Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with history www.salem-news.com 2013 The recent assassination of a British soldier walking down a street in London was a despicable act. He proudly wore his country's uniform and for that he gave his life. Most of us are very proud of our military. We should be. Without our armed forces we would not be the free country we are today. http://salem-news.com/articles/may242013/strong-military-gm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may242013/strong-military-gm.php Fri, 24 May 2013 12:16:00 PDT In nonviolent protest, success or failure can depend on a variety of strategies that can determine the final outcome: whether or not the protesters are able to declare victory at the end of the day. One way that “victory” can be determined, is by planning when participant departures take place and how long a protest will last. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222013/creative-resistance-tgk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222013/creative-resistance-tgk.php Wed, 22 May 2013 19:40:00 PDT Dishonouring Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism. Spitting on the cross, an especially on the Crucifix, and spitting when a Jew passes a church, have been obligatory from around AD 200 for pious Jews. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152013/israel-christianity.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152013/israel-christianity.php Wed, 15 May 2013 11:10:00 PDT May 1st. Standing in front of the Foreign Office in the London sunshine I shivered at the memory of the massacre of Ein El Zeytoun 65 years ago. Ein El Zeytoun, like Deir Yassin, and many other villages and towns in Palestine at the time, was wiped off the face off the earth. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152013/el-zeytoun-zr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152013/el-zeytoun-zr.php Wed, 15 May 2013 09:42:00 PDT In the sister cities of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Mother’s Day 2013 had a prolonged calendar life because of cross-border family ties, work schedules and commercial promotions. An international fusion made for a long weekend of parties, sales events and musical tributes... http://salem-news.com/articles/may132013/juarez-trafficking.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132013/juarez-trafficking.php Mon, 13 May 2013 23:06:00 PDT The death of Herbert Romerstein takes from us a man who devoted his life to advancing freedom, and exposing its enemies, as well as a long-time friend. Herb was born in Brooklyn in 1931. Always an idealist, in high school Herb was attracted to the utopian dreams advanced by Marxism and joined the Communist Youth League... http://salem-news.com/articles/may122013/herbert-romerstein-ab.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122013/herbert-romerstein-ab.php Sun, 12 May 2013 15:03:00 PDT Remember waiting for that day and time when your favorite show was coming on? People said things like "Can't wait till Thursday night at 7:30 on channel 5." I remember getting sent home from a friend's house because the Dick Van Dyke show was about to come on (I was five). http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/roku-device-sh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/roku-device-sh.php Thu, 09 May 2013 22:14:00 PDT Most of the world's governments no longer use the death penalty. Among wealthy nations there is one exception remaining. The United States is among the top five killers in the world. Also in the top five: the recently "liberated" Iraq. But most of the United States' 50 states no longer use the death penalty. http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/death-penalty-ds.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/death-penalty-ds.php Wed, 08 May 2013 22:45:00 PDT Fact: 7 million Palestinians are refugees or displaced people and those who remain in Palestine are in shrinking "people warehouses" You are invited to join important events held around the world for week of the ongoing Nakba (catastrophe of dispossession and ethnic cleansing). http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/nakba-events.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/nakba-events.php Wed, 08 May 2013 19:17:00 PDT A survivor of a high-level ring involving child sacrifice, torture and trafficking went public today in an exclusive disclosure and interview. Toos Nijenhuis, a fifty four year old physiotherapist and mother of five from Holland, was tortured, raped and used experimentally from the age of four... http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/holland-child-ring.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may082013/holland-child-ring.php Wed, 08 May 2013 18:16:00 PDT With 2,273 published online news articles, I think I may have the highest number of news reports by a single reporter in the U.S. or otherwise. I will be interested to know if anyone disagrees. The number, 2,273, is based upon the current archives of Salem-News.com. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072013/highest-number-articles-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072013/highest-number-articles-tk.php Tue, 07 May 2013 00:39:00 PDT My silence was born from the deep belief that if you have nothing constructive to say regarding any on-going conflict then keeping your own counsel is best. What could you or I, as Arabs and Moslems and children of Greater Syria, say when you see that everything that you have been brought up to believe in has been destroyed? http://salem-news.com/articles/may052013/inviting-armageddon-jr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may052013/inviting-armageddon-jr.php Sun, 05 May 2013 11:38:00 PDT Some time ago, Al Gore's television network, Current TV, ran an hour- long feature billed as a hard-hitting bit of investigative journalism. It wasn't. It was amateurish, poorly paced with incompetent interviews, a lack of continuity and excess repetition. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022013/tree-see-saw-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may022013/tree-see-saw-ba.php Thu, 02 May 2013 13:24:00 PDT In the late 19th century, Henry Morton Stanley (of Stanley and Livingston fame), was the “king’s man”— more accurately, a hired colonist conqueror—working for Belgium’s King Leopold II. Stanley’s assignment: Seize and conquer the vast and unexplored territory surrounding Africa’s Congo River... http://salem-news.com/articles/may012013/congo-conquerers-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may012013/congo-conquerers-jw.php Wed, 01 May 2013 12:09:00 PDT I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine. More than three decades ago when I made my commitment to this war effort, in the full knowledge that it would make me persona non grata in the eyes of the mainstream... http://salem-news.com/articles/april252013/palestine-israel-ah.