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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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Documentary Acts: An Interview with Madhusree Dutta
TL;DR: The trajectory of Indian women's work, from their first documentary film I Live in Behrampada (1993) via films such as Memories of Fear (1995) or Scribbles on Akka (2000) to their current curatorial practice for the ongoing large scale research and archival project Cinema City, which developed out of 7 Islands and a Metro (2007), shows a constant search for creative practices and formal languages to respond to the current social and political terrain and the questions of urgency this calls forth.
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Philosophical aspects of urban strangeness: the case of Vilnius
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider images of Vilnius formed by noteworthy Europeans who passed through there or spent some part of their life there, such as Napoleon Bonaparte, Romain Gary, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Josif Brodsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Vladimir Toporov, Aron Gurwitsch, and Czeslaw Milosz.
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Fabling Gestures in Expository Science
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze seven instances in which fable-like scenarios have been utilized in the exposition and/or promotion of philosophy or science, examining the motives and strategies that propel such novel uses of fabling gestures and also explore the ironies and pitfalls that the genre poses when invoked in scientific discourse.
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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).