Yeah, he did. And that was different. It was different because we were in a long cold war. Yes, he was buying into enemy propaganda, part of it being because he was a man of his time, and he didn’t see the problems inherent in central control (of anything, really) and part of ...
Climate action obstructionists, laboring under the delusion that dangerous climate change is vastly exaggerated and who have gone to great lengths to inculcate that view within the public go right the way to the top of mainstream politics – don’t you a big lot of responsibility or bla...
During the same meeting, Eisenhower admitted that he used atomic threats to push the Chinese and North Koreans to accept the Armistice Agreement during the Korean war. Signed more than a decade earlier, the deal had stopped the shooting on the Korean peninsula. “There was a gentleman’s agr...
Ever since then it has been an important item of British diet, especially in Ireland; during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was the main food of the Irish, and there was starvation and famine when the crop failed, as it did in the 1840s. Also in Ireland, an illegal and very...