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Christian, Shi’ite Muslim, Druse and ethnically mixed — with the aim of reflecting the balance in each part of the south. Israeli troops might still have to cross into Lebanon, but only for brief, targeted operations to preempt preparations for a terror attack. “We need to remem...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 When I told Bazelon about the justice quote from the Torah, he asked me why the word justice was repeated. Wouldn’t it have been enough to say “justice you must actively chase after.” “Why ‘justice, justice.”” No word, or even syllable of the Torah is supposed...

220 provided no basis to speculate that he was in mainland China. He could have been staying in a well-prepared safe-house anywhere in Hong Kong or even at the home of an unknown associate. All that is really known is that soon after he emerged from this venue and gave his celeb...

… his wrath against them. He believed it was his mission to conduct “search and destroy” operations against the porno industry. As a prosecutor of pornography, he had already secured more than forty convictions. Many observers saw the decision to bring Reems to trial as evidence...

… 8. “The next morning he...”-- George Packer, “The Holder of Secrets,” New Yorker, October 20, 2014 9. “Iam ina safe house..,’—Greenwald, No Place to Hide, op.cit. p.82 10. “Chosen was Lana Lam...”-- Lana Lam, “Post reporter Lana Lam tells of her journey into the secret world o...

…op him from taking highly-sensitive GCHQ documents referring to them. In his five weeks at this Booz Allen job, he also used this same newly-acquired “Priv Ac” at the NSA to steal files from the Israeli, Canadian and Australian intelligence services. Jumping from one outside con...

…t of Shimon’s words at the funeral —to something approaching sainthood. I did not want to detract from his evolving status as national hero, or his importance as a symbol of a commando success which had, for the first time since the 1973 war, restored a measure of Israeli sense o...

…ered out a budget agreement by mid-December; Congress approved the agreement, and President Obama signed it into law. House and Senate appropriations committees then began drafting spending bills – on which they compromised: H.R. 3547, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014,”...

… particular, concluded that the preparations had not yet “crossed the threshold of operational capability”. I was furious. I respected the considered opposition of ministers like Dan or Benny Begin. I had no problem with the chief-of-staff or other generals expressing similar vi...

…equested to censor anything I’ve published or broadcast outside of China,” he says. Some in the West, however, have accused him of being too much of an insider and not giving the full picture about China because he was too close to the leadership. Robert Lawrence Kuhn says Chin...

…rategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians who have little interest in the democratizing mission traditionally espoused by mainstream parties with deep roots in the global struggles of the 20th century. The new mood is reflected in the democracies foreign poli- cies, many of...

… Governments can reduce our dignity to something like that of tagged animals. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2016 HE ENORMOUS EFFECT that Snowden has had on America can be divided into three categories: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good proceeds from the national conversati...

been to show the Soviets that the United States meant business, testing nearly twice a month throughout the entire Cold War would have been overkill. In fact, Operation Sandstone -- a series of three tests at Enewetak Atoll in 1948 -- was not intended to warn off the Soviets as t...

125 is the China-US Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.“ Launched in 2006, researchers from the University of Tennessee and the DOE-funded Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnered with the Chinese Academy of Scie...

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