Category Archives: history

Conspiracy Theory Round-Up

22Jan10 – 8:38 pm

After delivering a speech at the “General Conference for the Support of Al-Quds”, Mahathir Mohamad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia shared his suspicions that the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US were staged to provide “an excuse to mount attacks on the Muslim world” with a press conference: I am not sure now that Muslim […]

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R2P not R2I

27Jul09 – 2:05 pm

The latest edition of The Economist contains an excellent article about attempts to undermine the UN commitment (such as it is) to the “responsibility to protect” (R2P). It contains some important history: R2P is certainly not—to judge by a careful reading of its history—a mere ploy by rich and powerful countries to poke their noses […]

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Pictures of a Protester

06Jun09 – 12:00 pm

On the 20th anniversary of the massacre by Chinese government troops of protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China on 5th June 1989, The New York Times shows four photographs of the famous lone “tank man” and asks each of the respective photographers for their recollections of the event. After the article appeared, a fifth photographer contacted the […]

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Aegis Trust: Survivors Say: Stop Genocide in Darfur

14Sep06 – 8:30 am

London: Rwandan, Bosnian and Holocaust survivors speak out, according to the Aegis Trust.

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