An Afterthought on Fidel Castro
Havana, Cuba. December 31st, 1960. Celebrations were quieter since the revolution. Whether out of exhaustion or fear, Clara and Eduardo insisted on welcoming the...
From Destroyer to Savior: Unweaving Assad’s Tale
In the seventh year of the war in Syria Bashar al-Assad is still the main figure. His strategies and allies kept him on the...
Western Dogma
Neoliberalism does not technically adhere to sacred texts, but it is devoted to certain arbitrary laws and alleged unyielding truths readily comparable to religious dogma. The...
Damascus: a City Beyond History & Imagination
Syria’s ancient trading capital has seen it all. Recognized by UNESCO in 1979 as one of the world’s oldest cities; it was a key...
Victor Orbán’s political agenda?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been the subject of extensive media coverage lately. What is occasionally labelled as anti-EU rhetoric on the subject...
Secessionist Tendencies in Bosnia – The Beginning of the End for the Bosnian Entities?
At a party conference in 2015 the President of the tiny Republika Srpska (RS) announced a referendum on the independence of this Bosnian entity....
The Past, the Present, the Unknown
written by Joseph Trey Meeks
“If you don’t like it, you can get out!” she said with a fierce passion that caught me off-guard.
She was a...
The Fall of Mosul and the death of a “state”
The Battle for Mosul started on Cctober 16th, two years after the city fell into the hands of the militants providing them with equipment...
No Man’s Land in The Balkans – The Liberland Case
On April 13, 2015, the world’s newest micronation, the Free Republic of Liberland, was born on a 7 square-kilometre parcel of uninhabited swamp. Situated in...
Unfrozen Armenia?
In April 2016, the tensions on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan fuelled an outbreak of violence which left more than 200 people dead....