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: ZeroHedge
5-7-15
In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history.
Source: Vice
5-11-15
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has located a new cache of colonial-era government documents, VICE News has learned.
Source: London Review of Books
5-11-15 (accessed)
"The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false."
Source: Reuters
5-9-15
Tanks and troops paraded across Moscow's Red Square on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany, an event boycotted by Western leaders over Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis.
Source: Huff Post
5-8-15
The woman responsible for creating the holiday ended up in a mental institution. It's said she sacrificed her health in her fight against the holiday's commercialization.
Source: Connecticut Post
5-8-15
These have become dark days for the aviation historians and others who have maintained that Gustave Whitehead of Bridgeport flew a heavier-than-air airship more than two years before the Wright brothers' first flight on Dec. 17, 1903.
Source: The College Fix
5-7-15
Saida Grundy, a feminist sociologist of race and ethnicity listed as an incoming assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies at Boston University, has come under fire for Tweets that essentially argued white people were the worst slave owners on the planet.
Source: NYT
5-6-15
He'll be remembered for an ethics investigation that prompted his resignation and negotiations in Nicaragua that helped end the civil war there.
Source: WTOP
5-7-15
It’s no bartender’s secret that throughout history, America has had a rocky relationship with alcohol. Now, you can stumble through that history at the National Archives’ latest exhibit, “Spirited Republic.”
Source: ASOR -- Syrian Heritage Initiative
5-5-15
These images show the extent of the damage.
Source: Wonk Wire
5-6-15
Top of the list: “No previous elected experience."
Source: National Security Archive
5-6-15
Operation Condor was an infamous secret alliance between South American dictatorships in the 1970s.
Source: NYT
5-5-15
Paintings that an American G.I. won in a poker game are among the treasures plundered during World War II that are returning to Germany.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
5-5-15
After the Germans occupied Paris, the Nazis raided August Liebmann Mayer's home there and took his art collection before deporting him to Auschwitz.
Source: Public Opinion
5-5-15
In the book, which comes out in October, Jindal reviews events ranging from the Louisiana Purchase to the Cold War and offers lessons for the present, which he considers "a critical moment" for the country.
Source: Live Science
5-5-15
What the Supreme Court Missed
Source: BBC
5-5-15
Enric Marco was exposed shortly before he was due to share a platform at the camp with then Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Source: NYT
5-5-15
The strange-but-true story behind Robert Van Fleet’s famous 1965 photograph from a football game between bitter high school rivals in Massachusetts.
Source: EdSource
4-16-15
California, home to the largest number of American Indians in the country, is for the third time considering legislation that would end the use of “Redskins” as a school team name or mascot.
Source: Time
5-5-15
The Mark Twain Project found about 110 dispatches written in 1865 and 1866.
