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: Telegraph (UK)
October 26, 2007
David Lloyd George is regarded as one of the great prime ministers of the 20th century by many, but yesterday the unveiling of a new statue of the Liberal politician led to a row over his colonial war record.
The sculpture in Parliament Square, unveiled by the Prince of Wales, has outraged anti-war campaigners, including Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, who described it as "utterly disgraceful".
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, Pinter, the jou
Source: Reuters
October 25, 2007
The Catholic Church is preparing to beatify 498 of its members killed during the Spanish Civil War, putting them on the path to possible sainthood but reviving memories of a conflict that still divides Spain.
Most of those to be honored at Sunday's ceremony in Rome, the biggest mass beatification ever and to be attended by thousands of Spanish pilgrims, were priests or nuns killed by left-wing militias at the outbreak of the 1936-39 war.
Many Catholic clergy and Church
Source: AP
October 25, 2007
Sheiks, libraries and collectors around the world have ordered the Vatican's new €5,900 limited edition documentation of the heresy trial of the Knights Templar, officials said Thursday.
The leather-bound volume, which includes high-quality reprints of the original documents as well as clerical seals, is noteworthy because it contains a long ignored parchment showing that Pope Clement V initially absolved the medieval order of heresy.
The publishing house Scrinium, whic
Source: International Herald Tribune
October 26, 2007
He had a job to do and he did it supremely well, under threat of death, within earshot of screams of torture: methodically photographing Khmer Rouge prisoners and producing a haunting collection of mug shots that has become the visual symbol of Cambodia's mass killings.
"I'm just a photographer; I don't know anything," he said he told the newly arrived prisoners as he removed their blindfolds and adjusted the angles of their heads. But he knew, as they did not, that every
Source: NYT
October 26, 2007
Where are the political smears of yesteryear? They’re right at hand in a graphic archive for voters who can’t wait for the election cycle to descend to maximum attack mode.
The nation’s neatly cataloged television ads are available for a nostalgic laugh or wince at the Museum of the Moving Image. The museum is worth a trip to Astoria, Queens, but the graphic history of presidential commercials is also just a mouse click away (livingroomcandidate.org). Once a modern visitor finally v
Source: http://www.scoop.co.nz
October 25, 2007
Order of New Zealand recipient and New Zealand's most famous theologian Lloyd Geering is set to celebrate with colleagues, friends and interested members of the public 40 years since his landmark heresy trial began.
Lloyd Geering's heresy trial is being revisited at an all-day event in Wellington on November the 3rd, 40 years to the day since the trial began.
The trial of Geering who was then head of the Presbyterian Church's theological college shook New Zealand societ
Source: Emory Wheel
October 26, 2007
Conservative commentator David Horowitz was forced to cut short his speech on “Islamo-Fascism” in the face of repeated interruptions, heckling and catcalls from some audience members in a packed lecture room in White Hall on Wednesday.
The event played out like a tug-of-war between two groups: protestors who shouted questions or anti-conservative taglines after every few sentences Horowitz spoke and another faction in the audience who became increasingly vocal about their desire to
Source: Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists
October 26, 2007
"The United States Intelligence Community (IC) has an obligation to
learn from its history and its performance and to document its
activities," Director of National Intelligence J. Michael McConnell
wrote in a newly disclosed Intelligence Community Directive.
Towards that end,"each IC agency/organization shall establish and
maintain a professional historical capability... to document, analyze
and advance an understanding of the history of the agency or
organization and its predecesso
Source: AP
October 25, 2007
Dallas | Anyone can get a "Che" T-shirt for a few bucks, but an actual relic from the revolutionary figure is likely to cost a bit more at an auction Thursday.
Bidding starts at $100,000 for a 3-inch lock of hair from Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Marxist whose iconic picture has become a popular, even sometimes fashionable commodity since he was killed in a Bolivian jungle 40 years ago this month.
Heritage Auction Galleries is putting the hair, alleged
Source: http://www.theday.com
October 23, 2007
Essex — True to its name, the Turtle moved slowly through the murky waters of the Connecticut River, its rear propeller spinning smoothly on the manual power supplied by sole passenger and operator Roy Manstan.
