Word: insurrectionism
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Framed by Eloise’s modern-day dissertation research into the “Pink Carnation” and “League of the Purple Gentian”—British espionage organizations meant to quash Irish insurrection in 1803—the narrative centers on Letty...
Intent on waging war against slavery in the South, the militant abolitionist led a raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Va. Local militiamen captured him, and he was hanged after being convicted of treason, murder and inciting slave insurrection.
Things have gotten worse on both fronts. Eighteen months ago the insurgency was not quite so well organized, jihadi groups were operating mainly outside Baghdad and Shi'ite militias were smarting from Moqtada al-Sadr's failed insurrection. It was possible to go out in the evening to a restaurant...
Bugti symbolizes Baluchistan's character. He says he killed his first man when he was just 12, and his life ever since has been a series of unending blood feuds with other clans and with the Pakistani military. Bugti sees himself as a warrior fighting a noble cause. He is...
Are the bishops happy with it? Almost certainly not. Did they have a choice? Well, at the beginning of this year they received an instruction from Cardinal Francis Arinze, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship, declaring it "not acceptable to maintain that people have become accustomed to...