| Protests against the Iraq War 2003 invasion of Iraq, protests against the Iraq War were held in many cities worldwide, often coordinated to occur simultaneously around the world. After the biggest series of demonstrations, on February 15, 2003, New York Times writer Patrick Tyler claimed that they showed that there were two superpowers on the planet, the United States and worldwide public opinion.These demonstrations against the war were mainly organized by anti-war organizations, many of whom had been formed in opposition to the invasion of Afghanistan. Protests_against_the_Iraq_War
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| Swedish Social Democratic Party The Swedish Social Democratic Party, (, SAP, 'Social Democratic Labour Party of Sweden'), contests elections as 'Labour' Party - Social Democrats' (Arbetarepartiet-Socialdemokraterna), commonly referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' (Socialdemokraterna) or colloquially 'the Socials' (Sossarna); is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. Swedish_Social_Democratic_Party
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| Iraqi no-fly zones The Iraqi no-fly zones were a set of two separate no-fly zones (NFZs), and were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. Iraqi_no-fly_zones
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| Cadr User_talk:Cadr
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| Coalition Provisional Authority Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) سلطة الائتلاف الموحدة was established as a transitional government following the invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom and the other members of the Multinational force in Iraq which was formed to oust the government of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Coalition_Provisional_Authority
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| Cabalamat/Project for a New American Century on Iraq User:Cabalamat/Project_for_a_New_American_Century_on_Iraq
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| My Lai Massacre Talk:My_Lai_Massacre
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| Wilfred Burchett Wilfred Graham Burchett (September 16, 1911, Melbourne, Australia September 27, 1983, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a war correspondent and alleged KGB agent. Harrison E. Salisbury, a journalist well-known for being one of the first to protest the Vietnam War, claimed in the introduction to Burchett's autobiography, At The Barricades:Ho Chi Minh and Henry Kissinger". Wilfred_Burchett
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| Boutros Boutros-Ghali Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Arabic:Coptic:14 November, 1922) is an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from January 1992 to January 1997. Boutros_Boutros-Ghali
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| Jay Garner Lieutenant General Jay Montgomery Garner, USA Ret (born April 15, 1938) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was appointed in 2003 as Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq but was soon replaced by Ambassador Paul Bremer and the ambassador's successor organization to ORHA, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Jay_Garner
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| Anti-war anti-war usually refers to the opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. Many activists distinguish between anti-war movements and peace movements. Anti-war activists work through protest and other grassroots means to attempt to pressure a government (or governments) to put an end to a particular war or conflict. Anti-war
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| American Empire American Empire is a controversial term referring to the political, economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The concept of an American Empire was first popularized in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898. The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist theorists of imperialism as a product of capitalism, to modern liberal and conservative theorists opposed to what they take to be aggressive U.S. policy. American_Empire
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| Suharto Suharto (8 June 1921 President of Indonesia, holding the office from 1967 to 1998.Suharto was born in a small village near Yogyakarta, during the era of Dutch colonial control. His ethnic Javanese peasant parents divorced not long after his birth, and he passed between several foster parents for much of his childhood. Suharto
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| List of oil fields This list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present. The list is incomplete; there are more than 40,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. Amounts given are estimated ultimate recoverable resources (proved reserves plus cumulative production), given current technology, in barrels. List_of_oil_fields
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| Zack de la Rocha Zacarías Manuel de la Rocha (born January 12, 1970, in Long Beach, California) is an American rapper, singer, musician, poet, and activist of Mexican-American descent. He is best known as the vocalist and lyricist of Rage Against the Machine and is currently the frontman of the music duo One Day as a Lion. Zack_de_la_Rocha
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| Welfare state There are two main interpretations of the idea of a welfare state: A model in which the state assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens. This responsibility in theory ought to be comprehensive, because all aspects of welfare are considered and universally applied to citizens as a "right". Welfare_state
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| L. Paul Bremer Lewis Paul Bremer III (born September 30, 1941), also nicknamed Jerry Bremer, is an American diplomat. He is most notable for being the U.S. Administrator of Iraq charged with overseeing the reconstruction of Iraq. In his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, he reported primarily to the U.S. Secretary of Defense and exercised authority over Iraq's civil administration. He served in this capacity from May 11, 2003 until limited Iraqi sovereignty was restored on June 28, 2004. L._Paul_Bremer
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| Coordinatorism Coordinatorism
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| Néstor Kirchner Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić (born February 25, 1950) was the President of Argentina from May 25, 2003 until December 10, 2007. A Justicialist, Kirchner was previously governor of the province of Santa Cruz.Kirchner was little-known internationally and even domestically before his election, which he won by default with only 22,24 percent of the vote in the first round when former President Carlos Menem (24,45%) withdraw from the race. Néstor_Kirchner
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| Zulia Talk:Zulia
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| Álvaro Uribe Álvaro Uribe Vélez (; born 4 July 1952 in Medellín) is the 39th President of Colombia and is currently serving his second term in office.Before his current role in politics Uribe was a lawyer. He studied law at the University of Antioquia and completed a post-graduate management program at Harvard University. Álvaro_Uribe
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| TUF-KAT/Archive User_talk:TUF-KAT/Archive
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| Dennis Kucinich Dennis John Kucinich (; born October 8, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 elections.Kucinich currently represents the 10th District of Ohio in the House of Representatives, which he has been serving since 1996. Dennis_Kucinich
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| Anglosphere The word Anglosphere refers to the totality of (English-speaking) nations which share historical, political, and sometimes cultural characteristics rooted in or connected or attributed to the United Kingdom. Its definition varies with the different authors who have put it forward. Anglosphere
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| Stop the War Coalition For the Australian anti-war group see Stop the War Coalition (Australia). The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) (informally just Stop the War) is a United Kingdom anti-war group set up on 21 September 2001. The coalition has opposed the various wars that are claimed to be part of the ongoing war on terrorism. Stop_the_War_Coalition
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| Naomi Klein Talk:Naomi_Klein
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| Yasukuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is dedicated to the kami (spirits) of soldiers and others who died fighting on behalf of the Emperor of Japan. Currently, its Symbolic Registry of Divinities lists the names of over 2,466,000 enshrined men and women whose lives were dedicated to the service of Imperial Japan, particularly to those killed in wartime. Yasukuni_Shrine
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| Post-Occupation Japan Post-Occupation_Japan
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| Michael Albert Michael Albert (born April 8, 1947) is a longtime activist, speaker, and writer, is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. He developed along with Robin Hahnel the economic vision called participatory economics.Albert identifies himself as a market abolitionist and favors democratic participatory planning as an alternative. Michael_Albert
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| Z Communications Z_Communications
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| A.N.S.W.E.R. Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) — also known as International A.N.S.W.E.R. and the ANSWER Coalition — is a United States-based protest organization.Formed in the wake of the September 11th attacks, ANSWER has since helped to organize many of the largest anti-war demonstrations in the United States, including demonstrations of hundreds of thousands against the Iraq War. A.N.S.W.E.R.
