I have been surprised by the amount of feedback received on my earlier post on the Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Genocide, Dom Bosco School and Captain Luc Lemaire: Indifference? Negligence? Or Something Else? A frequent question I receive involves Dom Bosco School and the École Technique Officielle (ETO)… Where the stories between the two converge … Continue reading
Faithful readers will recognize the below as an excerpt from a previous post of mine. However, with this story gathering momentum and attention from Hollywood, I have decided to highlight it in an effort to protect the truth. For source information as well as the original work this is excerpted from, please click here For … Continue reading
On our trip through the Balkans last year, The Velvet Rocket team spent a fair amount of time exploring Bulgaria. Western Bulgaria is quite rural and provided us with an interesting social commentary on communism as I will reveal below. Eastern Bulgaria is more developed due to its proximity to beachfront property that has attracted … Continue reading
Click on the graphic below to make it readable: Things are hotting up again in the South Atlantic between Britain and Argentina. That’s right, the Falkland Islands are back. The long-standing tensions between the two countries flared up again earlier this month when Britain announced plans to begin offshore exploration drilling near the remote islands. … Continue reading
One cool thing about having a girlfriend fluent in German and that lived in Berlin for six months is that a large section of Berlin that is either unknown or inaccessible to tourists becomes accessible. Granted this freedom, one such place to visit is the old Stasi headquarters in the former “East German” section of … Continue reading
Assisted Regime Change: A Bright Future Ahead? By Justin Quentin Ames London, England Abstract for Assisted Regime Change: A Bright Future Ahead? This paper explores the world of the coup d’ etat, with a focus on Africa and the involvement of outside actors in particular. As such, after introducing this topic, I take the reader … Continue reading
In news reports about skirmishes or operations by coalition forces in Iraq, we often hear of insurgents being killed. To illustrate what I am referring to, here are two examples from recent articles: “Coalition forces backed by a helicopter and jets attacked a safe house being used by suspected foreign insurgents in Iraq, killing 12 … Continue reading
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