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...This book of Future of Media aims to give an insight into the future of our communication and media. It contains articles, studies, and promulgated theories regarding media. Pieces of information that are included are thoroughly studie...

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...GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL’S STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT: EVALUATING THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT IN AFGHANISTAN IN THE SUMMER OF 2009 Introduction . . . .1 The Tasking . . . .2 The Team . . . . 3 The Assessment Begins . . . .7 Early Organizational Difficulties and Cultural Clashes . . . .10 The Team Comes Together an...

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... General McChrystal’s strategic AssessmentEvaluating the Operating Environmentin Afghanistan in the Summer of 2009 Matthew C. Bra... ... strategic AssessmentEvaluating the Operating Environmentin Afghanistan in the Summer of 2009 Matthew C. Brand Colonel,... ...analysis, opinions, and conclusions either expressed or implied within are solely those of theauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of the... ... Force Research Institute, Air Univer-sity, the United States Air Force, the Department of Defense, or any other US government agency.Cleared for publ... ... Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. His previous assign-ment was the United States Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A)command historian from June 2009 to June ... ...rship of Army general David McKier-nan and recognizing a decline in overall security in Afghanistanoccurring since 2006, Pres. Barack Obama named Army... ... events. In fact, theseevents actually increased, with some garnering massive nega-tive media coverage toward the coalition. This was an exampleof gui... ...o had natural tie-ins to the C2Working Group. The Civ-Mil Campaign Working Group was im-mediately populated primarily by members of the already ongoin... ...hould be amidst the increase in violence and apparent GIRoAcorruption, many pundits and media members began to specu-late on how many additional force...

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...A comparison between the Russian expeditions of Afghanistan and Syria in 1979 and 2015. The essay describes the Russian allies and enemies in each case, and explains why the situation in Syria is much easier than the one the Soviets were facing in 1979 in Afghanistan....

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...cle by Al Monitor, titled “Vlad and Yuri: How Putin isapplying the lessons of Afghanistan to Syria”, October 2015. The articlecompares the Russian exp... ... by Al Monitor, titled “Vlad and Yuri: How Putin isapplying the lessons of Afghanistan to Syria”, October 2015. The articlecompares the Russian expedi... ...tan to Syria”, October 2015. The articlecompares the Russian expedition to Afghanistan in 1979 with the Russianexpedition to Syria in 2015. I will use... ...nformationfrom other sources, in order to write a more detailed comparison of the twoRussian expeditions.Map 1 Soviet UnionFor Russia, the expedition ... ...the twoRussian expeditions.Map 1 Soviet UnionFor Russia, the expedition of Afghanistan, 1979-1989, was what theVietnam War was for the United States. ... ...rom the country, with the Islamists taking control andstarting a new phase of the war. Saudi Arabia and Iran were supportingdifferent Islamist militan... ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism_and_minorities_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#/media/File:Syria_Ethno-religious_composition..jpgMoreover in Syria the Russ...

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...entieth-century argument between air and ground proponents has changed significantly since the Gulf War, and it comes down to the relative importance of the ground or air in the mix. It is more than just using air as a supporting component to the ground forces—if this is true, current force organization and employment is adequate. However, if the air predominates in comba...

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...Circle, Maxwell AFB AL 36112-6428. Airpower, Afghanistan, and ... ... Wills the Future of Warfare An Alternative View ... ...e View Thank you for your assistance.COLLEGE OF AEROSPACE DOCTRINE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AIR UNIVERSITY Ai... ...PACE DOCTRINE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AIR UNIVERSITY Airpower, Afghanistan, and the Future of Warfare An Alternative View ... ...DUCATION AIR UNIVERSITY Airpower, Afghanistan, and the Future of Warfare An Alternative View Craig D. Wills Li... ... Air University Library Cataloging DataWills, Craig D. Airpower, Afghanistan, and the future of warfare : an alternative view / Craig D. Wi... ...selected institutions of higher learning,public-policy institutes, and the media. All military members and civilian employees assigned to AirUniversi... ...d,typed manuscript and an electronic version of the manuscripton removable media along with a brief (200-word maximum)abstract. The electronic file sh... ...a from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. See SterlingPublications Group Media Public Ltd. Co., “Global Hawk.” 13. Grant, Gulf War II, 21. 14. Ibi...

