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| Assassination Assassination is the targeted killing of a public figure. Assassinations may be prompted by ideological, political, or military reasons. Additionally, assassins may be motivated by financial gain, revenge, personal public recognition, or mental illness.Targeted killing (or extrajudicial punishment/execution) is also used as a euphemism for the government-sanctioned killing of opponents or a dysphemism for legitimate attacks on high-profile enemy combatants. Assassination | |
| Abu Zubaydah Abu Zubaydah (; born 12 March 1971 as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn) is currently in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a detainee in the war on Terror. Zubaydah's name is often transliterated as Abu Zubaidah, Abu Zubeida, or Abu Zoubeida. Born Zein al-Abideen Mohamed Hussein (Arabicaliases. Abu_Zubaydah | |
| COINTELPRO COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. COINTELPRO | |
| Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip ( , Retzu'at 'Azza) is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12Palestinian territories. Actual control of the area is in the hands of Hamas, an organization which won civil parliamentary Palestinian Authority elections in 2006 and took over the de facto government in the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority by way of its own armed militia in July 2007, whilst violently removing the Palestinian Authority's security forces and civil servants from the Gaza Strip. Gaza_Strip | |
| The Holocaust Industry The Holocaust Industry is a book published in 2000 by Norman G. Finkelstein, who argues that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for financial and political gain, as well as to further the interests of Israel. According to Finkelstein, this "Holocaust industry" has corrupted Jewish culture, as well as the authentic memory of the Holocaust. Finkelstein's parents were both Holocaust survivors who had been inmates of concentration camps. The_Holocaust_Industry | |
| Hamas Hamas | |
| Jello Biafra Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra, is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. Jello_Biafra | |
| James Brown James_Brown | |
| Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate followed by the governorship of the State of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975.As president, Carter created two new cabinet-level departmentsDepartment of Energy and the Department of Education. Jimmy_Carter | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | |
| Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident, an anarchist, and a libertarian socialist intellectual. Noam_Chomsky | |
| Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third-wave of the feminist movement. She remains an advocate of feminist causes and progressive politics, with a more recent emphasis on arguing that there has been a deterioration of democratic institutions in the United States. Naomi_Wolf | |
| Naomi Klein Naomi Klein (b. May 8, 1970, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist, author and activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization. Naomi_Klein | |
| Nuclear reactor technology This article is a subarticle of Nuclear power.A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate, as opposed to a nuclear bomb, in which the chain reaction occurs in a fraction of a second and is uncontrolled causing an explosion.The most significant use of nuclear reactors is as an energy source for the generation of electrical power (see Nuclear power) and for the power in some ships (see Nuclear marine propulsion). Nuclear_reactor_technology | |
| Ohio Ohio | |
| Political correctness Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to language, ideas, policies, or behavior seeking to conform to authority or orthodox thought. Usually this term is used in a sarcastic way to imply or ridicule the authority or thought as unquestionable or authoritative beyond discussion. Political_correctness | |
| Paul Robeson Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898–January 23, 1976) was an African-American actor of film and stage, All-American and professional athlete, writer, multi-lingual orator, lawyer, and basso profondo concert singer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism. Paul_Robeson | |
| Plastic explosive Plastic explosive (or plastique) is a specialised form of explosive material. It is soft and hand moldable solid material. Plastic explosives are properly known as Putty explosives within the field of explosives engineering. Plastic_explosive | |
| Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and perennial candidate for presidency as an independent candidate for President of the United States in 2004 and 2008, and a Green Party candidate in 1996 and 2000. Ralph_Nader | |
| Rudy Giuliani Rudy_Giuliani | |
| Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement."On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Rosa_Parks | |
| Software Engineering Institute The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center headquartered on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. SEI also has offices in Arlington, Virginia, and Frankfurt, Germany. The SEI operates with major funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. The SEI also works closely with industry and academia through research collaborations. Software_Engineering_Institute | |
| Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks World Trade Center became the site of the greatest number of casualties and missing, due to the September 11, 2001 attacks. This region became known in the ensuing days as "ground zero". Rescue_and_recovery_effort_after_the_September_11_attacks | |
| Squatting Squatting is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use. Squatting is significantly more common in urban areas than rural areas, especially when urban decay occurs. Squatting | |
| Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (, ; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. Vladimir_Putin | |
| Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African to be so honoured. In 1994, he was designated United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture, human rights, freedom of expression, media and communication. Wole_Soyinka | |
