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  • The Rewards of War

    By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 14, 1991

    It was dark and very cold and I had been walking for close to an hour. Now I turned West on Briggs and walked through the parking lot behind Gottschalks department store. At the corner of the building there I almost stepped on a sparrow lying on the concrete walk. The bird was still fluffy,…

  • War Crimes Trials

    By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ March 1, 2000

    Approximately 10,000 “War Crimes Trials” have been held since 1945. Trials of Japanese military personnel ended in 1949, yet “war crimes trials” of Germans and Eastern Europeans continue to date. Almost invariably, the charge is “violation of the laws and customs of war”, derived, in turn, from international conventions signed at the Hague in 1899…

  • Warning: Column may be offensive

    By Kim Barker ∙ April 12, 1991

    A lot of complaints to The Daily in the past week have not been about misquotes, errors or bad headlines, amazingly enough. Most regarded a full-page advertisement from Bradley R Smith that ran April 4, advocating open debate and free speech on the Holocaust. Others were about Bill Colwell's perspective Monday, which insisted that importing…

  • What Smith Is Doing and Why?

    By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 19, 1995

    First it was one thing then another and so on until one day I decided I wanted to make an effort to encourage open debate on the Holocaust controversy. That was more than ten years ago. It's been an uphill pull ever since. Why I should have committed myself to such an enterprise remains one…

  • Asians Just Don't Get It

    By William Halvorsen ∙ August 1, 2000

    We in America are so used to having the Holocaust bulk large as the preeminent symbol of inhumanity that we tend to forget that there are about 5 billion people outside of the reach of Western Civilization who just don't see Twentieth Century history the way we do. Recent events in Asia demonstrate the culture…

  • Did Columbus Discover America?

    By Samuel Crowell ∙ August 1, 2000

    There are two types of knowledge in a society. The commonly accepted and the arcane and unproved. Everybody knows that 2+2=4. That's common knowledge. In the 1400's, everyone knew that too. But there was other knowledge, rarer, not as widely known, contradicting the popular wisdom, and not yet demonstrated. Copernicus did not “discover” that the…

  • Get Thee Behind Me, Revisionism

    By George Brewer ∙ August 1, 2000

    Michael Berenbaum's Op-Ed piece in the Los Angeles Times, “The Growing Assault the Truth of Absolute Evil” represents a wild and irrational attack on Holocaust revisionism with little logic and lots of overblown maledictions. Then tenor of the article is clearly shown by its title, which appends to Deborah Lipstadt's notorious formulation not only “evil”…

  • Photo Fakery Exposed!

    By Richard A. Widmann ∙ August 1, 2000

    Photo Fakery: The History and Techniques of Photographic Deception and Manipulation, by Dino A. Brugioni. Dulles, Virginia: Brassey's, 1999. Richard A. Widmann Dino Brugioni begins his study of photo fakery with a brief discussion of Arthur C. Lundahl, the first director of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center. Lundahl always cautioned that the discovery of…

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