When Ruhollah Khomeini, while visiting Iraq met with Muhsin Al-Hakim, he urged him to take action against the Baath regime who had just arrived to power in 1968. Al-Hakim is said to have replied: “If we took drastic measures people would not follow us. The people lie and follow their ...
This one appeared in the open access, online journal Frontiers in Psychology, under the title, “Recursive Fury: Conspiracist Ideation in the Blogosphere in Response to Research on Conspiracist Ideation.” And then it disappears. Really. During the brief period it was posted, it quickly had bec...
Black slaves, inadequately clothed and fed, exhausted all their strength for cotton picking under guns and whips. In 1860, cotton production in the US was 130 times what it had been in 1800, behind which was the unimaginable physical and mental devastation of the blacks. The value of labor ...
Image:Islamic State group militants in Fallujah, Iraq. File pic: AP Members of IS-K point to Russia's military operations in Chechnya, Syria and Afghanistan. Russia has been targeted by Islamist groups numerous times over the last two decades. The Nord Ost theatre siege in 2002 and the Bes...
especially troublesome, because it points to a disconnect between the rulers in power and those they lead. As an example, in different reports, multiple journalists and general writers use the word to describe the push of American President George W. Bush toward the 2003 – 11 war in Iraq. ...
The term "light-year" was first coined by German scientist, astronomer, mathematician and physicist Friedrich Bessel in 1838, when he measured the distance from Earth to a star called 61 Cygni, and came up with a distance of 660,000 times Earth's orbital radius. He calculated that light wo...
telling me the end was near and wanting to confirm her “do not resuscitate” order. I called Anna Highsmith and was crying so hard I was barely able to ask her to put out the word to people. She did just that and in the hour or so it took my wife, son and I to drive down ...
Anneke was groomed at a spy for and by the elite. The initial years of Anneke Lucas's life were marked by an unsettling duality that many can hardly fathom. On one hand, she was just a child; on the other, she became embroiled in a world far more sinister than any ...
in line with their legal duty to prevent the crime of genocide. The Iraq war was marketed as fighting terrorism, and bringing democracy, but we know it was all about oil and money. Gaza Genocide is no different. When it comes to genocide there is no grey area. You are either for...
Syria, northern Egypt, and Iraq, and the Mediterranean Sea coast lies to its west. To the south of the arc is the Arabian Desert, and at its southeast point is the Persian Gulf. Geologically, this region corresponds with the intersection of the Iranian, African, and Arabian tectonic plates...