![The Birth and History of English [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/beowulf.gif)
The English language has reached far beyond England, the place where English developed into the language we know today. It has become the medium of communication for air traffic controllers, the glue that holds India and former African colonies together as well as being a tongue that is as etymologically more international than Esperanto. It [...]
![Kim Jong Il – The Forbidden Biography [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/North-Korea-new-banknote_3_2010.jpg)
When Kim Jong il commissioned his biographies, they usually portray him as a genius who got a Phd before he was out of diapers, or a gold medal champion inboxing, tennis and chess, when he is not busy composing poetry in 74 languages.It would all be very funny, if he didn’t bring starvation and terror [...]
![The Real Cuba Behind the Health Care Myths [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Cuban-stamp.jpg)
Cuba has gotten a lot of favourable press concerning its health care system. Training doctors from underprivileged backgrounds around the world for free in Cuba has also earned them a lot of good will. In reality, the quality of care received by ordinary Cubans is not the same as in some of the showcase clinics. [...]
Well After the end of World War Two, the image France projected of itself was that of an occupied nation, one that fought valiantly against German occupation. In reality, wide sectors of French society collaborated with the Germans, who were able to exploit divisions and rifts in French society to put together cadre of collaborators [...]
![Whicker’s World Looks At the Summer of Love In 1967 [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/SummerOfLove2007_0506.jpg)
Alan Whicker is a universally known figure on British television. He is most commonly associated with Whicker’s World, a program that explores a single topic in depth for about 45 minutes such as a visit with a dictator or a visit to places as diverse as Hell’s Kitchen a remote jungle. Whicker’s World, which ran [...]
![Documentary of the Day: Daily Life In Pompeii [Video, Parental Discretion Advised]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/pompeii-body1-768x1024.jpg)
As an American, I am not familiar with British television in any great detail. It was only because of a story about a British television reviewer that I became aware of Mary Beard, a University of Cambridge professor who presents archaeology and ancient history to mass audiences. The television reviewer, AA Gill, suggested that [...]
![Documentary of the Day: “Worse Than War” [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tuol_sleng_sign.jpg)
In the twentieth century and beyond, more people have been killed through genocide than have been killed through war. From Rwanda to Cambodia, from Soviet Russia to Nazi Germany to the Congo andTurkey, conflicts in which civilian non combatants are reclassified as pestilential scourges is accompanied by a body count that dwarfs that of conventional [...]
![Songs Around The World For Obama’s “Forward” Campaign Slogan [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/forward3.png)
Was President Obama aware of the history of his “Forward” campaign slogan? “Forverts” was, of course the name for a Yiddish language American socialist newspaper that used to have “Workers of the World Unite” as its campaign slogan. L’Avanti (Forward) was also the name of the Italian Socialist Party Newspaper. The German socialists also had [...]
![Holodomor, Genocide of Ukrainians By Famine [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/holodomor-3.jpg)
It was with a troubled mix of emotions that I viewed the comments on this video, which deals with the forced famine in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. Among the comments was a virulent hatred of Jews, and the expressed belief that they were responsible for communism and for the man made famine that [...]
![In Honour Of Israel On Its 64th Birthday [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Israel-Flag.jpg)
Between survivors of the Holocaust and the million Jews expelled from Arab lands, Israel has for 64 years been a place of refuge for Jews who had no other place to go, as well as Jews who returned to Israel out of idealism.Rabbi Berel Wein put together the following documentary about the State of Israel. [...]
