1981 Seychelles Affair
A botched coup d’état orchestrated by South African mercenary Mad Mike Hoare and intelligence agent Martin Dolinchek, the 1981 Seychelles Affair remains a piece of Cold War history shrouded in lies and incompetence.
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Brazilian Miracle
An economic boom built upon industrialization, the Brazilian Miracle is remembered as a failure in centralized planning, military autocracy, and state terror that ultimately degraded many to their pre-industrial lives.
Democratic International
A “Jamboree” of anti-communist guerrillas in war-torn Angola – the Democratic International remains a symbol for Jack Abramoff’s Apartheid collusion and the basis for Dolph Lundgren’s Red Scorpion.
What Japan Thinks
An anthology of public works from the Meiji Restoration era; What Japan Thinks serves as a detailed look through the social and political complexities resulting from rapid westernization.
The Dearborn Independent
Acquired by America’s premier industrialist, the Dearborn Independent was able to gain an international audience through its manufacturing of hate-speech on the popular basis of Social Darwinism.
Chicken Tax
At the height of Cold War tensions, a tariff dispute over chicken production between Atlantic allies would have lasting consequences for the U.S. automotive industry.
USS Kitty Hawk Riot
Under the strain of the divisive Vietnam War, racial tensions boiled over as sailors aboard the USS Kitty Hawk violently fought amongst themselves in a riot fueled by hatred.
Pope Stephen VI
Taking advantage of a weakened papacy, Pope Stephen VI abused the power of the Holy See in his grave robbing blood feud with a dead man.
James Gillray
In a world lost in turmoil, James Gillray was able to critique and criticize using caricature and satire to the amusement of the British populous.
Sino-Indian War
A contentious border dispute turned conflict would reshape the boundaries of South Asia, only overshadowed by the nuclear crisis unfolding half a world over.
Cuban Missile Crisis
In October of 1962, the world stood on edge as the two greatest superpowers of the atomic age stood on the precipice of annihilation.
Niihau Incident
When a Japanese pilot crash lands on a remote Hawaiian Island, nationalism will conflict with ethnicity in a grand plot of treason.
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