My Grandfather's Account of the Early Days of Germany's Attack on the Soviet Union in World War II Today is the 85th anniversary of that momentous event. Reason · Jun 22
17 Actors Born To Play A Real-Life Person Just Based On Their Insane Resemblance These doppelgängers look so alike, they've convinced the internet that they are either time-travelers or clones. Bored Panda · Jun 10
Minister sacked over WhatsApp group called voter a ‘hag’ and mocked her house in sweary rant Andrew Gwynne joked about killing a fellow MP with a pickaxe and said a prominent community member should be bullied The Independent UK · Feb 13, 2025
Frederic Jameson: Beloved Authoritarian His famous erudition was attached to his nightmare politics. Reason · Oct 3, 2024
Russian Dissidents Face Harassment And Attacks Abroad Russian intelligence operations targeting dissidents abroad raise concerns about Kremlin's reach and suppression of opposition voices. Top News · May 3, 2024
Ecuador Raid A Blow To Mexico's 'Sacred' Asylum Tradition In the past century, Mexico has opened its doors to revolutionaries, Spanish exiles, and persecuted Latin American leaders -- a tradition that has been dealt an unprecedented blow by a police invasion of its embassy in Ecuador. International Business Times · Apr 6, 2024
Ben Miller on his Death in Paradise murder: 'I got shivved with an ice pick, like Trotsky!' 'I can only imagine the writer resented me leaving!' WhatToWatch · Mar 12, 2024
October babies: Birthdays of famous people born in October October, the 10th month of the year, has witnessed the birth of several great personalities in the past. Leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche were born in October. The Times of India · Sep 29, 2023
The story of The Stranglers' controversial No More Heroes album: "We got away with murder" Hugh Cornwell tells the story of the Stranglers' summer-of-punk-classic second album No More Heroes: "We definitely couldn’t get away with that now" Louder · Mar 30, 2023
Putin, Biden, Ukraine and ... Trotsky? What century is this, anyway? How a long-ago split in the Marxist left helps to explain the Ukraine conundrum Salon · Feb 26, 2023
Timeline: The Bolsheviks to Putin: a history of Russian defaults In 1918, Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky told Western creditors aghast at the Bolsheviks' repudiation of Russia's external debt: "Gentlemen, you were warned." Reuters · Jun 1, 2022