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America’s democratic difficulties will have major implications for the world.
Article by Richard Haass, PF
Originally published at Project Syndicate
January 24, 2023 12:28 pm (EST)
For more than three-quarters of a century, the United States has played an outsized, constructive role in the world. To be sure, there have been major errors, including the Vietnam War and the 2003 Iraq War, but the US got it right far more often than not.
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TTO – Chiến sự Nga – Ukraine đã chứng minh vai trò quan trọng của vũ khí máy bay không người lái trên chiến trường hiện đại.
Từ chức năng trinh sát ban đầu, loại máy bay này đã biến thành sát thủ tấn công từ trên không và có thể định hình cuộc chiến trong tương lai.
Tại triển lãm hàng không ở Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ vào đầu tháng 9-2022, lần đầu tiên nước chủ nhà đã giới thiệu thế hệ máy bay không người lái (UAV) siêu thanh Bayraktar Kizilelma. UAV mới có tính năng tàng hình, bay gần 980km/h với tốc độ tối đa Mach 1.
Chuyến bay đầu tiên dự kiến được thực hiện vào đầu năm 2023. Đến cuối tháng 9, báo chí Pháp đưa tin Tổng cục Vũ khí Pháp đang thử nghiệm thế hệ UAV mới AVATAR trang bị súng trường tấn công.
Chất nổ Torpex phát nổ sớm đã phá hủy máy bay BQ-8 giết chết Kennedy và Willy ngay lập tức.
DONALD L. MILLER
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Al Jazeera English – 28-6-2020
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court. But why now? Start Here looks into the case.
Why is the US targeting the International Criminal Court?
The Vanity Fair contributing editor discusses his journey among the Jan. 6 cultists, while contributor Willem Marx breaks down Boris Johnson’s downfall.
BY EMILY JANE FOX AND JOE HAGAN
JULY 8, 2022
This week Vanity Fair contributing editor Jeff Sharlet joins Inside the Hive to talk about his journey into the far-right world of January 6 insurrectionists, QAnon-ers, and Trump cultists—who they are, what they’re saying, what they believe, and what their still-growing movement might portend (including the specter of civil war in America). Such a prospect, says Sharlet, is “scarier than it’s ever been.”
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Published: May 25, 2022 1.52pm BST Updated: May 25, 2022 6.52pm BST The Conversation
James Densley receives funding from the National Institute of Justice.
Jillian Peterson receives funding from the National Institute of Justice
We believe in the free flow of informationWhen the Columbine High School massacre took place in 1999 it was seen as a watershed moment in the United States – the worst mass shooting at a school in the country’s history. Tiếp tục đọc “What we know about mass school shootings in the US – and the gunmen who carry them out”
Opinion by Jane Greenway Carr
Updated 1734 GMT (0134 HKT) May 22, 2022, CNN
(CNN) Shortly after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison wrote in The New Yorker: “Unlike any nation in Europe, the United States holds whiteness as the unifying force. Here, for many people, the definition of ‘Americanness’ is color.” Reflecting on efforts — largely by White men — to define themselves by sustaining that poisonous definition, Morrison argues that those “who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror of lost status.”
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Written by Kevin Rudd, read by Paul-William Mawhinney, and produced by Jessica Beck. Executive producer is Max Sanderson
theguardian – Fri 15 Apr 2022 06.00 BST
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In 2008, many of Barack Obama’s supporters hoped he would bring the global war on terror to a close. Instead, he expanded it – and his successors have done nothing to change course. By Samuel Moyn
A US Reaper drone at a base in Nevada. Photograph: Josh Smith/Reuters
theguardian – Fri 17 Sep 2021 12.00 BST
Written by Samuel Moyn, read by Christopher Ragland and produced by Esther Opoku-Gyeni
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ADST – Signed on January 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords were intended to finally end the Vietnam War, which had cost the lives of thousands of American soldiers, not to mention the millions of Vietnamese civilians who were killed, injured, or displaced. Initially, the Accords were negotiated in secret by National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the lead North Vietnamese negotiator. These secret negotiations took place over the course of five years in Paris, from 1968 to 1973, but it was only in the early 70’s that any real progress was made.
Tiếp tục đọc “A Peace That Couldn’t Last – Negotiating the Paris Accords on Vietnam”
TRÚC ANH 25/2/2022 6:10 GMT+7
TTCT – Nhà tù kiểm duyệt sách đã đành, ngay ở chốn học đường, chuyện cấm sách cũng đã liên tục diễn ra trong hơn một thế kỷ qua ở Mỹ, nhân danh bảo vệ trẻ em. Làn sóng đó đã trở lại và vẫn tiếp diễn, từ cuối 2021 đến nay.
Tại Tennessee, nơi những quyển sách văn học hư cấu bị vùi trong lửa, hội đồng trường học quận McMinn hồi cuối tháng 1 yêu cầu cấm Maus, hồi ký dưới dạng truyện tranh về nạn diệt chủng Holocaust của tác giả Art Spiegelman, lưu hành trong trường học. Các quan chức giáo dục McMinn cho rằng họ không phản đối chuyện dạy về thảm sát, nhưng những lời nói tục tĩu, cảnh khỏa thân, hình ảnh bạo lực và mô tả cảnh tự tử trong Maus “quá người lớn để được dùng trong nhà trường”.
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Economics and security – Indo Pacific, Quad, ASEAN, China, Taiwan…
VNE – By Anh Minh, Doan Loan November 16, 2021 | 07:25 pm GMT+7
A Boeing 787-9 aircraft of Vietnam Airlines. Photo courtesy of Vietnam AirlinesNational flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will operate its first regular direct flight to the U.S. on November 28, achieving a dream conceived nearly two decades ago.
The flight will depart from HCMC in the evening and arrive at San Francisco 13 hours and 50 minutes later, CEO Le Hong Ha said at a press briefing Tuesday.
The return flight will leave San Francisco on the evening of November 29 (U.S. time) and arrive in HCMC on December 1, 16 hours and 40 minutes later.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam Airlines direct flight to US takes off next week”
Tác giả: Hoàng Anh Tuấn
Hiệp định Đối tác tăng cường an ninh ba bên giữa Mỹ, Anh và Australia (AUKUS) có phiên âm khá thú vị (ô kis) – “Hôn nhau cái nào” – đến mức Tổng thống Biden cũng cảm thấy thích thú khi phát âm tên liên minh mới trong bài diễn văn đánh dấu sự ra đời của AUKUS.
Tuy nhiên, việc thành lập AUKUS thì hoàn toàn nghiêm túc, chẳng “lãng mạn” chút nào, và là kết quả của những nỗ lực thương lượng không ngừng nghỉ trong nhiều tháng trước đó của quan chức cấp cao 3 nước, trước khi AUKUS chính thức ra đời ngày 15/9/2021 vừa qua.
Tạm thời có thể rút ra 10 nhận xét nhanh từ sự ra đời của AUKUS như sau:
Tiếp tục đọc “Mười điều rút ra từ sự ra đời của Liên minh AUKUS”
By Jamiel Lynch and Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 0820 GMT (1620 HKT) March 17, 2021
Atlanta (CNN)Video evidence suggests “it is extremely likely” that the same person was responsible for the three deadly shootings at massage parlors in the metro Atlanta area, police said Tuesday.Eight people were killed and one person was wounded in the attacks. Two of the shootings were at spas across the street from each other in northeast Atlanta and the other happened about 30 miles away in Cherokee County to the northwest of the city.”Video footage from our Video Integration Center places the Cherokee County suspect’s vehicle in the area, around the time of our Piedmont Road shootings,” the Atlanta Police Department said in a news release. “That, along with video evidence viewed by investigators, suggests it is extremely likely our suspect is the same as Cherokee County’s, who is in custody. Because of this, an investigator from APD is in Cherokee County and we are working closely with them to confirm with certainty our cases are related.”Officials in each jurisdiction said there were no immediate indications of motive.
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By Colin Woodard SMITHSONIANMAG.COM
FEBRUARY 22, 202122332
Alexander Hamilton had no illusions about what would happen to Americans if the United States collapsed.
If the newly drafted Constitution wasn’t ratified, he warned in Federalist No. 8, a “War between the States,” fought by irregular armies across unfortified borders, was imminent. Large states would overrun small ones. “Plunder and devastation” would march across the landscape, reducing the citizenry to “a state of continual danger” that would nourish authoritarian, militarized
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