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EgyptAir And The Jihadi Problem

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Original Article  by:  Ken Timmerman

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The EgyptAir plane scheduled to make the following flight from Paris to Cairo, after flight MS804 disappeared from radar, taxies on the tarmac at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France, May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

Hillary Clinton just can’t say the words. Like Barack Obama, she is stuck in a fantasy land where Islamists who shout “Allah Akbar” before they unleash hell on the innocent are some kind of nameless, ideology-less “violent extremists.” Continue reading →

Red fire on the mountain: Saddam Hussein’s secrets still haunt the landscape

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Twenty-five years after Iraq’s Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles at Israel, the residents of Mount Shingal reveal a secret about the 1991 Gulf War.

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Iraqi anti-aircraft fire and tracer flares light up the sky above Baghdad on January 17, 1991, as US and allied bombing raids launched the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. (photo credit:REUTERS)

From the top of the mountain you can see hundreds of kilometers in all directions because of the height,” recalls Sharaf (not his real name), a Yazidi man from Iraqi Kurdistan who speaks in a phone interview. Continue reading →

Groundbreaking study exhumes untold Nazi brutalization of women’s bodies

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“Survivors didn’t talk about anything having to do with sex because they didn’t want their children and grandchildren to know what had happened to them.”

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Author Beverley Chalmers says we owe it to victims and survivors to know the unspeakable crimes — including rape, experimentation and forced abortion — committed against them.

Dr. Beverley Chalmers’ latest book is not the kind people want to read. Yet, it’s one they should. Continue reading →

No joking matter: 1940s political cartoons warned US of Holocaust

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Proof of America’s awareness of genocide against European Jews lay in the funny papers, where cartoonists used pens to eviscerate US politicians’ apathy.

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NEW YORK — Long before becoming a beloved children’s author, Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel wielded his pen for more sober reasons: He wanted to alert the American public to the horrors of the Third Reich. Continue reading →