History

In late February of 1990, just two weeks after being released from prison, Nelson Mandela met with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat.

The choice of heaven [or hell] is shown in the conduct of men. — Chinese Proverbt

Nelson Mandela's story, if told as a novel, would not be deemed possible in real life. Worse, we don't tell such stories in many of our novels.

When the first School of the Americas, or SOA, mass protest was held in 1990, its organizers probably didnu2019t think they would still be at it 23 years later.

This short video explains the history of debt jubilees and the role of private debt in the rise of oligarchies.

How many living Nazis from the days of Hitler's Reich can there be left?

The fact that so many crimes are committed by military personnel in such a small amount of time is telling of the adverse effect that military presence in Okinawa …

When climbing aboard the Mayflower and learning that his young wife, Dorothy, had fallen overboard and drowned, more than likely committing suicide, William Bradford called his tiny flock of …

The morning after Kennedy was buried, the country awoke to find a stranger in its bed. The indefatigable vulgarity of Lyndon Baines Johnson made unfavourable comparison inevitable.

u201cI donu2019t hate Thanksgivingu2014I just think itu2019s appropriate to critique a celebration that obscures the reality of the European conquest of the Americas.u201d