When Romania’s Prime Minister Viorica Dancila announced that her country would move its “Israeli” Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem/Al-Quds in line with the United States, she did not consult her President as Romanian law demands. The move which is considered a grave insult to millions of Arabs, Muslims and Christians […]
With an early dislike of America, General Franco provided an unexpected lifeline for the Cuban Revolution. Despite being a “rabid anti-Franquista” for many years, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro would develop some respect for Spain’s Fascist dictator, General Francisco Franco. Following Castro’s 1959 ousting of the American-backed tyrant, Fulgencio Batista, the […]
Manuel Noriega: From best friend to worst enemy For much of his professional life Manuel Noriega was both a friend and asset of the United States. After backing a 1968 coup against leftist Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias, Noriega was rewarded by Panama’s new military leader Omar Torrijos with the position of […]
In 1949, a new automatic rifle changed the world. The original Автома́т Кала́шникова-47, better known as the Kalashnikov AK-47 changed the nature of firearms forever. The incredibly durable, powerful and perhaps most importantly inexpensive rifle designed by in the Soviet Union, was soon sold and also manufactured around the world. The […]
There are worrying signs that the military is planning to return to power in Brazil, even if it does so indirectly through a presidential proxy. Brazil stands at an historic crossroads today when the Supreme Court rules whether former leftist-populist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known just as […]
The popular saying that “the dogs bark but the caravan passes” doesn’t apply to Trump’s criticism of the Central American migrant caravan crossing Mexico en route to the US right now, since there’s no way that the President will allow it to pass into his country if he values his […]
Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning all US citizens, all US corporations and all US based financial institutions from buying, selling or otherwise trading in Venezuela’s new El Petro cryptocurrency. El Petro is the world’s first cryptocurrency whose value is directly linked to the hard commodity of oil. Venezuela’s […]