On the dock above, Fred Frese, the principal builder of the unwieldy-looking contraption, looked on as it moved along, a wide grin on his face.
“It works,” he declared after the little boat turned around and made its way back to its starting point.
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Source: http://www.star-telegram.com
October 21, 2007
They called it the Great Hanging.
And for 145 years, Gainesville has tried to forget the largest mass lynching in American history.
Now, it is remembering those 14 deaths plus 28 other men executed amid the political tension of the Civil War.
A city park filled with 42 tiny crosses was dedicated Friday to remember the 1862 deaths. Most of the men were convicted and hanged as Union sympathizers. Fourteen were hunted down and lynched outright by a renegade mo
Source: Prague Monitor
October 25, 2007
A number of German Nazi officials worked for the Czechoslovak communist secret services after World War Two, in exchange for not being punished for their crimes, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) reported Wednesday.
A number of Nazis who took part in the search and torture of Czechoslovak paratroopers who killed wartime Nazi Reichsprotector Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942 went unpunished because they promised to cooperate with the communist secret services after the war, the paper wri
Source: Telegraph (UK)
October 25, 2007
The graves of British soldiers killed in the Great War have been covered with Nazi symbols in an act condemned as "appalling desecration".
Vandals painted swastikas and SS insignias on the headstones of 32 Scottish soldiers who died during the Battle of the Somme.
The attack caused thousands of pounds worth of damage at the Peake Wood Cemetery near Contalmaison, France, just days before Remembrance Sunday.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
October 25, 2007
Emergency work has begun to save Europe's largest prehistoric man-made construction from collapse.
Tunnels built into the side of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire are to be filled with hundreds of tons of chalk to preserve the mysterious Neolithic monument for future generations.
The 4,400-year-old mound, which is older than Stonehenge, has been weakened by the excavations of archaeologists over many centuries.
Engineers working on the conservation project have r
Source: BBC
October 23, 2007
Four locked gates at a city's war memorial are to be thrown open for the first time. Casual visitors to the cenotaph at the Diamond in Londonderry would have found their way firmly barred in the past.
It has often been the target for vandals throwing paint bombs as November's war commemorations begin.
But there are plans to make Derry people aware that of the 756 names on the memorial, nearly half belong to Catholic soldiers who died in World War I.
"P
Source: AP
October 23, 2007
France, home to some of the world's great art, is trying a six-month experiment. If museums are free, culture officials wonder, will they attract the kind of people who would usually rather watch television?
Starting Jan. 1, 14 French museums and monuments, most of them low-profile, will open to visitors free of charge for six months, Culture Minister Christine Albanel said Tuesday. Three are in Paris — Guimet, home to Asian art; Cluny, with a collection of medieval treasures; and A
Source: International Herald Tribune
October 24, 2007
Spain is stirring the ghosts of its past with a proposed law that will declare illegitimate Franco's military courts, expand reparations to victims of the civil war and increase funding for exhuming mass graves.
For people like Marcos Ana, a renowned poet who was the longest-serving political prisoner of the Franco era, the law does not go far enough.
Ana, 87, does not remember everything about his 23 years in jail during Francisco Franco's dictatorship.
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Source: NYT
October 25, 2007
ON THE CUMBERLAND RIVER, Tenn. — Looking out over the Delta Queen’s wooden paddle wheel kicking up frothy trails of white water, Don Mauger could scarcely contain his disappointment.
When Mr. Mauger and his wife, Dixie, reserved their spots for this seven-day trip on the country’s last original paddle-wheeled, steam-driven, overnight passenger boat, they received a depressing letter with their tickets.
It said that 2008 would be the last year for the Delta Queen, an 81-
Source: http://www.earthtimes.org
October 22, 2007
Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday backed establishing a memorial in Berlin to the millions of Germans expelled from Eastern Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Speaking in Berlin at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Federation of Expellees (BdV), Merkel said her government would soon put forward a concept.
Given the sensitivities in Poland and the Czech Republic in particular, she pledged that the memorial would be established in dialogue with Germany's eastern neighbou
Source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
October 24, 2007
President George Bush will have spent more than $1 trillion on military adventures by the time he leaves office at the end of next year, more than the entire amount spent on the Korean and Vietnam wars combined.
