Israel's ongoing policies of expansion, military control and assassination mock any notion of sovereignty or bilateralism.
The original is eerie and beautiful, an anthem about the way that the idealism of the sixties spun out of control: Vietnam, assassination, drugs, darkness.
John Frankenheimer's classic focuses on the psychological effects of war and its transmutation into mind control and political assassination.
Gorging on a sense of power and control — he orders an assassination in London as coolly as he summons Bollywood starlets to his yacht in Thailand — he resembles the Hydra-headed demons in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
For decades, when the public has grown more sympathetic to gun control after an attempted assassination or a spike in gun murders or a harrowing school shooting, Wayne LaPierre and his fellow N.R.A. officials have hunkered down to wait for the "emotional period" or "hysteria," as they call it, to pass.
Although these troops were converted to Islām, the base of imperial unity through religion was gone, and some of the new army officers quickly learned to control the caliphate through assassination of any caliph who would not accede to their demands.
Soon, a murderous insurgency claimed control of the region through assassination and coups.
Eventually, the three detectives take their investigation to the Christian States of America, a haven for extremists ever since Johnson seized control in 1963, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Since assuming control, Saleh has survived several assassination attempts and fought and won a civil war; he is currently battling an insurgency in the south and a rebellion in the north mounted by the Houthis, Yemen's Shiite minority.
In Athens, meanwhile, a party of young oligarchic revolutionaries succeeded in gaining de facto control of the government through assassination and intimidation.