| Weather Underground Organization "Weather Underground" redirects here. For other uses, see Weather Underground (disambiguation).Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization (abbreviated WUO), was an American radical left terrorist organization. It originated in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Weather_Underground_Organization | |
| Yoko Ono , (born February 18, 1933), is a Japanese-American artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician and her marriage with John Lennon. Yoko_Ono | |
| Political prisoner A political prisoner is someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, for his or her involvement in political activity. Political_prisoner | |
| American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (abbreviated APA) is a professional organization representing psychologists in the U.S., with around 150,000 members and an annual budget of around $70m. The American Psychological Association is occasionally confused with the American Psychiatric Association, which also uses the acronym APA. American_Psychological_Association | |
| Project MKULTRA Project MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. The program began in the early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it used United States citizens as its test subjects. The published evidence indicates that Project MK-ULTRA involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function. Project_MKULTRA | |
| Augusto Boal Augusto Boal (April 16, 1931 - May 2, 2009) was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements. Boal served one term as a vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre. Augusto_Boal | |
| Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself coined to make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Alice_Walker | |
| Toni Morrison Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Toni Morrison on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. Toni_Morrison | |
| Japanese American internment Japanese American internment refers to the forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally throughout the United States. Japanese_American_internment | |
| Angela Davis Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American political activist and university professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Davis was also a notable activist during the Civil Rights Movement and a prominent member and political candidate of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Angela_Davis | |
| Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías () (born July 28, 1954) is the President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Chávez promotes a political doctrine of participatory democracy, socialism and Latin American and Caribbean cooperation. He is also a critic of neoliberalism, globalization, and United States foreign policy.A career military officer, Chávez founded the left-wing Fifth Republic Movement after orchestrating a failed 1992 coup d'état against former President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Hugo_Chávez | |
| Peace Now Talk:Peace_Now | |
| Coca Coca is a plant in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to north-western South America. The plant plays a significant role in traditional Andean culture. Coca leaves contain cocaine alkaloids, a basis for the drug cocaine, which is a powerful stimulant.The plant resembles a blackthorn bush, and grows to a height of 2–3 m (7–10 ft). Coca | |
| Wage slavery Wage slavery refers to a situation where a person is dependent for a livelihood on the wages earned, especially if the dependency is total and immediate. The term is used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor. Some uses of the term may refer only to situations where workers are paid unreasonably low wages (e.g. Wage_slavery | |
| Utah Phillips Bruce "Utah" Duncan Phillips (May 15 1935 May 23 2008) was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action, self-identifying as an anarchist. He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words. Utah_Phillips | |
| Gore Vidal Gore Vidal ( or ) (born October 3, 1925) is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, actor and politician. Early in his career he wrote the ground-breaking The City and the Pillar (1948), which outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality. Gore_Vidal | |
| Vanessa Redgrave Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Academy Award winning English actress of stage, film and television. She is a member of the Redgrave family, the world-renowned theatrical dynasty. She is also a social activist for human rights and has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 1995. Vanessa_Redgrave | |
| Overpopulation Talk:Overpopulation | |
| Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest. He was briefly President of Haiti in 1991, prior to a September 1991 military coup, and was President again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004. He was then ousted in a February 2004 rebellion in which former soldiers participated. He alleged that he was kidnapped by the United States military and forced into exile in South Africa. Jean-Bertrand_Aristide | |
| Jessica Lange Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-, four-time Golden Globe-winning American stage and screen actress. With a career that has spanned thirty-five years and six Oscar nominations, she may be most notable for her performances in Frances, Tootsie, Sweet Dreams and Blue Sky. Jessica_Lange | |
| Second Intifada Second_Intifada | |
| Western Wall Talk:Western_Wall | |
| Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva (Hindi:November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India), is a physicist, environmental activist, eco feminist and author of several books. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.Shiva participated in the nonviolent Chipko movement during the 1970s. Vandana_Shiva | |
| Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former US military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. Daniel_Ellsberg |
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