Winston Churchill once said that "we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us." There is a building in Rome that may be the most literal example of what he meant...It's called the Vittoriano, or the Altar of the Fatherland, and it stands at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, which has been a centre of Roman civic and religious life for more than two and a half thousand years.Italy had been a unified country for only twenty-four years when construction began. Before 1861, the peninsula had

JUST IN: Russia’s Victory Day parade being scaled down — with no heavy military hardware. Shows how much modern conflicts are fought on perception as much as reality.Even small changes in format or presentation are used to shape perception — especially in a conflict where image and information are part of the battlefield.President Trump’s announcement of a proposed 3-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine highlights a different angle — the push for visible, structured steps toward de-escalatio