Sparks Commentary

“ The government of the territories now in the possession or under the government of the [British] East India Company , and all powers in re...

A war that killed at least 15 million people began with two quick gunshots in the Balkans . The fighting of  World War One  began in the  B...

Warning: This blog post contains some disturbing pictures, which I simply cannot omit. By far the most infamous episode of the twentieth cen...

Warning: This blog post contains several disturbing pictures. One of them shows the body of a child. The Japanese were racist against other ...

Note: The Russians usually refer to their own part of World War II as the “Great Patriotic War.” Some Eastern European countries use this s...

The Arab Revolt against the rule of the Ottoman Turks … When people hear the phrase  “World War One,”  they usually think of Europe . But it...

“ We the people of Indonesia hereby declare the independence of Indonesia . Matters which concern the transfer of power and other things w...

During the Reagan administration, we were allied with both Iraq and Afghanistan … In the  Ronald Reagan  era, America had two allies th...

If the Cold War were a chess game, Latin Americans were often the pawns … Long before the  Cold War  began, American president James Mo...

The United States actually considered intervening in an African country called “Angola” … During the  Cold War , the United States actu...

If there's ever been a peaceful period in Muslim history, the Cold War was not that period … If there's ever been a peaceful per...

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but b...

“♪ Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad. Just to root for the home town crew, Ev'ry sou Katie blew. ♪ ♪ On...

“Bond … JAMES Bond.” In May 1960, an  American   U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Russians over Soviet territory , which caused so...

"That all Acts of the United States in Cuba during its military occupancy thereof are ratified and validated, and all lawful rights ...

"Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarc...

I should preface this review with an up-front disclaimer, which is that I am not a citizen of  Britain . I am an American citizen who has ...

One of the basic facts about China today is that most of it is communist - the part that most of us hear about. Thus, it surprises some p...

"The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under w...