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…tion, not only had Arik remained as a minister without portfolio when Shamir succeeded Menachem Begin. In the coalition government, he had become Minister of Trade and Labor. Most importantly, when he’d been Agriculture Minister under Begin, he was the driving force in plans to e...

…became closer, Dan Meridor, were members of the Knesset’s defense committee. But from the day I returned to the Israeli government in June 2007, there was growing tension between us over dealing with the Syrian nuclear threat. It was not about whether we should take military acti...

…ined an elite unit of the U.S military but failed to get an honorable discharge, became hostile to policies of the U.S. government and defected to Russia. See Edward Jay Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, McGraw-Hill Book Company, (New York, 1978) pp.64-104...

Hannah Dreier of ProPublica won a Hillman Prize for reporting that showed how the government’s bungled crackdown on MS-13 has torn apart the lives of Latino immigrants. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, who has emerged as a defining voice of the Trump era, won for his essays on racism...

…of victims who came forward with testimony. This is best understood in the context of children being used as a means to government-sponsored sexual blackmail and other forms of leverage. See here Erik Prince in greater context: (the similarities between him and once (secretly) f...

…always needed to make deals with some of the smaller ones to get the required 60-vote parliamentary majority and form a government. The Likud looked vulnerable. Domestic concerns, alone, were eroding its support. Under Begin’s turbo-charged version of Milton Freedman economics,...

…d to ensure that Sakharov's core goals disappear from the debate: a Russia committed to humane and democratic values, a government that 30 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019264

…ded by declining oil prices, is heightening the ferment. The Arab World’s best hope is the rise of a new generation in government. In the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, brilliant young leaders are crafting forward-looking policies to effectively forge a new Middle East. American f...

…e uprising. “I think now we’ve passed the most dangerous moment. I hope so, I think so,” she said. Shaaban repeated the government line that Syria faced an armed rebellion, and disclosed that she had been tasked with initiating a dialogue with dissidents. “We see [the Syrian even...

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…s lacked the “animal spirits” to take such a risk ina slump. We saw the same story after 2008. Keynes’ proposal was for government to do the borrowing and investing instead. That’s part of the “fiscal policy” I described in Chapter 1. Here we tend to agree. That would explain his...

…crucial to the conservative Republican base — like opposition to abortion, gay rights, liberalized immigration and much government spending — most American Jews are on the other side, and strongly SO. “If Republicans can mischaracterize this president as anti-Israel, they can di...

…ttps://perma.cc/YE3N-TSWU. e [OPTIONAL] Harold Abelson et al., “Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications,” CSAIL (Jul 7, 2015). https:/Awww.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-keys-under-doormats-CSAIL. pdf archiv...

…pose. That means only private sector overinvestment, prompted by unwise tax motives, and only at the collective scale. Government follows different motives, and has somehow followed them to an opposite problem in this country. Our infrastructure rusts and crumbles. It seems that...

…35 detainees already approved for transfer. This process involves extensive and careful coordination across our federal government to ensure that our national security interests are met when an individual is transferred to another country. We insist, for example, that foreign cou...