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The Berlin Airlift’s Lesson for Today’s Humanitarian Crises
Time via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoThe Soviet Union watched as the East’s economy struggled to adapt to a counterblockade, prohibiting...
A high-quality Soviet Yiddish literary magazine is being digitized
The Forward· 6 days agoFor the first time in history, every issue of the Yiddish literary magazine Sovetish heymland (...
Today in History: Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies
Chicago Tribune· 3 days agoIn 1913, California Gov. Hiram Johnson signed the Webb-Hartley Law prohibiting “aliens ineligible to...
This week in history: May 20-May 26
World Socialist Web Site· 2 days agoThe danger of a military confrontation between the two nuclear powers was ratcheted up another notch after the downing of two Indian warplanes earlier that week—one through ...
Posts linking Disney, former Nazi to NASA founding are misleading
AFP via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoSocial media posts claim Walt Disney and four others, including occult practitioners and a former...
In Defense of Defense Spending
The Dispatch via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoEven modest increases and one-time emergency expenditures are subject to heavy media scrutiny as those bills move through the legislative...
What other leaders have died in aircraft crashes? Iran's Ebrahim Raisi only the latest
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBut Hammarskjöld had enemies – his decision to send U.N. peacekeeping troops into Congo angered the ...
Mandela’s party stumbles as election approaches in South Africa
The Washington Times· 7 days agoOne party has had a stranglehold on power for three decades, but this year’s contest, on May 29,...
As antisemitism grows, it is easier to condemn than define : Consider This from NPR
NPR· 6 days ago"But on the other hand," he says, "it inevitably becomes a hugely polarized thing, and you have...
Zuma takes election battle cry to ANC’s heartland
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days ago"We want our children to study for free, especially those from poor households because the poverty we have was not...votes. To what extent he is...
