Burnaby Trans Mountain tree-sitter jailed for criminal contempt - BC News
castanet.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from castanet.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Burnaby Trans Mountain tree-sitter jailed for criminal contempt - BC News
castanet.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from castanet.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Illustration of burnt ruins of the US Capitol after the Conflagration of the 24th August, 1814. [Source: Library of Congress]
In the weeks following the attack on the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, as the nation tried to make sense of the insurrection that it had just collectively witnessed, experts drew comparisons between this modern mutiny and the small yet significant list of past attacks on the Capitol. The clearest comparison was that of the burning of Washington, DC by British troops in 1814. Beyond the symbolic similarities of the attacks on the seat of American democracy, perhaps the most stark parallel between the two events was the lack of proper preparations made to defend the District.
adding a strategic perspective to all the stories coming to you think i really grounded your? in other words come you might ve been criticized for running a super coffee novel based on to stress? that s an interesting question. i mean, my doctorate is in political science. you can take the boy out of the academia. you can t entirely take the academia out of the boy. same thing my career has been in policy for the last 15 years that it might be difficult to think of things. it might be difficult for me to think of things in pure entertainment passions without taking what is the policy to be learned? but i argue a broader point that i don t think that policy writing needs to be dry, needs to be dull, especially when you read about history. especially episode such as this that has been sort of lost that i think there is real value in showing a cotton hoodie between the men who went 200 miles into mexico after geronimo or 100 miles behind enemy lines in the philippines to cap