Events and epochs prior to the First World War, and after that anything that does not fit into any particular category of the era of the world wars or the post-WWII and cold war era. This does also include the subcategory of U.S. history, if the events dealt with do not fit in any of the other categories or is of special interest, like the U.S. Civil War or 9/11 and its aftermath.
By Robert H. Countess ∙ February 1, 2004
Gottfried Wagner, Twilight of the Wagners, Picador, New York 1997, 310 pages, hardcover, $15.- Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was – and still is – “the Great One” in the history of opera. Certainly a debatable opinion, but with Wagner societies worldwide and with the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in northern Bavaria as his “eternal” shrine a là Lourdes…
By Mohammed A. Hegazi ∙ February 1, 2004
The palm tree, known to botanists by the Latin name Phoenix dactylifera, is an ancient tree that has been grown in Iraq for thousands of years. There are about 450 varieties (cultivars) in Iraq. They vary in size, shape, and color. Scene from footage of U.S. Army as broadcast by world media, allegedly depicting U.S….
By Paul Grubach ∙ February 1, 2005
The Nation of Islam (ed.), The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Historical Research Department, Springfield, MA, 334 pp. paperback, $19.95 Just about every year on the eve of the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, the mainstream media in the United States put forth numerous articles about the large Jewish involvement with…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 2, 2005
Professor Ward Churchill, a product of the academic left, whose area of expertise is social activism on behalf of American Indian rights, committed a thought crime following the 9/11 Islamist attack on New York City and the Pentagon. He wrote that the victims (the victims!) of the World Trade Towers were “little Eichmanns.” That is…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 4, 2005
I agree with Ward Churchill when he observes that “we cannot allow the U.S. government, acting in our name, to engage in massive violations of international law and fundamental human rights and not expect to reap the consequences.” I agree with this statement, and with almost everything else Churchill says about 9/11. He is right…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 7, 2005
Last night I was at the local cultural center, a cigar store on the Boulevard downtown, and the question came up about the Pope's hospitalization. There is a rumor going about in Mexican intellectual circles that the Pope is not sick, but was hospitalized by his cardinals so that he does not have to receive…
By Guillaume Fabien ∙ December 21, 2004
The below letter by Guillaume Fabien (Trieste, Italy) was preceded by this note: The big picture is this: the commercial enterprise called USA went bust after October 1929. It found its new start twelve years later under a new structure: a permanent war economy (a military keynesianism). The destruction or neutralising of much of the…
By Albert Doyle ∙ November 17, 2004
A Letter from Albert Doyle In some ways I feel sorry for the young Marine caught on a news film shooting a wounded Iraqi prisoner. The Marine is the product of a system which taught him to kill. His job is to kill the enemy, and we have heard his leaders, from the White House…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 26, 2004
Tuesday, November 23, 2004 Radek Sikorski interviews Paul Wolfowitz in FrontPage magazine today (23 November). Sikorski is director of the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute. Paul Wolfowitz is Paul Wolfowitz. There is a mind-set shared by the Sikorskis and Wolfowitzs that suggests how we morally justify the US alliance with Israel, the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 16, 2004
It's all over CNN. A US marine shot and killed a wounded Iraqi prisoner. We are shown the Iraqi lying on an interior floor, twisted on one side, his head and shoulders propped up against the wall. We hear a marine remark that the Iraqi is breathing but “pretending” to be dead. Whereupon one of…
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