Results for “United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East”

…n that was labeled civil society consisted of organizations that were often committed to a single cause or a few causes united by a particular theme. Most activists were young, with little prior involvement in politics, and many regarded themselves as part of a global effort to...

…t who had become the darling of the hard left as the result of his anti- Vietnam War activities, began to call both the United States and Israel “criminal” entities.'°' Chomsky notoriously defended the ruthless Cambodian dictator Pol Pot against charges of genocide, insisting tha...

… “He the pebble, we the ripples.” The primary job of the law clerk related to the appellate cases that came before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. In the years I was a clerk, that court served not only as a federal appellate court, but also as th...

…eir actions. Among oth- er benefits, such work would feed into governmental mechanisms for imposing sanctions, like the United States’ Global Magnitsky Human Rights Account- ability Act, which allows visa bans and asset freezes for foreign officials who are personally involved in...

… laws include Australia, Canada, Colombia and Germany; countries without such laws include China, Japan, Russia and the United States. While the merits of medical cannabis are currently driving legal- ization, we believe that—like Uruguay and numerous U.S. states—other countries...

… in prison. I sent him books to read—about subjects that interested him such as ancient Egypt, the “roaring 20s” in the United States, and the history of boxing. When I would come to visit him, he asked me to test him about what he had read. He passed with flying colors. Mostly...

…lia to escape from Mr. Epstein’s sexual abuse. But at some point, in around spring 2014, we learned that she was in the United States and was willing to provide testimony in our CVRA case. 18. Because the CVRA case continues to be litigated today, nothing in this affidavit is in...

…erent: Mastery of topological destiny. There are those who observe, as an American think tank noted in 2015, “Today the United States faces no existential threat.”243 This is wrong. The emergence and shape of networks is just such a danger. Security, the great foreign policy theo...

…y all media coverage of the White House. Early on, before getting down to attacking each other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner’s preferred outlet was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s Morning Joe, one of the president’s ce...

…n presidential candidates, he bonded with Trump. Both Flynn and Trump were antiglobalists—or, anyway, they believed the United States was getting screwed in global transactions. Still, money was money, and Flynn, who, when he retired, had been receiving a few hundred thousand a y...

…roup-purchasing organizations now handle contracts for more than half of all institutional medical supplies sold in the United States, including the IVs used in the food-poisoning case, which were bought and taken by truck to regional warehouses by big distributors. These contra...

…ke of the Trump business—was an intervention. Making common cause with Don Jr. and Eric, Jared and Ivanka pushed for a united front to convince Trump to oust Lewandowski. Don Jr., feeling squeezed not only by Lewandowski but by Jared, too, seized the opportunity. He would push o...

…commencement speaker. When Yang Shuping praised the “fresh air of free speech” and contrasted what she had found in the United States with China—and her comments went viral on the internet and social media in China—she received an avalanche of email threats, and her family in Chi...

…enuine human concern for those who suffer. Christians, for example, practice remembering that all people are ultimately united as children of the one creator God, that “the ground is level at the foot of the cross” 144 Page regardless of one’s social status, one’s biological f...

30 ideas are often stymied by an inexperienced White House that doesn’t understand the role of drama and stagecraft in diplomacy. They say that Hillary is the daring, decisive risktaker, while the president is hampered by slow reflexes and an overly cautious and unimaginative ap...