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: Forbes
Dec 13, 2016
by Kristina Killgrove
The Times claimed a new study reflects the consensus view of medical historians. This is far from the case.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 12, 2016
New documents shed light on OPERATION CONDOR, including planned missions in Europe and assassinations of leaders in Amnesty International.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 12, 2016
Newly declassified documents show that the risk of nuclear proliferation at the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 was even greater than publicly known at the time, with 3,429 Soviet strategic warheads scattered outside of Russia in various former Soviet republics.
Source: THE Conversation
Dec 11, 2016
by John Broich
They treated Hitler as a joke and praised Mussolini for restoring the economy.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec 11, 2016
"Recent research has shown us that most enslaved persons in the Americas before 1700 were Indians; that Indians constituted a sizable proportion of the global slave population thereafter; and that Europeans enslaved Indians from Quebec to New Orleans, and from New England to the Carolinas."
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 11, 2016
For several centuries, many political communities in Europe and the Americas used electors chosen from different territorial and political units to select a main magistrate. The United States is the only country in the world to still use the system to elect a president.
Source: The Guardian
Dec 11, 2016
by Carole Cadwalladr
When you search for whether the Holocaust happened Google answers: no.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton may have lacked Obama’s personal appeal among younger voters, but she still carried the under-30 vote by an 18-point margin over Trump.
Source: NYT
Dec 9, 2016
The first town chartered by African Americans has battled two 100-year storms in under 20 years. Some see the ruins of homes, many covered in mold, as a lost cause. Others vow to rebuild.
Source: NYT
Dec 9, 2016
Norman Ohler, the author of “Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany,” unearthed this startling fact about the Third Reich rummaging through military archives.
Source: USA Today
Dec 9, 2016
“The United States forever will be grateful to the residents of Guam for their steadfast loyalty to the United States, as demonstrated by the countless acts of courage they performed despite the threat of Imperial Japanese military forces that occupied Guam during World War II."
Source: The Times of Israel
Dec 9, 2016
Surge in anti-Semitism, intolerance in wake of US presidential elections ‘alarms’ scholars.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Dec 8, 2016
There have been a total of 157 faithless voters to date.
Source: NYT
Dec 8, 2016
Using a big data set of millions of tax returns they show how the chance that you’ll make more money than your parents has dramatically declined since 1940.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 7, 2016
The White House didn't think so, but a secret CIA report – published for the first time – believed it might have been.
Source: Newsone
Dec 7, 2016
Scores of women, men and children in California suffered under a government mandated program in the early 1900s.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 7, 2016
U.S. government officials say Treasury Secretary Jack Lew could release early images of redesigned $5, $10 and $20 bills in an effort to pressure the Trump Administration away from reversing their plans.
Source: Press Release: National Womens History Project
Dec 7, 2016
So far there's no hint as to whether he'll act.
Source: CNN
Dec 6, 2016
The return follows years of protests of US presence in Okinawa.
Source: philly.com
Dec 5, 2016
They’re students at the College of New Jersey.
