One of Adolf Hitler’s many pipe dreams, was that one day, Germany’s capital city of Berlin would be rebuilt into the Capital of the World, and be given a grand new name – Germania. The Masterplan Hitler, together with his friend and…
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By the late 19th Century, the scramble for Africa by the European Empires had begun. Germany was a little late to the party, focusing instead on consuming its central European neighbours. Eventually, in an effort to compete with Britain and France, they…
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When the Empires of Europe bought their slaves from Africa, they put many of them to work on the lush plantations in the Caribbean colonies. The British had Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. The Spanish had Cuba, Puerto…
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Our story begins at the Berlin Conference in 1884, where a group of World Leaders (which actually means European Leaders) met with the purpose of dividing up their new colonial enterprise called Africa. The Empires of Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and the…
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Now I am become Death… In August 1945, the United States detonated 2 Atomic bombs over Japan. The first destroyed the city of Hiroshima on Monday the 6th. The second, more powerful bomb, destroyed the city of Nagasaki, just 3 days later….
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With so much attention given, understandably, to the catastrophic 20 year War in Iraq, not much has been said about the preceding events. It is these events which created the bad blood that exists between the USA & Iraq. No, not the…
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Before we begin, let’s just establish that according to the Nuremberg Principles, what Vladimir Putin has done in Ukraine constitutes a War Crime. The dilemma this creates is that if we drag him before the Hague and charge him with such crimes,…
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For over 600 years, the Ottoman Empire occupied the gateway between the East and the West. At its zenith in 1522, the Empire lead by Sulieman the Magnificent, controlled a quarter of Europe (south east), in addition to the Anatolian Peninsula, the…
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It was 98 years ago this week, that an unknown group of German fascists first gained international attention, after a failed attempt at a coup d’etat. The large group first gathered at a huge Beer Hall in Munich, called the Burgerbaukeller. This…
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We often hear nowadays that the West is declining and being overtaken by China. Actually, China is not rising to the top of the ladder, it is returning. For thousands of years the geographically enormous nations of China and India have been…
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