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The One Percent doctrine (also called the Cheney doctrine) was created in November 2001 (no exact date is given) during a briefing given by then-CIA Director George Tenet and an unnamed briefer to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in response to worries that a Pakistani scientist was offering nuclear weapons expertise to Al Qaeda after the ...
A war profiteer is any person or organization that derives unreasonable profit from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war. [1] The term typically carries strong negative connotations. General profiteering, making a profit criticized as excessive or unreasonable, also occurs in peacetime. [2]
The war in Ukraine has also resulted in significant loss of human capital, [6] destruction of agricultural trading infrastructure, [7] huge damage to production capacity, [8] including through the loss of electricity, [9] [10] and a reduction in private consumption of more than a third relative to pre-war levels.
The U.S. State Department said there is no need to launch any formal domestic investigation into whether Israel has committed war crimes, even though the weapons it uses are supplied by the US. [184] In a speech to the European Parliament, the EU's top diplomat, Josep Borrell , said water cuts are a violation of international law regardless of ...
Amnesty International entered the country without government approval in spring 2012 and documented "gross violations of human rights on a massive scale" by the Syrian military and shabiha, "many of which amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes". These were committed against the armed opposition, to punish and intimidate civilian ...
During the Cold War, peacekeeping was primarily interpositional in nature—thus being referred to as traditional peacekeeping.UN Peacekeepers were deployed in the aftermath of interstate conflict in order to serve as a buffer between belligerent factions and ensure compliance with the terms of an established peace agreement.
Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity. The term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the diamond trade in certain areas, or to label an ...
[64] [better source needed] He stated the phenomenon of wealth concentration among a small segment of the population is a century old, and argued a direct correlation between wealth concentration and the health of the stock market, stating that 36.7% of the United States' wealth was controlled by the 1% in 1922, 44.2% when the stock market ...