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with the U.S., for inside support issues, causing another violent shift in the country and only served to break the peace already in place. Even today, large areas of the countryside remain under guerrilla influence or areas challenged by security forces. As far as the current Colombian government goes today, its structure copies that of the United States. The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches make up the Colombian government. The Executive branch is broken down between the President…

only solution (Biography, n.d.). Furthermore he wrote about Libya’s popular committees and shared ownership, which was false. In 1993 Qaddafi acquired the power of the revolutionary bureaucracy therefore leading to the removal of all importance of tribe and traditions held in Libya and also the removal of all state power (Council on Foreign, 2011). Positions of power were not shared amongst the public but close friends and family members of Gaddafi therefore creating further corruption where…

Dora Friedman Grant V Spring Research Paper Gamal Abdel Nasser: The Voice of the Arabs, The Champion of Egypt In 1952 Gamal Abdel Nasser staged a coup d’etat and abolished the Monarchy of King Farouk in Egypt. He came into power with a challenge: Egypt did not yet have full independence from Britain. In order to rally the people behind him and achieve his goal, Nasser unified Egyptians through Pan Arabism, a type of Arab Nationalism. In addition, Nasser spread his ideologies through…

spark the necessary economic, social, and political changes that the impoverished masses in France so desired. Famine, disease, and poverty swept through pre-revolutionary France. These factors entwined with the despot political system inflamed a decade long revolution and catapulted France from a feudal society into a dominant world force. The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 marked the beginning of radical changes for the country of France the same way the Massachusetts’ “shot heard…

Introduction “Selma,” I think while meaning well, is another piece of counter revolutionary, ruling class propaganda. It is like a “how not to manual” in how not to make revolution, then and now. I was an activist in the days in question in this movie and all the thousands of revolutionary voices that were raised, back in the day, are more thoroughly crushed in this film than all the might of U.S. imperialist military, police, intelligence and public opinion creating machines…

Black Shirts bands, Mussolini stepped forward as the savior of order and property. In October 1922 a large group of Fascists marched on Rome to threaten the king and force him to appoint Mussolini prime minister. The threat worked. Victor Emmanuel III asked Mussolini to form a new cabinet. Thus, after widespread violence and threat of armed uprising, Mussolini seized power…

Who is the armed group, which massacres, genocide and spreading fear around the globe through racism, sexism, anarchism, enslavement, kidnappings, stoning, terrorizing and even mass beheadings their opposition? A faction, which stands against contemporary shared values and morals, and they advocate for violence and barbarism under the name of virtue and ideology. They are known as Daesh, but there are many disinformation, misinformation and lack of information about them. Who are they and what…

set the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis → On October 15, 1962 Kennedy was informed of the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba and called a meeting of a small circle of trusted advisors (known as the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, or ExComm). → He resisted pressure to react quickly with a surprise air strike, and took time to deliberate in secret on the possible courses of action Nikita Khrushchev → Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party of the…

ideologies about how to rebuild Europe after the war. President Truman and the Russians leader Joseph Stalin were in disagreement on how to divide postwar Europe. The Soviets controlled Poland and most of the Balkans while the American and British forces had liberated Western Europe from Scandinavia to Italy. The Russians were concerned about past invasions and were intent on imposing communist governments loyal to Moscow. The United States believed in self-determination and that the people in…

survive conflicts, has been sentenced to death after a trial lasting almost a year. The man had been in hiding since Baghdad fell to the US last April, and was discovered in December, 9 months later. He was been found near his hometown, and while he was armed, he didn’t resist police. Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq represents a classic example of abuse of power, despite being courted by both the Arab and Western world at times. Saddam Hussein was the son of peasants, born in a village near the…