Even though the armistice was signed between the Germans and the Allies of World War I at Comiégne, France on November 11th, 1918, and even though, as a boy living in a small town called Haysville, Kansas, and then in the city of Wichita, I read all the books I could get my hands on…
In 1999, a Russian submarine designed to sink aircraft carriers became a victim of its own arsenal. The cruise-missile submarine Kursk suffered a catastrophic explosion and sank after an onboard torpedo accidentally detonated. The accident was the worst naval disaster suffered by post–Cold War Russia. The Soviet Union’s greatest adversaries at sea were the aircraft carriers of the…
These days, the Suez crisis turns 60. In the history of the Israel—Egypt confrontation, it was overshadowed by the larger wars of 1967 and 1973, but it holds a very special place in the history of the Cold war. Operation Musketeer was the UK and France’s last attempt at conducting an independent superpower policy. Each…
Today marks the 37th anniversary of the beginning of Iran’s US embassy siege. It was an episode that would last more than a year, creating an international crisis and forever changing relations between the two countries. https://img.rt.com/files/2016.11/581cb978c46188b4368b463d.mp4 Some 52 Americans, comprising both diplomatic staff and citizens, were held hostage in Iran for 444 days between…
Acknowledgements To Benjamin H. Freedman, who committed himself to finding and telling the facts about Zionism and Communism. and encouraged others to do the same. The son of one of the founders of the American Jewish Committee, which for many years was anti-Zionist, Ben Freedman founded the League for Peace with Justice in Palestine in…
November 2 marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which began the still-ongoing colonisation of Palestine and sowed the seeds of an endless nightmare for the Palestinian people, both those who were forced to flee at gunpoint and those who have managed to remain in the shredded remains of their homeland under Israel’s…
