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Past politicians, legislation and political movements have changed the course of history in ways both big and small. Welcome to our blast to the past.
Kabul Airport Blast News Update: Kabul Blasts Kill 60 Civilians And 13 US Service Members
Kabul Blast News Update: Highlights On Thursday, two powerful explosions occurred outside Kabul’s international airport The blasts occurred during the evacuation of people ahead of August 31 withdrawal deadline At least 60 civilians killed and more than 180 wounded Pentagon confirms 13 US service members death and 18 injured Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans One blast near the airport’s Abbey Gate and the other nearby Baron Hotel US officials and allies had warned of the threat of an attack Tens of thousands of people were outside the Abbey Gate ISKP (ISIS-K), affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS), claimed responsibility for the attack
SA News ChannelPublished 3 years ago in The SwampThe Power War
Two thousand, four hundred, sixty-one. That’s a number. It represents the scores of American military lives stolen from young men and women in the fight against Islamic Totalitarianism. But it’s more than that. The number means that sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, and wives received military funerals and memorials all over this land. A knock at the door or ring of a bell led to arrangements, and the process of saying goodbye to a fallen hero.
Skyler SaundersPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp1505
**Warning: Discussion of American History, Politics, and the Genocide of Indigenous people. July 4, 2021 Today the United States celebrates its Independence Day.
Suzanne AllenPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp"Black" history
No place in America shows as many cultural differences as in the religious services of a “Black” church and a “white” church. In America, the church is actually two different things because one of those buildings is filled with a bunch of Muslims and they don’t even know it. Very little is known about Africa from the descendants of Africa in America and it is easy to be ashamed of everything African. America had three television networks that were all programmed by white men, as was every magazine and any other source of information, from history books to movies. The parts that showed Africa was like watching a documentary that was filmed by someone who hated the subject. It was years before I realized that I saw the world through “white men’s eyes” that programmed everything I saw and it affected the way I thought about Africa and the part of me that is African.
Abasa Aziz ibn HoracePublished 3 years ago in The SwampKabul: The Modern Dunkirk
It's 4:40 pm eastern time as I stare at this dirty screen of my laptop. The last few years haven't been good to me, but at least I'm not in Kabul. Sure as an aspiring, but failed author trying to relaunch his Patricians: Sinful Seven it was great to get a professional review that gave me some hope, but emotions are funny things. Hope the strangest of them all. So I wake up from my sombulant lifestyle, quit smoking, and looked around at the ruination I've caused because of my great depression. The necrosis in my front teeth glare back from a mirror should i have the courage to look, yet one thought keeps echoing, and that's at least I'm not in Kabul.
Magnus VoidPublished 3 years ago in The SwampCapitalism and Human Nature
What is Capitalism? Wikipedia, the encyclopaedia everyone loves to hate but still uses, defines capitalism as ...An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit…
Axel P KulitPublished 3 years ago in The SwampWas ancient Athenian democracy a model to be followed?
When people argue that democracy is the best possible form of government they often cite ancient Athens as the prime example of “pure” democracy and the ultimate exemplum that other civilized communities and nations should seek to follow.
John WelfordPublished 3 years ago in The SwampIndira Gandhi Biography
Tensions in the region had grown so high that by June of 1984, Indira Gandhi decided to take action. She made a fatal choice - to send in the Indian Army against the Sikh militants in the Golden Temple.
pradeep mishraPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp1947 Partition of India & the River Indus: An Untold Tale
Millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs were forced to journey hundreds of miles and experience brutal violence as the Indian subcontinent was divided into two independent nation states following the dissolution of the British crown rule on the part of the United Kingdom. The partition involved the division of two provinces, Bengal and Punjab, based on district-wise non-Muslim or Muslim majorities. The self-governing countries of Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan came into existence. The partition also saw the division of the British Indian Army, the Royal Indian Navy, the Indian Civil Service, the railways, and the central treasury. As a person from this region, I am closely related to this event, and in this blog I will tell a different and lesser known story about the impacts of partition on the mighty Indus river system that connects the Indian Subcontinent.
aman mehtaPublished 3 years ago in The SwampMagna Carta
Leaders have elected their 25 members to support this cause and to maintain peace and freedom, and to provide and guarantee their charter. If we are not within 40 days of the date on which the charges were announced, the Chief Justice will take action, four of whom will say that they will take the matter to others and will disturb us and attack us. in every way, with the support of the whole community of the country, to oppress our castles, the land, and our property, save our people, the Queen, and our children until they defend the reward they will decide.
Sita DahalPublished 3 years ago in The SwampWhy the Titanic Still Fascinates Us
“Suddenly there was a wild coming together of voices from the ship and we noticed an unusual commotion among the people about the railing,” she said. “Then the awful thing happened, the thing that will remain in my memory until the day I die.”
Atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Two bombs fell on Japan in 1945 and killed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still visible. Koko Kondo, who was buried under the rubble with his mother and eight-month-old baby after the Hiroshima attack, has spent his entire life fighting for nuclear disarmament.
Radha KarkiPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp