Word: insurgentes
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The media’s unprecedented focus on the story has created this insurgent demand for academics, according to Alex S. Jones, director of the KSG’s Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Indonesia A "cessation of hostilities" accord signed by Jakarta and the insurgent Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in December has brought "demilitarization" to the long-troubled province. The rebels are supposed to turn in their weapons within five months while Indonesian troops pull back to "defensive positions." Civilian killings have dropped...
Poor and lawless, the southern Philippine region of Mindanao has for decades hosted criminal gangs engaging in everything from gunrunning to extortion to kidnapping. It has also provided a haven for insurgent groups seeking to establish Islamic or communist states. Hardly a week goes by without a firefight, a bomb...
It may be the scariest thing you can say about a Democratic presidential candidate at this early stage of the game: John Kerry is starting to look like a front runner. "Perish the word--please!" the Massachusetts Senator said last week when that possibility was gently broached. "I think of...
It's axiomatic that the first generation of insurgent minorities--blacks, women, gays--felt obliged to prove their similarities to the oppressive majority: that they were as white, manly and straight as Joe Sixpack. It was the next generation that got to celebrate their differences. They felt free to be...