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  1. The "Big 3" of debt default

    What if the 3 most indebted countries in the 1980s- Brazil, Mexico and Argentina- defaulted at the same time? It doesn't even need to be a conspiracy, say one defaults, then the banks have to increase interests, and the other two say "to hell with it" and default. Let's say the default happens...

  2. The "Big 3" of debt default

    nevermind. I meant to post this in after 1900.

  3. AHC: Chile goes Haiti

    In the last few years, both Chile and Haiti were hit by earthquakes. Both earthquakes caused damage, but whereas the number of victims in Chile numbered in the hundreds and the nation quickly bounced back from the disaster, Haiti's earthquake caused thousand upon thousands of deaths and worsened...

  4. No 9/11 = Fight Club?

    I've always wondered whether the film Fight Club was set in what was then the near-future, or what now would be an ATL where 9/11 didn't happen. A lot of cultural commentators seem to note that American culture seemed to be sort of directionless by the late 90s, that the "End of History" was...

  5. AHC: a functioning FTAA by 2012.

    A favourite of the US foreign policy, an FTAA(Free Trade Area of the Americas) was pushed for several times, but never succeeded, for a variety of reasons. With a POD no earlier than 1990, have the entire American continent be part of a free trade area by 2012.

  6. DBWI: Bush elected in 2000

    What would happen if, in 2000, the SC handed the election to Bush rather than Gore? Would the bombings in Afghanistan in late 2001 happen, or would there have been a more direct military action? Would Bin Laden be captured earlier? Would the Earth Liberation Front and the Militia have gained as...

  7. Hirohito goes on trial and is executed in 1946.

    What do you think would happen if the US suddenly decided that the Showa emperor actually had a role in the war, put him on trial and executed him? Would that lead toan abolition of the monarchy? Or a communist revolution in the 1950s? I read a while ago that the only thing that prevented this...

  8. The 1984 miner's strike succeeds.

    What if the NMU's terribly long and ill-fated strike from 1984-1985 was way, way worse, eventually forcing Margareth Thatcher to back down? What would be needed to turn the miner's strike into a general strike from several branches of the economy? What would be the effects in the short term(for...

  9. New Year's Eve 1995: A hijacked plane destroys the Eiffel Tower.

    In New Year's Eve 1995, a group of Algerian terrorists hijacked a plane and tried to use it in a terrorist attack in Paris(I don't know a lot about it but I think they would for a big, symbolic site such as the Eiffel tower). The plane however was forced to land, and French Spec-Ops attacked and...

  10. List of G-20 members.

    Exactly what it says on the tin. List the alternate G-20 members. In case you don't know what the G-20 is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20 Let me begin: 1: Empire of Mexico 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14: 15: 16: 17: 18: 19: 20: note: the number does not necessarily mean this...

  11. An alternative to suits and ties.

    Looking at photos of international political meetings nowadays can be pretty boring. Everyone, be they African, North-American, Asian, Latin-American or European wears the same standardized black(or, if they're feeling creative, blue) suit, with a matching tie. The only oddballs are Arab sheiks...

  12. No Laissez-Faire Revolution in the 80s

    Which POD would be needed so that Keynesianism remains as the top economic "school", and is never displaced by so-called Neoliberalism in the 1980s?

  13. Clinton steps down in 1998

    What if the Monica Lewinsky scandal led to the Supreme Court ruling against Clinton in the impeachment process? for one, Al Gore would become president- but would he be a Lyndon Johnson or a Ford? Would the results of the election of 2000 have been different

  14. AHC: Bushwank

    George W. Bush is said by many to have been one of the worst presidents in the history of the United States. With a POD no earlier than... say... 1994 make him one of the best if not the best president ever.

  15. From the Jungle, comes a Revolution: a timeline.

    06/07/2000 Dear diary, We're in the middle of nowhere. Actually, more like in the middle of Nowhere, Michigan. And yet, I probably have never seen as much people as I saw today. Wait, this isn't good. I'm getting ahead of myself. I haven't wrote in here for two weeks, so now I should explain...
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