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: Time Magazine
1-31-16
Hillary Clinton once joked that she comes from the ’60s. But sometimes Bernie Sanders still lives there.
Source: BBC
1-27-16
Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, protested his innocence in a final plea against his death sentence, newly released papers show.
Source: WSJ
1-28-16
James Garfield was an American hero when he was alive, but his life and assassination are now largely overlooked
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
1-29-16
She admired Brandeis for his “craftsmanship, his sense of collegiality and his ability to combine a judicial restraint with the readiness to defend civil rights and liberties.”
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
1-18-16
by Gavan McCormack
The year 2016 might turn out to be a decisive one in the long-running contest between the Japanese state and Okinawa prefecture over the construction of a new base for the US.
Source: The Daily Beast
1-28-16
“It made a lot of people straighten up,” the Republican lawmaker said.
Source: teleSUR
1-29-15
Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, said the U.S. presidential candidate was acting like Hitler, while the world acts as “bystanders” to the refugee crisis.
Source: Time Magazine
1-26-16
Scientists say the Doomsday Clock is still three minutes from midnight.
Source: NYT
1-27-16
No one knows why a catastrophic fire tore through the small settlement that rose by a river channel. Yet answers are emerging, piece by piece, some 3,000 years later.
Source: NYT
1-26-16
The debate over Lord Jeffery’s role on campus erupted amid a series of controversies at colleges, municipalities and other institutions around the country over the use of historical figures, like slaveholders or Confederate battle figures; stereotypes, particularly about Native Americans; or symbols that some consider offensive.
Source: New Historian
1-25-16
The German submarine, which had been missing in action for more than a century, was found during a detailed scan of the seabed for windfarm development.
Source: PSYBLOG
1-22-16
A human brain could hold as much information as the entire internet, a new study finds.
Source: NYT
1-23-16
Mr. Stoliar was the only survivor among nearly 800 Jews fleeing Romania’s Holocaust aboard a ship that was barred from Palestine, interned by Turkey, set adrift and torpedoed by a Soviet submarine.
Source: The Antiquities Coalition
1-23-16 (accessed)
It shows, sadly, the clear march of destruction by Daesh and its sympathizers.
Source: NYT
1-1916
The book is by Robert J. Gordon, a professor of economics at Northwestern University: “The Rise and Fall of American Growth”
Source: Syracuse.com
1-22-16
After weeks of criticism in the national spotlight, an Upstate New York village has decided to change their official seal.
Source: NYT
1-21-16
More than 140 bones and bone fragments were found at the site last summer by archaeologists under contract to the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
Source: The Conversation
1-21-16
The Trump family fortune was based on subsidized federal housing that excluded blacks.
Source: eonline
1-21-16
"Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month. You know? We're Americans. Period. That's it."
Source: Portside
1-20-16
A children's book showing happy slaves in the South was pulled off the market last weekend after a major controversy about its contents.
