Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, World War II
(Trying out a new lay out, feedback is appreciated) Executive Summary On 20 July 1944, German Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg placed a bomb in Hitler’s Eastern Front headquarters (Wolfsschanze / Wolf’s Lair) in East Prussia. The explosion injured but did not kill Hitler. The conspirators—an underground network of senior officers, diplomats, clergy, and […]
The 20 July Plot: Inside Operation Valkyrie and the Attempt to Kill Hitler
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, media bias, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
On July 14th the BBC published the findings of its internal review into the documentary ‘Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone’ which it had de-platformed in February after one of the main child narrators was revealed to be the son of a Hamas official. A BBC Media Centre press release described the breach of […]
Will the BBC’s Gaza documentary internal review make any difference?
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in defence economics, discrimination, economic history, gender, labour economics, labour supply Tags: France, gender wage gap, sex discrimination
OTD in 1965, France changed the law to allow married women the right to work without their husbands’ permission. Yes, really. To mark the occasion, Woman of the Day is journalist Madeleine Riffaud, French Resistance, who didn’t need any man’s permission to fight for her country.… pic.twitter.com/nlp3f2GIsK — The Attagirls (@TheAttagirls) July 13, 2025
Woman of the day
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in defence economics, development economics, economic history Tags: industrial revolution
My ECONS101 class discussed the Industrial Revolution in class last week, focusing on why it happened first in England, rather than France or China or elsewhere. By coincidence, I was just finishing up reading the book Empire of Guns by Priya Satia. A conventional view of factors underlying the Industrial Revolution in England, such as the…
Book review: Empire of Guns
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in defence economics, energy economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in defence economics, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, media bias, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
Written by Georgia Leigha Gilholy Much about Sally Rooney is impressive. Her books have smashed literary records, and their adaptations have been streaming sensations. Her debut novel was published when she was just 26. She is one of the most translated contemporary authors, and her works are available in 46 languages. Hebrew, however, is no […]
In the Guardian, Sally Rooney defends violent extremist group
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
Anyone who ever had to go through a medical procedure will know how important the job of a nurse is. When you arrive at the medical facility it is usually a Nurse who sees you first, A nurse will care for you set you mind at ease, often they get to do the mots horrible […]
Nurses who killed.
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Iran, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
The Daily Wire reports: Israeli secret service operatives used a fake phone call to trigger what appeared to be an “emergency meeting” among Iran’s top military leaders — and then targeted the location of the meeting. Amit Segal told the Call Me Back podcast on Monday: “What Israel did was create a fake phone call for 20 […]
Impressive intelligence operation
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in defence economics, economic history, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: bombing of Germany, Gaza Strip, Iran, Israel, Middle-East politics, World War I, World War II
If the best course of action is to avoid war, then the second-best course, with war already raging, is to end it. Chris Trotter writes – THE LOGIC OF WAR is pitiless and relentless. Once embarked upon, warfare creates needs and imposes priorities that cannot be ignored without imposing unsustainable costs on one’s own military […]
The Grim Logic of Israel’s War
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in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: economics of borders, maps, World War I
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in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: constitutional law, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
Yesterday, I wrote a column in the Hill discussing how Trump is unlikely to go to Congress in launching an attack on Iran and how he has history on his side in acting unilaterally. The column noted that many Democratic politicians and pundits who were supportive of such unilateral actions by Democratic presidents such as […]
The Claude Rains School of Constitutional Law: Democrats Denounce Iranian Attack as Unconstitutional
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