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: Vice
May 11, 2015
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has located a new cache of colonial-era government documents, VICE News has learned.
Source: London Review of Books
May 11, 2015
"The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false."
Source: 60 Minutes
May 10, 2015
With over 50 percent of our nation lying underwater, huge discoveries await, says explorer Robert Ballard
Source: Reuters
May 9, 2015
Tanks and troops paraded across Moscow's Red Square on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany, an event boycotted by Western leaders over Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis.
Source: Vimeo
May 8, 2015
by Neil Halloran
On the anniversary of V-E Day, an animated video from 2015 demonstrates the human toll of war.
Source: Huff Post
May 8, 2015
The woman responsible for creating the holiday ended up in a mental institution. It's said she sacrificed her health in her fight against the holiday's commercialization.
Source: Connecticut Post
May 8, 2015
These have become dark days for the aviation historians and others who have maintained that Gustave Whitehead of Bridgeport flew a heavier-than-air airship more than two years before the Wright brothers' first flight on Dec. 17, 1903.
Source: PsyBlog
May 7, 2015
How beliefs about what makes us happy have changed in the last 80 years.
Source: WUSA
May 7, 2015
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is three quarters finished.
Source: ZeroHedge
May 7, 2015
In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history.
Source: The College Fix
May 7, 2015
Saida Grundy, a feminist sociologist of race and ethnicity listed as an incoming assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies at Boston University, has come under fire for Tweets that essentially argued white people were the worst slave owners on the planet.
Source: WTOP
May 7, 2015
It’s no bartender’s secret that throughout history, America has had a rocky relationship with alcohol. Now, you can stumble through that history at the National Archives’ latest exhibit, “Spirited Republic.”
Source: NYT
May 6, 2015
He'll be remembered for an ethics investigation that prompted his resignation and negotiations in Nicaragua that helped end the civil war there.
Source: Wonk Wire
May 6, 2015
Top of the list: “No previous elected experience."
Source: National Security Archive
May 6, 2015
Operation Condor was an infamous secret alliance between South American dictatorships in the 1970s.
Source: ASOR -- Syrian Heritage Initiative
May 5, 2015
These images show the extent of the damage.
Source: NYT
May 5, 2015
Paintings that an American G.I. won in a poker game are among the treasures plundered during World War II that are returning to Germany.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
May 5, 2015
After the Germans occupied Paris, the Nazis raided August Liebmann Mayer's home there and took his art collection before deporting him to Auschwitz.
Source: Public Opinion
May 5, 2015
In the book, which comes out in October, Jindal reviews events ranging from the Louisiana Purchase to the Cold War and offers lessons for the present, which he considers "a critical moment" for the country.
Source: Live Science
May 5, 2015
What the Supreme Court Missed