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april252013/palestine-israel-ah.php Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:38:00 PDT Sympathetic critics of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) contend that its passionate energy has faded due to massive federal, state and local government spying and police brutality. They also cite a lack of political direction that could inspire millions of the 99% to join in, thus enabling it to be alive and kicking today. http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/true-blue-rr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/true-blue-rr.php Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:50:00 PDT Intellectual theories, which have largely bypassed complex reality, have had a dramatic influence upon the way Americans view race---and racial differences. In an important new book, "Intellectuals And Race", tests the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed among intellectuals and which have led to a variety of crusades... http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/intellects-racism-ab.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/intellects-racism-ab.php Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:57:00 PDT Sleepy Slater had a store-front shop on Main Street, with a fortunate sort of bay window, at which he sat crouched over his shoemaker's workbench. Through the bay window, he commanded a view of the far reaches of our town's principal thoroughfare, and could note the approach of any customer... http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/home-town-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/home-town-ba.php Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:33:00 PDT Reverend Martin Luther King delivered his "Beyond Vietnam" speech in New Yorkh on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered. He called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." http://salem-news.com/articles/april212013/purveyor-violence-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april212013/purveyor-violence-pb.php Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:09:00 PDT Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere... On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march..." By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch http://salem-news.com/articles/april192013/revere-boston.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april192013/revere-boston.php Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:14:00 PDT What I learned history in school – and as it usually is taught even today – is that the surprise attack on our forces in Hawaii by the Imperial Japanese Navy was devastating. The Naval base at Pearl Harbor and the Army Air Corps base at Hickam Field were attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers. http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/wwii-pearl-harbor.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/wwii-pearl-harbor.php Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:30:00 PDT Nothing has really changed since President Barack Obama delivered his final first-term State of the Union address. It was a powerful presentation, pushing all the right buttons, pulling all the correct levers, convincing everybody... http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/obama-changes-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/obama-changes-ba.php Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:55:00 PDT Author Amy Water Yarsinke, a veteran author of more than 55 non-fiction books on American history, is known as “the POW Hunter” due to her experience in military intelligence. An American in the Basement is an expose about the betrayal of Captain Scott Speicher and the cover-up of his death, according to the author. http://salem-news.com/articles/april162013/speicher-truth.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april162013/speicher-truth.php Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:43:00 PDT A debate rages in Israel today on the truth of Amira Hass’s words: “Throwing a stone is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance” http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/deir-yassin-wc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/deir-yassin-wc.php Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:37:00 PDT It is hard to imagine that 144 years ago, families and friends of miners were standing in the dark outside the Yellow Jacket Mine, involuntarily witnessing one of the worst mining disasters in the state's history. They probably were struggling with the realization that they were never going to see anyone emerge from that mineshaft, where a methane fire broke out, one so intense that it would burn for several days. http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/yellow-jacket-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/yellow-jacket-tk.php Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:33:00 PDT History is nothing if not interesting. And that it most definitely is. Today, Palestinian refugees are being severely punished in Lebanon and deprived of their most elementary civil right to work or to even own a home. http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/yarmouk-camp-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/yarmouk-camp-fl.php Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:07:00 PDT A family is a microcosm of humanity. It has been the basic building block of society since the beginning of civilization. It is also under attack by the contrary winds of social change, growing economic inequality, a culture of conspicuous consumption and political correctness... http://salem-news.com/articles/april082013/selamin-belica.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april082013/selamin-belica.php Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:12:00 PDT The news of the death of Britain’s Iron Lady, Baroness Thatcher, promoted me to recall my favourite story about her. In 1980, in the first of her three terms as prime minister, she said in a speech to her Conservative Party’s Conference: “You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.” http://salem-news.com/articles/april082013/thatcher-dies-ah.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april082013/thatcher-dies-ah.php Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:07:00 PDT Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes has warned Hifazat-e Islam chief Allama Ahmad Shafi to stop acting like a prostitute. William Nicholas Gomes said Allama Ahmad Shafi has been used by political forces like BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) and others in the name of Islam. http://salem-news.com/articles/april062013/shafi-prostitute-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april062013/shafi-prostitute-wg.php Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:01:00 PDT The main problem with the implementation of any sort of entrepreneurial blitzkrieg to reboot the flagging U.S. economy is that entrepreneurial ventures are inherently risky and investors are inherently risk-averse. How then do we convince investors en masse to pour hundreds of billions into new business ventures in a sluggish economy? http://salem-news.com/articles/april042013/entrepreneurial-blitzkrieg-jb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april042013/entrepreneurial-blitzkrieg-jb.php Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:30:00 PDT