Stalin to be celebrated as a war hero for 65th anniversary of Nazi defeat – Times Online

Posted by Matt in February 19th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, 65th Anniversary, Celebration, Decades, hitler, Information Booths, Moscow City, Nazi Defeat, Nazi Germany, Opposition Parties, Proposal, Rights Groups, Second World War, Soviet Dictator, Soviet Victory, Stalin, Tyrant, War Hero, War Posters

Stalin is to make a comeback on the streets of Moscow for the first time in decades in a celebration of the Soviet victory over Hitler in the Second World War.
Posters and information booths devoted to the Soviet dictator are to go up across the capital under a proposal by Moscow City Council to mark [...]

Israel, the United States, and the Danger of War with Iran | Cato @ Liberty

Posted by Matt in January 20th, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Iran Sanctions, Nazi Germany, North Koreans, Sanctions Against Iran, Trump Card, Un Sanctions Against Iran, Unilateral Sanctions

The rise of Iran is like another Nazi Germany. Are we going to sit around and wait until it’s too late again? Ultimately, I think the answer is yes. No one is going to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. If Iran is allowed to acquire nuclear weapons then we could see the deaths of [...]

A Jewish Family Escapes Germany Before It’s Too Late

Posted by Matt in March 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Africa, 1941, 6 Million, Adolph Hitler, Amazon, Amazon Com Dvd, Amazon Dvd, Atrocities, China Dishes, Concentration Camps, Critical Decision, Emergencies, Extended Family, Extermination, German Citizen, German Citizens, Germany, Jew, Jewish Families, Jewish Family, Jewish Woman, jews, Jews Escape Germany, Kenya, Nazi Germany, Nazi Regime, Nowhere In Africa, Nuclear War, Objections, Redlich, Regina, True Story, Upheaval, world-war-II

There is a lesson in this story. Some Jews saw what was coming in Germany and escaped before it was too late. Walter leads his family out of Germany, over the objections of his family, and into Africa. He makes their life very difficult before it is apparent that they have escaped death by his [...]

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Posted by Matt in January 15th, 2009 | 1 comment

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By George Friedman at Stratfor.Com
OVERTURE
An Introduction to the American Age
Imagine that you were alive in the summer of 1900, living in London, then the capital of the world. Europe ruled the Eastern Hemisphere. There was hardly a place that, if not ruled directly, was not indirectly controlled from a European capital. Europe was [...]

Bankrupt Rogues: Beware Failing Foes

Posted by Matt in October 29th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Economy, Russia, Bankrupt States, Catastrophes, Economic Disasters, Financial Crisis, Foes, Global Financial Crisis, Gulag, Mao, Nazi Germany, putin, Rogue States, Rogues, Sick Economy, Soviet Communism, Weimar Republic

Successful states may generate trouble, but failures produce catastrophes: Nazi Germany erupted from the bankrupt Weimar Republic; Soviet Communism’s economic disasters swelled the Gulag; a feckless state with unpaid armies enabled Mao’s rise.
Putin might treat sick economy with war.
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The Fall of Lebanon

Posted by Matt in May 24th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Middle East, War, Act 3 Scene 1, Assistant Secretary, Beirut, Concession, Czechoslovakia, December 7 1941, Druz, German Dictator, hezbollah, Hizballah, Infamy, Lebanon, Nazi Germany, Secretary Of State, September 11 2001, Shakespeare Julius Caesar, Small Mercies, Sovereignty, Victuals, Western Diplomacy, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill

“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now….
Oh, what a fall was there…
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down.”
–William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar,” Act 3, Scene 1.
May 21, 2008, is a date–like December 7 (1941) and September 11 (2001)–that should now live in infamy. Yet who will notice, mourn, or act the [...]