Patrice Lumumba gave his independence speech on June 30, 1960. He said, in front of the Belgian king: "We are no longer your monkeys." He was killed on January 17, 1961. Less than seven months later. The CIA was involved. Belgian intelligence was involved. The operation was

This is literally what half of Soviet 'history' writing is like: describing something objectively good but in an ominous and condescending tone

I see two Hitlers and no Stalin here.

Except you miss five key points: First, Iran has a right to reasonably control non-Innocent passage through the strait. Second, as a coastal state, Iran can lawfully govern safety, environmental protection, and marine traffic in the Strait, particularly while the

France intervened militarily in African countries more than fifty times between 1960 and 2020. Fifty times. In sixty years. In countries that were formally, legally, internationally recognized as sovereign independent nations. Fifty military interventions. This is not a

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat.” — Roger Freeman, adviser to Reagan and Nixon, arguing for limits on access to education. The US is functionally illiterate by design. Literacy is a tool of freedom, something that is intolerable in the land of the free.

The critique of China in Western and Western-influenced media is the current test case for everything described here. Observe the framework. When China builds infrastructure in Africa, it is "debt trap diplomacy." When the West did the same thing for decades, it was

China watched all of this. China watched what happened to the countries that followed the Washington Consensus. It watched the structural adjustment disasters. It watched the privatization looting. It watched the deindustrialization of countries that opened up too fast. And

Hitler aimed to do to the east what the US had done to the ‘wild west’: Exterminate its people and seize their land for settlement. 27 million Soviet citizens were killed in this crusade — some in the very same camps in which the Germans massacred Jews. The war of extermination

Lend-Lease was real. Significant. Worth knowing about. You're right that Soviet leadership acknowledged its importance, and anyone who dismisses it entirely is being dishonest. Now let's talk about what it actually shows. Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union totaled approximately

The word "communist" did enormous work during the Cold War. It attached to Mosaddegh, who was a liberal nationalist. It attached to Árbenz, who was a democratic reformer. It attached to Allende, who won a democratic election. It attached to Lumumba, who wanted the Congo's

The most common liberal American response to criticism of American foreign policy is to agree with the specific criticism and then immediately undermine it. "Yes, the Iraq War was a terrible mistake." Mistake. "Yes, what happened in Vietnam was a tragedy." Tragedy. "Yes, the

Kid Rock addresses The Pentagon on the Strait of Hormuz.

See this sounds pretty awesome to me

Communist society will look back on our way of life and will struggle to comprehend its barbarism. The wars, misogynist violence, racist castes, exploitation of humans, animals and the environment. Capitalism will be as incomprehensible to them as chattel slavery is to us.

My great-grandfather was 42 years old when he was drafted into WWII. He crossed the Dnieper. He came home. My other great-grandfather never did. Still listed as missing to this day. I'm Georgian. 700,000 Georgians were mobilized. 300,000 never returned. Farmers, teachers,

This lie was completely debunked twenty years ago. Even Israel's chief negotiator during Camp David II and the Taba Summit, Shlomo Ben-Ami, has admitted that if he was a Palestinian he "would have rejected Camp David". Both sides had issues with the Clinton Parameters, but the

The EU claims that the “Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939” enabled WWII. It omits ten crucial facts: - The Soviet Union was not even among the first ten countries to enter into treaties and non-aggression pacts with Nazi Germany. In 1939 alone, Lithuania, Romania, Denmark, Italy,

The Blackfoot fed themselves on the northern plains for at least ten thousand years. Ten thousand years. Longer than every European nation has existed in its current form. Longer than the United States has existed by a factor of forty. Then the bison were commercially