Washington forced economic sanctions that practically destroyed the economy. ... Throughout this process, the U.S. press followed Washington's lead, selecting villains in terms of current needs. ... The Washington-media coalition and the main magazines abstained from passing judgment on the falsified elections, but dismissed as utterly worthless the Sandinistas' far more free and honest election in the same year. ... Suharto of Indonesia, arguably the worst killer of them all, remains a Washington-media "moderate."" The fact was that at exactly the moment it invaded Panama becaus...

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Government Spending & Budget As many Federal departments and agencies lurch into an era of running without funds, the leaders of both parties of Congress are spending less and less time searching for a compromise to balance the budget, and more and more time deciding how to use it to...

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Woman suffrage is the right of women to vote. Today, women in nearly all countries have the same voting rights as men. But they did not begin to gain such rights until the early 1900's, and they had to overcome strong opposition to get them. Reading Jailed for Freedom has been like peeking into a w...

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With a group of other students Nixon set out to break the Franklins social monopoly by organizing the Orthogonians, a name from the Greek word meaning "square-shooters-. ... "The Washington Post thundered that Nixon must be dropped from the ticket- ( ). ...

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