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: Press Release
June 28, 2010
The often-overlooked Nixon Tapes, which were in operation for approximately 85 percent of Salvador Allende’s tenure in office in Chile, are one source that can help re-focus the debate on U.S. policy, particularly the Nixon Administration’s response to the Allende Government’s expropriation policy. To that end, nixontapes.org is pleased to bring you a selection of nearly 100 pages of excerpted trans
Source: Fox News
June 28, 2010
Rev. Jeremiah Wright unleashed a slew of racially charged proclamations at a seminar in Chicago last week, reportedly comparing the United States with apartheid South Africa and claiming the civil rights movement was about "becoming white."
The comments were reported by the New York Post, which provided details about a five-day class President Obama's former pastor taught at the Chicago Theological Seminary.
According to the New York Post, Wright also allege
Source: CNN
June 28, 2010
Colleagues of Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia mourned his death as family and friends planned his funeral.
Byrd, the longest-serving member of the U.S. Congress, died Monday at the age of 92.
Under West Virginia law, the state's popular two-term Democratic governor, Joe Manchin, has the power to appoint Byrd's successor. Manchin is expected to name a fellow member of his party to succeed Byrd, who was also a Democrat, thereby keeping a total of 59 Democrats in the Sen
Source: CNN
June 28, 2010
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday that justices on the nation's highest court should be even-handed and impartial in order to promise "nothing less than a fair shake for every American."
In her opening statement to her confirmation hearing, Kagan sought to address Republican concerns that her background as an academic and policy specialist in the Clinton administration would bring a liberal bias in her court rulings.
Source: Irish Times
June 28, 2010
SEVENTY YEARS ago this summer, Adolf Hitler’s general staff drew up detailed plans to invade Ireland. In June of 1940, Germany’s 1st Panzer Division had just driven the British Expeditionary Force into the sea at Dunkirk.
The Nazis, intoxicated by their military victory in France, considered themselves unstoppable and were determined to press their advance into Britain and Ireland. Germany’s invasion plans for Britain were codenamed Operation Sealion. Their invasion plans for Irelan
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 28, 2010
On the second day of September 1940, Siegfried Bethke, a young 23-three year-old German fighter pilot, sat at his fighter group’s airfield at Beaumont-le-Roger, in Normandy, jotting in his diary.
It had been given to him exactly a year earlier by his fiancée who had inscribed it, “In these momentous times one must keep a diary. I wonder what words you will write here.”
Rather breathless entries conveying excitement and high confidence had characterised much of his earli
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 28, 2010
German police have recovered a 400-year-old painting attributed to Italian master Caravaggio worth tens of millions of pounds stolen two years ago from a museum in Ukraine.
In a joint operation on Friday involving German and Ukrainian authorities, police arrested four suspected members of an international band of art thieves as they attempted to sell the stolen painting in Berlin.
Police in Ukraine also arrested 20 further suspects thought involved with the gang.
Source: BBC News
June 28, 2010
Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega has gone on trial in Paris for money-laundering in a case which could put him in jail for another 10 years.
Now believed to be 76, the man who ruled Panama from 1981 to 1989 was extradited from the US in April after two decades in prison for drug-trafficking.
A French court sentenced him in his absence to 10 years in 1999.
France agreed to give him a new trial if he was extradited from the US.
The trial i
Source: BBC News
June 28, 2010
A set of three X-rays of Marilyn Monroe's chest taken during a 1954 hospital visit have sold for $45,000 (£29,900) in Las Vegas.
The X-rays, sold at a movie memorabilia auction at Planet Hollywood, had a $3,000 (£2,000) pre-sale estimate.
A chair from Monroe's final photo shoot sold for $35,000 (£23,250).
Earrings worn by Kate Winslet in Titanic sold for $25,000 (£16,600). A dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in musical Funny Face fetched $56,250 (£37,360).
Source: BBC News
June 28, 2010
The castle of the last Pasha of Marrakech in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco is finally getting a face-lift after more than 50 years of neglect, as the BBC's Bojan Kveder discovered.
The Kasbah of Telouet, built not more than 100 years ago, has been crumbling into the reddish dust of the valley since 1956, the year Morocco won independence from France and T'hami el-Glaoui fell from grace with the king.
