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... Communications Satellite Policy , 47–48 . 48. The earliest satellites had to pause telephone and telegraph service use in order to broadcast television, as TV required much more bandwidth. Early Bird, for example, could carry 240 channels or one TV broadcast but not at the same time. Later satellites...

... array of media in Iran including the printed press, the Internet, rock music, satellite television, video technology, advertising, poetry, and local and diaspora cin- Radical History Review Issue 105 (Fall 2009)  d o i 10.1215/01636545-2009-016 © 2009 by MARHO: The Radical Historians...

...- fusion" of everyday scholarship. As Kenneth Lynn wrote, Bailyn seeks "t9 dominate our understanding of the entire history of colonial America." Bailyn has found the perfect metaphor for this ambition, placing himself in a satellite circling the eighteentkntury world. Yet his lens misses...

... of NSC 5412, to include these objectives: a. Create and exploit troublesome problems for international Communism, impair relations between the USSR and Communist China and between them and their satellites, complicate control within the USSR, Communist...

... Soviet control over the satellite states.” Then in 1954, NSC-5412l1 defined the scope of that liberal effort to destabilize the left in Europe, and around the world: Create and exploit troublesome problems for International Communism; impair relations between the U.S.S.R. and Communist...

... consider them unworthy of public support. At other times, the agency’s leaders played on Cold War concerns to justify additional support for its programs. By suggesting that these programs were integral to the national effort to combat communism, though, this strategy drew attention...

... and instantaneous transaction networks; aston- ishingly rapid growth in small-scale, informal, and localized economies; a communications revolution pushed along by com- puters, mass media, cables, satellites, and fiber optics; regional and global environmental changes such as ozone holes, global warm...

... its self-image.6 Support for Hezbollah grew immensely among the Shiite community in Leba- non during the 1990s, especially after the assassination of their former secretary- general, Abbas al-Moussawi, and the rise of the charismatic Hassan Nasrallah to power.7 They intensified...

... and saving the nation from communism: human rights abuses were limited in Chile, compared to other Latin American countries, and the Chilean armed forces initiated the first step in bringing down the Soviet Union in the global cold war. Others argue...

... industry engages in flexible production on a global scale, as software contracts are commissioned and delivered through satellite connections between Dallas and Manila, Boston and Ban- galore), but capital, whether in search of wage labor, interest, or other profits, circulates so rapidly...

... are the subject of Sarah Nelson’s article. Nelson centers media professionals and technical experts from Asia, Africa, and Latin America who imagined an international satellite system that would equalize news production and distribution around the globe, using space communications technologies to overcome...

... prisoners, but Nelson Mandela remains in prison, and forced relocations of communities still take place in suburban and rural areas. The South African Defense Force usually strikes at will, yet its 1987 defeat by Cuban and Angolan forces at Cuito Cuanavale brought the government to acquiesce...

... of transportation, communication, construction, power generation and production that have been superseded or have fallen into comparative desuetude. Common areas of investigation in- clude canals, railroads, and public utilities; the use of wind, water, and steam for prime movers; structures displaying...

..., and the swelling ranks of the working class, alongside a process in which capital digs its own grave, are eventually sufficient to allow workers to engage in a revolutionary seizure of control of the means of production, thereby instituting communism. In most conceptualizations of how capitalism links...

... in black communities throughout the United States, the FPCC’s black activists made explicit the link between the U.S. black and Cuban struggles. On the cover of the news- letter’s fourth issue, an article titled “Revolution and Freedom: How Much and for Whom...

... people in dif- ferent countries can synchronize global actions. Americans’ visual palette refl ects changes in the economic, cultural, and political environment. As cable and satellite access spreads, Americans gain access to a broader variety, quality...

... taught us that the most important factor in any life was honesty. I, their most apt pupil, believed in this vision as well. That is why, in 1933 at Radcliffe College, I listened to one Max Weiss from the U.S. Young Commun• ist League. I knew he was speaking English, but I understood...

.... 12 Thus despite the imagined local orientation of television, many viewers across the globe in the 1960s watched regionally produced or imported content. Intertel, which formed prior to the development of communication satellites, purposefully cultivated a form of international television...

... tenement fires, with over one hundred fatalities, in the past fifty years. The wealthy beach community of Malibu has suffered a similar number of fires in the same time, with over 1,500 homes destroyed. Although the two regions experience an equivalent frequency of devastating fires...

...-the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomor- row-and housed it in Disrtky World, next door to the Magic King- dom. EPCOT, too, is saturated with history, but of a remarkably different kind from Disney’s 1950s version. It is these two histori- cal perspectives, side by side in Orlando, that I want...