Wijeyadasa Rajapakse first entered Parliament through the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), which was formed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) together with the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). His name was
On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman in northern Saint-Domingue, in the French-owned part of Hispaniola. Boukman was
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In September 2024, a well-known media outlet from Albania reached out to me for my perspective on a recent €2.7 billion deal between France and Serbia, signed by Presidents Macron and Vučić, to provide
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Newly declassified files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have reignited theories of a covert coup, implicating intelligence agencies from both Australia and the United Kingdom. Former Australian lawmaker
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Once a small but strategic British colony, Heligoland played a crucial role in European geopolitics before being forever altered by one of history’s most powerful explosions. Britain controlled the 1-square-mile island from
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Britain’s so-called ‘Great Experiment’ in Mauritius, which followed the abolition of slavery, was far from a noble endeavor. Instead, it was a calculated system of social engineering that left deep scars on
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The struggle for justice remains unresolved. A matter that once seemed settled—the fate of war criminal ATM Azhar, whose execution appeared imminent—has been brought into question once again. What was once a
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A controversial new claim by New York Times bestselling author Richard Poe suggests that the United Kingdom played a pivotal role in provoking World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution to further
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Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, he entered a world that had already marked him for struggle. His father, a Baptist minister and fervent disciple of Marcus Garvey’s
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On January 27, 1945, soldiers of the Soviet Red Army made a grim and historic discovery. As they entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration and extermination
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A new survey by the Claims Conference has highlighted a disturbing decline in Holocaust awareness among young Germans, with one in nine adults unaware of the atrocity, and a quarter unable to
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