Many things added up to create the famine that swept through the Holy Roman Empire. The 1600s were naturally lean years, as the environment dropped 2 degrees. But things got much, much worse.
Just after 6 a.m. Tuesday, an explosion shattered the morning quiet on a residential street in Russia’s capital. A bomb hidden in a scooter detonated, killing a senior military officer. Photos ...
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Inflation soared and GDP shrank by a third (see chart 1). The return of macroeconomic stability allowed the government and firms to war-proof their operations. One priority was to protect ...
“We’re trying to get the war stopped, that horrible, horrible war that’s going on in Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine. We’re going to get a little progress, it’s a tough one, it’s a nasty one, it’s nasty," ...
Russia is keen to disrupt, weaken or even divide NATO and one way of encouraging that might be to convince the U.S. that war is coming with the alliance in Europe and to ask America if it wants to ...
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Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's upcoming film follows Navy SEALs during the Iraq War in 2006. ('Warfare' screengrab/A24/YouTube) Fresh off the release of his 2024 blockbuster “Civil War ...
We have food here because ‘over there’, ‘they’ are starving to death. And until we start to understand the connections between war, famine, starvation, and poverty as a political choice, we’ll only ...