Between November 28 and December 26, the Rising Tide Foundation is hosting a symposium of 5 lectures featuring different stories from the Cold War. Each story zeroes in on the artificial causes of this dark period in world history that never should have happened and how great men and women who understood how to break…
Tag: Geopolitics
Spenser and Marlowe – God’s Spies
By Gerald Therrien “Come, let’s away to prison:We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage:When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live,And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laughAt gilded butterflies, and hear poor roguesTalk of court news; and we’ll talk with them…
FDR, Stalin and the Untold History of the New Deal
The Clash of the Two Americas is now available to a Russian audience as one giant 600 page behemoth. As part of the promotion for the Russian edition, DenTV and Nashe Zavtra publishing have arranged a series of interviews tackling different aspects of my research. In this week’s discussion with eminent scholar Dionis Kaptari, we…
The British in Iraq: A Horror Story of Democracy Building [Martin Sieff RTF Lecture]
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Martin Sieff explores the ugly side of British foreign policy in the Middle East during the 20th century. Purchase Martin Sieff’s Cycles of Change here: https://www.amazon.com/Cycles-Change-American-History-Coming-ebook/dp/B00V3KTQBA
Iran’s Century and a Half Fight for Sovereignty
By Cynthia Chung It all started in 1872, with Nasir al-Din Shah having granted to the British Baron Julius de Reuter, rights to Iran’s entire economic estate. Reuter not only controlled Iran’s industry, farming, and rail transportation, but also held the right to issue currency and to set up a national bank, called the Imperial…
1979: A Polarized Persia (RTF lecture with Gordon McCormick)
On Sunday (January 28) the Rising Tide Foundation hosted a live lecture with Gordon McCormick (co-host of Breaking History on Badlands and geopolitical analyst extraordinaire) who delivered a historic outline of the hand of Anglo-American intelligence in the Middle East with a focus on Iran and the 1979 revolution.
Checkmate: How Iran is Spearheading a Geopolitical Sea Change in West Asia
By Matthew Ehret [originally published on the Cradle] Benjamin Franklin once famously wrote to his fellow colonials: “Either we hang together or we hang separately.” Those words are just as true today as they were 270 years ago, for empires have always controlled by dividing their victims into regional tribal interests in order to be…
Tragedy, Dialogue, and Politics: Applying Tragedy’s Therapy to Russian Relations with the West
By Professor Nicolai N. Petro When we refer to something as a tragedy, we typically mean that something bad has happened over which we have no control. It is precisely our powerlessness to change these circumstances that we deem “tragic.” For the ancient Greeks, however, tragedy is something that human beings create by virtue of…
FDR’s Anti-Colonial Vision for the Post-War World: ‘As He Saw It’ Revisited
By Matthew Ehret The 80th Anniversary of the passing of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt should give the world a chance to revisit the immortal life and courage of the man whom decades of revisionism have turned into a popular aristocratic cartoon character. The decades of intense of effort to distort the life of the…
Clash of the Two Americas Mini Doc Part 5: Why Canada Failed the Ben Franklin Challenge
In this 5th of a series of historical videos inspired by the audiobook of Clash of the Two Americas vol 1 (the Unfinished Symphony) narrated by Hugh Patrick Trudeau and produced by Jason Dahl, you will be introduced to the real reasons that Canada failed to become the 14th colony to break free of the British Empire…