Leading up to Election Day, young women on TikTok posted videos of themselves heading to the polls to “cancel out” their boyfriends’ votes. This tongue-in-cheek trend highlighting the gender-based vot ...
At the end of March 1972, Hanoi led a big Spring offensive into South Vietnam. Soviet-made tanks and North Vietnamese divisions poured over the demilitarized zone and across the Cambodian border, ...
1949: CIA backs military coup in Syria, ousting elected government. 1953: CIA overthrows democratically elected Iranian government, placing the Shah in power. In 1951, Iranian parliament had ...
Richard Nixon was only elected president in November 1968 by masquerading as the ‘peace candidate’, declaring for ‘peace with honor’. The Nixon regime, beginning with his first election victory and ...
“Is the future female?” This was the question posed In an edition of Panorama, which looked at developments in the educational achievements of girls and boys. Girls, it seems, consistently outperform ...
The Middle East, like Latin America, Africa and Asia, has long been subject to domination by the major capitalist powers. This region, more than any other, has occupied a pivotal position in world ...
In 1996, the possibility that BSE, better known as Mad Cow Disease, might be linked to Creutzfelst-Jakob Disease and responsible for the deaths of at least ten young people, concentrated the minds of ...
Formed in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was the largest Black revolutionary organization that has ever existed. Famous for taking up guns in defense against police brutality, the ...
One of the most significant changes to the family as an institution, which in turn had an important effect on the position of women in society generally, came about as a consequence of ...