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Russia is Still a Threat to America and to Europe

Sean Gilfillan | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Neorealism, World War I, Kenneth Waltz, Terrorism, South Ossetia, International Relations, Iraq, South Ossetia Fighting, World War II, War in Iraq, Politics News

Our relative power is determined by two things, the strength of our economy and the strength of our military. How weak is our economy? How stretched and broken is our military?

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Hiroshima Mayor Asks US To Back Nuclear Ban On 63rd Anniversary of Atomic Bomb

AP | KATSUMI KASAHARA | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Tokyo, Wwii, Hiroshima, World War II, Japan, Atomic Bomb, Breaking News, Home News

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima's mayor on Wednesday urged the next U.S. president to support a proposed ban on nuclear weapons, as Japan marked th...

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Rosie the Recycler? Posters Aim to Halt Climate Change

Maura Judkis | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Art, Advertising, Ohio, Going Green, Climate Change, Public Transit, Green Living, Posters, World War II, Green News

The Green Patriot Posters project is beginning its campaign with a series of bus posters in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by local artist Michael Beirut.

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Batman (1943): Rounding Up the Shifty-Eyed Japs

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Robin, Douglas Croft, Movie Serials, Japanese Internment, Lewis Wilson, World War II, Batman, Movies, Japan, Entertainment News

Given Pearl Harbor, and Hollywood's track record with stereotypes before Pearl Harbor, the racism towards Japanese people in 1943's Batman serial is unsurprising.

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America's Front Porch: Remembering Our Veterans

Mary Lou Song | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living

Read More: World War II, Living News

This story about the Perry family in California just goes to show that remembering our veterans and reaching across cultures to mend countries doesn't require a federal holiday.

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Some Free Political Advice from Bob Dole

Al Eisele | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Vice President, Veterans Affairs, Memorial Day, Ohio, Bob Dole, Hillary Clinton, Florida, World War II, Michigan, Barack Obama, Veterans, Home News

Bob Dole, who knows something about winning -- and losing -- presidential elections, has two pieces of free advice for the 2008 White House hopefuls.

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Memorial Day Thoughts

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: French, Doughboy, Memorial Day, Veteran, Flag, Doughboys, War, Normandy, Grave, D-Day, Great War, Veterans, Fleurs De La Memoire, France, Soldier, Patriotism, Meuse-Argonne, World War I, Honor, World War II, Politics News

There is an American flag flying in front of my house today. I am not right-wing, I am not pro-war, I am not making a political statement of any kind...

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In Memoriam: War

Steven Weber | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Military Industrial Complex, Memorial Day, Solidiers, Honor, Eisenhower, Iraq, World War, World War II, Politics News

The war in Iraq is really being sold as The War to Forget War, a war of corporations, a war between brands, a battle between Quisp and Quake; it is war as a game, war as a tactic, war as a ploy.

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Miracle at St. Anna: A Preview of Spike Lee's Upcoming Film

Karin Badt | Posted 05.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Directors, Filmmaking, Racism, Spike Lee, Miracle at St. Anna, World War II, Barack Obama Race, Barack Obama, Entertainment News

Spike Lee presented an eight minute clip of his upcoming movie Miracle at St. Anna yesterday, and stayed to answer questions about this film and filmmaking in general.

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Karl Rove's Time Machine

David Quigg | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: History, Neoconservatives, Neville Chamberlain, Election 2008, World War II, Senator William Borah, Appeasement, Adolf Hitler, George W. Bush, Neo Con, Barack Obama, Politics News

Addressing Israeli lawmakers last week, Bush slandered a giant of the U.S. Senate: William E. Borah. The six-term Republican senator from Idaho cannot hit back against Bush's smear -- he's been dead since 1940.

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The Ghost of Hitler Has No Place In Today's War on Terrorism

Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Israel, World War II, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Nazi, Politics News

You can't look in the face of every zealot, every enemy and see Hitler's ghost. Hitler's dead. Osama lives. Adapt and learn how to deal with the men and the madness that exists today.

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Barack Obama is No John Kerry

Joe Lauria | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, John McCain, Militarism, World War II, Terrorism, John Kerry, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Politics News

With a single speech last week, Barack Obama showed he is no John Kerry. He will fight back immediately against scurrilous charges with reason and fact, not empty rhetoric.

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Obama and Wisdom and Clinton

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Wisdom, Kyl-Lieberman, Rfk, Obama, Edwards, Myanmar, Canadian Forests, Clinton, Vietnam War, Tsunami, Iraq Invasion and Occupation, Katrina, World War II, Trojan War, Ralph Nader, Global Warming, Mlk, Aeschylus, Politics News

I have been meaning to write about whom I support in the Democratic primary. In January I backed all three main candidates. Basically, it was a case o...

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The Newly Discovered FDR-Lucy Mercer Correspondence

Ellen Feldman | Posted 05.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Missy LeHand, Warm Springs Georgia, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Presidential Affairs, Living News

Whatever the physical aspects of the relationship, and fortunately we will never know for certain, the love between FDR and Lucy endured.

