Winston Churchill

The People Who Were Burned to Ashes on Ash WednesdayBy Michael Hoffman • Copyright©2018Dresden, Germany, February, 1945It was Shrove Tuesday, 1945 in the magnificent German art city of Dresden, which was packed with helpless Christian refugees fleeing the Red Army of the Stalinist USSR.

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Nancy Ohanian drew Bernie tooDid you know that when Trump meets with foreign leaders, he has a map of the U.S. showing his electoral college win over Hillary Clinton to present. Bernie did something similar today-- and, at the same time, quite the opposite. He very effectively linked foreign policy with a domestic agenda in the context of massive worldwide inequality.

Retrieved from the memory hole: British intervention in Greece in the 1940s
by Ian Sinclair
Open Democracy
19 June 2017

Last week's general election in the U.K. didn't quite go the way Prime Minister Theresa May and her Tory party had hoped, with Jeremy…
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Cette formule qui a fait date, est de l’écrivain français Anatole France. Elle est tirée d’une tribune du même nom, parue dans l’Humanité le 18 juillet 1922 pour dénoncer dans un bilan rétrospectif, l’absurdité de la Première Guerre mondiale. L’écrivain renommé est alors prix Nobel depuis quelques mois. Voici ce qu’il y écrit :

On a recent visit to Paris almost everyone I met asked me the same question: “Are you British insane? Are you really going to vote to leave the European Union?”
Based on the most recent polls, despite the deep scepticism of those same surveys after the last General Election, I could only answer: “It looks that way.”
Cue disbelieving looks, gasps and snorts of Gallic derision, often followed by the words: “You can always come and live here.”

teleSUR | February 12, 2016 Professing one’s love for Winston Churchill, the British prime minister during World War II, is shorthand in U.S. politics for: “I think killing Nazis was good.” Churchill is a pugnacious old man with a cigar in his mouth, more an inspirational poster—”Never Give In”—than a real human being, with all […]

Amid today’s Churchillian parades and celebratory speeches, British media and schoolbooks may choose to only remember Churchill’s opposition to dictatorship in Europe, but the rest of the world cannot choose to forget Churchill’s imposition of dictatorship on darker skinned people outside of Europe. Far from being the Lionheart of Britain, who stood on the ramparts of civilisation, Winston Churchill, all too often, simply stood on the wrong side of history.

By Elliot Murphy | CounterPunch | December 17, 2015 This year marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, which is almost universally seen in Britain as purely a war against the Nazis and their UK-bound warplanes. Unlike the First World War or the wars in Indochina and Iraq, the Second […]