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For Okinawans, the special treatment afforded U.S. service members is symbolic of a deeper problem. The bases represent the latest face of the hard fate that Okinawa has endured since the once independent kingdom, the heart of the Ryukyu island chain, was annexed by Japan in 1879. The Japanese then...
What is at the heart of this cruelty? The desire to wipe out a people. A calculated strategy to exterminate human beings because of their religious beliefs and supposed racial inferiority. And the world's silence in the face of this strategy. But how does the Holocaust fit into history...
When artist Yael Bedarshi discovered this promotional film in Berlin a few years ago, the sponsor's name was instantly and ominously familiar. Bayer, a developer of cockroach control chemicals, was a subsidiary of IG Farben during World War II. IG Farben was the chemical cartel responsible for the manufacturing...
Memory is all we have. And when the memories are dreadful -- when they hold images of the pain we have suffered or, perhaps even worse, inflicted -- they are what we try to escape. The Nazi scheme to exterminate Jews and other undesirables is one such nightmare image; and Schindler's...
The notion of "the rules of war" has always vexed me. At a time when people are doing their concerted best to shed enemy blood, to exterminate life, how can an accord signed long ago by some diplomats in Switzerland hold any weight?