Tag Archives: power

Letter from America

From Lev Parnas, Substack And another view on current events by Heather Cox Richardson: From Heather Cox Richardson, Political Historian:September 6, 2025 (Saturday) “Today the social media account of President Donald J. Trump posted an AI-generated image of Trump as … Continue reading

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The End Game? End for whom?

Last night, Russia bombarded Ukraine. Each night, since so called Peace Talks, Russia exceeds the intensity. Lev Parnas reports: No outcry from the Trump administration, and in Gaza, the same silence as the IDF move into Gaza City, where exhausted … Continue reading

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Iran’s dream of democracy once oil was discovered

This was the ceremonial and spiritual capital of a vast empire, built by Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, titans whose names still echo through history. Giant statues of winged bulls guard the Gate of All Nations, through which princes from vassal … Continue reading

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Globalisation and Gangsterism

The post-Second World War order began to crumble in the first half of the 1980s. Its dissolution followed no obvious pattern, occurring instead as a series of seemingly disparate events: the spectacular rise of the Japanese car industry; communist Hungary’s … Continue reading

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Follow the Oil Pipelines

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans have never achieved parity with West German wealth generation. Disgruntled East Germans have raised the profile of right wing AfD political beliefs. Initially, the AfD distanced itself from far-right parties in … Continue reading

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New World Experiment in Democracy

This diagram below has been helpfully put together because digitisation enables such quick overviews. Thanks to digitisation  we have given away our personal information believing it was held securely, TRUSTING the systems which held the data. It has now been … Continue reading

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The Impact of Farming on land use: Britain

In the Neolithic Era, (name for New Stone Age which occurred around 4000 – 2000 BC) ancestral farmers of Britons, established farming here which has transformed land usage. When those farmers from southern Europe arrived here 6000 years ago, they … Continue reading

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Natural disasters as acts of God – or gods.

Around 14000 years ago, where there were some adjoining islands in the Nile Delta, trading took place and became established until the city of Thonis-Heracleion was gradually built, intersected by canals. It had a number of harbors and anchorages and … Continue reading

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Rome Kingdom to Empire: impact on Brittania to Judea

Rome had a Kingdom, then a Republic, then an Empire. What follows is the evolving significant people and events which resulted in the Empire. The last Kingdom monarch was Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, located in Ancient Rome. As a result of … Continue reading

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Debt as a Driving Force

Philip IV of France (born in Fontainebleau in 1268, the second son of Philip III. His mother (Isabella of Aragon) died when he was three and his stepmother, Marie de Brabant, allegedly preferred her own children to Philip and his … Continue reading

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