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...ives behind the false propaganda about India's alleged religious intolerance towards its minority Muslims and the Christians as well as the duplicity of the Indian left-liberals who undermine the Indian national interest....

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...However, while the Musalmans, fearing that the western education would lead to the dilution of Islamic faith among their wards, avoided Macaulay like a plague, the Hindus embraced him willy-nilly giving up their ‘haughty’ indifference to other faiths end ending up with ‘naive’ indulgence towards them. What is worse,...

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... free run on the Hindu turf under Sonia’s proxy watch ended with theascent of Narendra Modi onto the Delhi gaddi, the Indian agendas of the Christian ... ...mpediments resulting in the brouhaha over the growing religiousintolerance of Hindus towards India’s minorities. Given the racial biases and the relig... ...ds India’s minorities. Given the racial biases and the religiousprejudices of both against the Hindus and that the world media, by and large is contro... ... and the religiousprejudices of both against the Hindus and that the world media, by and large is controlledby them, a critical appraisal of their pro... ...dira and his great-grandson Rahul, to the Islamic invader Babur’s grave in Afghanistan,should be seen the conjecture that his own grandfather was a Mu... ...od of religious tolerance in the annals of the IndianRepublic. But for the media coverage of her unbridled avarice and the idiocy of her heirapparent,... ...ed Hindus lost no time in circulating the same through the emerging social mediathereby taking away much of the sheen from these two, whom the Hindu-i...

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...A brief summary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, and how these historic events were related to terrorism, and more specifically to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State....

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... The Architects ofAl-Qaeda and ISIS Iakovos Alhadeff Table of Contents 1979: The Russians Invade Afghanistan1989: The Architect... ...Iakovos Alhadeff Table of Contents 1979: The Russians Invade Afghanistan1989: The Architect of Al-Qaeda of Iraq goes to Pakistan ... ... 1979: The Russians Invade Afghanistan1989: The Architect of Al-Qaeda of Iraq goes to Pakistan 2003: The Americans Invade Iraq 2003... ...o Pakistan 2003: The Americans Invade Iraq 2003: The Architect of ISIS goes to Syria Articles 1979: The Russians In... ...ISIS goes to Syria Articles 1979: The Russians Invade Afghanistan1979 was a very important year. Egypt signed a peace treaty wit... ...w a more aggressive foreign policy.The outcome was that the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in order to bring acommunist government to power.The Soviet in... ...ost state-sponsor ofterrorism—the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet, most major media outlets have failed to notethe complex history between theocratic, S... ...aying immeasurably. Publicunderstanding would be much better served by news media coverage that goes beyondthe simplified narrative of Shi'ite Iran fi...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...from:Lidija Rangelovska – write to:palma@unet.com.mkVisit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review":http://www.ce-review.org/aut... ...samvak.tripod.com/after.htmlCreated by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 2 C O N T E N T SI. The Aut... ...About "After the Rain" Containing the United StatesI. The Roots of Anti-AmericanismII. Containing the United StatesIII. Islam and... .... The American HostelVIII. The Semi-failed State The War in AfghanistanI. Afghan MythsII. Pakistan’s Nice Little WarIII. ... ...e, the envoys of the West - itsmediocre politicians, its insatiably ruthless media, itsobese tourists, its illiterate soldiers, and its armchaireconom... ...n and private enterprise, endemic corruption, 53self-censoring media, socially, economically, andpolitically excluded minorities, and so... ...ently busy raping (Japan, the Philippines),murdering (Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan), andpillaging (Iraq) - be exempted from international law an... ...htuns plus 3 million as refugees. Thereare more Pashtuns in Pakistan than in Afghanistannowadays. The "Pakistanis" involved in Afghanistan arein fact ... ... but this is not the truepicture, but, mostly, a myth created by the Western media.This is where Arab, Pakistani and Indonesian teenagerslearn that Os...

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...Essays Introduction: The Protraction and Prolongation of Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Karl P. Magyar Iran-Iraq: Protracted Conflict, Prolonged War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 M. A. Shahriar Shirkhani and Con...

