Reflections on Iraq 2003: Witnessing History, Documenting Civilian Harm
Twenty years ago, on May 12, 2003, I crossed a US Navy-built bridge into southern Baghdad and a world most people knew only from TV coverage.
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History
A collection of 413 articles
Trump Vows to End Ukraine War if Elected, Says EU Needs to Pay More
Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday at a CNN town hall-style event in New Hampshire that the European Union needs to start paying “a lot more money” to subsidize the war in Ukraine, which he vowed to have “settled in one day” if elected. A student from Saint Anselm’s
Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy, & Dismantle the Standing Army
“There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.
Charles “The Great Reset” King and Global Britain using the Commonwealth, Five Eyes and City of London to exert influence
This week, Charles was crowned King of the United Kingdom and the other 14 Commonwealth realms.
Myanmar: Enhanced Blast Strike Likely War Crime
(Sydney) – The Myanmar military used a “thermobaric” munition for an attack on an opposition building in Sagaing Region on April 11, 2023, that killed more than 160 people, including children, Human Rights Watch said today.
The airstrike using an “enhanced-blast” type munition on the village of Pa Zi Gyi in
Why Do We Keep Feeding the Merchants of Death?
STORY AT-A-GLANCE According to mainstream media, the Ukraine war is going well and Russia will be solidly defeated.
39 questions about the war in Ukraine
Igor Strelkov’s Angry Patriots Club (КРП) has published a list of questions about Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
Most of their questions are highly pertinent; some of them are a bit superfluous; a few—in your correspondent’s humble opinion—are misguided and a bit silly.
But
Archeologists Discover 175 Roman Coins in Italy
Archeologists in Livorno, Italy discovered 175 silver Roman denarius coins, nearly all of which were in good condition.
This Week in the New Normal #61
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. You will go nowhere and be happy
The age of “cheap flights” is over, Bloomberg reported this week. They
Wool Over Our Eyes
It is curious to me that people do not understand that historically, perpetrators of evil have always made an effort to convince people in general that what they are doing is not evil, and in fact is good for them.
There have been no exceptions to this rule throughout history—
1,000-Year-Old Viking Treasure Found by Young Girl with Metal Detector
A thousand-year-old Viking hoard consisting of coins and jewellery was reportedly found by a girl armed with a metal detector.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F.
Fiscal Insanity: The Government Borrows $6 Billion a Day, and We’re Stuck with the Bill
We’re not living the American dream.
Chinese Researchers Warn Tech Industry ‘Unsustainable’ Under Sanctions
Beijing Academy of Military Sciences researcher Zhao Xun published an article in Chinese Communist Party media on Monday warning that China’s current model of technology and weapons development is “unsustainable” due to Western sanctions, so China must become more self-reliant by funding more research and reducing bureaucratic red tape.
Five Years On: The OPCW-Douma Deception Continues
Published simultaneously in Propaganda in Focus, UK Column and OffGuardian
On 7 April 2018 reports emerged from a suburb of Damascus, Douma, claiming that a chemical weapons attack had occurred. Images of dead women and children inside an apartment building were circulated over the internet along with hospital scenes showing
