I\'m declaring September 11 \"International Enough Day.\" Enough flag-waving, enough violence, enough nationalism. Enough already. September 11 was not an American tragedy, it was a human tragedy. It was a tragedy not just for the people in the US who die
Gordon's "journalism" here is useless as a source of information, but it does offer a glimpse into what the Bush Administration wants the public to ponder as it methodically constructs a pretext for attacking Iran. Gordon's article consists of thirty-four
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.
nominated for both Best Novel (for The Last Colony) and Best Fan Writer, which I think is pretty neat. This guy should be nominated for the best blog, if you ask me. - ptw
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.
"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."
Die Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg hat mit Unterstützung der Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg 19 ihrer Feldzeitungen aus der Zeit des Ersten Weltkrieges digitalisiert und mikroverfilmt. Um dem interessierten Benutzer online einen möglichst lückenlosen Bestand anbieten zu können, wurden vorhandene Lücken im Printbestand durch Digitalisierung von Exemplaren aus anderen Bibliotheken geschlossen.
On 16 March 1938, at about 22:00, two SA men arrived at the house of prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist and critic Egon Friedell to arrest him. While they were still arguing with his housekeeper, Friedell committed suicide by jumping out of the window. Before leaping, he warned pedestrians walking on the sideway where he hit by shouting "Watch out! Get out of the way!". This was the tragic end of a brilliant mind.
On June 18, 1815, a battle was fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, which should be Napoleon's last. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. The defeat at Waterloo ended Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French, and made way for a shift in the European balance of power.
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...
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
The publication of this week’s open letter by leading technology academics protesting Google’s role in drone murder exposes the partnership between the major technology giants and the US military/intelligence complex.
Seit Wochen überziehen sich die Türkei und Griechenland im Erdgasstreit gegenseitig mit Vorwürfen. Nun bringt Ankara ein weiteres gefährliches Szenario ins Spiel, droht für den Fall einer Ausdehnung der Territorialgewässer in der Ägäis offen mit einer militärischen Auseinandersetzung. Athen spricht von „Größenwahn“: „Wenn das kein Kriegsgrund ist, was denn sonst?", so Griechenlands Vizepräsident.
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants
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Religious supernatural recognized a self torn between transcendent forces that fought for its possession; search for salvation is expressed as war, conflict & terror.
ACLU filed Freedom of Information Act requests with various components of the Defense Department. The documents searchable on this page were provided to the ACLU in response to those requests.
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?
a website which brings together research into the nature and role of hostility and violence in contemporary life, and explores how violence is portrayed in media, art, and literature