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In 2011, former Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney, took a delegation of observers to Libya to monitor NATO's purported humanitarian intervention. Prefaced by Ramsey Clark, this collection of essays includes scholarly and legal analysis, as well as personal accounts by witnesses to the NATO assault on a helpless civilian population it had a UN mandate to protect, and the massive propaganda campaign that made...
964) USO for the troops
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For 75 years, the United Service Organizations (USO) has lifted the spirits of American soldiers and has kept service personnel connected to their families and country while abroad. USO: For the Troops conveys the fast pace and complex logistics of a modern USO tour, and underlines the importance of the organization not just for service people, but for America as a whole.
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Patrice Lumumba was the first elected prime minister of the former Belgian Congo. While popular with the Congolese, he alienated many in Europe and the United States. A few months after becoming prime minister, he was overthrown by a military coup and then killed. Nobody has been charged with the crime.
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"Elite sniper Jody Mitic loved being a soldier. His raw, candid, and engrossing memoir follows his personal journey into the Canadian military, through sniper training, and firefights in Afghanistan, culminating on the fateful night when he stepped on a landmine and lost both of his legs below the knees..."--Publisher description.
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"Honor żołnierza, niewiarygodna odwaga i samobójcza misja We wrześniu 1940 roku do KL Auschwitz trafia Witold Pilecki. Przekroczywszy bramę obozu, staje się numerem 4859. Mundur polskiego oficera dobrowolnie zamienia na obozowy pasiak, by spełnić swą patriotyczną misję. Kiedy naziści przekształcają obóz koncentracyjny w machinę śmierci, Pilecki tworzy w nim ruch oporu. W ludziach, dla których jedynym celem jest przetrwanie, budzi...
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In 2006, David Fraser was the Canadian general in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The NATO Alliance was about to engage the enemy in the greatest and bloodiest battle of their 70-year history. And they were grossly outnumbered. From the Canadian in charge of the joint military command, this is the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi,...
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Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General from 1953 to 1961, met his death in a mysterious plane crash while on a mission in Katanga. Although officially seen as an accident, the circumstances in which the plane crashed, the general hostility against the UN at the time in the region, and the many financial and political interests at stake in that part of Africa during the Cold War, all seem to point now to the fact that his death could have suited many...
975) Lincoln Park
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Set in Saigon during the Vietnam War and in early 1970s Chicago, MP Captain Tobias Riley works to find the killer of a Vietnamese colonel, an investigation that unmasks an American deserter and leads him from the black markets of Saigon back stateside to the streets of Chicago.
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"For most of us, clicking "like" on social media has become fairly routine. For a Marine, clicking "like" from the battlefield lets his social network know he's alive. This is the first time in the history of modern warfare that US troops have direct, instantaneous connection to civilian life back home. Lisa Ellen Silvestri's Friended at the Front documents the revolutionary change in the way we communicate across fronts. Social media, Silvestri contends,...
978) Wingtip to wingtip
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Inside story of the World's greatest precision flying teams - their histories, pilots, aircraft and some of the most spectacular flying ever captured on film.
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Esta es la increíble historia real de la infiltración de un héroe de la resistencia polaca que entró en Auschwitz voluntariamente para sabotear el campo desde dentro, y su intento de desafiar a la muerte para advertir a los aliados sobre los planes de los nazis de llevar a cabo la Solución final antes de que fuera demasiado tarde. Para descubrir el destino de los miles de enterrados en un misterioso campamento nazi en la frontera del Reich, un...
980) Flag: 3
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With the Metazone temple operation ending in failure and the flag still eluding them, the SDAC unit comes under heavy scrutiny from U.N. Command. As investigations begin, the frontline base is attacked by a mysterious new bipedal machine, the XR-2 Longku. Defense operations fall to Lt. Ichiyanagi, using his newly delivered HAVWC equipped with an experimental neurologically-linked control system. Meanwhile, within Uddiyana's capital city of Subasci,...
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