Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
The Nazi Officer's Wife (Liz Garbus, 2003), which aired on A&E last night, tells the story of Edith Hahn Beer, a Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by taking on the identity of an Aryan woman and even marrying a Nazi party member. Relying primarily on interviews with Beer, narration by Susan Sarandon and archival footage of the period, the film is a gripping account both of the anti-Jewish sentiment that flourished in Germany under Hitler and Beer's own story. Most importantly The Nazi Officer's Wife implicitly shows how Nazism manufactured an identity for Germany that needed to both figuratively and literally kill the undesirable complexities of the real existing world.
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A feature on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising would be a much needed addition to "The Holocaust" film genre.
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"While Bush aides try to look calm, the search grows increasingly feverish. They predicted they would find Saddam Hussein’s arsenal of mass destruction as soon as Iraq’s experts could dare to tell the truth. Now the regime is gone, and Saddam’s best-known WMD officials are dead or in U.S. custody, shielded from the regime’s monstrous reprisals. There’s only one problem. What the survivors are saying is not what the White House wants to hear," John Barry and Michael Isikoff write in the June 30 issue of Newsweek. "THE DETAINEES SAY Iraq destroyed all of its banned munitions years ago, and nothing more was produced. The scientists have been threatened, coaxed, offered all kinds of incentives, including safe haven outside Iraq for their families. Nothing changes their stories."
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U.S. Representative Jane Harman, a Democrat from California, has some not exactly complimentary things to say about the Bush Administration. Specifically Harman accuses Team Bush of "overstating the case" on weapons of mass destruction with regard to Iraq, as well as on ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's now deposed regime.
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"The United States appears to be on the brink of sending troops to end the brutal civil war in Liberia," Adrian Blomfield writes in today's Telegraph. "Officials in Washington met round the clock over the weekend to plan a possible armed response - its first mission to Africa since the disastrous intervention in Somalia almost a decade ago. A statement is expected within the next few days, possibly as early as this evening." posted by micah holmquist at 6/30/2003 03:34:00 PM
