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11 votes
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
16 votes -
A retrospective on the Baltic road to NATO
8 votes -
A new archive of modern American political history
2 votes -
Would Roman elections pass a UN inspection?
8 votes -
The parliament of Imperial Austria
6 votes -
100 years since death of Lenin marked by silence from China’s Communist Party
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Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein
4 votes -
Ali Abdullah Saleh obituary [2017]
5 votes -
Queen Margrethe II is the first Danish monarch to abdicate in 900 years – but it is just a sign of the times
17 votes -
The rise and fall (and rise and fall) of Venezuela (2019)
7 votes -
The Republican Revolution and how the party switch actually happened
13 votes -
Podcast: a History of Modern Palestine
American Prestige did a series on the History of Modern Palestine. The first episode is always public, but they have unlocked the remaining episodes for this week in light of current events. I...
American Prestige did a series on the History of Modern Palestine. The first episode is always public, but they have unlocked the remaining episodes for this week in light of current events.
I listened to this back when it was posted and learned a lot about the role of colonial powers in the formation of Israel and Palestine and the way Palestinians are being treated today. The viewpoint is is not anti-Semitic but it is also not pro-Israel. For example, they discuss Israel's (then) current treatment of the Palestinians as apartheid.
I can't imagine what it would be like to live in those conditions. I don't mean to condone terrorist violence, but set against the background of the oppression in Palestine, it's hard to imagine what people might be driven to.
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The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
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Added context to Benjamin Franklin's famous quote about trading liberty for safety
23 votes -
No rides, but lots of rows: ‘reactionary’ French theme park plots expansion
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Fun fact: Taiwan claims exclusive sovereignty over mainland China and Mongolia as well as parts of Russia, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Japan
Decided not to post a single link as there are tons of different articles about different aspects of it on Wikipedia. It's a whole thing! Exclusive mandate - Republic of China (Taiwan) and...
Decided not to post a single link as there are tons of different articles about different aspects of it on Wikipedia. It's a whole thing!
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Exclusive mandate - Republic of China (Taiwan) and People's Republic of China
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1992 consensus which established semi-official dialogue between ROC and PRC
It seems like this is a leftover from the Chinese civil war and/or Chiang Kai-shek's authoritarian and murderous rule because one of the above articles does mention that these territorial hopes haven't been worked towards for many years:
Originally placing high priority on reclaiming the Chinese mainland through Project National Glory, the KMT now favors a closer relation with the PRC and seeks to maintain Taiwan's status quo under the Constitution of the Republic of China. The party also accepts the 1992 Consensus, which defines both sides of the Taiwan Strait as "one China" but maintains its ambiguity to different interpretations.
It goes further back than that though, probably to 1966 when Project National Glory was abandoned:
[invasion of mainland China] as the initial stage of reunification was effectively abandoned after 1966, although the Guoguang planning organization was not abolished until 1972. The ROC did not abandon the policy of using force for reunification until 1990.
Thought this was all quite interesting, so I wanted to share! It is not exactly light reading though so I also wanted to ask for documentary recommendations about this, and of the Chinese civil war in general, if anybody knows of any good ones?
Don't mind me, just finding myself going into a lot of Wikipedia rabbit holes lately 😊
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‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’
13 votes -
How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, fifty years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
21 votes -
Huey P. Newton, the misunderstood visionary behind the Black Panther Party
9 votes -
The history of the Comstock Act, the 150 year old law conservatives in the US are banking on to ban abortion
31 votes -
The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
9 votes -
The status quo coalition
7 votes -
The spy whose tapes rocked Spanish society
5 votes -
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised
12 votes -
Black conservatism isn’t what you think
7 votes -
In the oppression olympics, don’t go for the gold
13 votes -
Hail to the Chief: One great article about every US President
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An overview of how, and why, Taiwan’s Kuomintang dictatorship willingly embraced democracy
5 votes -
Much of what you've heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong
11 votes -
All people are created educable, a vital oft-forgotten tenet of modern democracy
14 votes -
Kotka, in southeastern Finland, removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin
5 votes -
Leopoldo López on activism under autocratic regimes
3 votes -
Where Roe went wrong: A sweeping new abortion right built on a shaky legal foundation
8 votes -
Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools
3 votes -
How many people have Q Clearance?
10 votes -
Much of what you've heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong
11 votes -
American unreality - In breaking the link between politics and objective truth, the United States seeks to fashion a new world – but it is one built on shifting sands
3 votes -
George W Bush approval rating polled at 90% by Gallup, the highest presidential approval rating ever recorded in US history (September 24th, 2001)
8 votes -
What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2?
5 votes -
How life improved since 1990
14 votes -
Peace...? (1814)
5 votes -
The racist history of austerity politics in America
5 votes -
History as end: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
6 votes -
Circulus theory: How one man wanted to save the world by taxing its poop
10 votes -
The fight to whitewash US history: At least fifteen states are trying to ban schools from teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. The reactionary movement stretches back to the 1920s.
18 votes -
Why did the Democratic and Republican parties switch platforms?
6 votes -
The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room
11 votes -
How did the USSR react to JFK's assassination?
5 votes -
Did Austria want the Anschluss?
3 votes