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Launching the Burning Archive History Book Club
How You Can Change History with Just 10 Books
Dec 8, 2025
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Rubio at Munich. The USA's Western Reconquista.
Was Rubio's speech at the 2026 Munich Security Dialogue a peace pipe for Europe? Or was it the revanchist imperialism of the American Western…
Feb 17
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The Ballad of the Army Carts
Slow Read Poems in Times of War: Du Fu, China
Feb 15
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100 Books to Read Before it is Too Late
May 10, 2025
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Ivan the Terrible Wasn't: How the West Rewrote Russian History
Nov 21, 2025
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American Nihilism & NATO's Defeat
Jul 3, 2024
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1910: The Year Human Character Changed
Oct 17, 2025
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Books of Jacob | Slow read | Who's Who
Jan 19, 2025
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Putin's Quantum Leap at 2025 Valdai Club
Oct 3, 2025
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Decolonisation II: Mexico and the Fourth Transformation
Five centuries of history explain why Mexico will not kneel to the USA as a colony
Feb 14
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How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
And a North American genocide. Slow Read Poetry: Joy Harjo.
Feb 8
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Decolonization I: "the biggest reconfiguration of world politics ever seen"
How globalization and post-colonial decolonization will reshape the world
Feb 7
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Hostage, lover, prophetess and yet a stranger
Slow Read Poetry: Gabriela Mistral, Cassandra
Feb 1
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History Book Club I, Grandin, America América
Welcome to the first instalment of the monthly History Book Club.
Jan 31
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How to Let Go of Fear and Loathing of Russia. . . with History and Poetry.
Russia, Russia, Russia!
Jan 31
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The Davos Rupture and Fall of Civilisation States
At Davos 2026 a rupture in the history of Western civilization opened. In that fissure, the USA exposed itself as a ‘barbarian’ usurper of the West.
Jan 28
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Repeating Great Words from a Besieged City
Slow Read Poetry, Week Four: Zbigniew Herbert
Jan 25
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The End of the West: Europe's Declaration of Independence
At the Davos World Economic Forum this week the world learned a lesson about historical ruptures, the end of empires and civilizational collapse.
Jan 24
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On Greenland, the Monroe Doctrine, USA expansion and aggression towards Europe.
My appearance on RT International 19 January 2026
Jan 20
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Is it worth singing where no one can hear?
2026 Slow Reads. Poetry Season. Week III. Elena Shvarts, Birdsong on the Seabed
Jan 18
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India World History Tour Recap
The best books to discover South Asian history
Jan 17
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Decolonization 2026 Season One
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Rubio at Munich. The USA's Western Reconquista.
Was Rubio's speech at the 2026 Munich Security Dialogue a peace pipe for Europe? Or was it the revanchist imperialism of the American Western…
Feb 17
22
5
Decolonisation II: Mexico and the Fourth Transformation
Five centuries of history explain why Mexico will not kneel to the USA as a colony
Feb 14
24
5
6
Decolonization I: "the biggest reconfiguration of world politics ever seen"
How globalization and post-colonial decolonization will reshape the world
Feb 7
43
11
13
The Davos Rupture and Fall of Civilisation States
At Davos 2026 a rupture in the history of Western civilization opened. In that fissure, the USA exposed itself as a ‘barbarian’ usurper of the West.
Jan 28
21
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Long Reads 2026
The Davos Rupture and Fall of Civilisation States
At Davos 2026 a rupture in the history of Western civilization opened. In that fissure, the USA exposed itself as a ‘barbarian’ usurper of the West.
Jan 28
21
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Slow Reads 2026. Season One, Poetry to Heal
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The Ballad of the Army Carts
Slow Read Poems in Times of War: Du Fu, China
Feb 15
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How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
And a North American genocide. Slow Read Poetry: Joy Harjo.
Feb 8
9
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Hostage, lover, prophetess and yet a stranger
Slow Read Poetry: Gabriela Mistral, Cassandra
Feb 1
14
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4
Repeating Great Words from a Besieged City
Slow Read Poetry, Week Four: Zbigniew Herbert
Jan 25
14
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Is it worth singing where no one can hear?
2026 Slow Reads. Poetry Season. Week III. Elena Shvarts, Birdsong on the Seabed
Jan 18
12
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🌏World Power History Tour
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How to Let Go of Fear and Loathing of Russia. . . with History and Poetry.
Russia, Russia, Russia!
Jan 31
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2
The End of the West: Europe's Declaration of Independence
At the Davos World Economic Forum this week the world learned a lesson about historical ruptures, the end of empires and civilizational collapse.
Jan 24
45
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India World History Tour Recap
The best books to discover South Asian history
Jan 17
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Beyond the Thucydides Trap: Understanding China's Unique Development Path
2025 World History Tour of China Recapped
Jan 10
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Three Dilemmas of the Venezuela Crisis and One Proposal to Found the United Nations Anew
The USA’s kidnapping of the President of Venezuela and his wife is a gross breach of international law and the United Nations charter.
Jan 7
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📖Slow Reads 2025
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: My end was in my beginning
Mahabharata after modernity and the cyclical 'sense of possibility' in history
Dec 10, 2025
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: The Villain
Week Seven: War, History and Wrong in the Mahabharata
Dec 3, 2025
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Anna Akhmatova, Requiem (Take Two)
One of One Hundred Poems to Read Aloud in Times of Wars
Dec 2, 2025
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity. Kunti the Mother
Kunti vs Truschke on Caste and Ethos
Nov 19, 2025
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Mahabharata: Indian Statecraft and Arjuna
Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: Week Four
Nov 12, 2025
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India
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India World History Tour Recap
The best books to discover South Asian history
Jan 17
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: My end was in my beginning
Mahabharata after modernity and the cyclical 'sense of possibility' in history
Dec 10, 2025
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3
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: The Villain
Week Seven: War, History and Wrong in the Mahabharata
Dec 3, 2025
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Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity. Kunti the Mother
Kunti vs Truschke on Caste and Ethos
Nov 19, 2025
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Mahabharata: Indian Statecraft and Arjuna
Six Mahabharatas in Search of Modernity: Week Four
Nov 12, 2025
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Russia & Русский мир
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How to Let Go of Fear and Loathing of Russia. . . with History and Poetry.
Russia, Russia, Russia!
Jan 31
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Inciting Fears of Russian Invasion
How the Black Legend of Russian History Makes the World Insecure
Dec 20, 2025
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The Black Legend of Russia's "Lost Empire"
Why Catherine the Great Will Rise Again in Odessa
Dec 12, 2025
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Russia's Dance with Europe: Battle or Ballet?
Russia's Europe Question as Imagined Through Anna Pavlova
Dec 5, 2025
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Anna Akhmatova, Requiem (Take Two)
One of One Hundred Poems to Read Aloud in Times of Wars
Dec 2, 2025
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USA and its Empire
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Rubio at Munich. The USA's Western Reconquista.
Was Rubio's speech at the 2026 Munich Security Dialogue a peace pipe for Europe? Or was it the revanchist imperialism of the American Western…
Feb 17
22
5
Decolonisation II: Mexico and the Fourth Transformation
Five centuries of history explain why Mexico will not kneel to the USA as a colony
Feb 14
24
5
6
How 2025 Put the American Golden Age On Hold
The American World History World Tour 2025 Recap
Jan 3
21
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The Shortest History of the United States of America
Interview with Don Watson on the American Unravelling
Nov 25, 2025
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USA's 28-Point Ukraine Peace Plan is D.O.A
I explain all 28 points and why Trump's Peace Plan fails the peace test
Nov 21, 2025
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