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...antifederalist insurgency include plenty of the former: tax protesters, home schoolers, Christian fundamentalists and well-versed Constitutionalists. But the groups also contain an insidious sprinkling of the latter, including neo-Nazis and white supremacists. What binds these diverse elements is a fervent paranoia. The most fearful patriots believe that Soviet fighter jets are on standby in Biloxi, Mississippi, that frequent flyovers by "black helicopters'' signal an imminent occupation by the armies of a one-world government, and that stickers on some interstate highways are coded to direct the invading armies. They also regard such federal agencies...
...plan. When the Times of London cut its prices in the early 1990s to undercut its rivals, the move made sense only as part of a "seven or eight"-year plan, he says. Circulation did increase, and eventually the newspaper was able to raise its prices again. (Read "From Soviet Agent to London Newspaper Proprietor...
...agenda, some of the proposed nuances to the teaching of American history may, in fact, provide a fuller analysis of events to the curriculum. For instance, Cold War historians of either political persuasion have long believed that the Venona documents—recordings of Americans who spied for the Soviet Union during the McCarthyism era—deserve mentioning in textbooks. Also, while the inclusion of the Black Panthers in discussions of the civil rights movement may taint its image somewhat, it is nevertheless crucial to understanding the evolving militancy of black mobilization in the mid-sixties. So before opponents...
...according to Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the present history textbooks in Estonia may cause animosity against the Soviet Union amongst the younger generation...
...When I was in school we still had Soviet textbooks...which taught that Estonians were all being liberated,” said Andres Sevtsuk, an Estoniain MIT graduate student at the seminar, but “I do think that history should be taught factually, and I don’t think there ought to be a deliberate distortion...