On September 21st, 1949, revolutionary leader Mao Zedong proclaimed that “the Chinese people have stood up!” The declaration came following the Chinese “Century of Humiliation,”…
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You may often hear on the news or in daily conversation words of pessimism about American power on the world stage. Many claim that the…
In 432 B.C., Pericles’ mighty Athenian Empire instituted the Megarian Decree – the first recorded instance of economic sanctions and a boycott as a foreign…
The emerging conflict in the Middle East has relegated the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war into the shadows. Yet the battles rage on. Although the fog of…
Finland is a nation whose history and geography have been defined by the weight of outside influence. Until around twenty-five thousand years ago, Finland was…
How do you justify the wholesale slaughter of 100,000 of your own nation’s men? Russia believes that its 1000 years of close history with regard…
At 5:55 pm on August 4, 2020, in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, there was a massive chemical explosion at a warehouse containing thousands of…
According to a statement put out by the United Nations at the beginning of April 2022, over 12 million Ukrainians have been displaced due to…
Warning: References mature topics such as sexual violence and murder Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Since then, numerous allegations of war crimes…