Crowd of Tunisians hold vigil and protest in the name of Mohamed Bouazizi. Picture Source: http://goo.gl/xLVTtS Mohamed Bouazizi was a twenty-six-year-old fruit vendor in a rural village of central Tunisia. His father had died when he was three. And from the age of 10 he had worked for less than $100 a month [...]
(Part Two) Tamarod petition calling for Morsi’s resignation. Photo Source: http://goo.gl/FSMVaJ On June 30,2012 Muhammad Morsi became the first freely elected leader in Egypt’s six-thousand year history. Nine months later, a circle of five Egyptian friends began circulating a petition calling for him to resign. Three months later, by the first anniversary of [...]
By the spring of 47 BC, Cleopatra’s rivals to the Egyptian throne, her brothers, Ptolemy XIII, Pothimus, and Achillas were all dead. Roman legions commanded by the Emperor, Julius Caesar, successfully intervened in the civil war occasioned by Cleopatra’s father’s death and defeated her brothers’ armies. With his usual efficiency, Caesar celebrated his victories by [...]
Listen to the July 1, 2013 Interview with Larry Kelley as the discussion unfolds about the Islamic influence in America and how it relates to Larry's book "Lessons From Fallen Civilizations". Be sure to also check out our friend Sara Brenner online at The Brenner Brief by clicking the link to her site. Listen To Larry's [...]
To say that President Obama has squandered the painful gains America won over the last decade in two, bloody Middle Eastern wars is something like saying Jimmy Carter was not quite as a good a president as George Washington or Ronald Reagan, for that matter. It would be a gross understatement. Taliban told Obama [...]
The Quran—Image src: http://goo.gl/EZpLM Take not the unbelievers for friends.. If any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah. (The Qur’an, surah 3, verse 28) In my new book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations – Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat, the reader learns that due to numerous [...]
On August 11, 106 AD, the Roman legions under the Emperor Trajan (98-117 AD), conquered the Kingdom of Dacia, located on the eastern side of the Danube in what is today, Romania. The Romans besieged the capital and destroyed it. The Dacian king, Decebalus, and a few of his loyalists fled into the mountains where [...]
In my book, Lessons From Fallen Civilizations, I write: By 1500, the Sunni branch of Islam, administered by the Ottomans, ruled lands from Syria and Iraq, across the Maghreb to the Atlantic. And on the European mainland, it ruled all of Greece and the Balkans. By 1529, the Ottomans began their first siege of the [...]
The Spanish Reconquista In AD 732, exactly one hundred years after Muhammad’s death, Charlemagne’s Grandfather, the Frankish warlord, Charles Martel, stopped the northwestern advance of Islam in the French countryside at a battle fought near the small city of Poitiers. In so doing, historians believe that he saved Western Christendom. Had Martel lost at Poitiers, Edward [...]
On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, the last great city of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to the armies of Turkish Sultan, Mehmet II. A description of that day survives—a diary of a Venetian ship’s doctor, Nicolo Barbaro. He describes the last day of Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI, who fought beside his Greek-speaking Roman soldiers on [...]
