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Stephen Kinzer

American Author

Born: Aug 4, 1951

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Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen. Stephen Kinzer

Good Family Other Relations Had Powerful Venice Him His Italian Craftsmen Artists Sent Request Dozen Florence

Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction. Stephen Kinzer

Art Father Sold Considered Collection Auction His Decadent Ordered

Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves. Stephen Kinzer

Today Settlers Once Mainly Isolated Prairie Covered North Survives America Turned Much Landscape Farms European Reserves Nearly

Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established the Ottoman Empire and ruled for centuries over large swaths of Europe and Asia are the subject of countless legends, poems and books. Stephen Kinzer

People Books Ruled Favorite Emerged Crossed Triumphs Poems Countless Empire Over Tales How Subject Historic Celebrating Pastime Legends Established Central Asia Turks Centuries Europe Large Many

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession. Stephen Kinzer

Best Together Political Tribal Country Believe States Fact Leading Encouraged Intellectuals Afghan Figure Many United United States Secession Kept

The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have not been tried or even charged with any crime. Stephen Kinzer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view. Stephen Kinzer

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war. Stephen Kinzer

War Conflict World Passion Civil Classic Civil War Had Since Around Provoked Intense Interest Spanish International

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care. Stephen Kinzer

Risks Care Country Isolation Several States Asylum Diplomatic Seem Costly Retaliation Trade Snowden Any Sanctions Grants Including United United States

Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam. Stephen Kinzer

Islam Muslim Some Share Global West Campaign Against Engaged Belief

It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other countries from spreading onto American soil; and to maintain access to global sea lanes on which our economy depends. Beyond that, there is little or nothing in the world that should draw the United States to war. Stephen Kinzer

War World Destruction Soil Nothing Other Other Countries Assure Our States Draw Weapons Vital Prevent Attacked Onto Maintain Countries Mass Mass Destruction Economy Global Beyond Access Spreading Truly American Depends Which Little Should Sea Wars United United States

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause. Stephen Kinzer

Life Democracy Cause Passion Tyranny Princeton Revolution Young Carried Out Given Only He Idealist Named Democratic Schoolteacher Himself Fresh His Iran Iranian American Against Midst Found Away Nebraska

Foreign interventions always end badly. Stephen Kinzer

Badly Always Foreign End

Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don't conform to the tastes of Upper West Side intellectuals? Use human rights as your excuse! Stephen Kinzer

Government Rights People World Poverty Country Build Military Human Rights Side Resources Muslims Support Excuse Undermine Because Around West West Side Governments Up Intellectuals American Tastes Upper Human Want Conform Poor American Military Use Your Bash Raising

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights. Stephen Kinzer

Myself Rights Journalist First Opposing Human Rights Considered Those Rights Movement Correspondent See Only Alongside First Place Became None Advocate Foreign Years Human Movement Place Them Worked Reason Who Many Now Defend

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power. Stephen Kinzer

Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible. Stephen Kinzer

Impossible Power Sold Systems Arabia Wound Weapons Scenario Seized Islamic Iran Up Hands Who Comparable Hardly Saudi Saudi Arabia

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