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: France24
2-15-14
At the time, the French military authorities said the fallout from
the explosion was limited to the desert and that radiation levels were
“generally low”....
Source: Wall Street Journal
2-19-14
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is sponsoring a commemorative license plate in Georgia. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is not happy.
Source: Wall Street Journal
2-20-14
People in Bangladesh are protesting against a new Bollywood action
thriller that they say portrays their country’s 1971 struggle for
independence from Pakistan wrongly.
Source: Wall Street Journal
2-20-14
Critics said the monument is an attempt on the part of the governing
Fidesz party to rewrite history and downplay the role Hungarians had in
the Holocaust.
Source: New York Times
2-20-14
An aide to Prime Minister Abe criticized Obama for expressing disappointment in the PM's visit to the Yasukuni shrine.
Source: Time Magazine
2-13-14
Hearings into an appalling genocide have seen just five indictments and only one conviction in eight years at a cost of some $200 million.
Source: Associated Press
2-11-14
A Romanian agency has accused the former commander of a labor camp of
crimes against humanity for the deaths of 115 political prisoners.
Source: Seattle PI
2-18-14
The
villa-style home in Columbia, S.C., built in 1871, is one of four historic sites for Wilson.
Source: Associated Press
2-18-14
University police found the rope noose and a pre-2003 Georgia state flag
with the Confederate "stars and bars" on its face Sunday morning.
Source: Wall Street Journal
2-13-14
The single "Lookin A** N*gga" has been taking hits from some critics because of its almost-continual use of the n-word.
Source: New York Times
2-18-14
Lake Placid in 1980 was as unprepared for the games as Sochi in 2014.
Source: Austin Chronicle
2-16-14
Among the participant will be Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Julian Bond, Taylor Branch, Julian Castro, Luci Baines and Lynda Bird Johnson, and Jon Lewis.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
2-17-14
A new donation has brought 60,000 CDs and 4,000 LPs to the University of Texas.
Source: The Telegraph
2-15-14
American president sometimes seems to be suffering under a barrage of paranoid criticism, but so did Barack Obama's most illustrious predecessors
Source: The Guardian
2-17-14
Inquiry chairman writes to Kim Jong-un warning he could face trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity.
Source: Nature
2-16-14
Model also links avian influenza strains to deadly horse flu.
Source: CNN
2-15-14
A new research consortium begins a conservation phase that might add an important piece to the puzzle of what happened to the submarine.
Source: National Post
2-7-14
In 1940, German Jewish refugees in Canada were placed in internment camps, treated as dangerous threats to Canadian security.
Source: LLM Info
2-10-14
Even George Washington had a major impact on the development of international law.
Source: DNAinfo
2-13-14
Catherine Pelonero argues the case in "Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and its Private Consequences."
