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Afghanistan: In War, Winners can be Losers

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear War, Civil Liberties, World War I, War Winners, Vietnam War, Caesarism, War Losers, World War II, Casualties, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Supporters and opponents of President Obama's Afghanistan decision focus on whether it is possible to secure a military victory in the conflict; however, in war, even a winner can be a loser.

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Review: Inglourious Basterds on Blu-ray

Bryan Young | Posted 12.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: World War II, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Spaghetti Western, Entertainment News

If you're on the fence about purchasing a Blu-ray player, movies like Inglourious Basterds should be all the convincing you need.

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Obama's Nobel More Deserved Than Teddy Roosevelt's?

James Bradley | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Theodore Roosevelt won the Peace Prize for bringing the Russians and Japanese to the negotiating table to end the bloody Russo-Japanese War. In fact, Roosevelt did little to abet peace.

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9/11 in the Shadow of Pearl Harbor

Caroline Myss | Posted 12.07.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Pearl Harbor, World War II, December 7 1941, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News

If ever there was a war where the lines between good and evil and right and wrong were clearly defined, it was World War II. Is Afghanistan the new face of American war?

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Vladimir Putin Praises Stalin's Achievements

Times Online | Tony Halpin | Posted 12.04.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Vladmir Putin, Joseph Stalin, Stalin, Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Josef Stalin, World War II, Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitri Medvedev, World News

Joseph Stalin sent millions to their deaths during his reign of terror, and his name was taboo for decades, but the dictator is a step closer to rehab...

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"Monuments Men": Saving Historic Structures in Wartime

Robert M. Edsel | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Nazis, Monuments, Writing, Self-Publishing, Art, Wwii, Books, World War II, Monuments Men, Architecture, Ponte Vecchio, Books News

I am driven by my passion to tell the story of a group of men and women who volunteered for service during World War II to save the greatest structures and other priceless works of art from destruction.

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An American Arab Thanksgiving

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Islam, Middle East Foods, Lamb and Rice, Ethnicity, Thanksgiving, Palestine, American Culture, Melting Pot, Jewish, Palestinians, Arab Americans, Race Relations, Muslims, Recipes, Israel, Racism, World War II, Mediterranean, Meals, Bigotry, Grape Leaves, Dinner, Living News

Food has a special place in our hearts as Arabs, so Thanksgiving was the American holiday we most loved. Food symbolizes the essence of freedom, the ability to feed your family without fear.

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Astoria Characters: The Octogenarian Activists

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York

Read More: AIDS Walk, Astoria, Stanley Rygor, ACT UP, Kathleen Rygor, Astoria Park, Dempsey's Pub, Robert Rygor, Sicily, St. Pat's for All Parade, Accordion, Kaufman Astoria Studios, Siege of Ennis, Stack of Barley, New York News, Ireland, World War II, Aids, New York News

On the emerald green front door of Stanley and Kathleen Rygor's 1890 cottage, there's a Claddagh knocker whose well-worn brass shows that it's no stranger to visitors.

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The Irregulars: An Engaging Bio of Roald Dahl During the War That Flags When the War Ends

Alex Remington | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Roald Dahl, Jennet Conant, The Irregulars, Ian Fleming, World War II, Books News

Jennet Conant's recent book The Irregulars is the perfect Washington summer read: it's a breezy society tale about British spying on America before and during World War II.

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Will Obama Help Change Asia's Racism?

David A. Love | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: India, Hu Jintao, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, President Obama, Obama, Media, Tibet, China, Obama Foreign Policy, Politics, Hip Hop, Indonesia, Yukio Hatoyama, Africa, Racism, Discrimination, Buddhism, Asia, African Americans, Colonialism, Asian Americans, China Human Rights, Japan, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Foreign Policy, Tokyo, Human Rights, Advertising, South Korea, Genocide, Hawaii, World War II, North Korea, World News

President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.

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Astoria Characters: The Grandson of Mom-and-Pops

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Bartunek Hardware, Astoria, Chevy, Steinway Street, New York Post, Czechoslovakia, Gary Bartunek, New York News, World War II, New York Daily News, New York News

Gary got his counter spot at Bartunek Hardware from his father, Edward, who was born the same year as the store and who waited on customers until earlier this year when he died at age 84.

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Jewish Liberation From The Ghetto: Excerpt From "Emancipation"

GlobalPost | Michael Goldfarb | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Palestine, Globalpost, Jews, Marx, Judaism, Books, Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, New Books, Moses Hess, Communism, Michael Goldfarb, Emancipation, Israel, World War II, Books News

Michael Goldfarb GlobalPost An excerpt from Michael Goldfarb's new book, "Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolutio...

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Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part IV

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Gloria Vanderbilt, Bobby Short, Marta Raymond, Anderson Cooper, Jeanette Dempsey, Adele Astaire, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Worldcom, Carol Marcus, John Gutfreund, Corcoran Group, Fritz Kritzler, Gordon Parks, Hubert De Givenchy, Huntington Hartford, William Saroyan, Robert Bradford, The Great Depression, Francesco Galesi, Maureen Orth, Salomon Brothers, Butterfield Eight, The Stork Club, Ellen Kourtides, Susan Gutfreund, Joshua Logan, Robert Postel, Henry Luce, The Dakota, Marshall Field, Evelyn De Rothschild, World War II, New York News

As late as 1970 no apartment sale in New York had ever exceeded $1,000,000. At today's River House, indeed, there is none for less.

