TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
In 1920, the Ottoman Empire came to an end in Paris with the Treaty of Sèvres (a sister document to the much more famous Treaty of Versailles). The treaty required the forfeiture of all non-Turkish land and set the stage for the creation of the modern Turkish state. The last caliphate was at an end. Read More…
Over 100 dead in concert venue alone as France closes its borders for the first time since 1944. Below are the latest updates from multiple sources. [Latest developments, posted at 1:58 a.m. ET] from The Guardian • Eight attackers also died, police say, seven of them by detonating explosive suicide belts. • French President François Hollande, Read More…
As veteran Missouri Highway Patrol Sergeant Randy Henry prepares to retire on December 1, he is free to entertain, and express, subversive thoughts about accountability that are increasingly unwelcome in the profession to which he devoted decades of his life. “We killed Brandon Ellingson,” Henry bluntly told the Lake Expo newspaper, following that unadorned declaration with Read More…
George Orwell—sardonic political commentator through disturbed, poetic metaphor—forever changed the landscape of modern propaganda by mirroring traditional geopolitical trends of propaganda and transposing it onto a horrific, futuristic dystopian society. In addition to “1984,” most of Orwell’s work was politically charged, if not always philosophically charged, as even “Animal Farm” is known to be a Read More…
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” Martin Luther King Jr. In every society, each citizen will eventually come to a crossroad in which a choice must be made. It is a choice that will not only define the society, but ultimately, define the individual. It is an age-old battle between right and wrong, Read More…
Suspicions that the CIA covered up JFK‘s murder have finally been confirmed, according to an explosive Politico report out this week. Fifty-two years after the President’s death, declassified documents show that the CIA was in communication with alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK’s murder in 1963, and they were monitoring his mail since 1959. Not only that but John Read More…