Stand For Peace
Stand For Peace
Photo: (cropped) Pamela Harriman, at right, seen with Jackie Onassis and Averell Harriman, was the U.S. Ambassador to France under President Clinton.Image Getty Images As President Biden announces anticipated appointments, the world wonders: Is it seasoning or sophistication that makes…
Photo: Money seized by Australian Federal Police © Australian Federal Police/Handout via REUTERS Hundreds arrested worldwide in Trojan Shield organised crime sting 08 June 2021 | Jamie Smyth in Sydney and Michael Peel |FT More than 800 people have been arrested around…
21 May 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media An independent inquiry by Lord Dyson, a former senior judge, found journalist Martin Bashir used deception to secure the interview and then lied to BBC managers. Princess Diana: What is the…
Bettmann/Getty Images 02 May 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Zoot Suit Riots SEP 15, 2020 ORIGINAL:SEP 27, 2017 History.com (original link) The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of violent clashes during which mobs of U.S. servicemen, off-duty…
Sixty years after the Bay of Pigs invasion – the failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba – the island continues to celebrate its victory while the invaders who survived live on in the US with the satisfaction…
04 May 2018 | Various Sources | Hawkins Bay Dispatch “Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming / we’re finally on our own / this summer I hear the drumming/ four dead in Ohio.” Neil Young, lyrics, “Ohio” Kent State The Kent State shootings (also known…
‘Don’t Look Back’ shows a young Dylan: confident if not arrogant, confrontational and contrary, but also charismatic and charming. 17 May 2018 | Various Sources | Hawkins Bay Dispatch – This Day This Day – 17 May 1967 “… You…
The flag of the Native American Alcatraz protest in 1969, designed by Lulie Nall, a Penobscot Indian. 22 June 2018 | Gyorgy Toth | The Conversation In the thick of 1968’s seismic social upheavals, Native Americans also reached for their…
The wall of sound, is a solid wall of over 600 speakers. A feat of engineering only he could dream of, let alone accomplish James Porteous | Clipper Media 23 SEPTEMBER 2018 HAWKINS BAY 16 July 2018 | Luka Osborne…
01 October 2018 | Jane Lydon | The Conversation Nearly 70 years ago, in December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At this time, the UN’s cultural arm, UNESCO, sought to harness the…
30 October 2018 | Will Stewart | Mail Online A scientist accused of attempted murder in Antarctica plunged a kitchen knife into his colleague because ‘he was fed up with the man telling him the endings of books’ he was…
This database includes speeches, interviews, etc., by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996. All texts are in English. 31 March 2019 | Latin American Information Center | Castro Speech Data Base Published Hawkins Bay Dispatch This database includes speeches, interviews,…
