In September 2020, a trio of scholars based in Mexico and Spain managed to stop the sale of a valuable historical document that had been stolen from the National Archives of Mexico (AGN), Mexico News Daily reports. The manuscript in question was a letter written in 1521 to the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés , sent […]
Posts Tagged ‘scholarly’
Bruce Hoffman’s new book ‘Inside Terrorism’ is presumptuous and devoid of scholarly value – to say the least
October 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy
The author, Bruce Hoffman, was for a long time a director at RAND Corporation in Washington, which he designates in his book as an “independent, objective, nonpartisan research institution” (p. xi). As an external observer, researcher and author, I have followed with keen interest for many years the debate surrounding the phenomenon of terrorism: […]
You can’t say U.S. media is reporting violence in Israel-Palestine in an evenhanded manner
October 22nd, 2015 Awake Goy
You can call escalating tensions in Israel-Palestine by any name you want –Third Intifada, Wave of Violence, Tide of Terror, whatever – but what you can’t say is this: US media is reporting events in an even-handed manner. Shocking, I know. Even less shocking to those who paid close attention to the US media’s coverage […]