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An unsettling and detailed documentary describing the many events over the past decade that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 11 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The Fake and Offical 24/7 News Streams By James Porteous | Clipper Media News As you will see in this documentary, the situation in…
For four decades, photojournalist Tom Stoddart covered Lebanon, apartheid’s end, the Berlin Wall, Sarajevo, Gulf Wars… He worked in B&W throughout his career. Photo: The first section of the Berlin Wall is pushed down by crowds, November 1989. Photograph: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images 06 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Berlin Wall to…
Photo: (AFP/Hassan Ammar) 19 September 2021 | KELLY MACNAMARA | AFP via Jakarta Post Life-sized carvings of camels and horses hewn into rock faces in Saudi Arabia could be around 7,000 years old, according to new research that suggests they are significantly older than previously thought. The 21 reliefs, which were only recently discovered, are…
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In the decades to come, The Fall of Kabul may be remembered for being little more than manifestly different from The Fall of Saigon. But is it? Photo: In the iconic photo from 1975, people are seen boarding a helicopter on the roof of the CIA station in Saigon 28 August 2021 | James Porteous…
Photo: Sirhan Sirhan, left, reacts alongside his attorney William Pepper, as he is denied parole, at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, 10 February 2016. Gregory BullAP Photo That tumultuous decade had already been marked by the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and just two months earlier,…
Photo: Members of the Nez Perce Tribe ride to Am’sáaxpa or “the place of boulders,” to bless the ancestral land they reclaimed. In direct violation of the 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla, the Nez Perce in 1877 were forced from their 7.5 million-acre homeland to a 750,000-acre reservation in Idaho. 03 August | DIANNE LUGO | Salem…
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Photo: A diver examines the remains of an ancient military vessel discovered in the Mediterranean sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, in this handout image released on July 19, 2021. The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/Handout via REUTERS 19 July 2021 | Staff | Reuters CAIRO, July 19 (Reuters) – Divers have…
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A series of articles discussing what some are calling the UK’s “de facto amnesty” for those involved in Troubles-related killings. Northern Secretary says proposals are ‘painful recognition of the reality of where we are’ 2. Proposals characterised as ‘de facto amnesty’ for killers 3. Key events since the Troubles began 4. London denies this is…
Photo: A person looks at an electronic display of The Vitruvian Man 1490, a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Researchers hope to understand genius of artist by reconstructing his genealogical profile 06 June 2021 | Angela Giuffrida | The Guardian A study into the family history of the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo Da…
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Photo: A V&A employee looks at colour images projected onto casts on loan from the British Museum, based on originals from the Palace of Darius, on display at Epic Iran, an exhibition soon to open at the V&A in London, Britain, May 25, 2021. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls 25 May 2021 | Hanna Rantala and Marie-Louise Gumuchian…
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War lawyer: I am being asked by the commander whether he may legally kill these humans. I am the judge — he the jury and executioner 12 May 2021 | Craig Jones | The Conversation When we think of war, we might think of soldiers on the front line – or those pulling the trigger…
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Director Barry Jenkins says the non-narrative film was inspired by the paintings of Kerry James Marshall. 11 May 2021 | Jude Dry | Indiewire As Barry Jenkins prepares to release his television debut as showrunner, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad,” it would be an understatement to say TV audiences are eagerly awaiting the…
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