Every curiosity of history begins as a rhetorical question challenging official histories of the past. History lessons are rolled out as oversimplified metanarratives with our presumed place at its existential center, but as it turns out, history is truly what we make of it, one generation at a time. As Vladimir Putin orders Russian Strategic [...]
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Afghanistan, Navigating the Inevitable Abyss…
Few will associate Joseph E. Schwartzberg with recent invents culminating in Afghanistan. Recognized as a famous & well-respected Minnesotan, few outside academia & public advocacy organizations dedicated to world federalism have heard let alone readily recognize the late academic. From 1964-2000, Schwartzberg was a household name & professor emeritus in the geography department at the [...]
Nagorno-Karabakh, the International Criminal Court, & New Supranational Horizons…
As an American, I maintain with full confidence that I live in the United States of Amnesia. Our 2020 presidential elections stand as a case-in-point. For most Americans, we forsake history for the arbitrary conveniences that make its dismal oversimplifications possible. This makes cookie cutter dismissals of history conscionable which ignores its vast diversity & [...]
Book Review, Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West…
It becomes a matter of unconscionability to derive an image of a perceived enemy without hyperbole. The Soviet system is best described as an autocracy governed solely by the communist party elite. Through their new revolutionary social system, the Bolsheviks reinstated the same class enemy they ideologically detested. The ruling elite simply switched camps from [...]