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The Napoleonic Wars consumed the lives of between 2.5 million and 3.5 million soldiers, most unwilling draftees. Although defeated, discredited, and exiled after years of brutal conflict, the self-anointed emperor responsible for those deaths today is honored – lionized, actually – in Paris. His tomb is located in the Hotel Les Invalides surrounded by commemorations of his many great but costly victories. Aggressive war and mass slaughter obviously look better through the mists of time. An...

Market in Warsaw ghetto, Nazi-occupied Poland, 1941 (public domain) One of the last material remains of the Warsaw ghetto (courtesy: Lukasz Godlewski) The ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto at Lezsno 42 Street, photographed by Stefan Bałuk. (Wiener Holocaust Library Collections) A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers, April 19, 1943. (AP Photo) The remains of the Warsaw ghetto, which the German SS dynamited to the ground in 1945 after slaughtering...

Wednesday, 4/07/2021 14:02 GOLD PRICES retreated $10 per ounce Wednesday from yesterdays 2-week high of $1745 as tensions between China and neighboring Asian states worsened and the IMF raised its global GDP forecasts for 2021s rebound from the Covid Crisis.   The Washington-based think tank and sovereign lender also urged national governments to impose a "solidarity tax" on profitable businesses and high-earning citizens so that "everybody co...

Follow RT on By Kevin Karp, commentator, screenwriter, and former political adviser in the House of Commons and the European Parliament. As an EU adviser based in Brussels and Strasbourg, he specialized in international trade, European populism, and Brexit. Find his website at moon-vine-media.com. Just as three nationalist European politicians were gathering in Budapest to hash out an alliance for more national sovereignty in the EU, Donald Tusk derided them as Russian lackeys. Tusk, ...

Rainbow-Colored BLM Statue in Budapest Demolished Within 24 Hours No plans to replace it. Image Credit: Email A rainbow-colored statue in honor of Black Lives Matter that was erected in the Hungarian capital of Budapest was vandalized and then demolished within 24 hours. The monument was a re-creation of the Statue of Liberty with the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ inscribed on the tablet. The statue was meant to remain in place for two weeks until April 14 but was immediately targeted after it...

Women of Power: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya For Belarus a missed opportunity It was not meant to be thus when the Belarusian president, Aleksander Lukashenko, unveiled his governments groundbreaking startup decree in December 2017, promising state incentives and tax breaks to tech founders in his country. After ruling the landlocked state for 24 years, Lukashenko seemed to understand the need to diversify his countrys economy. Minsk also signed the IT Decree 2.0 — a digital economy initiative ...

The Untold Truth Of King Kongs Creators The Untold Truth Of King Kongs Creators United Archives/Getty Images By Sam Scott/April 6, 2021 7:02 pm EDT King Kong is such a part of pop culture that it seems like hes always been around. Those images — of the giant ape, of him fighting with prehistoric beasts, menacing a woman chained to an ancient altar, chained up himself in a Broadway theater, climbing the Empire State Building as biplanes circle for the kill — hit on such a gu...

By Syndicated Content Apr 7, 2021 5:33 AM WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will extend COVID-19 restrictions until April 18, its health minister said on Wednesday, as the country struggles to cope with a third wave of infections that authorities fear could be aggravated by people mixing at Easter. Like its central European neighbours, Poland has seen its health service pushed to the brink by spiralling COVID-19 case numbers. Some regions have come close to running out of ventilators and th...

Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. The six Holocaust survivors serving as torchlighters for the annual Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony on April 7, 2021 lit memorial candles from rabbinical organization Tzohar​, which is partnering with Yad Vashem in the​ Generations Light the Way​ project​, encouraging people to gather​ together​ to​ light​ six memorial​ candles, a format created last year with the onset of COVID ...

The Latest: Brazilian president ignores calls for lockdown by The Associated Press, Updated: April 7, 2021- 4:03 PM A woman receives a plate of food donated by the Leao Xlll Foundation amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) Silvia Izquierdo / AP RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says there will be “no national lockdown,” ignoring growing calls from health experts a day after the nation saw i...