The Greatest Lie Ever Told

Its the Nayirah Lie. Nayirah (testimony) Kuwaiti Government, A private US PR firm, and US government concocted a lie which said that Iraqi soldiers ‘took away 500 incubators from premature babies in a Kuwaiti Hospital and left them to die’. Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when … Read more

Why Capitalism did not lift Africa, South America or other 3rd world countries out of poverty

It has been many decades since African countries have become independent and adopted the very Capitalist economic model of their former colonizers. They were supposed to prosper, raise their life standards, get out of 3rd world status. Even further, South American countries have been independent close to two centuries, and not only they exactly copied … Read more

How are Roman Empire and US alike, and the reasons for their fall

Decaying Empires

Past the historical fluff and grandeur, those who are interested in the lives of ordinary people, social dynamics, and the change of societies in history will easily notice uncanny similarities in between the state of societies of US and the Roman Empire before its fall. There is immense overlap in between the social dynamics caused … Read more

Could Nazi Germany conquer Britain in World War II

Armored Lorry

When we look into the reality on the ground circa the time period when Operation Sea Lion was supposed to happen, we see that if attempted the invasion, Germany would have lost a noticeable portion of its force over a rather costly, but not too costly invasion operation. They would have taken over Britain without … Read more

British contribution to World War II

Brit tanks in El Alamein

Without demeaning the sacrifice of those who fought in the ranks of the British, lets do a simple review: In land, where the the bulk of the war was fought, Britain did a poor showing Mediterranean and N Africa In Mediterranean, Britain had some successes against the ill equipped and unwilling Italians. But not only those successes … Read more

American Democracy – can it be saved

American Democracy that wasn't

American Democracy was never there from the start. All they way from the start, the presence of electoral college and entire upper-lower house parliaments were designed to facilitate minority ruling the majority. “Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought … Read more

The appeasement policy of British towards Nazi Germany wasn’t actually appeasement

Appeasement Policy - or was it

We see the word appeasement being used in dealings of British government with Nazi Germany, and we are told that this was a ‘mistake’ which helped Nazis to eventually do what they did. But… When we look into the actual chronology of events, actual statements, dealings in between countries and resulting geopolitical changes, the picture … Read more

Was US justified in using atomic bombs against Japan

Fat Man bomb

According to: US Joint Chief of Staff, Director of Military Intelligence for the Pacific Theater of War, Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when a new posts are out) Vice Chairman of the U.S. Bombing Survey, Deputy Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Special Assistant to … Read more

How should we remember Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

Well… We can start by remembering him as the person who turned Cuba from a casino and whorehouse for US rich (especially Mafia) to a modern society in which ordinary citizens have social services and guarantees no less than the ones in Scandinavian countries despite total economic blockade causing lack of resources and consumer items … Read more

Who killed Kennedy

Kennedy, Dulles and Military Industry Complex

The most reasonable and well backed answer to this question is CIA director Dulles, who was an military-industry complex extremist of the most extremist kind. CIA Director Allen Dulles order the hit on JFK, new book claims Kennedy hampered various CIA operations Dulles had invested in – considerably. One of them was a coup which … Read more