Perspective on Ronald Reagan, D-Day and World War II
Institute for Historical Review - News / http://www.ihr.org
Ronald Reagan and his legacy, the D-Day anniversary, World War II, and
the importance of historical awareness, are tackled by IHR director Mark
Weber and “American Dissident Voices” host Kevin Strom on this week’s
ADV broadcast.
The show will be aired Saturday, June 12, on shortwave radio, on some
local AM stations in the US, and online (http://www.natall.com
text of the broadcast will also distributed by e-mail.
D-Day Reminds us of War's Horror
By STEVEN GREENHUT
Senior editorial writer and columnist,
The Orange County Register
sgreenhut@ocregister.com
One of my favorite quotations, reprinted periodically on the Register's editorial pages, is from Robert E. Lee: "It is well that war is so terrible - we should grow too fond of it."
http://www.lewrockwell.com
Anonymous Donor Buys VCJCC
The embattled supporters of the Valley Cities Jewish Community Center (VCJCC) finally have a reason to celebrate. An anonymous donor reportedly struck a deal to buy the building from JCC of Greater Los Angeles (JCCGLA) and lease it back to the community. JCCGLA accepted the donor’s offer of $2.2 million on Thursday, May 27.
http://www.jewishjournal.com
In the Ruins of a Village Destroyed by the SS, French Premier Tries to end 60 years of hatred
By John Lichfield in Paris
11 June 2004
The French Prime Minister, Jean Pierre-Raffarin, sought yesterday to end six decades of bitterness between France and Germany - and between different parts of France - at the site of a village whose population were massacred by SS troops 60 years ago.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Teacher Jailed for Making Revisionist Nazi Film
SUSAN BELL IN PARIS
A TEACHER banned from working in France for peddling revisionist views on the Holocaust has been sentenced to two years in prison by a French court after he made a film contesting a brutal Second World War massacre by Nazi SS storm-troopers.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com
New Memorial Commemorates Holocaust Victims
Death Camp Was First To Operate Gas Chambers
POSTED: 1:53 pm EDT June 3, 2004
UPDATED: 1:59 pm EDT June 3, 2004
WARSAW, Poland -- A new Holocaust victims' memorial opened Thursday at the first Nazi concentration camp to operate gas chambers.
http://www.thehometownchannel.com
US and International Laws on Torture
www.globalresearch.ca 9 June 2004
http://globalresearch.ca
The Torture Working Group
by Paul Sperry
On the eve of the Iraq war, Pentagon lawyers gave license to torturing suspected terrorists in custody. Use of drugs on prisoners wasn't banned in all cases. Even killing in some cases was justified.
http://www.antiwar.com
Defender of the Lash & the Cattle Prod
Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Torture
By MIKE WHITNEY
"THE GENEVA Conventions are so outdated and are written so broadly that they have become a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, rather than a shield to protect civilians from terrorists. These international laws have become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution."
This is the opening passage of Alan Dershowitz's attack on the Geneva Conventions. It sets the tone for a polemic that savages our continued commitment to the humane treatment of prisoners and endorses "varying forms of rough interrogation".
http://www.counterpunch.com
Nearly Half of Palestinian Adult Males Have Spent Time in Israeli Prisons Since 1967
Israel's Common Use of Torture Must be Exposed
By MUSTAFA BARGHOUTHI
The pictures of American soldiers torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq have shocked the world. To the Palestinian people however, these photographs of hooded or naked figures come as no surprise. For the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have served time in Israeli prisons, the pictures only bring back memories of their own torture.
http://www.counterpunch.com
Repeating History in Iraq?
Letters of Gertrude Bell, Circa 1920, Shed Light on Today's Crisis
May 15, 2004 -- The U.S.-led effort to bring stability and democracy to Iraq resonates with echoes of recent history. William Beeman is director of Middle East studies at Brown University and has written about the tumultuous period after World War I, when Britain and France divided the remnants of the Ottoman Empire. New countries emerged, including Iraq, forged by arbitrary political boundaries.
http://www.npr.org
American Fib Factory
By Eric Margolis -- Contributing Foreign Editor
THE WHITE House's Iraq fib factory went into overdrive last week, ballyhooing claims that the new "caretaker government" the UN had supposedly just installed in Baghdad was "fully sovereign" and "totally independent."
http://www.canoe.ca
Pentagon May Pull Army Troops from Germany
Move marks major shift in U.S. military policy in Europe
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:26 p.m. ET June 08, 2004
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has advised Germany that as part of a global shifting of U.S. military forces, it wants to withdraw its two Army divisions and replace them with fewer, lighter, more mobile troops.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com
Profits über Alles! American Corporations and Hitlers
by Jacques R. Pauwels
8 June 2004
IN THE UNITED STATES, World War II is generally known as "the good war." In contrast to some of America's admittedly bad wars, such as the near-genocidal Indian Wars and the vicious conflict in Vietnam, World War II is widely celebrated as a "crusade" in which the US fought unreservedly on the side of democracy, freedom, and justice against dictatorship. No wonder President George W. Bush likes to compare his ongoing "war against terrorism" with World War II, suggesting that America is once again involved on the right side in an apocalyptic conflict between good and evil.
