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The Holocaust The Holocaust (from the Greek (): holos, "whole" and kaustos, "burnt"), also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: ', Latinized ha'shoah; Yiddish: ', Latinized churben or hurban) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators. Read More»From Wikipedia |
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Iran's Creeping Corruption
By Babak Dehghanpisheh
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118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes
On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran's notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad...and NEWSWEEK. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant paranoia underpins an ever more fractured regime.
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Is Homeland Security Gun Shy About Confronting Far Right?
The Obama administration didn't hesitate recently to pick a fight with Fox News, but its Department of Homeland Security now appears to have backpedaled on a report expressing concern about what its analysts earlier this year described as "right-wing extremists." Back in April, Homeland Security's intelligence analysis division produced a nine-page "assessment" describing how the nation's economic problems and the ascent of the first African-American president "could create a fertile recruiting environment for right-wing extremists" and might even lead to violence between such groups and the government. Although the paper was stamped "for official use only" and bits of it were labeled "law enforcement sensitive." the document quickly made its way onto the Internet . Its contents provoked howls of rage from conservative activists (some of which was reflected in reports from ... Fox News ). The report's critics expressed particular outrage at a paragraph stating that returning veterans "possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists." The report stated directly that Homeland Security's intelligence shop was "concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities." (Despite these concerns, the report also acknowledged up front that the Feds had "no specific information that domestic right-wing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence.")
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11/19/2009BooksStill Scaling the Wall
…confronting its past, Kertész was instrumental in changing Hungary's image in the West, using his moral authority as a Holocaust survivor to expose the vicious repression behind the façade of an allegedly benign "goulash communism." More recently …
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11/12/2009BusinessTARP: One Year Later
…to write down the value of their assets, which might have pushed them into insolvency. "It would have been a financial holocaust ," says Bill Black, a former 1980s-era financial regulator who worked at the Office of Thrift Supervision. "It was simply …
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11/05/2009HealthWhy Politics Makes Us Kill
…the New York Draft Riots in 1863, the riots after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the attack on the Holocaust Memorial Museum by James von Brunn. Roth's book also offers a warning about our volatile political rhetoric. Words can …
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11/02/2009CultureThen and Now
…monuments, in the Nazi-built Olympic Stadium with its statues of brawny Aryans , in the granite blocks that memorialize the Holocaust , in the small brass cobblestones set into Berlin's residential streets engraved with the names of former residents and …
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10/30/2009BooksHeaven Can Wait
…opportunity to bring Christian apologetics into the new century. "C. S. Lewis addressed issues from his own era, such as the Holocaust ," D'Souza notes, "but today we have new questions—about Darwin, brain science, modern physics, and Islamic terrorism …
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