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Will We Still Have Amtrak in Ten Years?
By: Daniel Nardini On October 19th, an Amtrak passenger train running between Dwight and Pontiac in Illinois achieved a speed of 110 miles per hour. This is the fastest Amtrak… Read more
Civil War by Other Means
By: Daniel Nardini The Colombian government and the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) are in the process of trying to negotiate a peace deal that will see the FARC… Read more
The Waffen SS in Cuba
By: Daniel Nardini I could not make this one up to save my life. It has been revealed by the German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnactrichtendienst (BND) that Cuban dictator Fidel… Read more
ICE=GESTAPO
By: Daniel Nardini It was a quiet, autumn morning in Detroit, Michigan. Many people were going to work. A group of Latino parents were seeing their kids off to school… Read more
The Student Loan Time Bomb
By: Daniel Nardini Here is a sobering piece of information. As of now, student loan debt now costs the United States one trillion dollars. In other words, the more students… Read more
Another Kind of Voter Fraud
By: Daniel Nardini You can choose between a Democrat or a Republican. For a good part of our history, we have had two ruling parties—the Democratic Party (founded in 1828),… Read more
Last Lenin Statue in Mongolia Falls
By: Daniel Nardini In Mongolia’s capital of Ulan Bator, the last statue of former Russia Communist rule Vladimir Lenin was removed. Many Mongolians threw their shoes at the statue as… Read more
What if Cuba Had Nuclear Weapons?
By: Daniel Nardini This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was in October of 1962 that then U.S. President John F. Kennedy told the Soviet… Read more
Watching the Powers That Be
By: Daniel Nardini One of the most important uses of mobile phones these days is making sure that peoples’ constitutional rights are protected. Sometimes, the lawful authorities do not act… Read more
Where No Cure Has Yet Been Found
By: Daniel Nardini Puerto Rico has declared a dengue fever epidemic this month. So far, there have been 4816 cases, including 21 cases of the fatal strand of the hemorrhagic… Read more »