Broken Currency: The Mechanics of Regime Change
by The Macro Butler Throughout history, empires have proudly marched under flags and slogans, but they usually tripped over their own printing presses. While textbooks blame wars or bad leaders,…
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by The Macro Butler Throughout history, empires have proudly marched under flags and slogans, but they usually tripped over their own printing presses. While textbooks blame wars or bad leaders,…
Cynthia Chung The following is an except from Paul L. William’s book “Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia”: When the US military occupation…
Cynthia Chung “Western Europe has only 20 to 30 more years of democracy left in it; after that it will slide, engineless and rudderless, under the surrounding sea of dictatorship,…
Cynthia Chung This is Part III of the “Sex, Drugs and the Vatican” series. In this paper the role of Michele Sindona will be discussed, the reality and unreality of…
Joshua Stylman In a popular Black Mirror episode, pop star Ashley O lies drugged into a coma while her manager/aunt extracts songs directly from her brain waves, converting her unconscious…
Joshua Stylman In 2023, something strange happened during Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. Fans began reporting what media dubbed “post-concert amnesia“—an inability to remember significant portions of shows they’d just attended.…
Elena PONOMAREVA In the context of the reformatting of world politics, the Balkans remain an important arena for the clash of interests of the leading powers. At present, increased attention…
David M. Prus Two separate Crusades were called for to free Bulgaria from the Turks. In 1393, Tsar Ivan Shishiman’s new capitol of Nikopol, and the critical city of Tarnovo,…
Trump and the end of the Long Twentieth Century N.S. Lyons, The Upheaval The first weeks of the second Trump administration have been a wild ride. Like many, I’ve been…
Ian M That depends on one’s definition of the conflict that led to the Roman conquest of Bulgaria. From the initial breach of the treaty between Bulgaria and the Romans…