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Capitol Hill Attack Is the Logical Endgame of Trumpism

The more deadly serious of them planted pipe bombs, packed their trucks with explosives, erected gallows on the Capitol, killed a Capitol Hill police office with a fire extinguisher, packed zip ties to take hostages, and sought to hunt down Vice President Mike Pence and execute him for refusing to go along with Trump’s coup attempt.

Political Assassinations: From the Assassins to Modern Politics

Following its establishment, Israel has assassinated key Palestinian political leaders, by planting bombs in their cars (writer Ghassan Kanafani); by poisoning them (Wadi Haddad, who is believed to have been assassinated by Israel by a poisoned chocolate bar); by direct shooting (fatal shooting of Islamic Jihad leader, Fathi Shaghaghi, who was gunned down in Cyprus, and Ahmed Yassin, Hamas’s supreme leader, who was killed by a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter as he left a mosque on a wheelchair in 2004).

The Drone Warfare Revolution Has Arrived

Though touted as being more precise weapons compared to the traditional method of plastering a “kill zone” with large unguided aerial bombs or artillery shells, drones strikes have nonetheless resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths in part because they can be used so much more liberally than manned warplanes.

What is Happening in Kashmir? A Chronology

They also added that Indian bombs had targeted some sectors of Pakistan-administered Kashmir resulting in the the death of a woman, injuring six civilians, destroying a house, partly damaging a school and hitting a shed with cows and goats resulting in the animals' deaths.

The Tiananmens Ignored by the Western Media

Had they approached the event through a lens of universal achievements of democracy, they would have made news about people who stopped tanks with their bare hands, who stood up against bullets, and who suffered severe injuries due to the bombs dropped by fighter jets.