Word: communisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the war, as the nation responded to the new threat of Communism, Attorney General Tom Clark persuaded Harry Truman to extend wiretapping to cases "vitally affecting the domestic security." This practice continued without serious limitation until 1967, when a Supreme Court decision limited the use of wiretapping without court warrants. The following year, Congress attempted to define the limits by requiring warrants in all cases that did not involve the national security. However, Attorney General John Mitchell went right on tapping the phones of suspected domestic subversives on his own authority in the name of national security-a practice...
...less has been said about the easy transfer of espionage techniques from the cold war abroad to the home front. Overseas operations-including even the disruption of lawful governments and a wide repertory of other "dirty tricks"-were perceived as necessary in the worldwide contest posed by aggressive Communism. When the same techniques were directed toward the activities of U.S. citizens at home who were suspected of subversion, the principle became obscure; the criterion, in the absence of any other, remained national security...
...finally come to a decision. The admiral has been Franco's closest crony and top subordinate for many years, and has served his leader in government posts ever since the end of the Civil War in 1939. The two men share similarly hostile views toward liberalism, socialism and Communism. Spaniards say that Carrero Blanco "is more Franco than Franco himself." The author of several works on naval history, stocky, black-browed Admiral Carrero Blanco once summed up his feelings on political change this way: "Let no one, from without or within, harbor the least hope of being able...
Gaddafi's Islamic socialism, which he grandly describes as a unique "Third International Theory," rejects both Western-style capitalism and Eastern-style Communism. He clearly regards himself as the one true successor of his hero, Egypt's late Gamal Abdel Nasser, as leader of the Arab and Islamic worlds. It is a claim that other Arabs regard with some cynicism...
These sorts of criticism obviously strike at the very ideological foundation of the Center. To ask that it offer courses in painting is almost heretical given its professed anti-art school attitudes. As one student remarked, "Teaching painting would be like teaching Communism." And to ask the department to become more creation-oriented in general is to fly in the face of its expressed statement of purpose. Art was always going to be a happy by-product, if it was ever achieved at all, at Carpenter Center...