British Prime Minister Winston Churchill desperately tried to persuade United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to declare war on Germany and enter World War II. The U.S. president recognized Nazi Germany’s threat to Western civilization and U.S. interests but his intuition told him that the American people were not ready for battle. Complicating a proposed […]
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Boris Johnson liked to see himself as a modern day Winston Churchill, perhaps no more so than when he imposed the first Covid lockdown on March 23rd 2020. But in truth that was the day he failed history, says Neil Datson.
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I spent last Saturday ‘guarding’ Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square in case it was assaulted by any masked protestors carrying spray cans and Palestinian flags. Things did not turn out as I expected.
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Marshal Arthur Harris, the director of England’s Bomber Command decided, in mid-1941, to abandon the illusion of surgical strikes. Harris, nicknamed “Bomber,” mastered the ins and outs of committing war crimes from his insidious instructor, Winston Churchill. The year was 1919. The Royal Air Force asked Churchill for permission to use chemical weapons “against recalcitrant […]
In order to understand why, the nature of imperialism, and thus of all empires, needs first to be explained (especially because almost no one knows about this): Whereas a merely domestic dictatorship is no danger to other nations, an international dictatorship — or “empire” — is a danger to other nations, because every empire (i.e., […]
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Although we have produced some very good, if not potentially great, Australian Prime Ministers, as Keating indicates, there are two major factors that prohibits Australia from achieving historic greatness. It is the combination of the different national experiences and the self-perception that influences the quality of political leadership. The fact that the United States is […]
None of the above. The correct answer is Winston Churchill. In a March address to the U.S. Congress which earned him a standing ovation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, fashioning his country’s struggle against the Russians as one of good versus evil, echoed some of the rhetoric of British wartime leader Winston Churchill. The ranking Republican […]
You heard it first here, of course, from our Chief Editor and Editor, Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou, respectively, and also from me. Russia is winning. The United States, under Imposter Biden and a truly insane Congress, and aided and abetted by a woke and insane media establishment, has been gleefully sending Ukrainian soldiers to […]
Munich – The Edge Of War: glossing over the British Empireby Ian SinclairMorning Star4 February 2022 A pretty good, sometimes gripping, political thriller, the new movie Munich – The Edge Of War, based on Robert Harris’s 2017 novel, includes a couple of obvious howlers. First, the film’s Adolf Hitler is so bad it becomes comical. […]
The world needs to know the horrendous dimensions of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, and of the gross Apartheid Israeli maltreatment of 5.2 million Occupied Palestinians and in particular of the 2 million inmates of the blockaded and bombed Gaza Concentration Camp. A numbers-based summary of these ongoing atrocities will strengthen global Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions […]
