Lenin
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Book Review: When and why did the Russian Revolution go wrong? Brian Pearce, with commentary by Terry Brotherstone
Brian Pearce’s life – largely unsung beyond a substantial circle of friends, intellectual and political contacts, and aficionados of the art of scholarly translation – deserves to be studied by everyone who thinks the lessons of the political tragedies of the 20th century must inform the making of the 21st. Continue reading
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Origins of the American Empire: Revolution, World Wars and World Order Global Power and Global Government: Part 2 By Andrew Gavin Marshall
By the 1870s, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire had a virtual monopoly over the United States, and even many foreign countries. In 1890, the King of Holland gave his blessing for the creation of an international oil company called Royal Dutch Oil Company, which was mainly founded to refine and sell kerosene from Indonesia,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 