He is considered a traitor to this day for siding with the Fren
Source: CHE
June 28, 2010
Robert C. Byrd, a U.S. senator from West Virginia and self-taught scholar of the U.S. Constitution who was a champion of earmarks for colleges and other recipients, died early Monday of an unspecified illness. He was 92.
Mr. Byrd, a Democrat and the longest-serving member of the Senate, was valedictorian of his high-school class but lacked the money to go to college. (See lengthy obituary in The Washington Post.) He earned a law degree while in Congress by attending night classes at
Source: LIFE.com
June 25, 2010
In Korea, it's known as the "6-2-5 (yug ee oh) War," a reference to June 25, 1950, when the North Korean People's Army invaded the South. Among North Koreans, it's "the Fatherland Liberation War." In America, however, the Korean War is often called "The Forgotten War," a strange, if accurate, phrase to describe a conflict that killed millions of combatants and civilians on both sides -- including almost 40,000 Americans. On the 60th anniversary of the start of the w
Source: Discovery News
June 25, 2010
The famous pilot and her navigator may have eaten turtles, fish and bird to survive on a remote island after making an emergency landing.
Amelia Earhart, the legendary pilot who disappeared 73 years ago while flying over the Pacific Ocean in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator, may have survived several weeks, or even months as a castaway on a remote South Pacific island, according to preliminary results of a two-week expedition on the tiny coral atoll believed t
Source: BBC
June 27, 2010
Fundraisers hoping to save the wooden chalet in which Charles Dickens wrote some of his most famous works have organised a charity garden party.
The Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship wants to raise £100,000 to repair the chalet, which has fallen into disrepair.
It wants visitors to dress in Victorian costume for a party at the chalet on 3 July.
The chalet once stood in the grounds of Dickens' house at Higham....
Source: BBC
June 27, 2010
The Queen is preparing to deliver one of the most important speeches of her 58-year reign in New York early next month.
She is expected to appeal for world unity and world peace when she addresses the 192-member General Assembly of the United Nations for the first time in more than half a century at the end of her summer tour of Canada.
According to senior royal sources, the Queen, who arrives in Canada tomorrow, is hopeful that her speech of 6 July will be remembered
Source: AP
June 27, 2010
Authorities in Georgia on Sunday tore down another monument to Soviet dictator and native son Josef Stalin.
The monument in the town of Tkibuli in western Georgia was taken down two days after authorities tore down a bigger and more famous monument to Stalin in his hometown of Gori.
Both statues were brought down in the middle of the night in an apparent bid to avoid protests and media attention....
Source: Telegraph (UK)
June 27, 2010
A haunting portrait of Andy Warhol which reveals his scars left behind by an assassination attempt is to go on display.
As a master of hiding behind his celebrity persona, few people ever saw the real Andy Warhol.
But a haunting portrait of the pop artist is to go on display in Britain for the first time, revealing an image of a damaged and lonely man, isolated by his fame and fortune.
Andy Warhol, painted in 1970 by Alice Neel, an influential 20th-centu
Source: CNN
June 27, 2010
The political irony for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is who she is, what she hopes to be and the path necessary to fulfilling a long-held dream.
Confirmation hearings for the 50-year-old academic and government lawyer begin Monday. Although she has never been a judge, Kagan is seeking a lifetime job on the nation's highest court.
To get there, she herself must first be judged -- by 17 senators on the Judiciary Committee, who will decide whether she deserves a final
Source: CNN
June 27, 2010
The cause for former Vice President Dick Cheney's hospitalization is related to his recurring heart trouble, a family friend of Cheney's told CNN Sunday.
Cheney was suffering from atrial fibrillation, or irregular heart rhythm, the friend said.
Cheney was admitted to George Washington University Hospital on Friday as a result of "progressive retention of fluid related to his coronary artery disease," Cheney's office said.
At the hospital, Cheney w
Source: CNN
June 27, 2010
Voters in Guinea cast ballots Sunday in the first free election since the west African nation gained independence in 1958.
The country has been ruled by a series of authoritarian and military dictators since it gained independence from France, its former colonial master.
The most recent coup came in December 2008, the day after the death of longtime President Lansana Conte, who had himself seized power in 1984.
Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara led the 2008 coup an
