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: Wall Street Journal
Jan 30, 2014
Of all the year’s Academy Award nominated films, “The Act of Killing” is
one of the most startling, and it’s raising questions in Indonesia.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 29, 2014
If the U.S. president had had his way, the actor, best known for Spinal
Tap and The Simpsons, might have had a much shorter, more brutal life.
Source: Time Magazine
Jan 29, 2014
Katsuto Momii, the head of Japan's main public broadcaster, said Japan
was hardly the only nation whose soldiers forced women to work as
prostitutes during World War II.
Source: BBC News
Jan 29, 2014
The question is trending on Russian social media right now.
Source: BBC News
Jan 29, 2014
The exchanges took place on Wednesday at a UN Security Council open debate on lessons to be learnt from war.
Source: New York Times
Jan 29, 2014
Matteo Bastianelli has lived in Sarajevo since 2009, and the pain still lingers from the war.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jan 29, 2014
Among the changes in the school curriculum are a renewed emphasis on Japan's territorial claims.
Source: New York Times
Jan 29, 2014
Seeger was no stranger to controversy over his multi-decade career.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jan 28, 2014
The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was notorious for its brutality.
Source: New York Times
Jan 28, 2014
Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks.
Source: Phys.org
Jan 28, 2014
Early humans may have colonized the Near East much later than originally thought.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Jan 28, 2014
The Hope Diamond was recut in 1792, but in its earlier version it was cut so that an effect resembling the sun resided at its center.
Source: The New Scientist
Jan 28, 2014
New DNA sequencing shows that the Plague of Justinian was in fact the bubonic plague.
Source: New York Times
Jan 27, 2014
The Holocaust is not a topic most students in East Asia are likely to encounter in a class. But one Hong Kong-based non-profit seeks to change that.
Source: Israel National News
Jan 27, 2014
The article originally appeared in the Zionist paper Doar Hayom.
Source: Interfax
Jan 27, 2014
The German president extended his sympathies on the seventieth anniversary of the breaking of the siege.
Source: National Public Radio
Jan 27, 2014
The relic was stolen from a small church in Italy's Abruzzo region.
Source: Discovery News
Jan 26, 2014
A new look at a cache of baby bones discovered in Britain is altering
assumptions about why ancient Romans committed infanticide.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 26, 2014
The war in Syria has claimed more than 130,000 lives and, as these images reveal, it is also laying waste to its historic buildings and Unesco-listed sites.
Source: CNN.com
Jan 26, 2014
Hwang Keum-ja, 89, died of lung and respiratory disease at a hospital in Seoul Sunday.
