ActiveHistory Updates (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Students are provided with a list of essential points relating to the international consequences of the Spanish civil War. These are analysed in terms of what Hitler’s objectives were, and what the actual results were - thereby keeping a close focus on the subject of the sourcework paper for 2009 (Germany Involvement in the Spanish [...]
Late Night Wallflower (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Dillinger Four have posted a release date and cover art for their highly anticipated followup to Situationist Comedy, titled civil War. And it’s even confirmed by Fat, so we know it’s for real this time and they can’t take it back. civil War will be realeased October 14th on Fat Wreck Chords.
The Pink Flamingo (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
EXTREMES HARMING BOTH PARTIES Do you really want a Republican President who is so beholdin' to special interests and so weak, when ultra conservatives wave their little pinkie he jumps in terror? Evidently this is what the likes of Malkin, Ingraham, Limbaugh, and the little tyrannical twits of the right want from John McCain. Joseph Farrah of World Net Daily has gone so far with his little temper...
Marketime (Free subscription) | yesterday
IE + IT = ED? from The Memory Bank 3.0 by keith Is informal economy plus information technology a path towards economic democracy? What follows is frankly autobiographical. It is an attempt to excavate the intellectual and political connections between my early and later work in economic anthropology... Oliver Cromwell established a ‘Commonwealth’ in 1649 after the English civil War. It meant a government...
The Strata-Sphere (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reader Stevevvs pointed me to this incredible story about how one of our military personnel is being prosecuted for War Crimes in a civil court: A former Marine sergeant facing the first federal civilian prosecution of a military member accused of a war crime says there is much more at stake than his claim of innocence [...]
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
A few days ago, Activision announced their newest and most exciting title yet, civil War: Secret Missions . The game is all about the guerrilla tactics used by the Union and Confederate armies to disrupt supply lines. Players will be able to conduct train raids, steal ships, and possibly even shoot other people. The game also plays on the duality of the war, allowing players to be a part of either...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The role of economic shocks in perpetuating armed conflict has received con- siderable attention from academics and policymakers. civil wars have affected more than one-third of the world's developing nations and claimed over 10. 1 million lives between 1946 and 2005 (Lacina and Gleditsch, 2005). Recent evidence suggests that income plays a prominent role in promoting political sta- bility: countries...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
MONROVIA (Reuters) - U.S. Peace Corps volunteers are to return to Liberia nearly 20 years after they fled a civil war, the West African country’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Robert Mugabe From The Telegraph: Zimbabwe faces the possibility of a military coup or civil war if negotiations between President Robert Mugabe and the democratic opposition fail, Botswana's foreign minister has warned. As heads of state from Zimbabwe's neighbours gathered in Johannesburg for a regional summit, Ian Khama, Botswana's new president, boycotted the meeting in protest at the presence of...
ActiveHistory Updates (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Students should be provided with this interactive newsfeed covering the main events of the Spanish civil War and then divide these into “Good news for the Republic” and “Bad news for the Republic”. They then have to use their own knowledge of international events in the 1930s to add a final column in the timeline [...]
Zuky (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is a bitter irony that the end of Chinese Exclusion arrived along with the beginning of Japanese internment. The pliable, cynically-shifting nature of modern racism was densely displayed when, overnight, US society ostensibly lifted its anti-Asian hatred from one ethnic group in order to bring it crashing down on another. Suddenly, the Chinese were friends (who had to wear...
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
U.S. Peace Corps volunteers are to return to Liberia nearly 20 years after they fled a civil war,......
Coyote Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Eric L Muller's "Hirabayashi: The Biggest Lie of the Greatest Generation" which studies the Supreme Court decision upholding race-based civil rights restrictions (eg curfews) in WWII. This Article presents new archival evidence of an enormous lie that Executive Branch...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: [b]Reuters[/b] NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) - New York City has agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to protesters arrested during a 2003 rally against the Iraq war who said their civil rights had been violated, lawyers for both sides said on Tuesday. The 52 plaintiffs in the lawsuit were...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Aaron Hooks, captain of the 78th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Company F, participated in the second annual civil War Living History Weekend at Cooper Cabin.
