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SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER charged with “unscholarly and unethical” efforts to cast doubt on Armenian genocide.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is among the premier civil rights organizations in the United States, known for taking on hate groups and defending the powerless.
Which shows that Inside Higher Ed knows absolutely nothing about the $PLC.
A group of leading genocide scholars this month sent the center a stinging letter, obtained by Inside Higher Ed, that charges the center with getting out of a lawsuit in part by assisting "unscholarly and unethical" efforts to cast doubt on the Armenian genocide.
How could the Southern Poverty Law Center end up facing such an accusation?
Lewy doesn't say that a lot of Armenians weren't killed by a lot of Turks, he just denies that it was an organized plot by the Young Turks who were ruling Turkey at that time.
Since I never considered them either scholarly or ethical in the first place, I'm not surprised, but apparently Inside Higher Ed is.
"By the way, I assumed the program title was just a metaphor, that the kids who ran it were “Young Turks” in the dictionary sense of “an insurgent or a member of an insurgent group especially in a political party”, named after a pre-World War One student’s movement in Turkey. But it turns out that the main guy is calle...
The Sena is part of the BJP-led governments at the Centre and also in Maharashtra, but it often criticises their programmes and policies.
The Shiv Sena on Monday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his just-concluded China visit, claiming it was a “casual” tour during which he avoided taking up crucial bilateral issues with President Xi Jinping in view of the next year’s general elections. The Uddhav Thackeray-led party claimed that Modi was try...
The Sena sought to know what the RSS, the ideological mentor of Modi’s party the BJP, had to say about this stance. It said Modi had ‘chai pe charcha’ with the Chinese president during which he avoided discussing controversial issues in view of the general elections due next year.
Issues related to Doklam, border incursions and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), among others, were not taken up with the Chinese side, it said in an editorial in the party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’. “Pandit Nehru’s friendship with China had backfired. Modi has lever lost an opportunity to criticise Nehru. But i...
“Modi is backing Panchsheel but the thoughts behind it belonged to Nehru. Like Nehru, Modi is also convinced about ‘no to war, yes to peace’ (yuddha nako, buddha hawa) approach (to resolve pending issues),” it maintained. The Sena said the Ministry of External Affairs had maintained that Modi’s two-day visit to China l...
“It means the country’s prime minister has got no work and hence, he casually toured China,” the Marathi daily claimed. The publication said China continued to support Pakistan which had been sponsoring terrorism in India. “China is a major supporter of Pakistan. Pakistan can create troubles for India only because of t...
“The world has isolated Pakistan because of its soft-pedalling on terrorism. Still, China has continued to provide aid to Pakistan with an aim to destabilise India,” it said. The editorial also mentioned about Beijing’s growing footprints in India’s neighborhood.
The Sena said Nepal, once the world’s only Hindu nation, had been “almost taken over” by China and Kathmandu had started considering India as an adversary. The Communist giant was also trying to spread its influence” in India’s neighboring countries such as the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar, it said.
“It has also augmented its forces near the border of Bhutan at Doklam (the site of a tense stand-off last year) and increased India’s headache, but none of these issues were discussed between the two countries,” the Sena said. The Doklam issue was not taken up to avoid any uncomfortable moment during the “informal summ...
The Sena said China has also undertaken construction near the border of Arunachal Pradesh. The site was used for incursion by Chinese soldiers into the north-eastern state, it said. “This issue was also not discussed between Modi and Xi,” rued the party.
The CPEC passes through the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the erstwhile Manmohan Singh government had opposed it. But such a serious issue was also not discussed during talks between the two leaders, it said. “The foreign secretary maintained both the leaders avoided discussion on any controversial issue. Then what did...
Both the leaders agreed that terrorism was a major threat to world peace, “although not a single word on Pakistan’s great work of nurturing terrorists was mentioned in the meeting,” the editorial said. “How can you hit out on terror without any reference to Pakistan?” it asked.
“It seems Modi’s stand is to maintain peace across the border as general elections are just one year away. He does not want headache of unrest over the border during an election period,” the party said.
WARSAW, Poland – WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An Israeli man suspected of involvement in the slaying of a Hamas operative will be extradited to Germany, a Polish court ruled Wednesday.
