Reading Time: 4 minutes We owe so much to Vasili Arkhipov, yet he’s not well known. He kept his cool while those around him were losing it during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Tag: War/Conflict
China using its monetary policy as a weapon of war
Reading Time: 3 minutes China is conquering the world by creating money when it needs it and simply absorbing debt. Perhaps we should be copying them
Heroes and villains: how history picks the winners
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Second World War movie Darkest Hour raises questions about perspective and reality
How to bring peace to Palestine
Reading Time: 5 minutes If we want peace and a better future for Palestinians, we must hold Palestinian officials accountable for their anti-peace actions
Poland’s 20th century tragedy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stuck between Germany and the Soviet Union didn’t stop thousands of Poles from contributing to the war effort in the 1940s
How consumers can leverage change, even in the face of tragedy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The extraction and black-market sale of gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten (used in our cellphones and other electronics) fuel the war in the DRC
Campaign to abolish nuclear weapons disconnected from reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Although expensive and complicated, nuclear weapons are essentially an old technology that can’t be uninvented
A spirit of hope shines through tragedy in the Congo
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a male-dominated, corrupt and violent political climate, Congolese women stand together to be heard as they change their country from within
Should the U.S. withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Arguments that Iran has already violated the agreement and that the U.S. should pull out and immediately reinstate sanctions have consequences
Dunkirk and the maligned Belgians
Reading Time: 4 minutes When disaster comes calling, shifting the blame is generally not too far behind, and war is the perfect setting for laying blame