Benito Mussolini in 1922: is this the face of evil? Maybe, but Mussolini was not worshiping evil deities, he was not eating babies, he was...

  Why would people trust the Pithoness of the Oracle of Delphi? For us, it looks like a naive or silly idea, but the ancient were neither na...

  You may have heard a common version of the story of the "Controversy of Valladolid." It says that during the 16th century, a cou...

I n the game of chess, you win when you eliminate your opponent's king. In the real world, instead, killing the enemy leader is a much l...

  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...

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

  Someday, someone will write a history of the covert psyops of the 20th and 21st centuries. It will surely be a difficult story to unravel,...