Tag: History
The Kosovo War: “Humanitarian Intervention” or Undeclared War Against Yugoslavia?
French Politics: Are the Centre-Right Conservatives Still Economic Liberals?
Poetry from Fukushima on the 8th Anniversary of the Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Meltdown
Government Ordered to End Secrecy Over Jacob-Rees Mogg’s ‘Hard’ Brexit ERG Lobby Group
“Gimme Some Truth”. John Lennon’s Message Resonates
The New Politics of Disablement: The Contribution of Mike Oliver
BP’s Iraq Operations Praised by British Ambassador Prior to Fatal Basra Civil Unrest
From Late Victorian Holocausts to 21st Century Imperialism: “Crocodile Tears” for Venezuela
Alexander von Humboldt, Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution
The Most Selfish of Virtues: Alan Bennett’s “Lady in the Van”
In Countries Destroyed by the West, People Should Stop Admiring the U.S. and Europe
Jammu and Kashmir: The Political Consequences of the Pulwama Attack
Is Democracy Consistent with Islam?
Anti-Slavery Campaigns in Britain: Their Impact on the Formation of the United States
“No More Bullshit”: The Powerful Columns of NYC Celebrity Reporters Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill
Pop that Balloon! Personal Bankruptcy. He Was Broke…
A Brief History of the Cold War and Anti-communism
The American Left Resurgent: Prospects and Tensions
China Creates, Macau Burns and Robs
“Instagram Helped Kill My Daughter”: Censorship Tendencies on Social Media
US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart
Eyeing the White House: The Democratic Field
Loving Me Was Easier: A Parable for the Perplexed, Confusing Times
Whatever Happened to Peak Oil? Major New Shale Oil and Gas Discovery
War and Climate Change: Did Bombing During Second World War Cool Global Temperatures?
Will 2019 Change the World Just Like 1979 Did?
Facing Nuclear Reality: 35 Years after “The Day After”
An End to Empires
Churchill’s “Love for War”
The Misuses of History: The Christmas First World War 1914 Truce
Jesus Was Born in a Police State
Christmas: Endorse the Teachings of Jesus Christ, the Political Activist. Confront Today’s “Money Changers in the House of God”
Youth Entrepreneurship by Facilitating People’s Development in Morocco
Participatory Development: A Humanitarian Alternative to Migration
Palangkaraya: The “Socialist” Capital of Indonesia, and the 1965 US-Backed “Killing Fields”
The Significance of Human Duties and Responsibilities
HuffPost’s Attack on Academic Integrity, Truth and Justice
The Latest Victims in a Dark Story of How Northern Ireland Deals with Its Past
Russia’s Strategic Waterways and the Northeast Arctic Passage
Forty Years After Jonestown, the People Still Refuse to Wake Up
William Blum of ‘Anti-Empire Report’ Needs Help
November 1918: Red Revolution in Strasbourg
Bitter US-European Tensions Mark Centenary of World War I Armistice in Paris
We Are Heading for Another Tragedy Like World War I
Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
Profits über Alles! American Corporations and Hitler
100 Years Ago: Commemorating Victory in the “Great War”. “Stirring the War Drums for the Next Big War”
Did the Fledgling United Nations Have a Legitimate Mandate in 1947 to Partition Palestine?
History of World War II: Conduct of Hitler’s “Operation Barbarossa” against Russia
The Return of the Latin American Caudillos
“1244- A Key to Peace in Europe”: The Sovereignty of Serbia, A Just and Durable Solution for Kosovo and Metohija
2018 U.S. Midterm Elections: Politicize Israel Issue So No One Will Touch It
The Tyranny of Fashion: Shredding Banksy
Network 2018
The Struggle for the Ukraine Orthodox Church: Tension Between the Constantinople and Moscow Patriarchate. Is there an Option Which Will Avoid a Schism?
Eighty Years On: The Shame and Tragedy of the 1938 Munich Agreement
China and the Middle East: Venturing Into the Maelstrom
Money (Always) Talks…
First Principle of International Relations Should be ‘Do No Harm’
America: One Big Commercial. The Post 9/11 Marriage between the Sport’s Media and the Pentagon
Israeli Spying on Trump? Interference in US Elections?
