The big question of course is why should the world be forced to remember? Simply because the Holocaust is not a Jewish affair. It touched all of mankind.

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excerpt: ""While Republicans are busy gnashing their teeth over President Obama's imminent indoctrination of the nation's schoolchildren, there's an education story bubbling up in Texas that could have considerably more far-reaching consequences. The GOP-controlled State Board  …

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excerpt: ""The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has "nothing about liberals," the Houston Chronicle reported. ""

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President Obama's recent speech in Cairo has been extensively parsed, with critics challenging his linking the creation of Israel solely to the Holocaust, his failure to acknowledge the Jews' ancestral connection to their homeland, his weak criticism of Arab support for terro …

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Now that the danger appears to have passed, Wall Street honchos, with support from some in Congress, are telling themselves that the financial system was perfectly sound all along. We can't afford their delusion.

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Poisoned, Persecuted, and Tortured: American History Through the 'Christian Nation' Lens

If you search Newsvine for the tag "Christian Nation," you'll find plenty of articles on the subject.

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Castroite Revisionism in Cuba

April 7 -- Last month's shifts in the top echelon of the Cuban government only further demonstrated the revisionist line that Cuba's so-called Communist Party has pursued in the last several decades.

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Perhaps someone will be good enough to tell me how fat you are allowed to be before your opinions no longer matter. Surely conservative radio host Laura Ingraham had a specific weight in mind when she attacked Sen.

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Thursday night's valedictory speech was quintessential Bush: delusional from beginning to end. He made Afghanistan sound like a swell place to take a vacation when, in truth, only those with a death wish venture out these days without an armed convoy.

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The true story of the mob that ran amok in the German rear during WW2 on the eastern front. These guys were no heroes. They murdered the entire population of a LIthuanian village.

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The joke was on us. Iraq burned, New Orleans flooded, and Bush remained oblivious to each and every pratfall on his watch. Americans essentially stopped listening to him after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, but he still doesn't grasp the finality of their defection.

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Presidencies begin with a slate wiped clean and a first 100 days in which the new incumbent sets out to change the world.

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As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners.Some of the whining almost defies belief.

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Soon enough, the mess will be all Barack Obama's. But in the holiday interregnum, the winter air is thick with excuses at the White House no-regret fest.

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"Let's go over this very slowly. For Bush to blame the failure of intel for his decision to invade is not a concession at all, and it is not an admission of failure on his part. Rather, it is the opposite of these things. It is an evasion of responsibility for what happened.

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Japan sacked its air force chief after he wrote an essay in which he denied the country was an aggressor in World War II, a stance likely to anger its Asian neighbours.

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The death toll from the Allied bombing of Dresden in the Second World War was much lower than previously thought, according to new research by a German government commission.

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Senator Hillary Clinton earned the endorsement of the New York Times of her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president in a Friday editorial.

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It's a little known fact that while most of us are sleeping soundly, the far right gathers to rewrite history.

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On several occasions I've been presented with the argument that contrary to widespread opinion in the anti-war movement and on the left, oil was not really a factor in the the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq.

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Curious that the religious right of his day saw Jefferson as an infidel, while today's religious right seeks to portray him as a man of God and a good Christian. The truth, of course, is somewhere in between.

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Choho Zukeran was a schoolboy, mobilised to dig beachfront trenches, when US soldiers landed on his native Okinawa, sparking one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war.

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Youtube Warning!

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The great fraud being perpetrated in our political discourse is the concerted attempt by movement conservatives, now that the Bush presidency lay irreversibly in ruins, to repudiate George Bush by claiming that he is not, and never has been, a "real conservative." This con game i …

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Pope Benedict XVI's declaration in Brazil that colonial-era evangelization in the New World did not represent "the imposition of a foreign culture" has ignited a firestorm of criticism from indigenous representatives and the governments of Venezuela and Bolivia.

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