Following on from the Morgenthau Plan, only partially and half-heartedly implemented, we come to the much better known Marshall Plan. This was named after General Marshall who at the time was the US Secretary of [more…]
Having written about the Morgenthau Plan, I finally found my book that detailed all the behind the scenes machinations involved in producing the Plan. It is not a pretty sight seeing as many of those [more…]
On December 20, 2019 President Trump authorized sanctions against companies and individuals who are participating in building Nord Stream Two, a pipeline under the Baltic Sea that will bring Russian natural gas to Western Europe, [more…]
The idea for this came from some bar steward who read a comment I had made, imagine that , people reading the comments, perfidy I tell you. Anyway it seems the Morgenthau Plan may not [more…]
Start time midnight. Featured image: Gage Skidmore – Licence CC BY-SA 2.0
Start time midnight. Featured image: Gage Skidmore – Licence CC BY-SA 2.0
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, as the old jingle reminds us, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. But at the very moment that Columbus first set foot on that bright, sunlit isle in the Antilles there [more…]
The rise and fall of coca wine Coca leaves have been used as a stimulant in South America for over a thousand years, especially in the Andes to overcome the fatigue of living and working [more…]
As we stand on the cusp of the Syrians and Turks continuing diplomacy by other means it may be an opportune time to have a quick look at Bashar al-Assad. The son of the former [more…]
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