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  • Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs of 1968
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dave Zirin
    1968. There was never a year when the worlds of sports and politics collided so breathlessly, without mercy or respite. It was the year Muhammad Ali, stripped of his heavyweight title for resisting the draft, spoke on 200 college campuses and asked the question, “Can they take my title without me being whupped?” It was the year Bill Russell’s Boston Celtics became champions once again, yet the player-coach saw his house vandalized by bigots. This led Russell to call the city (…)

  • TREASON IN IRAQ
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BENEDICT ARNOLD IN IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    A Political Rant
    September 23, 2005
    Many years ago, after marching through the Arch of Triumph in Paris on VE-Day, I asked for a short leave to try to contact relatives in Norway. I had not heard from them since 1940 and was worried that the war had not treated them kindly. However my request to visit Norway was denied. The reason was simple: all transportation was disrupted, roads impassable in many regions, the food shortage was acute, and (…)

  • Holocaust Survivor Simon Wiesenthal Dies
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by IAN GREGOR
    LOS ANGELES - Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people, died Tuesday. He was 96.
    Wiesenthal died in his sleep at his home in Vienna, Austria, according to Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
    "I think he’ll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust. In (…)

  • Western view of Islam: A troubled history
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sunday 04 September 2005, 17:22 Makka Time, 14:22 GMT
    I have spent much of the last four years scavenging for medieval manuscripts, in an attempt to study medieval European representations of Islam. I am generally averse to sweeping statements, but I will say this: I am yet to encounter a tradition and historical experience as profoundly distorted as Islam’s has been and continues to be to the present day.
    And although we are relentlessly pulled away from the ontological why questions, (…)

  • A History lesson for Anti-War Ninnys
    2 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nov. 19, 1863 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who died here that the nation might live. This we (…)

  • Pop Quiz
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pop quiz:
    1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
    a. Superman b. Jay Leno c. Harry Potter d. a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
    2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
    a. Olga Corbett b. Sitting Bull c. Arnold Schwarzenegger d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
    a. Lost Norwegians b. Elvis c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women d. Muslim male (…)

  • Lessons (of Vietnam)? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Lessons!
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Vietnam War ended in the spring of my senior year in college, but most of us paid little attention to the tanks that rolled into Saigon or the last helicopter taking off from the U.S. Embassy there. For the most part, our war had ended two years earlier at the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in January 1973, and the abolition of the draft three months later, when those draft cards we carried in our wallets were to become historical oddities.
    After that, the public debate was on (…)

  • Pat Robertson and Sun Myung Moon "Just point and Laugh"
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pat Robertson and Sun Myung Moon Just point and laugh By Liberal Republican
    Pat Robertson, friend of Bush, can not be taken seriously in his remarks inciting assassins, because he has a history of wacky quotes. The same is true for Sun Myung Moon, who was crowned king by Americas top "Able Danger" intelligence snoop, Curt Weldon, in a federal building. Unfortunately the "Just point and Laugh" attitude makes them invisible and of no consequence although Pat and Moon, beginning in the (…)

  • The story of the White Rose inevitably makes people with a military mindset very uncomfortable
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The White Rose: A Lesson in Dissent
    Hans and Sophie Scholl were German teenagers in the 1930s. Like other young Germans, they enthusiastically joined the Hitler Youth. They believed that Adolf Hitler was leading Germany and the German people back to greatness.
    Their parents were not so enthusiastic. Their father—Robert Scholl—told his children that Hitler and the Nazis were leading Germany down a road of destruction. Later—in 1942—he would serve time in a Nazi prison for telling his (…)

  • Americans Surrendering Liberties: Shades Of German History
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chuck Baldwin
    Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon
    It appears that a strengthened U.S.A. Patriot Act will soon sail through Congress with little opposition or consternation on the part of the American people. The new Patriot Act is even more stringent than the original. In addition, many of the more egregious elements of the Patriot Act which were originally scheduled to sunset are made permanent in the latest version. And the vast majority of the American people do not seem to mind. (…)