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: Asia-Pacific Journal
Jan 1, 2017
by Miyamoto Takashi
The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine, one of several UNESCO registered Meiji Industrial Revolution Sites, used convict labor.
Source: NYT
Jan 1, 2017
In the US they were scorned in the McCarthy era, but at a China museum they’re lionized.
Source: NYT
Dec 31, 2016
by John A. Farrell
A journalist says he’s discovered proof in H.R. Haldeman’s papers that confirms the worst suspicions of LBJ.
Source: NYT
Dec 31, 2016
More than 40,000 images taken from Palmyra are part of a Louvre-curated 3-D exhibition highlighting the threats of war against global heritage.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 31, 2016
The city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is in pieces, victim of the Islamic State group’s fervor to erase history.
Source: KITV
Dec 29, 2016
It was John F. Kennedy who had a vision for the first real act of reconciliation with Japan.
Source: NYT
Dec 29, 2016
A court reopened a criminal complaint that accuses former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of a cover-up in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center.
Source: The Guardian
Dec 29, 2016
The book is by Jürgen Osterhammel, a professor at Konstanz University, who argues that the 19th century should be recast as the century marked by globalization, not nationalism.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 29, 2016
A backlash to globalization appears to be gaining strength around the world.
Source: Bloomberg
Dec 28, 2016
The economy was stronger in 2016 than several previous election years.
Source: CNN
Dec 28, 2016
After President-elect Donald Trump's recent victory, some of his supporters celebrated by flying Confederate battle flags from pickup trucks and waving them at rallies. But Trump's victory may mark the resurgence of the Old South in another more sinister way: The return of "racial amnesia."
Source: NYT
Dec 28, 2016
The order protects an estimated 100,000 archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings.
Source: The Washington Examiner
Dec 28, 2016
Brinkley met with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 28, 2016
The title of the course — “The Problem of Whiteness” — and its description has the University of Wisconsin at Madison mired in controversy before students have cracked open a book or peeked at a syllabus.
Source: Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal
Dec 27, 2016
Other American administrations regularly have abstained or supported U.N. resolutions critical of Israeli policy.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 27, 2016
The school has now pledged to strengthen Holocaust awareness by screening films like Schindler’s List.
Source: Daily Beast
Dec 27, 2016
by James Kirchick
In the eyes of Castro and his revolutionary comrade Che Guevara – who frequently referred to gay men as maricones, “faggots” – homosexuality was inherently counterrevolutionary.
Source: The Guardian
Dec 26, 2016
by Guardian Editorial
It is worth reflecting on why an official exhibition in London about British colonialism, similar to the kind that is now running in Berlin about the German equivalent, is so inconceivable. It’s because it is too difficult and painful.
Source: The Grio
Dec 26, 2016
The bill is an expansion of a previous bill of the same name that was passed by the House of Representatives in 2007.
Source: NYT
Dec 26, 2016
It now appears that the Japanese prime minister is the fourth to visit, and that one of the previous three includes Nobusuke Kishi, his grandfather.
