A Very Different Me: My Reflections on 9/11, One Year After
ShareIt´s been a year now. September 11, 2001 marked the most tragic day in American history since the Civil War. I am lucky to have
‘On This Day’ 1951: Secret C.I.A. L.S.D. Experiment Creates Mass Insanity in French Village; 5 Die
ShareDuring the early days of the Cold War, the U.S. military and the C.I.A. carried out hundreds of secret experiments with a newly-developed Swiss drug
"The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." -Supreme Allied Commander and, later, US President Dwight Eisenhower, Newsweek, 11/11/63 [caption id="attachment_12641" align="alignright" width="300" ...
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former South African President Nelson Mandela is arguably the world’s most respected and beloved living figure. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls him “a hero ...
Four former Guatemalan soldiers are on trial for the 1982 massacre of more than 220 men, women and children at Las Dos Erres. The four were members of an elite ...
Yesterday marked the 32nd anniversary of the overthrow of the brutal, U.S.-backed Somoza dynasty by the progressive Sandinista Revolution. The Somozas relied upon their vicious National Guard to keep the impoverished ...
June 8, 1967. The Eastern Mediterranean. The Six Day War between Israel and a coalition of Arab nations hell-bent on the Jewish state's destruction was raging, and the USS Liberty, ...
AIDS, although not called such, had been around for decades by the time the US Centers for Disease Control first noted five gay men in Los Angeles were suffering from ...
The year was 1992. The Soviet Union was no more and America stood astride the world like a triumphant colossus, reveling in its Cold War victory and basking in the ...
[caption id="attachment_9958" align="alignleft" width="412" caption="Joan Baez and Bob Dylan play at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; August 28, 1963"][/caption] Some call him the voice of one of the ...
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