Would you believe that RCMP operatives used to spy on Tupperware parties? In the 1950s and ’60s they did. They also monitored high school students, gays and lesbians, trade unionists, left-wing political groups, feminists,...
Internal security
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Auteur:Kinsman, Gary, Buse, Dieter K., Steedman, MercedesSommaire: -
Auteur:Jalalzai, Musa Khan, Durrani, AsadSommaire:As Western troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the Afghan National Army (A.N.A.), such as it is, has been tasked with securing the country. Yet the A.N.A. arose under foreign tutelage and will remain dependent upon foreign support for...
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Auteur:Dershowitz, Alan, Greenwald, Glenn, Hayden, Michael, Ohanian, Alexis, Snowden, EdwardSommaire:Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is...
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Auteur:Evans, M. StantonSommaire:This long-awaited book, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the US government.
- Auteur:Schrecker, EllenSommaire:
In this course, Yeshiva University history professor Ellen Schrecker investigates the early years of the Cold War and the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism as it swept through Americna society.
