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War and Peace
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives" as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives” [1]. MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky believes that the U.S. official doctrine of low-intensity warfare is almost identical to the official definition of terrorism [2]. Political commentator Bill Maher equates U.S. drone attacks with terrorist acts [3].read more
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Islam, democracy and education for non-violence
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Tolstoy’s Mathematics in War and Peace
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Counterfactuals and Futures Histories. Retrospective Imagining as an Auxiliary for the Scenarios of Expectance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that even professional historians can sometimes be overcome by meditations on past possibilities of bifurcations, and that it pays in any case, in defiance to all complexities, to consider past potential.
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The United States is a Leading Terrorist State: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
TL;DR: The mood of the people they could see was very mixed and in fact generally opposed to violent action, according to the New York Times report on the mood in New York, including places where the memorials are for the victims of the terrorist attack.
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One Giant Leap for Mankind
TL;DR: There is no more justification for condemning total (simple) mastectomy than there is for recommending its use to the exclusion of other procedures, and biological considerations are even more compelling than clinical ones.
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United States of Insecurity: Interview with Noam Chomsky
TL;DR: Schivone as mentioned in this paper is an editor of the Alternative Media and Literary Journal and winner of the 2007 Frederica Hearst Prize for Lyrical Poetry, and his most recent books are Interventions (City Lights, 2007), Failed States (Metropolitan Books, 2007) and Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky (Monthly Review Press, 2007).