A rare find of a stone bearing engravings of runes that date back to the Middle Ages has been unearthed recently at an excavation near Oslo. The relic ...
Read More »Norwegian Vikings Cultivated Cannabis
On a secluded Iron Age farm in Southern Norway, archaeological findings show that it was common to cultivate cannabis in the Viking Age. The question is how the ...
Read More »First Genetic Proof of a Viking Age Warrior Woman is Identified from an Iconic Swedish Grave
“Then the high-born lady saw them play the wounding game, she resolved on a hard course and flung off her cloak; she took a naked sword and fought ...
Read More »Bitcoin Will Be Safe Haven During Next Stock Market Crash, Says Expert
By Gareth Jenkinson As Bitcoin powered ahead to a new high for a second week in a row, some have speculated that institutional investors could seek safe haven ...
Read More »Pet a Rat and Sip Coffee at SF’s New Rodent Cafe
It’s an authentic big city experience Somebody call the health department: A squeal-inducing, bizarro version of the cat café trend, a new pop-up called The Black Rat Café, ...
Read More »Pepe Escobar: The Spanish Civil War, revisited
By PEPE ESCOBAR OCTOBER 12, 2017 7:05 PM (UTC+8) Puigdemont’s political twist could invoke a lethal response from Madrid: suspension of Catalonia’s government Call it theatre of the ...
Read More »Russia to Go Fully Digital With the CryptoRuble Cryptocurrency
October 18, 2017 by Akshay Makadiya Russia is going full blown cryptocurrency. Today, October 18, president Vladimir Putin has given the green light for the government to start ...
Read More »Afghanistan: It’s the Heroin, Stupid
PEPE ESCOBAR | 29.09.2016 | OPINION Here we go again. In yet another Pentagon precision strike, a residential building in Achin district of Nangarhar province was hit as ...
Read More »Pepe Escobar: It’s All a Russia/Al-Qaeda/WikiLeaks/«Rogue» FBI Plot
PEPE ESCOBAR | 08.11.2016 | OPINION Among the House of Cards-infested cliffhangers that defined the «circus is in town» US election (to quote Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan’s ...
Read More »Pepe Escobar: Is There a US-Russia Grand Bargain in Syria? Kurds Sign Declaration on Creating Federal Region in Northern Syria
Convincing explanations for the (partial) Russian withdrawal from Syria are readily available. What matters is that the Khmeimim air base and the naval base in Tartus remain untouched. ...
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