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The below article is an adaptation of a eulogy delivered last week on behalf of historian and frequent Algemeiner contributor... The Trump administration increased pressure on Tehran and applied sanctions on its economy. The United States is the great superpower of the world. It should be the dominant party in negotiations. Israel is in contact with Washington, trying to make a case against the US reentry into the nuclear deal. However, it seems that Americans are intent on rejoining it. That i...

The question of responsibility for the war that ended a half century ago becomes more pressing for Japan as the war itself recedes in memory. Social and political rifts over the issue deepen, and the international ramifications grow more serious. Since the beginning of the 1990s dozens of law suits claiming apology and compensation have been lodged with Tokyo courts on behalf of the many victims of Japan’s colonialism and aggression, including the former ‘Comfort Women’, the victims of th...

2. Advance with courage and arrest all notorious war criminals, and try them according to law. Special attention must be paid to ‘gangsterissimo’ Chiang Kia-shek. 3. Proclaim finally the draft of the peace programme before all Kuomintang provincial and local governments and local military organs, and sign local agreements with those willing to stop the war and settle things by peaceful methods. 4. After the people’s liberation array has surrounded Nanking, and if the Li Tsung-jen...

The Iran nuclear program’s Arak heavy water reactor. Photo: Nanking2012 via Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org– Concluding that Washington is “rushing towards” a nuclear agreement with Iran, Jerusalem is limiting its goal to “influencing” the deal as much as it can, Israel’s Kan 11 TV reported on Tuesday. According to the report, Israel has submitted a request to the administration in Washington that any version of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action reached with Iran include increas...

What Do John Deweys Century-Old Thoughts on Anti-Asian Bigotry Teach Us? Historians/History by Charles F. Howlett Charles F. Howlett is Professor Emeritus, Molloy College. He is the co-author of John Dewey: America’s Peace-minded Educator (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) and currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Peace History (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). John Dewey with wife Alice Chipman Dewey and other Chinese educators, c. 1920.   Whether or n...

An individual involved in a campaign to oust Hideaki Omura as governor of Aichi Prefecture admitted to being part of a team that applied their fingerprints to help forge hundreds of thousands of signatures submitted in the failed effort. The person said the fraudulent activity was carried out at the behest of a senior campaign team official to make signatures lacking the conventional imprint of a "hanko" seal appear legitimate. The source who made the admission during an interview with The...

THE last time a Conservative won in Hartlepool was 1959, and perhaps he secured his slender 182 vote victory through a little skulduggery on the cinema screen. He was Lieutenant-Commander John Kerans, who had no connection with the town that is currently the scene of one of the most important by-elections in the country for decades. But he was the “hero of the Amethyst”, perhaps Britain’s last great boy’s own naval hero, with his daring exploits being made into a popular action ad...

1. In April 1924 Rabindranath Tagore arrived in Shanghai for a lecture tour of China. Soon after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Tagore had become an international literary celebrity, lecturing to packed audiences from Japan to Argentina. His message—that modern civilization, built upon the cult of money and power, was inherently destructive, and needed to be tempered by the spiritual wisdom of the East—had a receptive audience among many people in the West who had been fo...

25 brilliant train journeys to take in 2021 The tours have been planned, the locomotives stoked, the dining carriage prepared: our experts pick their top rail trips The Jacobite Steam Train is famous from the Harry Potter films Credit:  Filippo Maria Bianchi/Getty From jaunts across America to steam specials through Staffordshire, we offer our pick of great rail trips for 2021 . UK and Ireland Flying Scotsman and Tornado  With arguably the two most famous steam locomotives in the world runnin...

names Prominent figures can just be named in stories, with their function at second mention: “George Osborne said last night ... “ (first mention); “the chancellor added ... “ (subsequent mentions) Where it is thought necessary to explain who someone is, write “Chris Wilder, the Sheffield United manager, said” or “the Sheffield United manager, Chris Wilder, said”, etc. In such cases the commas around the name indicate there is only one person in the position, so write “the Lab...