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
January 31, 2016
Hillary Clinton once joked that she comes from the ’60s. But sometimes Bernie Sanders still lives there.
Source: BBC
January 27, 2016
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
January 28, 2016
James Garfield was an American hero when he was alive, but his life and assassination are now largely overlooked
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
January 29, 2016
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
January 18, 2016
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
January 28, 2016
“It made a lot of people straighten up,” the Republican lawmaker said.
Source: teleSUR
January 29, 2015
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
January 26, 2016
Scientists say the Doomsday Clock is still three minutes from midnight.
Source: NYT
January 27, 2016
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
January 26, 2016
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
January 25, 2016
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
January 22, 2016
A human brain could hold as much information as the entire internet, a new study finds.
Source: NYT
January 23, 2016
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
January 23, 2016 (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
January 22, 2016
After weeks of criticism in the national spotlight, an Upstate New York village has decided to change their official seal.
Source: NYT
January 21, 2016
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
January 21, 2016
The Trump family fortune was based on subsidized federal housing that excluded blacks.
Source: eonline
January 21, 2016
"Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month. You know? We're Americans. Period. That's it."
Source: Portside
January 20, 2016
A children's book showing happy slaves in the South was pulled off the market last weekend after a major controversy about its contents.
