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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: Civil War

Crimean Parliament votes joining Russian federation, referendum in 10 days might significantly escalate crisis

 While the news flow focuses on what the US or EU leaders did or did not do to prevent the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the crisis suddenly deepened with the Crimean Parliament’s announcement that this autonomous province of Ukraine will join the Russian Federation.…

Improvised DIY weapons of Libyan civil war turn the movie Mad Max into reality (video)

Al Jazeera filed this video report on the DYI armament mini factories set up by the Libyan rebels in Misrata. Improvisation is the name of the game and some contraptions are truly dumbfounding. My favorite: the pick up truck mounted airplane rocket…

The 150th anniversary of the Civil War: A Tribute to the Past and to the Present (video)

With the recently passed April 14 anniversary of the Fort Sumter occupation by the Confederates we have entered a period of four years of remembering the 150th anniversary of the many and bloody Civil War battles. The memory of the 600,000 dead…