Source Passive – Page 8 – An Examination of Power, Governance, and Societal Dynamics

Berlin Graffiti, Fall of the Wall

October 1990 – Germany is Reunited

The unification of Germany in October...

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Newcomen's Patent Engine, 1705

1990 – First IPCC Report States the World Has Been Warming and Future Warming is Likely

The very air we breathe tells...

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Reagan and Gorbachev in Western Hats, 1992

December 1989 – Gorbachev Announces Eastern European People are Free to Determine Their Own Destinies

Ah, the currents of history are...

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Michael Dukakis at the 1988 Democratic Convention

Democratic Candidate Michael Dukakis’s Silence on the Savings and Loan (S&L) crisis

The 1988 presidential election presented a...

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Supporters of the Nicaraguan Contra Rebels

A Profound Entanglement – The CIA and Cocaine

Indeed, delving deeper into the precise...

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Oliver North

Iran-Contra – Untethered from Legal and Democratic Oversight

When we speak of the Iran-Contra...

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Atomic Bomb Mushroom Cloud Explosion

1985 MOVE Bombing

The events of May 13, 1985,...

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Mikhail Gorbachev in The White House Library, 12/8/1987

The World in 1985

The year 1985, often overshadowed by...

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Ariel Sharon speaking to the media

1982 – Operation Peace for Galilee

The summer of 1982 saw a...

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Jeep Grand Wagoneer 1981

1981 – Government is the Problem

The year 1981 heralded not just...

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