History.com: This Day In History (May 15-1941): First Allied jet-propelled aircraft flies

By History.com Editors. On May 15, 1941, the jet-propelled Gloster-Whittle E 28/39 aircraft flies successfully over Cranwell, England, in the first test of an Allied aircraft using jet propulsion. The aircraft’s turbojet engine, which produced a powerful thrust of hot air, was devised by Frank Whittle, an English aviation engineer and pilot generally regarded as

History.com: This Day In History (April 25-1859): Ground broken for Suez Canal

By History.com Editors. At Port Said, Egypt, ground is broken for the Suez Canal, an artificial waterway intended to stretch 101 miles across the isthmus of Suez and connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat who organized the colossal undertaking, delivered the pickax blow that inaugurated construction. Canals have

The Jordan Times: When Namibia stands up to Germany: How Gaza revolutionised the Global South

By Ramzy Baroud. The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometres. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a strong stance against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Namibia was colonised by the Germans in 1884, while the

History.com: This Day In History (April 18-1945): War correspondent Ernie Pyle killed

By History.com Editors. During World War II, journalist Ernie Pyle, America’s most popular war correspondent, is killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on the island of Ie Shima in the Pacific. Pyle, born in Dana, Indiana, first began writing a column for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain in 1935. Eventually syndicated to some 200 U.S. newspapers, Pyle’s

History.com: This Day In History (1941-April 10): Croatia declares independence

By History.com Editors. On April 10, 1941, the German and Italian invaders of Yugoslavia set up the Independent State of Croatia (also including Bosnia and Herzegovina) and place nationalist leader Ante Pavelic’s Ustase, pro-fascist insurgents, in control of what is no more than a puppet Axis regime. The Ustase began a relentless persecution of Serbs,

Dissident Voice: Genocide as a Strategy for Success

By Paul Larudee. The future always surprises us to some degree. But we make plans, anyway, based on our projections, and we adjust them when our predictions are at least partially wrong, which they always are, because they make assumptions based upon things that we take for granted, such as our health and that meteors

The Jordan Times: Ukraine and Gaza threaten US leadership and politics

By James J. Zogby. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are having a more dramatic impact on global alignments and US politics than the wars in Vietnam and Iraq had in their respective eras, even without any American troops directly engaged in either conflict. The war in Vietnam was fought at the peak of the

History.com: This Day In History (March 25-1941): Yugoslavia joins the Axis Powers

By History.com Editors. Yugoslavia, despite an early declaration of neutrality, signs the Tripartite Pact, forming an alliance with Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japan. A unified nation of Yugoslavia, an uneasy federation of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was a response to the collapse of the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires at the close of World War

Al Mayadeen: Russia’s victory in struggle with collective West will be achieved in Middle East, not Eastern Europe

By Jamal Wakim. Gamal Abdel Nasser announced in 1969 that the battle on the banks of the Suez Canal would decide the fate of the world. This piece explains how. This article discusses the importance of what is happening in the Middle East and the battle taking place there specifically in the region extending from

History.com: This Day In History (January 25-1942): Thailand declares war on the United States and England

By History.com Editors. On January 25, 1942, Thailand, a Japanese puppet state, declares war on the Allies. When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, Thailand declared its neutrality, much to the distress of France and England. Both European nations had colonies surrounding Thailand and hoped Thailand would support the Allied effort and prevent