On 3 July 2024, the Swiss journalist and writer Giuseppe
Gracia published on the titled subject the following assay in Neue
Zürcher Zeitung:
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Jul 10, 2024
Sep 5, 2022
Nothing of the old glory has remained in Egypt – contemporary Egypt claims the monuments of the previous culture, but it only destroys them
To this
day, the Egyptian pyramids are among the most striking and admired structures
created by humans. Ancient Egypt had an immense influence on the development of
European science and culture. The ancient Greeks, including for example
Pythagoras, drew on Egyptian knowledge. The hieroglyphs are still visible in
our script: for example, an Egyptian sign that looked like water ripples, meaning
either "water" or the letter "n", passed through the Proto-Sinai and Greek scripts into both
Feb 12, 2022
A Concise Overview of the Covid-19 Pandemic Dates: 2015-2022
Aug 21, 2021
The White Man's Burden in Kabul
Again we can
see the familiar images: a sudden departure of the last Americans and panicked
attempts of their helpers to flee. In Vietnam it was a conflict with communism,
in Afghanistan it is a conflict with Islam. The failure in Vietnam was mainly
due to the left, which sided with the enemies of the West, and the failure in
Afghanistan has mainly been due to weak support from the Afghans. The main
burden in the fight against the mortal enemies of the democratic West has
always been borne by the United
Aug 5, 2020
China Is Our Carthage – China's Influence Will Have to Be Weakened in Order for the West to Survive as a Democratic and Humane Culture
Let's recall China's
modern history. Starting from the end, we can see that China has become the world's
second richest country in the 21st century (2000-2020), thanks to the hybrid blend
of communist terror with ruthlessness of early capitalism, resulting in ecologically
devastating its own territories and reducing the quality of consumer goods around
the world. During the preceding twenty-years (1980-2000), a gleam of hope for democratic development appeared, but it was stamped out after
May 1, 2020
The Torment of Open Chernobyl Wounds – Hundreds of Thousands Died but Thousands Continued to Writhe in Pain
At the end of April, millions of former Soviet
citizens commemorate the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor on April
26, 1986. The families of 6,000 Tajiks who were suddenly removed from
Tajikistan in the spring of 1989 serve as an example; the young men were taken to
"help build houses in Russia" and they reappeared only in the autumn
of that year – changed beyond recognition (here). The Soviets took the young Tajiks completely unexpectedly and under false pretenses; the men found
Jan 25, 2020
Almost Sincere Regret After 75 Years – Representatives of 44 States in Jerusalem Remembered the Liberation of Auschwitz – Both What Was Said and What Was Not Were Important
At the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz, the fifth Holocaust Forum was held in Jerusalem on
January 23, attended by representatives of 44 states, including 6 kings and
princes, 26 presidents and 4 prime ministers. During the forum, the tragic fate
of the Holocaust victims mingled with the political issues of today, although
some of them appeared only in hints and some remained concealed.
Jan 25, 2019
India’s Statue of Unity – the Highest Statue in the World History – Shows That Gandhi Is Less Popular in India Than in the World
Gandhi has gained worldwide reputation with his efforts to
promote Indian independence from Britain without the use of violence. Thanks to
his mother, he was heavily influenced by Jainism, which rejects violence
against all creatures and promotes asceticism. Gandhi was famous for his long
protest hunger strikes and public appearances only with a piece of cloth around
his loins. From my childhood, I remember a statuette we had for unclear reasons
at home, a half-naked Gandhi, cross-legged, ten
Oct 10, 2017
North Korea – the Most Inhuman State in History – with the Most Totalitarian Control of the Citizens – 20 Million Slaves
A night satellite photo of Korea shows a sharp border
between the light South and the dark North. The North has 30 times lower
domestic product per capita than the South, and even the little it has is
invested to developing chemical and nuclear weapons. The recent provocations
with shooting rockets over Japan would constitute casus belli in less timid
times.
Jul 18, 2017
From the End of Vitalism in 1828 to Overtaking Control Over the Evolution and Nearly over Our Fate in 2128
We
are witnesses of an exponential increase – explosion – of our knowledge about ourselves,
about our origin and about the substance we are made of. No sooner we have completely
recognized our structure, than we are starting to change it. There is still a
lot to learn about the mechanisms shaping the quality and length of our lives,
but we start to edit our DNA and our future as well. The dreams of ancient
alchemists about the transmutation of base metals into noble ones have
come true, and now
Jun 27, 2015
Enemies of Western Democratic Society Strengthen Their Positions Also in Science-Based Press – Promoters of Global Warming and Drug Legalization Are Winning
The theory of human-caused global warming has acquired enthusiastic supporters among journalists and left-oriented politicians, and has been placed in the pantheon of the politically correct notions beside, among others, the idea of compulsory positive discrimination of problematic ethnic groups and the idea of superiority of Islam over Christianity. The promoters of the theory, although being proven guilty of manipulating the facts, have been successfully trying to delegitimize their opponents. The
Nov 10, 2011
The Real Number of Deaths after the Chernobyl Catastrophe is More Than 300,000
The catastrophe and the information
The Chernobyl catastrophe was the gravest industrial accident ever, and it was also the last great crime of the Soviet Communists. The explosion of the nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986 and the following fire made a part of Ukraine and Belarus uninhabitable, while contaminating large areas around the globe. Many people in the Soviet Union died or were wounded due to the disinformation and mismanagement on the side of the authorities; many people were exposed to fatal irradiation incidentally or during the cleaning operations. The Communist authorities, on all levels, denied the accident and left 50,000 inhabitants of Pripyat
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