By Irene Eckert “It would be difficult to overestimate the extent to which liberty and democracy in the United States are currently endangered …” Albert E. Kahn, Treason in Congress, April 1948 “… mankind is threatened with wars, compared with which the past ones look like poor attempts and they will come without a doubt if the hands…
Category: Europe
Schiller vs. the Congress For Cultural Freedom
By Irene Eckert No, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power! When the oppressed man finds no justice,When the burden grows unbearable, he appealsWith fearless heart to Heaven,And thence brings down his everlasting rights,Which there abide, inalienably his,And indestructible as stars themselves. -Friedrich Schiller, Rutli Oath, Wilhelm Tell With the global call for FREEDOM as…
WHY Russia Saved the United States
By Cynthia Chung “Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. This is the weak point of our defences, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be…
The First African-American Poet and Her Love of Ancient Greece
By Nana Coupeau In 1761, Phillis Wheatley, a young West African girl, was captured and brought to America on a slave ship. There Susanna Wheatley, wife of prominent Boston businessman John Wheatley, bought her at an auction to serve as lady’s maid. The “gap-toothed girl wrapped in nothing more than a quantity of dirty carpet”…
Elbe Day 75th Anniversary Conference Celebrates the Past and Presents Hope for the Future
On April 24th, the Rising Tide Foundation was invited to participate in a major conference took place online to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the iconic Elbe Day embrace of American and Russian troops along the Elbe River organised by the president and founder of the American University in Moscow, Dr. Edward Lozansky. The conference…
Italy’s Embrace of the Silk Road: A hope for all of Europe
It is no secret that the rise of the Belt and Road Initiative has created a positive dynamic for international relations. While many branches of the Belt and Road Initiative which officially united with Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union in 2015, have manifested itself across Europe in the form of rail lines and ports, to this…