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Medical staff tend to a COVID-19 patient. Courtesy of University Hospitals

The Great Plague of Marseille and Misinformation: Then and Now | Opinion

BY: - December 7, 2022

As was the case with the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation made an 18th century health disaster even worse.

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Queen Elizabeth II Dies At Balmoral Castle

You can’t untangle Queen Elizabeth’s legacy from Britain’s cruel colonialism | Michael Coard

BY: - September 20, 2022

Britons continue to benefit from their supremacy – correction, savagery – throughout the world in 2022.

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Veterans Day 2021: Dulce et Decorum Est | John L. Micek

BY: - November 11, 2021

To those among you who served, thank you from all of us at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star.

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021: 5 websites to help educate about the horrors of the Holocaust

BY: - January 27, 2021

For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and older found that 11 percent of U.S. adults and 22 percent of millennials had not heard of – or were not sure if they had heard of – the Holocaust.

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We have to challenge injustice and hatred when we see it, or risk a slow slide into genocide | Opinion

BY: - May 7, 2019

Holocaust deniers and eliminationist white nationalists mask themselves as patriots and defenders of freedom.