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• Aleppo, Syria – A Long History

  By Ecantados on December 29, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    ALEPPO THE ENCHANTED CITY Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it has been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC.[10] Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of… Read More ›

• If UN Recognizes Palestine, Israel Must Annex in Judea-Samaria

  By enormousgherkin on December 29, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Likud Central Committee chairman Danny Danon, who is challenging Binyamin Netanyahu for leadership of the party, on Saturday night called on Israel to respond to an expected UN recognition of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as the “state of Palestine” by… Read More ›

• Northern white rhino dies at San Diego zoo; only 5 left worldwide

  By enormousgherkin on December 29, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  (CNN) — A northern white rhino has died at a San Diego zoo, leaving only five worldwide and bringing the species closer to extinction. Angalifu, 44, died of old age Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Read more… Read More ›

• Predictions for Syria in 2015 by Joshua Landis

  By lakeviewpilgrim on December 28, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Here is a year end wrap up and predictions for 2015 for Syria and no solution in sight. It is very sobering article from a US Syrian expert. Oil is more important than bombs in that area, and the rich… Read More ›

• The Invasion of Russia-German Axis Allies

  By Ecantados on December 28, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  The Invasion of Russia was not fought solely by Germans.  Without the additional regiments/battalions of Eastern European countries, Hitler may have reconsidered invading Russia. There were the Finns (who stopped at their previous WWI borders), the Hungarian Second Army, the Romanians,… Read More ›

• As Syria’s Revolution Sputters, a Chaotic Stalemate

  By konigludwig on December 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on The Progressive Democrat:
  TORN BY WAR The view from a mosque in Homs, Syria, that has served as a rallying point for insurgents. Credit Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times By Anne Barnard in The New…

• The Manchurian Campaign

  By Ecantados on December 27, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Battlefield II The Battle of Manchuria World War II

• Syria death toll now exceeds 200,000

  By konigludwig on December 26, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Syria’s civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group told AFP on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. “We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March… Read More ›

• Some Russian History

  By Ecantados on December 26, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  THE MONGOL INVASION OF ANCIENT RUS’ A History of Russia (Tsars and Revolutions) HISTORY OF GERMAN AND RUSSIAN AGGRESSION: 1200AD-1945AD

• Commentary -Current Events II

  By Ecantados on December 26, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Stalin, Hitler and ISIL: All have one thing in common, purges of those they find ‘objectionable’. They wasted and waste  future generations and human capital. The sole reasons that they seem to have been trying to achieve: is complete power and control… Read More ›

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