2015 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year

One year ago, when looking at the 20 most popular stories of 2014, we were troubled by a recurring thread: "despite the just concluded 6th consecutive year of a rising S&P 500 - the longest such stretch since 1999 of what otherwise would be deemed optimism - despite what should be a steadily improving economy and improving social and economic conditions, what readers founds most fascinating, and troubling, was the increasing preponderance of social disobedience, of covert, proxy or outright wars, and of civil unrest: all phenomena that accompany a world sliding deeper into distress,

When New Year’s Meant Freedom

Some white Americans still try to dismiss the evils of slavery, pretending that many slaves were happy serving their white masters. But the morning of Jan. 1, 1863, showed a different reality when President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and blacks celebrated, as William Loren Katz recalls. By William Loren Katz When the Emancipation Proclamation…

156 Eyewitnesses Say 9/11 Twin Towers Collapsed Due To Explosives

This compilation of eyewitness statements on 9/11 say they witnessed explosions occurring shortly before the Twin Towers collapsed. There are eyewitnesses who perceived explosions very early on 9/11—near the time when the planes struck the North Tower. The great majority of witnesses in my compilation deal with later events, around the time of the complete destruction (“collapse”) of the North Tower and the South Tower. In other words, I have dealt with just one category of explosions witnesses. Early witnesses will have to be dealt with in a separate compilation.

Open Source Pioneer Murdered After Police Brutality Claims

The creator of the Debian project, Ian Murdoch, has been found dead after a series of public statements in which he claimed to be the victim of police brutality.  The Open Source pioneer threatened to commit suicide in a series of Tweets, where he also claimed the police had “sent him to hospital”. Breitbart.com reports: Murdock’s untimely death was announced in a blog post on the website of Docker, an open source software project to which he contributed. The cause of death was not specified, but prior to his death, Murdock had made multiple tweets about committing suicide.

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