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Six reasons China’s rise won’t trigger a world war, as Germany’s had done a century ago

The Times of India 16 Oct 2021

Exactly a century ago, on June 28, 1914, the assassination of the archduke of the Austro-Hungarian empire in Sarajevo triggered World War I. In Asia, the rise of China and territorial disputes between China and its neighbours have raised concerns that Europe’s past could become Asia’s future ... American philosopher George Santayana wrote ... Download ... .

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Succession season three review – as glorious and furious as ever

The Observer 04 Oct 2021

You want the short version? Karl has it. “That’s the full Baskin Robbins 31 flavours of fuck right there.” ... Logan and what at least for the moment counts as his gang – Gerri, Shiv, Roman, Tom, Frank, Karl – strategise in a variety of vehicles taking them to various corners of his empire (though the boss himself heads to extraditionless Sarajevo) ... .

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The First World War, Cecil Rhodes & Anglo-Saxon Power

Consortium News 21 Sep 2021

David William Pear says the era in which the British Empire set out to destroy Germany in 1902 — leading the way to World War I — is frighteningly similar to that of today’s U.S ... Postcard depicting a scene from the German Empire period between 1890 and 1918, embracing the reign of Wilhelm II and the First World War.

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The First World War, Cecile Rhodes & Anglo-Saxon Power

Consortium News 21 Sep 2021

David William Pear says the era in which the British Empire set out to destroy Germany in 1902 — leading the way to World War I — is frighteningly similar to that of today’s U.S ... Postcard depicting a scene from the German Empire period between 1890 and 1918, embracing the reign of Wilhelm II and the First World War.

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Philadelphia Museum Returns Stolen Shield to Czech Republic

Ancient Origins 18 Sep 2021

In 1535 AD Charles served a major win against the Muslim Ottoman Empire and all over Italy cities rejoiced the emperor ... Sparking World War I, on June 28, 1914, Nineteen-year-old Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the rightful heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, in Sarajevo.

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The Fiat Dollar System Is No Privilege: The Burden And Why The U.S. Will Adopt Bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine 01 Sep 2021

As the USD’s reserve currency status crumbled, the U.S. will abandon globalization and adopt a bitcoin standard ... The U.S ... Since the U.S ... Source ... dollars ... empire, but to maintain an international system which favored others. The Pax Americana was about avoiding incidents like Sarajevo 1914 or Poland 1939 ... empire, was marked by the hollowing out of the U.S.

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The world according to...

The Independent 01 Aug 2021

You can freeze-frame every moment of the final destruction of the Stari Most bridge ... The tape ends ... Over the past two years, flying in from the Middle East, from the centre of the old Ottoman empire, I had reported Sarajevo, visited the Serb concentration camps, interviewed the raped women, despaired of the United Nations ... .

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On this day: Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated, sparking World War I

The Jerusalem Post 28 Jun 2021

The assassination itself took place in 1914 in Sarajevo, what is now the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina but was at the time another city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire ... The war raged across every continent in the Old World and saw the eventual collapse of four old empires. Tsarist Russia, Germany, Austro-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire ... .

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The First World War, Cecile Rhodes and “Conspiracy Facts”

GlobalResearch 26 May 2021

The Decline of an Empire. Why did World War One happen? The conventional fable agreed upon begins on June 28, 1914 with the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo ... Empire has been in a long decline for decades ... Serbia reacted with jubilation at the assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo.

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The Forgotten Christmas Truce of 1914. Unlearned Lessons which could have Prevented a Century of ...

GlobalResearch 26 Dec 2020

When Archduke Ferdinand, the heir-apparent to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the century of relative European peace rapidly unraveled in a series of errors of judgment, bureaucratic snafus, failures of communication and ...

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The Ghosts Who Haunt the South China Sea

The Atlantic 15 Dec 2020

Link Copied. The South China Sea is the most important body of water for the world economy—through it passes at least one-third of global trade ... jets flying above ... That was when I started seeing ghosts ... Read ... The U.S ... While it was there, 800 miles to the south, in Sarajevo, Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was assassinated ... .

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Trump was no fluke: George W. Bush blazed the trail

Alternet 26 Nov 2020

Future historians may view 9/11's effect on the United States as spookily paralleling the 1914 terrorist incident in Sarajevo for its impact on the Habsburg Empire and the igniting of World War I. For us—although in a more protracted manner – 9/11 may have spelled the beginning of the end, just as Sarajevo did with the Habsburgs.

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Fire in Romanian COVID-19 intensive care unit kills 10

The Press Enterprise 14 Nov 2020

By VADIM GHIRDA and SABINA NIKSIC . Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Romania — A fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in northeastern Romania killed 10 people Saturday and injured 10 others, seven of them critically, officials said ... Niksic reported from Sarajevo, Bosnia ... Here’s where you can get tested for coronavirus in the Inland Empire ... .

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The Double De-Coupling

Information Clearing House 07 Oct 2020

What they did not understand at that earlier moment was that the circumstances of mid-1914 (the Sarajevo moment) seemed so propitious both for Germany to aspire to empire, and for Britain to believe that it could quash it utterly.  Just as circumstances are believed – by some in Washington – to be serendipitous today.

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Saeed Naqvi | Will Erdogan’s Islamist play at Hagia Sophia rescue his govt?

Deccan Chronicle 13 Aug 2020

After Reconquista in 1492 by Christians, the Inquisition was much harsher on the Jews who found refuge in Morocco and later in the Ottoman Empire ... But it was Sultan Mehmet’s establishment of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 that caused the cathedral to face a predictable total eclipse.