Suspected Mossad agent Uri Brodsky is wanted by Germany, which accuses him of the crimes of spying and of helping falsely obtain a German passport allegedly used in connection with the assassination of Mahmoud al-Manhouh in a Dubai hotel in January.
Suspicion immediately fell on the Mossad, but Israel has never commented on the killing and has refused comment on Brodsky.
The Polish judge, Tomasz Calkiewicz, ruled Wednesday that Brodsky can be extradited based on suspicion of forgery. That means that Germany can only charge him with that crime, which carries a sentence of three years.
Calkiewicz said that Poland cannot extradite him on espionage charges because espionage against Germany is not a punishable crime in Poland. The German federal prosecutor's office said it cannot comment on the case because it has not officially been informed of the details of the decision.
One of Brodsky's lawyers, Anna Mika-Kopec, said that his legal team has not yet decided whether to appeal. But she said the ruling could be good for him because his potential sentence is less than he would face if he were tried and convicted of forgery and spying. Spying could carry up to an additional five years.
She stressed that the Warsaw court did not examine the matter of Brodsky's innocence or guilt, focusing only on whether the German request was valid. Another lawyer for Brodsky, Krzysztof Stepinski, said his client would make a decision on whether to appeal after he receives a Hebrew translation of the court docum...
The Brodsky case has put Poland in a predicament because it is close allies with both Germany, its western neighbor and its largest trade partner, and Israel.
Officials refused to comment on the political dimension of Wednesday's ruling, though it appears to be something of a compromise — Poland will extradite him to Germany but has ensured that he will face lesser charges.
Nazi Germany invaded Poland, rounding up Polish Jews and transporting many others from around Europe to Nazi death camps on Polish soil. The postwar years were also marred by sometimes murderous Polish anti-Semitism.
Today, Germany and Poland both put special importance on their relationship with Israel and are considered two of the Jewish state's strongest supporters in Europe.
Brodsky was escorted into court Wednesday by masked police officers wielding machine guns. He wore a navy jacket with a hood that he pulled tightly over his head and covered his face in his hands, hunching slightly as he entered the courtroom.
The hearing was held behind closed doors but reporters were allowed in at the end to hear the judge's ruling. During the verdict, Brodsky sat with his back to journalists, his head bent forward.
The court also extended his detention until September.
Brodsky was arrested June 4 at Warsaw's international airport, where he had hoped to take a flight to Tel Aviv.
The Dubai assassins also used fake passports from Britain, Ireland, France and Australia.
He was a space-age hero turned US senator.
John Glenn during his flight around the Earth.
Godspeed, once more, John Glenn. The astronaut and US senator whose circling of the Earth restored US pride at the dawn of the moon race, has died at age 95.
He was the first American to orbit the Earth, in the Friendship 7 mission in 1962, and the oldest man to ever fly into space, aboard the the space shuttle Discovery in 1998.
“Godspeed, John Glenn,” intoned astronaut Scott Carpenter as the Mercury 7 capsule ascended into the heavens on its historic 1962 launch, a signature moment of the space race.
That second trip came while he was a US senator. He served Ohio there for 24 years.
"As we bow our heads and share our grief with his beloved wife, Annie, we must also turn to the skies, to salute his remarkable journeys and his long years of service to our state and nation," Ohio Gov. John Kasich said. "Though he soared deep into space and to the heights of Capitol Hill, his heart never strayed from ...
Ohio State University President Michael V. Drake said that “Glenn was a decorated U.S. Marine aviator, legendary NASA astronaut, tireless public servant, and an unparalleled supporter of The John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State, where he served actively as an adjunct professor until just recently. He was ...
Elected officials, aviation historians and institutions, and other astronauts all mourned the loss.
Born in Cambridge, Ohio, Glenn enlisted in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program after Pearl Harbor, eventually transferring to the US Marines and flying combat missions during World War II. During the Korean War, he shot down three MiG-15 fighter jets days ahead of the 1953 armistice. In 1957, he made the world’s first sup...
He joined the newly created NASA in 1958, at the dawn of the space age, selected for the first “Mercury 7” cadre of astronauts. His 1962 orbital flight was the third US launch into space, coming after the first suborbital flights by Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. But it was the big one, triggering an outsize ticker-tape...
