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Manchin strikes the death knell to the "Build Back Better" plan, refusing all climate and tax provisions.

An update on the RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine: BIDEN's call to remove PUTIN from power; Russian troops WITHDRAWAL to BELARUS; Russia losing CLOUT in its immediate geo-political sphere, AZERBAIJAN defies RUSSIA.

Update on the RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine: NATO summit, Ukrainian COUNTER-OFFENSIVE, Putin CO-OPTS JK Rowling.

Update on the RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine: probability of using small  NUCLEAR missiles, and news of an imminent RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACK on US private sector companies.

An update on the Russian invasion of Ukraine; hyper-sonic missiles and the long-term strategic use of the refugee crisis.

An update on the Russian invasion of UKraine; US THREAT to China.

A quick review of the history of the Telegram app and its founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, and an exploration of the app's relevance in the future of messaging and social media communications.

Forty-five years after her death, France decided to induct Josephine Baker, the African American-born singer/performer, into the monument for its most veneered citizens.   

Josephine Baker had lived the majority of her adult life in France, ‎adopting French life, language, and even working briefly ‎during the Second World War as a spy for the French ‎Resistance. ‎  

Her induction to the Pantheon seems to be a testament to French egalitarianism, and France’s ‎embrace of people coming from diverse backgrounds. ‎  

However, a closer look at France's past, may reveal signs that ‎Baker’s induction perhaps isn’t as bright or fantastical as one ‎might think, or believe.

The INCREDIBLE story of the LEGENDARY Soviet spy who defied the FBI for too long, only to fall at hands of his treacherous deputy.

He established the world's modern Police State, and his life is a classic example of revolutionary-turned-reactionary.   He's remembered in history as a fearsome statesman of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France... and the slayer of horrifying Robespierre.

A review of the life and accomplishments of the legendary Soviet spy, Ursula Kuczynski, also known by her operational code name, Sonya.

A brief overview of the pre-eminent socialist thinker and revolutionary... the fallen star of the Bolshevik Revolution.

A brief overview of the 20th century most successful tyrant.

A quick overview of the 20th century most influential revolutionary.

On the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a take on how this event shaped the war in Europe against Nazi Germany.

In 1853, Tsar Nicholas I dragged his empire into a vicious war to fulfill his fantasies and to avenge his ego; a war that would bring the armies of Britain, France, the Ottomans, and the Sardinians to his doorsteps.

Not only calamities are the reason behind grand migrations, but also the opening of opportunities that are far better than those at home. Advantageous conditions lure people to carry their luggage and go through great lengths of instability and adversity, hoping to achieve a better future for themselves and their families.

A similar small migration is taking place in various places around the world, but mainly it's indoors migration or migration within the same country. Most noticeably, is the eastward migration of Canadians from the big cities to the Atlantic seaboard.

Does the way we consume history determine the path ‎towards our future?‎  

Does the way citizens perceive their history, familial and ‎collective, affect the way they live their lives? make plans for ‎their future? and eventually, build their nations one way or ‎another?‎  

Is there truth in any of that, or is it some fancy theoretical ‎nonsense?‎

A brief biography of the historic leader of the British Liberal Party during the later half of the 19th century.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881), ‎was a British political leader and novelist who served as ‎Prime Minister twice (1868, 1874–80).‎  

He gave the Conservative Party a two-pronged policy of ‎Tory democracy and imperialism.‎

Georges Clemenceau, popularly known as The Tiger or ‎Le Tigre, was a leader of the French Third Republic, a ‎key player in the Allied triumph in World War I, and a ‎key architect of the postwar Treaty of Versailles.‎

Is the withdrawal of the Allied troops from Afghanistan, and its fall into the hands of Taliban, a harbinger of an American eclipse?

In order to halt the meteoric rise of China, new voices call for a reconciliation with Putin's Russia, in order to do away with the menacing Russian-Chinese alliance.

An American Professor makes a huge database of the past 10,000 years of humanity on Earth. Employing advanced statistical tools, he predicts future--with mathematical precision.

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The Atlantic Story

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/

In this episode, we look into the tragic story of that promising part of the Arab world; a unique experiment of power sharing in which three sects share the country's political institutions, jobs, and economy; a country that was for a long period of time the Arab world's only democracy, and safe haven for political and social dissidence.

An brief biography of Lord Salisbury's. 

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Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British ‎Empire for most of the 19th century, from 1838 to 1901. The ‎Victorian era is known in history as the golden age of the ‎British Empire, and the era of peace and prosperity across ‎Europe.‎  

Victoria was the first British monarch to commemorate the 50th ‎and 60th anniversaries of her ascension to the throne by public ‎celebrations.‎ The 1897 Diamond Jubilee celebrated Victoria as the mother of ‎the British Empire.‎