Every Roman Emperor: A Video Timeline Moving from Augustus to the Byzantine Empire’s Last Ruler, Constantine XI
Famed Roman orator and consul Cicero is celebrated as a staunch defender of the Republic, and of traditional Roman morality…
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/ A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad…
So What if the Ottomans Shaped the Modern World?
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/so-what-if-the-ottomans-shaped-the-modern-world/ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Left) during an April 17, 2017, visit to the tomb of Yavuz Sultan Selim,…
How Versailles Still Haunts the World
The Treaty of Versailles—a contract that changed the course of the century and beyond—has been all but forgotten in the…
Pearl Harbor: An Orchestrated Event?
https://www.unz.com/proberts/pearl-harbor-an-orchestrated-event/ In November, 1944, US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson snapped to the US Secretary of the Treasury that he…
The Lies About World War II
http://www.unz.com/proberts/the-lies-about-world-war-ii/ In the aftermath of a war, history cannot be written. The losing side has no one to speak for…
100 years of Western hypocrisy: how the ghosts of 1919 still haunt China as it forges its own development path
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3009075/100-years-western-hypocrisy-how-ghosts-1919-still-haunt Opinion: The View by Winston Mok The failure of the Paris Peace Conference not only led to another world…