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism
American History for Truthdiggers: The Fraudulent Mexican-American War (1846-48)
Neoliberal Fascism and the Echoes of History
History: How Did Socialists in Italy Respond to the Advent of Fascism?
A Writer’s Last Port of Call: Nobel Winning Author V. S. Naipaul
Before Columbus: How Africans Brought Civilization to America
Fear and Loathing in and of the USA
Global Species Extinction: Humans Are Now the Asteroid Hitting the Earth
The Rebirth of a Nation: West Germany Versus Hungary, the 1954 World Cup Final
“En Même Temps”: Emmanuel Macron Visits Musician Activist Fela Kuti’s Shrine in Nigeria
Imperial Hubris Redefined
The Soldier’s Tale
Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein
Children’s Images: 1943 and 2018
The SCO and G7 Meetings Point to Different Worlds
From G7 to SCO Summit, U.S. Swagger Falls Flat
Truth in Painting: Cezanne’s Portraits at Washington’s National Gallery of Art
The Problem with Capitalist “Democracy”: Italy, France, U.K., The U.S. Descent into “Cartoon Democracy”
“No Sympathy for the Devils”, A Play on Words from the Rolling Stones
Art Review: In the Flesh, Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum in New York City. “The Transitivity between Humans and Animals”
A Quantum Dialogue on the Meaning and Purpose of Existence
Twilight Zone America: Woody Allen Meets Rod Serling
May Day ‘71: When Bob Parry Went to Jail in the Biggest Mass Arrest in U.S. History
Speaking the Unspeakable: The Assassination and Martyrdom of Thomas Merton
Enoch Powell and British Politics: Blood Speeches and Anniversaries
Reports to the Club of Rome. Global Challenges Facing Humanity
Marx’s Theory and Philosophy of Praxis: Between Academia and Ideology
Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts
NBA Star Kevin Love: Making a Hole in Denial. Love and Death. “This is an Everyone Thing.”
Western Civilization: The Final Crossroads
Those Liberals Engulfed by a Certain Idea of Freedom
Fake History. How The Money Power Controls Our Future By Controlling Our Past
The History of Religious Intolerance
Imperialist War, the Dignity of Work and the Ultimate Objective of Total Freedom. Reflections on 1968 and Its Implications for Today
Brief History of Revisionism
History of the Balkans: The Ancient Illyrians, Modern Day Albanians and Southern Slavs
Development Under the Threat of War in the Arab World
African Americans, National Liberation and the Vietnamese Revolution, Reject the Pentagon War Machine
U.S. – War Dog Wants to Bite, but What and How?
Holocaust Day 2018 Commemorates the Murder of Six Million Jews, Roma and Others During WW2, and Subsequent Genocides
Déjà vu: The Crisis of the Black Intellectual Again: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cornel West and the Omission of the Pan-Africanist Tradition
To Honor Albert Camus on the Day He Died: January 4, 1960
Markets, Monopoly and War
Put the Dickens Back in Christmas! In late 1600’s in Colonial Boston Celebrating Christmas was Illegal
Remembering the Christmas Truce of 1914, The Desire for Real Peace
Sex, Drugs, Rollickin’ Roles, Trees… : Christmas and Our Ever-Changing Relationship with Nature
Global Security: Is It Possible and How? The Global System of International Relations
Global Politics, Global Security and the History of International Relations (IR). The Role of the Peace Treaty of Westphalia (1648)
The Assertion of Identity
The Abuses of History
New World Order Profit Maximization Is Easy: Invest in Violence
The Cold War and Its Origins. History of the Soviet Union. World War II, Colonialism, Independence and Counter-revolution
Is History “Bunk”? “Big Business and Hitler”
History of World War II: The Dunkirk Evacuation and the Delusions of Empire
Tit for Tat: A Bronx Folk Tale
Neoconservatives, Machiavelli and The Prince
Why the West will never either defeat or forgive Russia
Historical Origins of the State: Barbarians at the Gate
History: How African Muslims “Civilized Spain”
Amy Ashwood Garvey: A Forerunner in Pan-Africanist Feminism of the 20th Century
19th Century Protest and the Matchgirls Strike (1888): Annie Besant, London’s First Wonder Woman
