“When the napalm hit our village, many people were still sleeping in their homes,” said Lee Beom-ki, 76. “Those who survived the flames ran to the tidal flats. We were trying to show the American pilots that we were civilians. But they strafed us, wo
An astronomical calculator, considered a technological marvel of antiquity, was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games. Experts detected the word "Olympia" on a bronze dial, as well as the names of other games in ancient Gree
How soon we forget the DNC AND RNC conventions of 2000 and 2004 were turned into a police state complete with concentration camps, suspension by pigs unknown of civil rights, indefinite detainment without proper food, water, sanitation
Wars are a principal means for the state to increase its power. Unscrupulous political leaders actively seek war to increase their own power. But how do they manage to enlist their population behind their murderous crusades?
The sealed testimony was taken in 1950-51. The Rosenbergs were convicted of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union and were executed in 1953.
Scientists have calculated that the horse was used in 1188 BC, ten years before Homer in his Odyssey describes the return of a warrior to his wife on the day the "sun is blotted out of the sky"
Every 16 years, a relatively-unknown Democrat presidential candidate promises a “CHANGE!” Every 16 years, that candidate relies on voters too young to remember what happened the last time around.
HMS Ontario went down on October 31, 1780, with a garrison of 60 British soldiers, a crew of about 40, mostly Canadians, and possibly about 30 American war prisoners.
Adolph Hitler died over 60 years ago, but his legacy lives on in the tactics of today’s anti-smoking forces. There are incredible similarities between those 1930s' Nazis' ideas of personal freedom and today’s Smoke Nazis.
An alabaster head of Cleopatra and a mask thought to belong to her lover Mark Antony have been found near Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Monday.
Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of
Today is the 232nd anniversary of the inauguration of the American Revolution. On May 15, 1776 Virginia’s ruling revolutionary May Convention adopted the resolutions that Virginians understood as launching the ship of independence.
One of the biggest earthmoving machines ever built, the Silver Spade is ready for the scrap bin. But at one time, it was a testimony to American manufacturing ingenuity.
Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities, has died. She was 98.
Heim managed to avoid prosecution, his American-held file in Germany mysteriously omitting his time at Mauthausen [CIA], and today he is the most wanted Nazi war criminal on a list of hundreds who are still free.
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Do you miss this guy? I know I sure as hell do.
About 470 coins were found on 1 April at an early Iron Age burial site. They date from the 7th to 9th Century, when Viking traders travelled widely. Most of the coins were minted in Baghdad and Damascus....
Empire or Humanity?
What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire
by Howard Zinn
Narrated by Viggo Mortensen
Art by Mike Konopacki
To read more from Howard Zinn visit http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174913
The excavation will date the arrival of the bluestones following their 250-kilometre journey from Preseli to Salisbury Plain and contribute to our definition of the society which undertook such an ambitious project.
The excavation will date the arrival of the bluestones following their 250-kilometre journey from Preseli to Salisbury Plain and contribute to our definition of the society which undertook such an ambitious project.
At first listen, the grainy high-pitched warble doesn't sound like much, but scientists say the French recording from 1860 is the oldest known recorded human voice.