ...
Wetinhappen Magazine (blog)
May 18, 2017
Prophet TB Joshua has been accorded a presidential reception in far away Ecuador. The amiable clergy was welcomed by Generals of theÃÂ ...
Waging Nonviolence
March 29, 2017
The runoff election for Ecuador's next president is on April 2, and it .... The Ecuadorian army's Council of Generals called on the authorities toÃÂ ...
PanAm Post
March 7, 2017
Ecuador: General Fired by Correa Claims Vote Security Was Breached. By: David Unsworth - @LatinAmerUpdate - Mar 7, 2017, 12:23 pm. 0. A general recentlyÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
March 2, 2017
Atahualpa's body disappeared, and his faithful generals were thought to have stashed the treasure they were hauling in secret caves.
Center for Research on Globalization
March 23, 2017
Kennedy repeatedly pressed his top generals for an assessment of the effectiveness of such an attack, and the potential loss of life in the United States.
Albany Times Union (blog)
March 22, 2017
I was with the top level people, both oligarchs and generals, and top-of-the-government people. I can't go further than that, but I will tell you that I met the top people, and the relationship was extraordinary.
La Crosse Tribune
March 11, 2017
Pizarro demanded a room full of gold in exchange for Atahualpa's release, but the impatient Spaniard garroted the ruler before the ransom coming from Ecuador ever arrived. Atahualpa's body disappeared, and his faithful generals were thought to haveÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 3, 2017
On February 27, President Donald Trump published a proposed federal budget boosting military expenditure by 10 percent while drastically reducing funding for the arts, education, environmental protections and social programs.
The Wire
March 2, 2017
So in come the generals. Finding the right civil-military balance has been challenging in Latin America's young democracies.
Miami Herald
March 2, 2017
Pizarro demanded a room full of gold in exchange for Atahualpa's release, but the impatient Spaniard garroted the ruler before the ransom coming from Ecuador ever arrived. Atahualpa's body disappeared, and his faithful generals were thought to haveÃÂ ...
Buenos Aires Herald
February 24, 2017
BRASILIA, Brazil - Some of the world's most iconic companies cast themselves as emblems of their nation's values - all-American Coca-Cola, for instance, or quintessentially Japanese Toyota.
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