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... Edited by Karl P. Magyar, PhDConstantine P. Danopoulos, PhDLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataProlonged wars: the post-nuclear... ...1 DisclaimerThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interestof academic freedom and the a... ...e school environment in the interestof academic freedom and the advancement of national defense-related concepts. The viewsexpressed in this publicati... ...etnam . . . . . 371 Earl H. Tilford, Jr.The Soviet War in Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 Stephen BlankNo... ...untering another Vietnam. Nor are wealone. The Soviets met their Vietnam in Afghanistan; theSouth Africans experienced theirs in Angola; and the Niger... ... 1PROLONGED WARS More recently, the Soviets got bogged down in Afghanistan,and, as in the case of the United States in Vietnam, a newSovi... ...previous treaties. The Second Treaty of Erzurumwas signed in 1847 under the mediation of Great Britain andRussia. While it confirmed the 1823 treaty, ... ...nternational law, Iran demanded the establishment of ademarcation along the median or the thalweg line. Iraqobjected and demanded sovereignty over the... ...ither of the two warring sideswas willing to agree on conditions set by the mediators. TheGulf Cooperation Council offered Iran $10–25 billion as warr...

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.... . . . . . . . . . .46 The US Navy in the Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Japanese Antiaircraft Artillery . . . . . . . . . . .53 The Lessons of World War II . . . . . . . . . . .57 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 2 FROM GUNS TO MISSILES, 1945–1965 . . .69 Antiaircraft Returns to Combat: The Korean War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...Description: Interdiction is the Story of the Conflicts With Reality Faced By Young People Growing Up Today in a World of Terrorism and Violence. a Quest for Peace But How to Approach That Goal is on Every Young Adults Mind in This Century. This is the Story of Tw...

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...c Book TextMedium E-BookISBN 978-0-9826462-0-5All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced ortransmitted in any form or by any means wi... ...eans without the written permissionfrom the copyright owner.This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents eitherare the product o... ... Big Bird touched down at Rota Spain 0330Chapter 14 Thirty Kilometers east of Mazar I SharifChapter 15 Goldmine beneath the street in Mazar I SharifCh... ...ee of the men that werelater released ahead of his cousin went directly to Afghanistan. It wasthere that they gave Bishar’s cousin’s name Awwab Qasem ... ...ansportation corridor fromthe northern part of Iraq to Iran and then on to Afghanistan for recruits.We are checking on how and why these guys are so f... ...re checking on how and why these guys are so focused ongetting recruits to Afghanistan.”“Any particular recruit profile they seem to be looking for?“G... ...hey take our threatsand promises lightly when we send them to the American media. Thereis a possibility that we may get to meet the supreme leader bef... ...c wizard’s dream come true. It was also 52a multi media fantasyland. Large surround sound speakers dominatedthe ceiling and w... ...ode people andlanguage technicians.Brigadier Jacobs office was next to the media and conference room. Itwas small by bureaucratic standards for the D....

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...The purpose of meditation, highlights the author, is to eliminate desires adhering to ethical principles and practising compassion which fosters awareness of emptiness. But Americans’ converted meditation as per their id and ego with the...

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...r Prof. Dr K.C.Sankaranrayanan, (Former Professor & Head, Department of Applied Economics, , CUSAT) My MentorContentsCha... ...to highlight how Americans’ through their economic philosophy,culture, way of living, ideologies, thought process, psychologicalresearch. Verbal commu... ...chologicalresearch. Verbal communication, life-styles. Competition pattern,media projections, competition, consumption pattern, narcotics,films, clot... ...n, consumption pattern, narcotics,films, clothing pattern, popularisation of American philosophy,self-image, egoistic, approach, etc. etc. killed med... ...s’ convertedmeditation as per their id and ego with the tremendous powerof media and advertisements. They overtook the easternmeditation and made it w... ...Most of the worl’s OPM come from thecountries of the Golden Crescent, Viz. Afghanistan, Iran(Islamic Republic) and Pakistan, Myanmar and Thailand,Leba... ... literate person. Current world events, news andfacts reach us thorugh the media. Right now, we arein the thick of digital communication technology. I...

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...to reach Central Asia. The indigenous Tengri and Shamanism,20 which appears to have co- existed with Zoroastrianism, prevailed even after the arrival of other religions such as Buddhism and Manichaeanism.21 The introduction of Islam into Central Asia went through roughly three stages: force of arms and alms; the scholasticist madrasa; Sufism. But the first group to come in...

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...ESSAYS ON CENTRAL ASIA by H.B. Paksoy ________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Nationality or Religion? Views of Central Asian Islam [127Kb] AACAR Bulletin (of the Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research) Vol VIII, No. 2, 1995; Reprinted in International J...