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| National Endowment for Democracy National Endowment for Democracy, or NED, is a U.S. non-profit organization that was founded in 1983, to promote democracy by providing cash grants funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress. Although administered as a private organization, its funding comes almost entirely from a governmental appropriation by Congress and it was created by an act of Congress. National_Endowment_for_Democracy
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| Coordinatorism Talk:Coordinatorism
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| Human Rights in China (organization) Human Rights in China (HRIC; ) is a New York-based international, Chinese, non-governmental organization with a mission to promote international human rights and advance the institutional protection of these rights in the People's Republic of China.Founded by Chinese students and scholars in March 1989, HRIC implements programs to generate institutional, systemic change in China while also engaging in critical advocacy strategies on behalf of individuals in China. Human_Rights_in_China_(organization)
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| Anti-Americanism Dictionaries tend to define Anti-Americanism, often anti-American sentiment, as a widespread opposition or hostility to the people, government or policies of the United States. In practice, a broad range of attitudes and actions critical of or opposed to the United States have been labeled anti-Americanism. Thus, the nature and applicability of the term is often disputed. Anti-Americanism
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| Evo Morales Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro), popularly known as Evo (), has been the President of Bolivia since 2006. He has been declared the country's first fully indigenous head of state in the 470 years since the Spanish Conquest.Morales was first elected President of Bolivia on December 18, 2005, with 53.7% of the popular vote (approximately 45% of the electorate) in an election that saw the participation of 84.5% of the national electorate. Evo_Morales
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| Bolivarian Circles Bolivarian Circles are a loosely-knit political and social organization of workers' councils in Venezuela originally begun by President Hugo Chávez in 2001.They are named in honor of Simón Bolívar, the leader who transformed most of South America from Spanish colonial outposts to the independent states now in place. Bolivarian_Circles
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| Charles Taylor (Liberia) Talk:Charles_Taylor_(Liberia)
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| Alexander Cockburn Alexander Claud Cockburn ( ), born 6 June 1941, is an Irish-American political journalist. Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the political newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn also writes the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times as well as for The First Post. Alexander_Cockburn
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| Japan–Korea disputes Japan–Korea_disputes
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| Comfort women Comfort women is a euphemism for women working in military brothels, especially those women who were forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Around 200,000 are typically estimated to have been involved, with estimates as low as 20,000 from some Japanese scholars Comfort_women
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| Washington Consensus Washington Consensus was initially coined in 1989 by John Williamson to describe a set of ten specific economic policy prescriptions that he considered should constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by Washington, DC-based institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the US Treasury Department. Washington_Consensus
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| Iran – United States relations Iran_–_United_States_relations
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| White nationalism White nationalism is a political ideology which advocates a racial definition (or redefinition) of national identity for white people, in opposition to multiculturalism, along with a separate all-white nation-state. The contemporary White Nationalist Movement in the United States is a reaction to the decline in white demographics, politics and culture. White_nationalism
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| Hassan Nasrallah Hassan_Nasrallah
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| The Heritage Foundation The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies drew significantly from Heritage's policy study Mandate for Leadership. The_Heritage_Foundation
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| Andrew Marr Andrew William Stevenson Marr (born 31 July 1959) is a Scottish journalist and political commentator. He edited The Independent for two years, until May 1998, and was the political editor for the BBC from 2000 until 2005. He then began hosting a political programme called Sunday AM (now The Andrew Marr Show) on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005 onwards. Andrew_Marr
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| Wik/Archive July-August 2003 User_talk:Wik/Archive_July-August_2003
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| Bolivian gas conflict The Bolivian gas conflict was a social confrontation in Bolivia centering on the exploitation of the country's vast natural gas reserves. The expression can be extended to refer to the general conflict in Bolivia over the exploitation of gas resources, thus including the 2005 protests and the election of Evo Morales as president. Bolivian_gas_conflict
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