Author: Real History Lisa

We should have listened to Nikola Tesla when we had the chance. At the height of his popularity as the key inventor who pioneered commercial electricity, Tesla cautioned the world of the inefficiencies of burning substances to...

During his acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican convention, presidential candidate Barry Goldwater famously said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” But was he correct? Last weekend, those words...

Robert Greenwald, bless him, is gathering signatures in an effort to persuade the History Channel to act like a History Channel and not like an adjunct of Rush Limbaugh, distorting history to serve an agenda. Greenwald sees this...

On my lunch hour, I was surprised to find a rally for health care being held a few blocks from where I work. Usually, when I see protests downtown, it’s been hate-filled skinhead types bashing Obama or decrying gay...

Excerpted from the second part of my article on Haiti at http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/013110d.html. The Haitians have a saying in their native créole language: Piti, piti, wazo fe nich li. “Little by little, the...