Political Affairs

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience....

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla] ; born 18 July 1918) is a South African anti-apartheid activist, revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first to...

Muammar Gaddafi was the head of the Free Officer's, a group of Arab nationalists that deposed King Idris I in 1969 in a 'bloodless coup. [51] He abolished the Libyan Constitution of 1951, considering it a neo colonial document. From 1969 until 1975 standards...

The Tunisian Revolution [7] was an intensive campaign of civil resistance, including a series of street demonstrations taking place in Tunisia. The events began on 18 December 2010 and led to the ousting of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in...

Soviet troops (in right row) withdrawing from Afghanistan in 1988. Afghan government BTR on the left The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces...

. Tear down this wall!" was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, commemorating the...

Che Guevara (Jim Fitzpatrick's style) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa] ; [7] June 14, [1] 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician,...

Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident took place in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year on 23 January 2001. The incident is disputed: the official Chinese press agency,...

The recent peace deal between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish government has proven again that war leaves behind nothing but hatred, death and destruction. Last year, a peace agreement signed between the Phillipine government and the...

Leonid Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (Russian: Леони́д Ильи́ч Бре́жнев; IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲid ɪlʲˈjitɕ ˈbrʲeʐnʲɪf] ( listen); Ukrainian: Леоні́д Іллі́ч Бре́жнєв, 19 December 1906 (O.S. 6 December) – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central...