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Well, if individuals were not killed at the hands of the Arab armies in 1948/49, they were either captured for interment (before being ejected into the Mediterranean), or decided to board boats in rushed attempts to escape to Cyprus, Greece, or Turkey (with a few also fleeing north into...

The period between 1939 and 1949 is termed by Jews of TTL as 'the Shoah' or the 'Ten-Year Crisis' due to the Holocaust and (later) the expulsions and massacres they experienced at the hands of the Arab armies. Despite the large number of Jews that were forced out of Palestine post-1948/49, there...

With the exception of Zimbabwe, Cuba, and Somalia (as strange as that is to say), 'semi-democratic' is probably the best word to describe them - because in spite of how high they've been rated on TTL's Democratic Index, countries like China, Egypt, and Iran still have some major problems...

If any readers are still interested, I'm going to return to this sometime in the near future - having to study has really precluded me writing any updates recently. Until then, I've decided to make a few maps detailing some sort of aspect about this world (HDI, economic power, etc.) to help...

In that case, surely 1960 fits the bill.

You really love your multiparty systems, don't you Gonzo.

Thanks - personally, I feel that Perot had few opportunities to come-out on top 1992 (despite his early popularity; many of the votes he ultimately received were after-all just 'protest votes'). As such, I feel ~25% of voters is about as good as he could have performed, had he stayed in. Yup...

A GOREY DECADE - PART I The announcement that Albert Arnold Gore Jr. was running for the Democratic nomination in 1992 took very few people by surprise when he finally declared his intention to run for that year's presidential election in the May of 1991. A strong, moderate, southern contender...

Please be Gore, please be Gore, please be Gore, please be Gore...

Good eye, I've been waiting for someone to pick up on it. You're right in that the metric system was actually implemented in America in TTL; steps were first taken under the administration of George H. W. Bush (1969-73), though full implementation didn't occur until the Carson, Williams, and...

Current Affairs Posted on July 24, 2015 by WillWaller2012 Well, I'm back; after sweltering in Georgia's 35° weather for almost half-a-week, I managed to drive back to the relative 'coolness' of Alabama (and it's 90% humidity) to finally give a blog update on what's actually happened over the...

Oh, they reacted, and much faster than the rest of the international community; in mid-August amidst news of the atrocities being brought by Catholic officials within Central Africa (many of whom attempted to protect Muslims against militias and the military), Pope Leo XIV called upon Christians...

Again, there's no 'official' blog update today, though I hope to get one out by the end of next week (if classes don't consume me by then that is). Instead, here's another news article hopefully providing some deeper understanding and context to the world of TTL; though I apologise if anybody...

THE 'HITLER OF AFRICA' DIES 20 June 2015, 10:53 GMT From the International Journal Online Former Central African President Marcel Marace has been found dead in his cell in The Hague after an apparent suicide attempt Known the 'Butcher of Central Africa' and the 'Hitler of Africa', the former...

Speculation, Speculation, Speculation Posted on July 18, 2015 by WillWaller2012 Alright, I have about three hours before a meeting over in Montgomery this afternoon, and since I'm going to be visiting my parents in Georgia right afterwards for about half-a-week (and trust me when I say they're...

Undoubtedly; a few places are much better than OTL, a few are much worse. Of course, whether America is worse here depends on your point of view; if the narrator were to see OTL, he'd probably say our America is slightly better than his. With regards to Carson; while I'd made it clear that he...

See here; Whilst they have their own internal struggles, serious issues relating to corruption, as well as a complex (and frankly byzantine) method of selecting their president, China is nevertheless a fully-fledged democratic state, and has been since the 1990's; it's democratisation partly...

I've decided to do something a little different today; whilst I'm going to continue the blog posts, I've decided that the foreign events not touched-upon by the narrator can instead be touched-upon by myself in the form of news segments, stories, etc. on a semi-regular basis. I hope it doesn't...

Chinese President to Hong King: "A deal must be reached by 2016" Diana Mulley in Nanjing Posted on 7 July 2015, by The Guardian Coming off the back of several years of unsuccessful negotiations between the Autonomous Region of Hong Kong and the Chinese government in Nanjing, President Huang...

One Month Anniversary; or, to Kill a President Posted on July 16, 2015 by WillWaller2012 Well, here it is; my one-month anniversary since I first started this blog and I have to say, a lot has happened over the past month, hasn't it (at least in the United States). Despite the fact that we're...