I am reading We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with out familiesI know some about Rwanda already. About the genocide, at least. I've read other books and I remember when it was happening. Back in '94. I even knew some of it's post-colonial history; how it was given to Belgium after WWI as a "spoil of war." And how the popular ( Read more... )

Sent to me by atevik who got it from evaunit00.

Posted here for handy reference, should debate ever arise.

I have seen the future - and it's Goth.
(lifted from Guardian Unlimited Arts)
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by Erik Eckholm for The New York TimesBALTIMORE - Black men in the United States face a far more dire situation than is portrayed by common employment and education statistics, a flurry of new scholarly studies warn, and it has worsened in recent years even as an economic boom and a welfare overhaul have brought gains to black women and other ( Read more... )

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ( Read more... )

I have been researching Gen. James Wilkinson, a former Commander in Chief of the US Army, military governor of the Louisiana Territory and Spanish spy. Historians and biographers (never his, usually they're writing about Thomas Jefferson or George Rogers Clark ) refer to him as "the most skillful and unscrupulous plotter this country has every ( Read more... )

By JUAN FORERO ( Read more... )

I shouldn't get my hopes up. It's going to take more than this to get rid of Sil. I mean, here's a guy who has compared himself winninglyto Jesus Christ and Napoleon in public political speeches. He thinks of sexual harrassment as the Italian National Pastime. He's...Well, he just seems like a talk-show host.

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A court in New York is hearing a lawsuit brought by Vietnamese plaintiffs over the use of Agent Orange by the US during the Vietnam war ( Read more... )

After the death of Mikhail Frunze, Kliment Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR in 1925. He massively reorganized and purged the Red Army during Stalin's first two Five-Year Plans ( Read more... )

Romanticizing Coups by Belinda A. Aquino ( Read more... )