#1980s

Sue Aside

SheerchaiZ93

[CIA's role in Afghanistan] Death squad: A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings or forced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or re

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

If by "@KevinMKruse history" you mean "the standard version of events chronicled in great detail by actual historians over a half century," then ... yes?https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1274333692396212224 This is

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/- I think the person who wrote this is very confused about what makes NYC great. I moved to the city in the late 1970s, when NYC was supposed to

राम गिलहरी

Ateendriyo

With #Siachen being opened for tourism by @rajnathsingh ji, India finally gets into the job of using tourism as an assertion of sovereignty. Paks have been doing that since 1980s,

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ageingbboys

I've decided to listen to the whole Street Sounds Electro series from beginning to end.This much-talked about series (even now) has sat on my shelves for over a quarter of

Glenn Vanderburg

glv

More about Brad Cox: I’ve always been fascinated by the contrast between Objective-C and C++. Both aimed at adding object-orientation to C, and at about the same time (mid to

Seamus Daniels

SeamusDaniels

Today @ToddHarrisonDC and I published our latest analysis on the FY 2021 defense budget request!A few highlights Per the last budget agreement (BBA 2019) reached by Congress, the admin requested

Liberation Library

liberationlib

Pretrial incarceration disrupts access to education programs & ultimately makes it harder for people to meet educational & career goals. Illinois needs to pass the Pretrial Fairness Act and #EndMoneyBail

Leanne

MsLods

@PopTechWorks on digital surveillance and people power:https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-virginia-eubanks-on-digital-surveillance-and-people-power/"People who live in low-rights environments ... are already living in the digit

Neil Thomas 牛犇

neilthomas123

Thrilled to share my cover story in @thewirechina , a profile of Rong Yiren (1916-2005)—the millionaire co-opted by Mao who was China's vice president from 1993-1998—and the political lessons that

Ken Shirriff

kenshirriff

how it started: how it’s going: With Apple's recent announcement of the ARM-based M1 processor, I figured it would be interesting to compare

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zei_squirrel

when someone shows you who they are believe them remember, the 1980s was the era of reagan and bush senior, of death squads in central america, the destruction of unions,

rupi kaur

rupikaur_

on january 12—haryana police abducted nodeep kaur from her tent at singhu protest. since then she has been beaten & sexually assaulted while under police custody. nodeep is 23 yold

Friend of the Talking Bird

DrugGovoruna

Something I want to spell out.The Soviet Union in the 1980s had about 270 million citizens. About 1/2 were Russians, the rest were everyone else. The Estonians were basically Nordics;

Amro Ali

_amroali

I had lunch with Robert Fisk as an MA student in 2005, Australia. I was awed by his bravery, resilience, writing style, and passion for the truth. Then came post-2011

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier

S_Mittermeier

Today is #WorldAIDSDay2020. Many excellent books of queer studies & history discuss this pandemic, never more timely. Here are some of them, focusing on the US and Germany. For a

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