“Out in the middle of the intersections were the policemen, the policemen they had heard about, New York’s Finest, big tough looking men in blue greatcoats — and they were crying!” wrote Tom Wolfe in his history of the first astronauts, The Right Stuff.
Drawing nearly even with the Soviet Union in space after the shock of the 1957 Sputnik launch and early disappointments with rocket launches gave way to elation with Mercury 7’s success, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum curator Michael Neufeld told BuzzFeed News.
John Glenn “is an inspiration to all Americans,” President John Kennedy said in a nationwide address after the landing. Glenn was seen as the most humble and aw-shucks of the first set of astronauts, famously cautioning them about any illicit behavior that might reflect badly on NASA. He retired from the space agency i...
Glenn during his return to space in 1998.
Glenn was the prototype of the astronaut politician, a lion of the US Senate for 25 years, starting in 1974 and retiring in 1999, representing his home state of Ohio. He led efforts in countering nuclear proliferation and improving government operations. “He was a workhorse, not a celebrity senator,” Logsdon said.
Glenn’s political career however, was blighted by the 1989 “Keating Five” scandal, when the Senate ethics committee asked whether politicians had improperly interfered in the investigation of a savings and loan whose owner had made campaign contributions to them. Glenn was cleared of wrongdoing in the case, but admonis...
Until recently Glenn served actively as an adjunct professor at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University.
"He was an authentic hero whose courage, integrity, sacrifice and achievements inspired people, young and old, around the world," the university's president, Michael V. Drake, said in a statement.
President Obama released a statement saying the nation has "lost an icon and Michelle and I have lost a friend."
"When John Glenn blasted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas rocket in 1962, he lifted the hopes of a nation. And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach...
Obama's statement continues, "John spent his life breaking barriers, from defending our freedom as a decorated Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, to setting a transcontinental speed record, to becoming, at age 77, the oldest human to touch the stars. John always had the right stuff, inspiring generat...
President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that Glenn "was a hero and inspired generations of future explorers."
Glenn is survived by his wife, Annie Glenn, 95, his childhood sweetheart who, he married in 1943; a son, John David, 69; and daughter, Carolyn Ann, 68; as well as two grandsons.
Over deviled eggs and beer at Bar Centrale in New York’s theater district, Nichols recalled that the routine was born when he was a young comic and his mother phoned him with that question. Still, he says, “the mother’s guilt production” is not the paramount force in families.
Presidential politics thrum with Oedipal loop-de-loops. Many candidates — J.F.K., Al Gore, Mitt Romney — seem to be running to fulfill their fathers’ dreams more than their own. Others, like W. and John McCain, are shadowboxing with fathers who cast a long shadow. Still others, like Jon Huntsman, are treated to a campa...
“I know so many people — actors, directors, writers — who can’t get their father to even acknowledge their accomplishments,” Nichols said.
In the Oedipal myth, the son goes out into the world to prove himself, then returns to unknowingly kill the father and marry the mother.
Nichols’s father, Pavel Nicholaievitch Peschkowsky, was a Russian Jew who trained to be a doctor in Berlin. He came to New York to escape the Nazis in 1938, and then also got his family out. They were able to leave because the Nazi regime pushed Jews to leave Germany up until 1941.
Willy weeps when he learns that Biff’s nerdy cousin, Bernard, has grown up to be a lawyer arguing a case before the Supreme Court, while his golden boy has become a loser because Willy raised him to believe it was O.K. to cheat a little and lie a little and fantasize a lot.
And then the father dies, just like in the myth.
An earlier version of this column incorrectly described the political circumstances that allowed the Nichols family to leave Germany in 1938 and 1939. The Nazi regime pushed Jews to emigrate from Germany up until 1941 and then barred Jews from leaving. The fact that the Nichols family was allowed to leave had nothing t...
The House approved $33 billion for a 30,000-troop escalation in Afghanistan this week and in doing so took money away from other places it was desperately needed.
Coming on the eve of another war funding vote, many wondered if the the memos leaked by Wikileaks on the details of the Afghanistan deployment might make a difference. At the first test, the answer appears to have been no.
