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How the Sykes-Picot Agreement Helped Make a Messed-Up Middle East

Edit Time Magazine 19 May 2016
Read More. These 5 Facts Explain the Massive Political Fallout from the Panama Papers. In the past half century, Iraq has passed from decades of Sunni dominance under Saddam Hussein through a war with Iran, a war with the U.S., years of sanctions, another war with the U.S., a Shiʻite-dominated government, a Sunni insurgency and general misrule ... Read More ... Before its civil war began, Syria was home to 22 million people ... ....

Sophie could learn from the Greatest Generation

Edit Toronto Sun 19 May 2016
OTTAWA — When my mother was approaching her final days, the fact she was a war veteran allowed her to be moved straightaway into a long-term care facility ... It is perhaps unfair to compare Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau with mothers from the Greatest Generation, those who were children during the Great Depression and who later helped in the war effort or watched their husbands head off to battle....

Iran wants U.S. to pay for 63 years of 'material damage'

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
During its Tuesday morning session, the Parliament cited examples such as the U.S involvement in the coup of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, America's support of Iraq in its war with Iran from 1980 to 1988, and the destruction of oil platforms in the late '80s ... ....

Iran's IRGC says many Iranians have volunteered to fight in Syria

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday many Iranians have volunteered to fight in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad's war against "terrorism", the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported ... ....

WWII Vet Reunites with Man He Saved from Concentration Camp 71 Years Ago

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
A World War II veteran from Colorado was reunited with a Holocaust survivor whom he set free from a concentration camp seven decades ago -- and the emotional moment was captured on camera. Sid Shafner, 94, is back in the U.S. after a stirring eight-day trip to Israel and Poland last week ... ....

Tezpur war pain on celluloid

Edit The Telegraph India 19 May 2016
An Assamese feature film will portray the hardship and terror faced by residents of Tezpur in central Assam during the Sino-Indian war in 1962 ... ....

Police and Prison Guard Groups Fight Marijuana Legalization in California

Edit Infowars 19 May 2016
Drug war money has become a notable source of funding for law enforcement interests ... ....

'War Room' movie inspires prayer group at Land O'Lakes church

Edit Tampa Bay Times 19 May 2016
In 2015, the Christian-themed film War Room earned about $4 million on its opening weekend, coming in behind Straight Outta Compton ... ....

Murray, Cantwell, Senators Call on President to Fulfill Commitment to Resettle 10,000 Syrian Refugees in America (Maria Cantwell)

Edit Public Technologies 19 May 2016
The war has led to hundreds of thousands of fatalities, more than a million injured, and more than half of Syria's entire population being displaced ... The recent bombing of a hospital in Aleppo, which killed many, including children and one of the city's last pediatricians, is tragically just one of countless examples of horror in this brutal conflict which has led to the worst refugee crisis since World War II....

Senators Call on President to Fulfill Commitment to Resettle 10,000 Syrian Refugees in America (Robert Menendez)

Edit Public Technologies 19 May 2016
The war has led to hundreds of thousands of fatalities, more than a million injured, and more than half of Syria's entire population being displaced ... The recent bombing of a hospital in Aleppo, which killed many, including children and one of the city's last pediatricians, is tragically just one of countless examples of horror in this brutal conflict which has led to the worst refugee crisis since World War II....

Your money or your files: the growing threat of ransomware

Edit The Independent 19 May 2016
While the culprits come from all over the world, ransomware attacks are mainly co-ordinated by highly organised mercenary hackers based in Russia and other Eastern European countries, prompting some to hark back to Cold War-era concerns. “This is World War III,” says Clint Crigger, a cyber-security manager for SVA Consulting, though he insists he is not an alarmist....

The wrong way to improve the quality of education: Letters

Edit LA Daily News 19 May 2016
The wrong way to improve the quality of education. Re “School choice clings to life” (Editorial, May 5).. The Daily News fires another shot in the right-wing war to destroy public education via the school voucher program. Apparently, the Daily News is concerned that too much money goes into teacher pensions, and, by analogy, I suppose that includes teacher salaries ... A sure way to improve the quality of education! ... to 5 a.m....

Allen Stam Discusses the Importance of Leadership (Hoover Institution)

Edit Public Technologies 19 May 2016
(Source. Hoover Institution) ... Stam, a professor and dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, focuses on the dynamics of armed conflict between and within states, with an emphasis on war durations and outcomes as well as mediation and alliance politics ... economists emphasize markets, political scientists, institutions and governments, and sociologists, class, race, and ideologies....
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