History 1854-1896: How Western Bullying Taught Peaceful Japan Imperialism (VIDEO) 40 years of humiliations led previously inward-looking Japan to set on a drive of militarization, modernization and expansion of its own Carlton Meyer 15 Jun 19 525 4
History Contrary to Modern Myth Britain Was a Major Cheerleader for US War in Vietnam and Even Sent Covert Troops Backed the war option, advised Diem on counterinsurgency, trained his men, flew in napalm for Americans, and sent covert SAS troops Mark Curtis 15 Jun 19 360 4
History How a Wehrmacht Soldier Became a Hero of the Soviet Union Defected and fought with the Soviet partisans and commandos causing Berlin to put out a reward on him Boris Egorov 9 Jun 19 1602 4
History The American Empire First Attacked Korea in 1871…and Lost Slaughtered hundreds and accomplished nothing Carlton Meyer 1 Jun 19 1468 5
History Nazi Germany Deliberately Organized the Starvation Deaths of 3 Million Soviet Prisoners of War Before SS death camps of Operation Reinhard sprung up, Wehrmacht POW camps had already destroyed more people at a faster rate Marko Marjanović 30 May 19 1003 10
History Stalin Forcefully Deported 6 Million Soviet Citizens ― Russian Peasants and Entire “Enemy” Nationalities. One Million Perished About half of them Slavs, the rest minorities Marko Marjanović 26 May 19 832 10
History That Time US Firebombed a Japanese-Occupied Chinese City Killing 20,000 The new incendiary bombs that would go on to burn down Japan in 1945 were first tried out on a Chinese city in December 1944 Stephen R. MacKinnon 24 May 19 1562 5
History Today the US Is Waging a War on Huawei. In 1987 It Was Japan’s Toshiba Right in the midst of the 1980s Washington-initiated US-Japan trade war Okwonkwo 23 May 19 26175 56
History In 1988 the US Sank or Disabled Half of Iran’s Operational Navy That time the Empire intervened in the Iraqi-Iranian Tanker War on the side of Saddam Hussein Barrett Tillman 15 May 19 1052 4
History US Navy’s Prestige F-14 Fighter Downed Dozens of Aircraft — For the Mullahs The great majority of F-14 aerial victories were for Khomeini's Iran Sebastien Roblin 6 May 19 1106 6
History Winston Churchill Starved 3 Million Indians to Death in the Man-Made Bengal Famine of 1943 The great hero of the Anglo-American world did his best to keep up with Stalin and Hitler Marko Marjanović 22 Dec 16 267214 49