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The Great Atomic Film Cover-Up

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Atomic, Veterans Day, Nuclear, Veterans, Coverup, World War II, Media News

This country rushed into the nuclear age with its citizens having neither a true understanding of the effects of the bomb on human beings, nor why the atomic attacks drew condemnation around the world.

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Astoria Characters: The Veteran Bookseller

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

There's no bookstore in the Ditmars section of Astoria. We don't need one. Harry puts the words out on the street -- his bookstand has been in the same spot for nearly a quarter century.

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From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Soviets, World Wide Web, 40th, Pentagon, Mosaic, Bulletin Board, Spam, Net, Netscape, Nuclear, China, Intergalactic Computer Network, Cold War, Britain, Personal Computer, England, Internet, Cern, 40, Malware, Apple, Pc, Russia, Usenet, Russians, Technology, Computer, Gopher, Space Race, Steve Jobs, Www, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Darpa, Lovely Spam, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Swords Into Plowshares, Botnet, Soviet Union, Birthday, Wonderful Spam, Html, Sputnik, Trojan, Hormel, Arpanet, Spiced Ham, Ucla, Chris Weigant, Virus, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Apple II, Hypertext, Steve Wozniak, World War II, Monty Python, Worm, Happy 40th Birthday Internet, Compuserve, Lan, Milnet, Technology News

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.

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Obama Asked To Visit Hiroshima Or Nagasaki, Japanese Atomic Bomb Cities

AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Hiroshima, President Obama, Hiroshima Anniversary, Japan, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Nagasaki, Barack Obama, Us President Apologies to Japan for Bomb, Obama Visiting Hiroshima, World News

TOKYO — A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hirosh...

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The Twin Brother of Annihilation

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: World War I, Time Magazine, Nuclear Weapons, Doomsday Clock, War, Nobel Peace Prize, Russell-Einstein Manifesto, World War II, Mutually Assured Destruction, Albert Einstein, World News

The argument: In a world held hostage by nuclear weapons, there are smaller aggregate numbers of war dead; therefore, God bless nukes. Or maybe not.

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Networking Governments

Gary Hart | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Government, Public Policy, Epidemic, International Relations, World War II, Cold War, Swine Flue, Harry Truman, World News

More can be done in linking national research laboratories, networking financial regulatory regimes, linking universities, networking environmental protection efforts, and the list goes on.

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The Last Poet To Win The Nobel Prize

John Lundberg | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Fiction, Prose, Nobel Prize, Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska, Literature, Herta Muller, World War II, Poet, John Lundberg, Living News

I've been trying to track down English translations of poems by Herta Muller, the newest Nobel Laureate in Literature, but they are awfully hard to come by (if they even exist).

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Auschwitz Memorial Launches Facebook Page To Reach Young People

AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Social Media, Auschwitz Facebook, Auschwitz, Holocaust, World War II, Auschwitz Facebook Page, Facebook, Genocide, Auschwitz Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Auschwitz, Auschwitz Facebook, Auschwitz Memorial on Facebook Removed ?, World News

WARSAW, Poland — To try to reach young people around the world, the memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a page on Facebook, the social net...

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Super Poems: Other Comic Books Inspired by Verse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Alexander Pope, The Hollow Men, W.H. Auden, The Imperfect Enjoyment, The Tiger, Betty and Veronica, Spiderman, Road-Not-Taken, William Blake, John Milton, The Fantastic Four, Lord Rochester, Iron Man, Cats, Robert Frost, Archie Comics, Human Torch, Captain American, T.S. Eliot, Calvin and Hobbes, The Waste Land, On His Blindness, Jonathan Swift, World War II, Dr. Arbuthnot, Batman, The Green Lantern, Achilles, Comics, Comedy News

In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...

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If Pearl Harbor Were Attacked Today Could We Afford to Defend Ourselves?

Paul A. London | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business

Read More: World War II, Federal Budget Deficit, Spending, Economic Crisis, Economy, Business News

Many Republicans know this "deficits will kill us" stuff is bull. The country can afford to spend money to put Americans back to work, just as surely as it could afford to spend money to fight World War II.

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"Happy" Anniversary, Iceland

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 11.28.2009 | World

Read More: IMF Funding, International Monetary Fund, Economic Crisis, Iceland Economic Crisis, Norway, Alcoa, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland, Denmark, Iceland Bankrupt, Iceland Banks, Iceland Economy, Lehman Brothers, Iceland National Bankruptcy, IMF Bailout, Financial Crisis, Western Europe, Imf, Iceland Financial Crisis, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, World War II, Iceland Bank Crisis, Monty Python, World News

This has been a very rough year for Iceland, and it's not likely to get better anytime soon. The public's anger continues to grow, and it would not be surprising if this winter sees a repeat of last winter's uprising.

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Can We Finally Tell the Truth About Britain's Vile 'Queen Mother'?

Johann Hari | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Neville Chamberlain, William Shawcross, Queen Mother, British Treasury, King Edward III, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, Michael Mann, British Monarchy, Adolf Hitler, Woodrow Wyatt, World War II, Monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth, King George, World News

William Shawcross has won the favor of his fellow monarchists by taking the Queen Mother's curdled life and presenting it as the best of British.

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