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... 2 ESSAYS ON CENTRAL ASIA by H.B. Paksoy TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction... ... TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Nationality or Religion? Views of Central Asian Islam [127Kb]AACAR Bulletin (of the Association for theA... ...(of the Association for theAdvancement of Central Asian Research) Vol VIII, No. 2,1995; Reprinted in International Journal of Central AsianStudies Vol... ...Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain andIreland, 1985, Part Observations Among Kirghiz Refugees from the Pamirs of Afghanistan Settled in the ... ...egiances.18 The Central Asians' ownexpressions of identity were contained in their own dialects in their local andregional media. These declarations a... ...wndynasty. Such is the case of Alptigin, founder of the Ghaznavid dynasty (994-1186) that ruled from Ghazna in what is now Afghanistan.31On the Wester... ...glo-Russian competition for land and influence acrossAsia, was played in two adjacent arenas. The main arena was Turkistan-Afghanistan, where tsarist ... ...y rains stated thepaper.Perhaps the most dramatic result has been the destruction ofthe Aral Sea, wellknown thanks to mass media coverage. Several US ... ...r more were killed by the Red Army. Later,Gorbachev warmly praised the armed forces for keeping order and warned theSoviet media not to engage in anti...

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...Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors that affected both interagency processes and policy outcomes during the Persian Gulf War (1990–91) and the early stages of the Bosnia crisis (1993–95). Going one-on-one with members of Washington’s policy eli...

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...T TERMINATION WITHIN A BUREAUCRATIC ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . 3 Interagency Decision Making via Negotiation. . . . . . . . . . 5 The Efficacy of the Policy-Making Process . . 14 Outline of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Implications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2 RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY: INDIVIDUAL A...

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...Meditation must ultimately produce bliss and eliminate the ego and purify the minds of those who practice it. If that is to be achieved, the ego and “I” factor and desires must vanish. If this is to be realized, one must follow the Buddhist or eastern way of meditation and reject the American way of meditati...

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...In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of we...

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...Editors' Preface...XI A Note on the Events of September 11, 2001...XIII Chapter 1 Weekend Teach-In: Opening Session...1 Chapter 2 Teach-In: Over Coffee...37 Chapter 3 Teach-In: Evening...70 Chapter 4 Colloquy...106 Chapter 5 Ruling the World...140 Chapter 6 Co...

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...omsky, Peter Rounds Mitchell, and JohnSchoeffelAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form, withoutwrittenpermission from ... ...for private gain, and is committed to publishing, in innovative ways,works of educational, cultural, and community value that are often deemedinsuffic... ... Editors' Preface XI A Note on the Events of September II, 200 I XIlIChapter One Weekend Teach-In: Opening Sessi... ...nments 6 Government Secrecy 10 The Media: An Institutional Analysis 12 __ Testing the "Propaganda... ... 12 __ Testing the "Propaganda Model" 15 - The Media and Elite Opinion 18 Filters on Reporting ... ... Honest Subordination 30 "Fight it Better"; the Media and the Vietnam War 31Chapter Two Teach-In: Over Coffee ... ...inside the Soviet Unionand right around its borders, in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan and so on.They never do anything anywhere else. They don't have... ...e ongoing Russian Chapter Three 87invasion of Afghanistan in November 1987, that they put on the front page.But when the ... ...the U.S.16 Or just to give one other example, during the Sovietinvasion of Afghanistan, there was even a newscaster [Vladimir Danchev]who made broadca...

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...While investigating these topics, my research centered on an interview with one of the former Soviet Union’s top missile engineers, the vice commander of Air Combat Command, discussions with the USAF Air Armament Center’s chief of advanced concepts, and on recently declassified CIA documents regarding th...

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...1 INTRODUCTION . . . .1 2 THE EVOLUTION AND SPREAD OF MOBILE BALLISTIC MISSILES. . . 5 3 THE AMERICAN COLD WAR RESPONSE . . . . . . . . . 21 4 RESPONDING TO MOBILE BALLISTIC MISSILES IN THE POST–COLD WAR ENVIRONMENT. . . . . . . 37 5 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . ...

