The December 11 edition of Warrior Connection was a discussion and review of events and implications of in dedication to Pearl Harbor attack on December…
World War II
Emma Morano, the last known person alive who was born in the 19th century, has celebrated her 117th birthday. Born on 29 November 1899, four…
The following is an adapted excerpt from the new paperback edition of The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist (Basic Books, 2016): A beautiful…
I was born on July 20, 1944, the day of the failed officers’ plot against Adolf Hitler. That means I preceded the official dawning of…
As the presidential campaign hobbles through its last dispiriting days, the central concerns of voters are getting lost amid the screech of scandal, real and…
Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could…
Over the years only a small handful of policy pundits have struggled to find a core principle that might explain the American government's irrational desire…
The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psycho-analysis, it…
With D-Day just 16 days away, Leid Stories “polls” listeners’ state of mind about the election; if/how they are likely to vote; how media coverage…
There is another drumbeat growing for the United States to go to war. The media is walking in lockstep with bi-partisans in Washington, DC and…
Mayer Hersh, who has died aged 90, became in the last 30 years of his life one of the foremost UK-based witnesses to the Holocaust.…
It was nearly 40 years ago that as a journalist I began concentrating on nuclear power.