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but he also faced the possibility of being extradited to the United States to face charges that carried far more serious consequences than those in Sweden. It was the possible American prosecution that he wished to discuss with me.

since that was the one that carried the death sentence. Because Sharanksy was accused of spying for the United States

a Jewish impresario who brought musicians to the United States from the Soviet Union—went awry and a young Jewish woman named Iris Kones died from inhaling smoke from a bomb that was intended to disrupt but not to kill. Because the bomb was inherently dangerous and caused death

but the vast majority of the world’s population has no such legal protection. Human rights are not limited by geographic or political borders. They apply

… same sentence that we are a people who accord “to one another the equal right of religious freedom” (emphasis added). United States v. MacIntosh

and the United States would be wise to spend a little less time thinking about Libya and a little more time thinking about a state that truly has implications on U.S. national interests. If things go south in Syria

journalists and activists whistle-blowers revealed the truth that there was a takeover by the CIA of the United States. Indeed

…mediate tactical problems and longer-term strategic threats. Today, most analysts agree that the greatest danger to the United States is not from Iran, which does not yet have nuclear weapons, or even al-Qaeda, which has been seriously damaged, but rather from Pakistan’s nuclear...

…o Thailand in September 2002. One of Roberts’ assignments from Epstein was to bring a young girl back to Epstein in the United States. Fearing for her life, and not wanting to subject another young girl to the abuse she was forced to endure, Roberts fled from Thailand to Australi...

…ovember 13 2012, just 18 days before Snowden contacted him, Greenwald had written a blog in Guardian asserting that the United States was “a surveillance state run amok.” In it, echoing very closely what Snowden said at his Crypto party, Greenwald wrote that “any remnants of inte...

…and his imitators, the blind and excessive classification of military information” was driving political leaders in the United States to adopt a “secretive frame of mind paralleled in history only in the Venice of the Renaissance.” Wiener, echoing many outspoken veterans of the M...

…igher Education. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. 2018. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/prc_political _influence_full_report.pdf. 8 “About Confucius Institute/Classroom.” Hanban...

…as started deploying a variety of techniques to also encourage self-censorship beyond China’s borders, including in the United States. In some cases, this syndrome has led to outright self-censorship of academic work. To cite some of the most egregious examples: e Denial of visa...

…is departure was imminent—was the only voice arguing against a military response. It was a purist’s rationale: keep the United States out of intractable problems, and certainly don’t increase our involvement in them. He was holding the line against the rising business-as-usual fa...

… to change his story. Without the dress, it would always be a “she-said, he-said” conflict between the President of the United States and a woman who acknowledges on the Tripp tapes that she frequently lies, and whose own lawyer said is an impressionable woman who sometimes fanta...