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  2. Mutual Defense Assistance Act - Wikipedia

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    The Mutual Defense Assistance Act was a United States Act of Congress signed by President Harry S. Truman on 6 October 1949. [1] [2] For U.S. foreign policy, it was the first U.S. military foreign aid legislation of the Cold War era, and initially to Europe. [3] The Act followed Truman's signing of the Economic Cooperation Act (the Marshall ...

  3. United States and state-sponsored terrorism - Wikipedia

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    Human Rights Watch stated that while "not all paramilitaries are intimate partners with the military", the existing partnership between paramilitaries and the Colombian military was "a sophisticated mechanism, in part supported by years of advice, training, weaponry, and official silence by the United States, that allows the Colombian military ...

  4. Dawes Act - Wikipedia

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    Dawes Act. An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes. The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 [1] [2 ...

  5. Everyone Who Has Pulled Out of SXSW in Opposition to ... - AOL

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    Sponsorship of the festival from the U.S. Army as well as defense contractors/those sending arms to destroy innocent lives is an act we find disgusting and reprehensible.”

  6. Despite protests of SXSW's army ties, the bands played on ...

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    "The Army’s sponsorship is part of our commitment to bring forward ideas that shape our world," the statement said. The statement also asserted the festival's continued commitment to "human ...

  7. National Security Act of 1947 - Wikipedia

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    The National Security Act of 1947 ( Pub.L. 80-253, 61 Stat. 495, enacted July 26, 1947) was a law enacting major restructuring of the United States government 's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James ...

  8. Texas governor Greg Abbott is slamming the artists boycotting SXSW due to the festival’s U.S. Army sponsorship — but SXSW doesn’t want his support. “Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army ...

  9. State Partnership Program - Wikipedia

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    The State Partnership Program ( SPP) is a joint program of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the individual states, territories, and District of Columbia. The program and the concept originated in 1993 as a simplified form of the previously established (1992) Joint Contact Team Program (JCTP). The JCTP aimed at assisting former ...