The House approved $33 billion for a 30,000-troop escalation in Afghanistan this week and in doing so took money away from other places it was desperately needed: public schools, green energy and job creation, the lot. 60 percent of Democrats and 93 percent of Republicans think increasing the deficit is just fine when ...
But David Swanson found some good news in the clear vote on the war funding measure. At least anti-war folks know who’s on what side: who’s with and who’s against.
Swanson pointed out that a good chunk of the Democratic caucus is opposed to more money for war even when their own leadership is asking for it. Republicans are clearly willing to keep fighting, and funding, regardless, despite their howls about waste and big government. There’s one more fact too: the number of anti-wa...
With the WikiLeaks documents, and the media’s attention on the topic, it’s time to redouble efforts to push more members of Congress against the war, says Swanson. And barring that, there’s an election’s coming up.
Do you know how your Congressperson voted? There’s a link here if you want to check.
An amendment to a Florida bill that would have banned weapons like the one used in the Parkland school shooting failed Monday amid growing cries for accountability and reform.
Hundreds of Floridians converged on the state Capitol in Tallahassee on Monday as lawmakers took up a series of proposals in response to the deadly shooting.
One bill included an amendment that would ban assault-style rifles like the one used by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter. Senate Bill 7022, which lets law enforcement seize firearms from people under certain conditions, advanced without the amendment.
Demonstrators in orange shirts signifying gun safety chanted “shame” and “vote them out” in response to the vote, which unfolded as criticism grew toward law enforcement’s response to the shooting.
It was the second time since the shooting that protesters visited the Capitol to pressure lawmakers into action.
Where students last week sought conversations and lobbied for a variety of demands, Rally in Tally participants listed as one of its aims a permanent ban on assault-style rifles.
Carly Schwamm, a high school student from Boca Raton, said the time had come for a ban on semi-automatic weapons.
In addition to SB 7022, two more proposals advanced: one related to school district policies for active shooters and another banning the release of a crime victim’s address on school grounds.
SB 7022 is “not perfect,” Parkland Mayor Christine Hunschofsky said, but it’s better than nothing.
House Speaker Richard Corcoran, along with 73 other Republican state representatives, called on the governor to suspend Israel for “incompetence and neglect of duty” in a letter sent Sunday.
What happened during the shooting?
Israel called out the school resource officer assigned to Stoneman Douglas that day, prompting the former deputy to defend his actions.
Israel said Scot Peterson took cover outside the building as bullets flew for four minutes and “never went in.” Peterson resigned last week after his suspension.
“I was disgusted. I was just demoralized with the performance of former deputy Peterson,” Israel said.
Peterson received active-shooter training, Israel said in a letter responding to Florida state Rep. Bill Hager’s request to remove the sheriff from his post.
Peterson’s attorney, Joseph DiRuzzo III, accused Israel of maligning Peterson, who received “glowing” annual performance reviews and in 2014 was named school resource office of the year.
Israel’s account of Peterson’s actions is “gross oversimplification of the events,” the attorney said.
Peterson first received a call of firecrackers, not a gun, and he initially thought the shooter was outside, a conclusion that he felt was confirmed when he heard radio transmission indicating there was “a gunshot victim in the area of the football field,” the lawyer said.
Appearing alongside her parents Monday, Maddy Wilford, 17, thanked the police officers, EMTs and doctors who scrambled to save her life after the shooting.
Lt. Laz Ojeda of the Coral Springs Fire Department said that after officers revived Maddy inside the school, she needed a chest seal to stop the bleeding. She had also suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen and upper right arm, he said. Ojeda wept as he recalled rubbing Maddy’s sternum inside the ambulance.
“She came around. She told me she was 17,” he said.
Dr. Igor Nichiporenko, who was charged with Maddy’s care at Broward Health North, said she was pale and unresponsive when she arrived at the emergency room. Suffering “massive bleeding” and fluid in her abdomen, Maddy was rushed into the operating room within 10 minutes of her arrival. She underwent what he called “dam...
Nichiporenko credited the fast work of first responders, his trauma team’s experience and Maddy’s resilience for her quick recovery. She was discharged Wednesday.

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