Since Vladimir Putin became president of Russia in 2000, he has been obsessed with how he is portrayed in the Russian media. He purportedly would routinely spend evenings carefully watching how the media covered him personally as well as his actions and policies. From the early days, he took steps to place Kremlin control over […]
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Are you surprised at the extent of resistance by Ukraine in their current war with Russia? It appears to many observers that the Russian Military and Putin Government probably miscalculated the Ukrainian people’s will to resist domination. By taking a look at the last 100 years of the history of Ukrainian-Russian relations we can see
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At the end of World War I, the U.S. economy went through a major boom era known popularly as the roaring twenties. Rising incomes meeting up with rising technological advances created progressive lifestyles for many middle and upper class Americans. It also nourished the get-rich-quick attitude that has long pervaded American society. Those times and
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Mariupol in the Ukraine has made lots of news lately, most of which has been unfortunate owing to Russia’s recent invasion of the Ukraine. Prior to the devastation that has taken place there in the last five weeks, what type of city was Mariupol? Where was Mariupol located? What was so important about it? Founded
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With the invasion of the Ukraine by the Russian military, and the corresponding sanctioning by the West, it appears that another Iron Curtain may be falling over Europe bringing with it another cold war. So far, the conflict has been limited to the Ukraine and potentially Belarus from whose territory part of the Russian Invasion
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When World War I ended in November, 1918, Germany’s economy was in a shambles. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Germany was obliged to accept defeat and agree to pay a huge amount of money for reparations primarily to France and Belgium, owing to the great destruction and loss of life inflicted on those
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Ninety-three years ago on October 24, 1929, the U.S. stock markets went on a sharp decline that eventually fell by 89% of the all-time high of 381.17 reached on September 3 of that year. On July 8, 1932, the bleeding finally stopped as the Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed out at $41.22, and didn’t reach
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In the early days of the United States, banking became a hot topic as some of the founding fathers were opposed to the establishment of a centralized national bank. Their reasoning came from Britain’s attempt to place the American colonies under the financial control of the Bank of England, that was seen as another act
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After the American Revolution it became abundantly clear that a better form of democracy was needed for the new nation than what was supplied by the Articles of Confederation. But what type of democracy would this mean, and what could the framers go by? There was no suitable working model of democracy that could be
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On December 7, 1941, U.S. naval and military bases at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii were attacked by Japanese Naval and Air Forces. The next day, Congress declared war, sending the U.S. headlong into World War II. But was the United States virtually at war before the attack? Neutrality Zone: Although hostilities were taking place
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