A Gentile's View Of Today's Germany

By William E. Grim - February 2003 I'm not Jewish. Nobody in my family died in the Holocaust. For me, anti-Semitism has always been one of those phenomena that doesn't really register on my radar, like tribal genocide in Rwanda, a horrible thing that happens to someone else. But I live in a small town outside of Munich on a street that until May of 1945 was named Adolf-Hitler-Strasse. I work in Munich, a pleasant metropolitan city of a little over a million inhabitants whose Bavarian charm tends to obscure the fact that this city was the birthplace and capital of the Nazi movement.

America the land of freedom...... To think about.....

US House Passes Propaganda Bill: H.R. 4310

 The latest $642 billion defense budget authorization bill, H.R. 4310 (full text)  includes text that would re-legalize the domestic use of propaganda in the United States. That is, the US Government would be free to straight-up lie in its media efforts to promote unpopular actions. Iraq and Afghanistan spring immediately to mind: arguably we've been lied to for years about both invasions and their outcomes.