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In just six months, one of the world's largest camps for war refugees has been carved out of the jungles of northern Sri Lanka, complete with banks, post offices, schools and a supermarket. But no one is allowed out, and hardly anyone is allowed in.
Bob Fuchigami was 12 years old when he and his family were told to leave their 20-acre farm in northern California. The peach trees that his immigrant parents had planted were about to yield their first big crop.
President Bush signed into law a $38 million grant program to preserve notorious internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept behind barbed wire during World War II.
The Most Outrageous Media Comments of 2009 -- Glenn Beck Takes the CakeThe election of the first black U.S. president led to a slew of racially charged comments that were truly shocking, but that's only the tip of the right-wing iceberg.
Swine Flu Document Lists Sports Arena As Mass Vaccination CentreIt appears that the majority of U.S.
Dead Census Worker Sparks Debate Over Conspiracy TheoriesThe death of census worker Bill Sparkman is sparking a debate over whether right-wing conspiracy-theorizing is becoming irresponsible.
MAP: Swine Influenza (as of 29 Apr 2009) - Location MapIt's amazing that the U.S. government never referred to the AIDS virus as a communicable disease since its inception many years ago nor did they call out a pandemic to my knowledge.
Fanning the flames of hysteria: Talk of Obama's Internment Camps | The News is NowPublic.com
Michele Bachmann's Census Theories Too Much For Glenn BeckBut here's the revelatory part of Bachmann's conversation: It appears that there actually is a point at which you can even out-bonkers Glenn Beck! Watch as the video gets to about the two-minute mark. That's when Bachmann starts up her "OMGZ! THE INTERNMENT CAMPZ" spiel.
Canadian MP wants justice for slave labour CroatsCanadian MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj wants the mistreatment of Croatians in Canada during World War I acknowledged and commemorated.
Another era of shame: From America's distant pastIn 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt, citing concerns about wartime security, issued executive order 9066 which forced upwards of 110,000 Japanese-Americans to relocate to a number of "relocation centers," or concentration camps, on the West Coast.
Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approvalIntelligence and military officials under the Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approval to use such methods -- and weeks before the CIA captured its first high-ranking terrorism suspect, Senate investigators h …
It took 60+ years, finally UW Japanese Americans graduateA graduation ceremony for Japanese Americans who were forced from their studies and taken to internment camps. They were finally recognized and graduated from the University of Washington Sunday.
Rather than continuing to run afoul of iarnuocon's restrictions on the discussion of his article about proof, using FEMA camps as a jumping off point, I guess I'll take his suggestion to take it elsewhere when the conversation ranges beyond his boundaries, and start one of my own …
I was hesitant to post this too soon, but now seems to be the time. Part of iarnuocon's article was true. After reading the numerous articles on the FEMA internment camps, I decided to do some research of my own.
It is, perhaps, a dangerous thing to write an article exploring the boundaries of credibility and legitimacy on a topic such as this, which seems to cause passions to run high and causes some folks to lose their natural sense of skepticism, especially after recent events on Newsv …
U.S. military loses records for bin Laden's driverThe U.S. military has lost a year's worth of records describing the Guantanamo confinement of Osama bin Laden's driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive's war court hearing on Thursday. How convenient.
"War? Honey Girl, We don't speak of such things in this family. There are books, hundreds of books, written about history, battles, of expanding and retracting nations, but we do not talk about what it is, and what it does to us.
The nine lives of a resilient artistMirikitani was incarcerated at Tule Lake at 25 years old. His sister Kazuko was sent to Minidoka. His father had stayed in Japan. Tule Lake was a chance destination for Mirikitani.
AP Wire | 06/15/2006 | Interned Japanese-Americans receive diplomas in San JoseIt's a nice gesture. Wish it was getting more publicity.
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