Tag: Kennedy
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Timeline of U.S. Presidential Foreign Policy Doctrines
Hi, I’d like to review U.S. presidential doctrines throughout history. I think it important to understand just how consistent and unbashfully public American leaders have been about their quest for empire. Monroe Doctrine (1823) The Monroe Doctrine was expressed during President Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823. The statement articulated United States’ policy on the…
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Kennedy: “I’m Not That Interested in Space”
In 1957, The USSR launched Sputnik to orbit the Earth. Two years later, in 1959, the USSR orbited the moon with Luna 3. By April of 1961, the USSR put the first man in space: Yuri Gagarin. The U.S. needed to respond. In spring 1961, President John F. Kennedy approved a mission to land a…
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The Gaza Diet and Israel’s Politicization of Hunger
An Israeli court has forced the release of government research detailing the number of calories Palestinians in Gaza need to consume to avoid malnutrition. The study was commissioned after Israel tightened its blockade of the territory after Hamas came to power in June 2007. Dated from 2008 and entitled, Food Consumption in the Gaza Strip –…
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A Quick Overview of The Monroe Doctrine
Hi, Let’s review the Monroe Doctrine so that we can better understand how it’s used as a declaration of hegemony and right of unilateral intervention in Latin America. The Monroe Doctrine was expressed during President Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823. The statement articulated United States’ policy on the new political order developing…
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The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World
The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended — though unknown to the public, only officially. The image of the world standing still is the turn of phrase…
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The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations
James Bill has written a most valuable and trenchant critique of U.S. foreign policy toward Iran in the Pahlavi and post-Pahlavi periods. The author has based his study on a great array of sources, including declassified U.S. government documents (plus those “declassified” by the student hostage takers at the U.S. embassy after their assault in November 1979); personal letters and memoranda; interviews with key…