Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse! Stephen H. Savage uses satellite images to assess the damage from not just ISIS but others.
Satellite images show ISIS, other groups destroying archaeological sites.
Month: April 2015
Russia Fighting Information Wars with Borrowed Weapons | History News Network
More on Russia’s propaganda machine:
History News Network | Russia Fighting Information Wars with Borrowed Weapons.
Moscow’s Twisted History Lessons – NYTimes.com
Nationalists of all stripes have been particularly adept at distorting history to serve their own purposes. Once again, nationalism and its sidekick “selective history” have been on the rise, most notably in Russia. Vladimir Putin is a master of exploiting nationalism in the pursuit of power. Recently, as noted by Maxim Trudolyubov, Putin declared: “‘It’s time to stop taking note only of the bad things in our history and berating ourselves more than even our opponents would do,’ he declared at the annual gathering of international Russia experts known as the Valdai Discussion Club in 2013. ‘We must be proud of our history.’” Sound familiar?
Read Trudolyubov’s entire article here:
Moscow’s Twisted History Lessons – NYTimes.com.
History News Network | John Bolton’s Love of Bombs
The historian Lawrence Davidson exposes the folly of John Bolton’s recent opinion piece in The New York Times advocating the bombing of Iran. Here’s an excerpt from his take down: “John Bolton’s op-ed to the New York Times is just a mess – a dangerous flight of fancy based on skewed opinions rather than hard evidence and facts. In what must have been a very weak moment while writing this piece, he actually admits that there is a “lack of palpable evidence” for his case. He then moves right ahead as if the absence of evidence and facts just do not matter.” Read more here:
History News Network | John Bolton’s Love of Bombs.
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