This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: NYT
1-3-17
No one doubts that the ship collided at high speed with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, but a new documentary posits that the sinking of the ship may have been accelerated by a giant coal fire in its hull.
Source: Smart Politics
1-2-17
Since the passage of the 17th Amendment all but seven states have been represented by a single party in the U.S. House and Senate for at least one Congress.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
1-3-17
Jewish groups in Germany have denounced the inflammatory book, which sold 4,000 copies during its first print run at the beginning of 2016.
Source: The Telegraph
1-2-17
In a statement, Facebook told her: “The use of the image was not approved because it violates Facebook’s guide lines on advertising. It presents an image with content that is explicitly sexual and which shows to an excessive degree the body, concentrating unnecessarily on body parts..."
Source: Asia-Pacific Journal
1-1-2017
by Miyamoto Takashi
The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine, one of several UNESCO registered Meiji Industrial Revolution Sites, used convict labor.
Source: The Atlantic
1-2-17 (accessed)
What Obama can learn from Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
Source: Bloomberg
12-28-16
The economy was stronger in 2016 than several previous election years.
Source: The Guardian
12-26-16
by Guardian Editorial
It is worth reflecting on why an official exhibition in London about British colonialism, similar to the kind that is now running in Berlin about the German equivalent, is so inconceivable. It’s because it is too difficult and painful.
Source: KITV
12-29-16
It was John F. Kennedy who had a vision for the first real act of reconciliation with Japan.
Source: Gallup
1-2-17
As Donald Trump prepares to take the presidential oath on Jan. 20, less than half of Americans are confident in his ability to handle an international crisis, to use military force wisely, or to prevent major scandals in his administration.
Source: Time Magazine
12-20-16
The inclination to keep the press at more than arm’s length is about as old as America is.
Source: NYT
12-31-16
by John A. Farrell
A journalist says he’s discovered proof in H.R. Haldeman’s papers that confirms the worst suspicions of LBJ.
Source: NYT
12-31-16
More than 40,000 images taken from Palmyra are part of a Louvre-curated 3-D exhibition highlighting the threats of war against global heritage.
Source: The Washington Post
12-31-16
The city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is in pieces, victim of the Islamic State group’s fervor to erase history.
Source: NYT
1-1-17
In the US they were scorned in the McCarthy era, but at a China museum they’re lionized.
Source: NYT
12-29-16
A court reopened a criminal complaint that accuses former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of a cover-up in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center.
Source: CNN
12-28-16
After President-elect Donald Trump's recent victory, some of his supporters celebrated by flying Confederate battle flags from pickup trucks and waving them at rallies. But Trump's victory may mark the resurgence of the Old South in another more sinister way: The return of "racial amnesia."
Source: The Guardian
12-29-16
The book is by Jürgen Osterhammel, a professor at Konstanz University, who argues that the 19th century should be recast as the century marked by globalization, not nationalism.
Source: NYT
12-28-16
The order protects an estimated 100,000 archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings.
Source: The Washington Post
12-29-16
A backlash to globalization appears to be gaining strength around the world.
