In the ongoing debate about fake press images Austrian Broadcasting Corporation writes that in the current conflict in Lebanon the iconography (of press photos) is similar to the ones of war press coverage in the past. I couldn't disagree more.
Michael Fumento writes artfully and originally on health topics/health politics. From Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, and breast implants to stem cells, road rage, and attention deficit disorder (ADD)...
Back in World War 2, many creative and talented pilots faced danger with a sexy babe painted on the nose of their aircrafts. Some were wholesome girls next door, while others were naked nymphos ready for action! Reportedly, many of these surviving planes'
This website provides a large number of free e-books available for immediate download. The books are mainly about holistic agriculture, holistic health and self-sufficient homestead living. There are secondary collections about social criticism and transf
The American Scholar. I suddenly realized that this is the way the world lives... in terms of an enemy. It’s exactly the target that Jesus aimed at all his life, and Buddha too, and Freud; and Gandhi and Martin Luther King: trying to make this invisible creature unnecessary.... Is there truly an enemy, a serpent, devil, PLO terrorist, Libyan hit-man.... Of course there is an enemy; reality says so. Only meditate, say the great teachers: Is there really? Or do we create him?
-623415318 World War II Propaganda Posters By OMGuide updated 02/16/2009 Share on Digg 4 diggs Share on Reddit Share on StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Share on Facebook Tweet this Guide! The United States government and its military endeavors are always questioned in the media
The Western-backed war in Syria, like the invasion of Iraq, was so smothered by propaganda that truth was not only the first casualty but has been steadily suffocated for five years, now reaching the Oscars, says Rick Sterling.
Weil sie zu viele Informationen zur Verfügung hatte, fällte eine US-Drohnenbesatzung im vergangenen Jahr eine schwere Fehlentscheidung. Sie kostete 23 afghanische
On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya, which still is the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
"to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity."
This is a look at the furious battle that raged between the RAF and the Luftwaffe during the summer of 1940. A battle that not only saved Britain but perhaps the entire war.
On September 20, 450 AD, the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains also referred to as the Battle of Chalons took place. A coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their allies commanded by their leader Attila faced each other in a decisive battle that should decide the fate of Europe and the whole Western civilization...
The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
US military medical ethics evolved during its involvement in two recent wars, Gulf War I and the War on Terror. Norms of conduct for military clinicians with regard to the treatment of prisoners of war and the administration of non-therapeutic bioactive agents to soldiers were set aside because of the sense of being in a ‘new kind of war’. Concurrently, the use of radioactive metal in weaponry and the ability to measure the health consequences of trade embargos on vulnerable civilians occasioned new concerns about the health effects of war on soldiers, their offspring, and civilians living on battlefields. Civilian medical societies and medical ethicists fitfully engaged the evolving nature of the medical ethics issues and policy changes during these wars. Medical codes of professionalism have not been substantively updated and procedures for accountability for new kinds of abuses of medical ethics are not established. Looking to the future, medicine and medical ethics have not articul
From the page: "Written last month, this straightforward account of life in Iraq by a Marine officer was initially sent just to a small group of family and friends. His honest but wry narration and unusually frank dissection of the mission contrasts sharp
112 years ago, famous american writer Stephen Crane died at age 28. Despite of his youth, he already had become one of the icons of american literature. Most famous is his american civil war novel 'The Red Badge of Courage', which has been read by almost every american high school kid.