The failure of the European Union may have started with the choice of the flag. Not that national flags are supposed to be works of art, but...

  Despite having ancient seers (the "haruspices") as ancestors, I don't claim to be able to predict the future. But I think I ...

  Monte Piana ("Flat Mountain") in the Italian Alps. A bloody and protracted battle was fought there  during WWI  between the forc...

  The " Zombie Fungus " Cordyceps kills an ant after having taken control of its neural system. Could something like that happen i...

  "Les Glaneuses"  (the gleaners). A painting by Francois Millet (1857). Is this the destiny of the people of Western Europe? All ...

  The above is from a previous post of mine , where I laid down some rules to evaluate the wartime propaganda of the media. If you have been...

  Napoleon Bonaparte in full imperial regalia. He got close to creating a European Empire, but he failed in the end. He faced the same strat...

  The front page from the Italian newspaper "La Stampa" on Oct 12, 1941. A good example of wartime propaganda.   War is a complica...