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Marina Silva (PSB)

10/21/2014: Top Ten Origins: Brazil's Presidential Elections

… $105 billion, but by 2009 Brazil provided the International Monetary Fund with $10 billion in financing. … industrial working classes through state-controlled labor unions and social welfare programs. At the conclusion of … and helped create the state's first workers' union. She served in municipal and state legislatures in …
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913.

The First Time Women Marched on Washington

… organizational act together. Communicating via a federated national organization called the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and led … caused a schism with the NAWSA and led her to establish the National Woman’s Party. This fractured the women’s movement, …
Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Olympics

Revival and Reinvention: the Olympic Games, Athens 1896

… of sporting excellence. Often motivated by a mix of nationalism and pedagogy, events appropriating the word … direct connection with the 1896 Games sponsored by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under the leadership of … reformer who believed sport could be a vehicle serving both nationalist and internationalist goals, combining …
Official portrait of President Gerald R. Ford (February 25, 1976).

Will Vindication Elude Ford?

… of Ford’s good work in bringing what he called “our long national nightmare” to an end, the focus has always been on …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… Perspective. Picturing Black History emerged in the wake of national and international Black Lives Matter protests … go up but they don't necessarily outnumber monuments to the Union, they just get more notice. The first image that … Black soldiers made up 200,000 soldiers for the Union. And by the war's end, their valuable contributions …
Saxonburg Memorial Church.

Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?

… the First Amendment meant only to prohibit establishing a national church, while permitting government to pursue other … specifically rejected narrow language merely forbidding a national church.   In June 1789 Congress declined a proposal … amendment about religion that said, "nor shall any national religion be established." In September 1789, …
a billboard with flags of many countries and the word Peace on it.

A Conscientious Objector Looks Back

… wall until he calmed down. of alternative service in the national interest. down. Edwards remembers certain … and threw glass IV bottles of "alternative service in the national intermilitary bureaucracy and the of a draft …
Engraving of Robespierre.

The New Species of Terrorism

… to win attention. But it was Algeria’s Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), seeking independence from France, that … in Spain, Quebecois in Canada, Palestinian and Irish nationalists, Marxist cabals in Africa and Latin America. By … peace agreement, the Iranian revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan — terrorists began hailing …
 Reagan in 1982.

Measuring Reagan for Greatness

… Although Reaganomics was not a complete success — the national debt soared — 20 million new jobs were created … Reagan’s vision for his foreign policy centered on the Soviet Union. In 1980, he took a hard line on the Cold War and …

Sudan in Crisis

… in April 2019. On February 22, al-Bashir had delivered a nationally broadcast response to the protests. He opened on … refugees reside in camps in neighboring Chad. The International Criminal Court has indicted al-Bashir for war … groups in Darfur, are under the control of the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), which …
Cygnet, Ohio, in Wood County was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.

An Energy Plan for You!

… America. The movement brought us not only Earth Day but the National Environmental Protection Act, clean air … the development of alternative energy resources; it raised national consciousness about pipelines in Alaska, strip … Gas and oil prospectors may soon be drilling wells in national wilderness preserves, and nobody in the Bush …
The Romanov Family

The Romanov Tercentenary: Commemoration, History, and Power

… people. Nicholas—like his father—also embraced a variety of nationalism that stressed adherence to Orthodoxy and the … participation and social justice. In the aftermath of the Soviet experience, the Romanovs have enjoyed a renaissance … crypt in St. Petersburg. Far from the reactionary demons of Soviet historiography, the Romanovs have become saintly in …
Zbigniew Brzezinski at Camp David in 1978.

Meddlers Hamstring Iraq Policy

… used the same techniques he honed during his term as the national security adviser in the Carter administration to … inform the naive, idealistic newcomers from the South about national interests and international relations. He did this by sabotaging Carter’s focus …
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916

The Amritsar Massacre

… at the Somme in 1916. The Rowlatt Acts outraged the Indian National Congress, the leading nationalist party whose members included Muhammad Ali … Jawaharlal Nehru were prominent members of the early Indian National Congress; the Amritsar Massacre radicalized …