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... ROBERT W. STANLEY II, Major, USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies T... ...School of Advanced Air and Space Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPA... ...ACE STUDIES MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, ALABAMA, FOR COMPLETION OF GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS, ACADEMIC YEAR 2002–2003. ... ...g the Soviet need to develop mobile missiles. Although many other sources within the media and academia were tapped for infor- matio... ...with the Soviets were still being ap- plied by the United States. Recent conflicts in Afghanistan and a new war against Iraq indicate... ... System Type Range (km) Payload (kg) Status Afghanistan Scud B BM 300 ... ..., the armed forces took those lessons to heart. As a re- sult, our latest actions in Afghanistan and the recent war in Iraq have un- ...

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...This book is dedicated to the most important period of modern Ukrainian history. It reveals important details that contributed to Volodymyr Zelensky's rise to power and his actions as president. You will learn about the influence of oligarchs on Ukrainian politics and the reas...

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...Beyond Apologies presents a number of myths about mainstream economics and clarifies their focus on consumption rather than on wellbeing. Each myth is followed by a discussion of a different way of addressing the issue. The book then presents various practical...

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...thus critically important to identify some widely accepted myths that underlie current economic discourse and to offer a more helpful and hopeful way of looking at the issues. Being free from dominant myths can lead to exciting new possibilities....

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... Significantly Reduces Poverty MYTH #6: Microcredit & Income Generation are Miracle Cures for Poverty MYTH #7: Inequality is Inevitable and is Less of a Problem than Poverty MYTH #8: Mainstream Economists Want Governments to Play Only a Minimal Role in the Economy MYTH #9: Whatever Governments Do, the Private Sector Can Do Better MYTH #10: When Corporations Prosper, E...

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...ounterthe myths that hold us back. Beyond Apologies makes the case for an economics not of waste, consumption, and inequality, but of we... ... us how to build a prosperous and sustainable economy.” – J.H. Crawford, author of Carfree Cities (International Books, 2002) and Carfree ... ...stream development policies and programs. Efroymson deftly combines a historicalreview of the unintended consequences of diverse poverty alleviation ... ...ender, Love, and Health Tobacco and Poverty: Research for Advocacy GuidelinesUsing Media and Research for Advocacy: Low Cost Ways to Increase Suc... ...brief quotations.Cover design and artwork by Saifuddin AhmedLayout and printing by Imex Media Ltd.Efroymson, Debra, 1966-Beyond Apologies: Defining and... ...y: Prioritizing Health and the Environment ---------------------- 265MYTH #12: The Mass Media Provides Unbiased Economic Reporting -------------------... ...m Arthur Anderson, which cost shareholders $74 billion.5Defence contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan wasted or lost to fraud as much as $12million a da... ...pon.Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning leaked government ‘secrets’ about the wars inIraq and Afghanistan and about the way that corporations mistreat the w...

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...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such...

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...In those distant times, traveling was always an unsafe business, so every merchant had to consider the risks of it. The road was rarely even, not to mention picturesque. It typically ran through a desert, often stony, with camels’ skeletons strewn all around—eerie marks, indeed, but useful for any traveler to use them for road signs...

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...1. World’s Origins. Population Spread 2. First States 3. Ancient Rome. Secrets of the Empire 4. The Middle Ages. Drawing New Boundaries 5. The Age of Great Geographical Discoveries. The New Continent 6. Island Isolationism. Japan 7. The Modern Era. The Automobile 8. On the Verge of Globalization. U...

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...UDC 625BBK 39/31C45 Timur Cherdabayev C45 Roads of the World: History and the Present Day - Almaty: OF Aldongar, 20... ... ISBN 978-601-7119-11-9 The book dwells on historical aspects of the world’s road and construction industry development, starting... ...struction industry development, starting from the very first paths of humankind, first routes and ways of goods and people land transp... ...eir own country, or will structure, too? Or, talking about present-day media have wondered how much mankind had to do so warfare, one woul... ...ring business. The residents of jen River valley (modern Afghanistan) to finally reach the Cyclades (Greece) made improvements t... ... (Greece) made improvements to their the Murghab River (Afghanistan, Turkmenistan). The ships: they were now furnished with kee... ...liest civilization of the Indus Valley with its dominion stretching from Afghanistan to Delhi and from the foothills of the Himalayas to Mumbai. The... ...liest times, the country has called itself Chung-Guo, which means Central, Medial state, or Tian-Xia, which means the Celestial Empire. Developmen... ...ecognition due to the fact that its penetration into Western culture was mediated by Rome. Meanwhile, the roots of the modern civiliza- tion, to w...