http://globalresearch.ca
Dentist who was Writing Book about Hijackers Falls Ill
posted: 06-03-2004
A dentist who claims he met three of the Sept. 11 hijackers in Shreveport one year before the attacks has mysteriously fallen ill and is on life support.
http://www.ktbs.com
The Dog Days of the War Party
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Fourteen months ago, after the 3rd Infantry Division and Marines swept into Baghdad, Washington was at the feet of the neoconservatives who had been plotting and propagandizing for an invasion for years.
http://www.antiwar.com
Disconnected
Think Judy Miller went batty on the WMD? Well, check out author Stephen Hayes and his neocon pals on the fabled Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda connection.
By Matthew Yglesias
Web Exclusive: 06.08.04
They say you can judge a man by the company he keeps. If so, Stephen Hayes must not want us to take his new book, The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America, very seriously.
http://www.prospect.org
Lockdown on Sea Island
The body bags have been shipped in, locals are running scared, and foreigners are being arrested and deported. Organisers of this week's G8 Summit are taking no chances with security. E Jane Dickson reports from a community under siege
08 June 2004
Beside a framed text of the Ten Commandments in Dressner's Family Restaurant on St Simons Island, there is a picture of a small boy cuddling the American flag. Dressner's serves a breakfast fit for patriots - eggs, bacon, grits and Coke - and three markedly patriotic-looking chaps in pressed white shirts, hunting vests and the kind of wraparound shades a Federal Agent's granny might buy him for a passing-out present are doing their damnedest to "blend in" with the locals. Should President Bush and his foreign chums drop in for the $5 special, a table would quickly be found - a Xeroxed poster in the window offers a "Warm Southern Welcome to Members of the G8 Summit". But this is unlikely. Bush, Blair et al are safely corralled in the gated Sea Island complex some four miles away from St Simons Village. And out there in the community, the Warm Southern Welcome is wearing paper-thin.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Brigitte Bardot Fined for Slurring Muslims in Book
Former French actress Brigitte Bardot was fined 5,000 euros (6,000 dollars) by a Paris court for writing a book in which she declared disgust with her country's tolerance of Islam.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com
France Must Return the Charles X Ransom to Haiti:
Open Letter to the People of France.
June 6, 2004
Citizen of France, you are probably unaware that your government is currently committing a number of crimes against Haitians (1), an impoverished people whose history has some very unfortunate and unpleasant connections to that of your own.
http://globalresearch.ca
Global Force to 'Patrol' Chatrooms
Rosie Cowan
Thursday June 10, 2004
The Guardian
British "cybercops" are to join other law enforcers around the world which are patrolling internet chatrooms to try to protect children from paedophiles.
http://www.guardian.co.uk
Implanted Brain Grid Reads Minds
Accurately gathers motor signals to let people control machines
Betterhumans Staff
6/10/2004 3:28 PM
An implanted brain grid has been found to accurately read motor signals, a step towards using it for thought-controlled wheelchairs and prosthetics.
http://www.betterhumans.com
Grocers, Drugstores Enlisted In Battle To Thwart Meth Labs In Virginia
By BOB LEWIS
Associated Press Writer
(AP) - A packed shopping cart trundles up to a checkout counter, and its contents pass over price scanners and under the wary eye of a cashier.
http://www.wavy.com
RFID-Enabled License Plates to Identify UK Vehicles
Thursday, June 10 2004
The UK-based vehicle licence plate manufacturer, Hills Numberplates Ltd, has chosen long-range RFID tags and readers from Identec Solutions to be embedded in licence plates that will automatically and reliably identify vehicles in the UK.
http://www.rfidnews.org
How Japan Succumbed to a Massive Attack of Puppy Love
The Japanese treat their dogs like children. But that's because a nation whose population is in freefall desperately needs child substitutes. David McNeill reports
11 June 2004
Daktari animal Hospital in the up-market Hiroo district of Tokyo has everything for the needy pet. Open 24 hours a day and boasting bilingual staff the two-storey clinic offers everything from cardiovascular surgery to nail clipping. Rows of sad-faced pooches and cats sit in cages wired up to heart machines and IV drips, while a technician tries to calm a timorous-looking rabbit before a pre-op X-ray in the surgery.
http://news.independent.co.uk
The Silent Partner in Family Decline
By Per Henrik Hansen
[Posted June 8, 2004]
The traditional family has for many centuries and in most countries been the core unit of society. It has been the foundation and even the ultimate purpose in many people's lives. It has provided a stable framework to bring children into the world, to raise them, to teach them manners and how to become productive and happy human beings. It has been relied upon for emotional and financial support, and in many other regards.
All this is changing now.
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