The Heartland plus population plus production plus sea power: that’s the end of the “Columbian Age”. In 1904, the British geographer, Halford Mackinder, read a paper named “The Geographical Pivot of History” at the Royal Geographical Society. In the paper he advanced a hypothesis on the influence of geographic reality on world power relationships. This…
Despite a treasure trove of new research and information having emerged over the last fifty-eight years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions. They have drunk what Dr. Martin Schotz has called “the waters of uncertainty” that results “in a state of confusion in…
In this essay, I will be addressing the following issues: US war crimes committed against the Korean Nation (1950-53), Fire and Fury and the Nuclear Issue: From the Cold War to the Present The debate on Reunification and the Sunshine Movement The Candlelight Movement which led to the impeachment of president Park Guen hye The formulation…
Abstract: The Korean War remains conspicuously absent from assertions by the US that it is done with forever wars, but the war remains a fact of life that Koreans live with every day. It continues in other ways too. * U.S. President Joe Biden recently declared that “for the first time in 20 years, the…
The biosphere’s limits only dominate humanity’s destiny when we permit the law of the jungle, rather than the law of civilization, to shape our world… as all empires demand be so. In my last article in this history series, I attempted to shed some light on President Putin’s reasons for claiming the Bolshevik Revolution did…
The problem is the U.S. does not want other peoples to decide how they want to live. It wants America Über Alles. “Ignorance is bliss” my grandmother used to say when I was a child. That is the “American Way” I came to learn especially when the governments and military-intelligence agencies conduct all sorts of…
