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Fashion Designer Galliano Rants: 'I Love Hitler'

LONDON -- Damning new footage emerged today of John Galliano hurling anti-Semitic abuse at two young women he thought were Jewish. The British fashion designer can be heard saying, "I love Hitler" in the cell-phone film, and ranting, "People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f---ing...

Germany Knew Eichmann's Hiding Place Years Before Capture

After 15 years on the run, justice finally caught up with Adolf Eichmann on May 11, 1960. The Nazi war criminal -- who organized the deportation of millions of Jews to death camps in German-occupied Poland -- was kidnapped outside his Buenos Aires home by Mossad agents and brought to trial in Israel. He was found guilty of...

Berlin Hitler Exhibit Breaks Taboos

BERLIN (Oct. 16) -- A new exhibit about Adolf Hitler and the Germans breaks taboos and treads new ground as it explores the relationship between the Fuehrer and his Volk. The exhibit, which opened this week in Berlin to crowds of curious visitors, is packed with Nazi memorabilia, from swastika-bearing beer mugs to SS...

UN Admits It 'Failed' to Stop Mass Rapes in Congo

UNITED NATIONS (Sept. 7) -- The United Nations today admitted that it had "failed" to prevent the systematic rape of hundreds of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo this summer by rebel forces, and then failed to go public with the information on the mass atrocities committed over four days. The U.N. said more than...

Rwanda Decries Genocide Reference in UN Report

UNITED NATIONS (Aug. 27) -- Rwanda has slammed the United Nations for a draft report that suggests Rwandan troops, who entered the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1994 to hunt down perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda, themselves committed massacres that could also be considered genocide. Describing the leaked draft as...

Background on political philosophy

Political philosophy is the study of such topics as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.

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