Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzeris an American author, journalist and academic. A former newspaper reporter, the veteran New York Times correspondent has filed stories from more than fifty countries on five continents, as well as published several books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 August 1951
CountryUnited States of America
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Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.
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After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
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The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.
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Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.
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Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.
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