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Candy Bombers Sneak Peek No. 1: An Echo of the Past

Andrei Cherny | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: 2004 Election, Douglas Brinkley, John Kerry, Berlin Airlift, Candy Bombers, Thomas Dewey, Henry Wallace, World War II, James Forrestal, Walter Isaacson, John Kerry 2004, Entertainment News

Some may think they know about the Berlin Airlift, Truman's "give 'em hell" campaign, and the death of James Forrestal. But I guarantee you that much of what you think you know is wrong.

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Let Justice Roll Down

Steven Denlinger | Posted 03.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Earl Denlinger, The Bronx, Holmes County, Roselynn Weaver, Jonathan Miller, Magdalena Overholt, The Bread Loaf School of English, Amish, The Way, Ohio, Mark Wagler, Pleasant View Mennonite Church, Mennonite, Catholic Central High School, Great Depression, The Great War, Jerome Overholt, Swamp Road, Common Ground, J. Anthony Lukas, Lancaster Mennonite High School, Robert Weaver, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, New York City, Steubenville, Hartville, Cnn, Middlebury College, Rene Wagler, Fairfield Hospital, Marcia Miller, Rosedale Bible College, Lake High School, World War II, Aclu, Donald Thorn, Germans, Belize, Living News

My Swiss-German world did not promote cross-cultural values -- most of my schoolmates looked pretty much like me. But something was different about the way my parents raised me.

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Smoke?

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 03.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Bombing, World War II, Nicholson Baker, Bush, War, Lindqvist, Media News

Nicholson Baker's new book is the very uncute Human Smoke, The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization: it debunks the happy myths of the good guys in that grand good fight.

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Holocaust Schmolocaust: Why A Few HuffPo Readers Need Sarkozy, Tout Suite

Linda Keenan | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Zionism, France Holocaust Curriculum, Israel Palestinian Conflict, French Muslims, French Civil Unrest, Anti-Semitism, World War II, Carla Bruni, Nicolas Sarkozy, Holocaust History, Mossad, Neo-Cons, Bolsheviks, Politics News

When I first read that Sarkozy wanted every French fifth-grader to learn about a child-victim of the Holocaust, I immediately thought, oh no.

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In 2008: A Few Questions on Energy For The Candidate

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.31.2007 | Business

Read More: House of Representatives, Nuclear Energy, Bp, American Automobile Industry, Department of Interior, The Administratioin, Congress, Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Opec, Arsenal of Democracy, Brazil, US Courts, Nopec, Nuclear Power Plants, Earl Deveny, Rep. George Miller, Department of Energy, Ethanol, World War II, President Bush, Amaranth, China, 2008 New Year, Business News

This administration has done little to confront the looming danger that our consumption of fossil fuels presents to the nation's environment, economy and national security.

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The Japanese Flying Monkey

August J. Pollak | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, Waterboarding, World War II, Japan, Torture, Romney Waterboarding, Romney Torture, Politics News

Mitt Romney demands ex-post-facto acceptance of all waterboarding throughout history. And then monkeys... well, you know.

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Paul Tibbets Died on Halloween. Here's How He Felt About Dropping The Bomb On Hiroshima

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 11.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: World War II, Studs Terkel, Politics News

I am not now equating dropping atom bombs on Japanese cities with the Holocaust in Germany in WW2. That's not my point. My Banality of Evil file is more capacious than that.

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Live From The White House...With Feeling

Brian Williams | Posted 10.05.2007 | Media

Read More: Television History, World War II, NBC News, Yankees, Harry Truman, Dodgers, Media News

On Oct. 5, 1947, President Harry S. Truman gave a speech to the nation that was -- for the first time in history -- broadcast live on television. What the president said that night was truly remarkable, especially in the context of today.

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America Used To Be Really Goddamn Awesome

Bob Cesca | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics

Read More: Ken Burns, George W. Bush, Bush Iraq, Ken Burns the War, Iraq, World War II, Ken Burns' WWII Documentary, Fdr, Politics News

The Bush Years have been a monumental, cataclysmic failure due to its inattention to what has made American great. The president and his thinning ranks of fawn-eyed Hannities don't understand this yet.

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Censoring the Greatest Generation

David Harsanyi | Posted 09.23.2007 | Media

Read More: Pbs, Fcc, World War II, Ken Burns' WWII Documentary, Ken Burns, Media News

Does anyone else find it ironic that on PBS tonight, Ken Burns' film documenting the great sacrifices of freedom in WWII will have the words of the very men who fought for it edited out?

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Saving Private Ramos

Roberto Lovato | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Latino Politics, Ken Burns' WWII Documentary, World War II, Latino Veterans, Latino WWII Veterans, Pbs, Ken Burns, Politics News

Ken Burns and PBS have been embroiled in the "War" controversy since a UT Austin scholar and several other Latino leaders discovered that the film excluded Latino vets.

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