Khamenei’s been busy today with his Twitter, highlighting the details of this essay posted at his website: “U.S.’s failures in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon are signs of God’s promise.” A brief, important excerpt:
“ِAt this event, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces delivered a speech wherein he stressed that preventing the formation of an Islamic power in Southwestern Asia is what the U.S. and the Zionist Regime seek, adding: “They know that the fascinating message of Islam is defending the oppressed and the underprivileged; thus, they fear the formation of a power based on Islam.”
Many don’t know Iran has a significant Jewish population, which helps explain this friendly greeting.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 9 2018 18:15 utc | 4

Breaking News on RT: US using white phosphorus in Syria
https://www.rt.com/news/438008-us-strikes-syria-white-phosphorus/

Posted by: spudski | Sep 9 2018 18:27 utc | 6

@Anton Worter
What ‘German field commanders’ were these, then? Every assessment I’ve ever read is clear that the turning point was when the invasion of the USSR ground to a halt. The Battle of Britain is rather meaningless, since it’s extremely doubtful Germany would have been able to launch any kind of substantial, successful seaborne invasion even if they controlled the skies.

Posted by: Merasmus | Sep 9 2018 18:46 utc | 8

@7 jr.. i have remained unconvinced of the chem attack scenario, however if it happens my astro says wednesday night or thursday at the latest is when it will happen.. in fact, that is a good window of time for it to happen..

Posted by: james | Sep 9 2018 19:16 utc | 10

USA fire-bombing Deir Ezzor with Banned White Phosphorus
Two F-15 jets on Saturday bombed the town of Hajin with white phosphorus incendiary munitions, banned under the Geneva Convention, according to the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria.
https://www.rt.com/news/
438008-us-strikes-syria-white-phosphorus/

Posted by: fast freddy | Sep 9 2018 19:37 utc | 12

Yesterday I clicked a link to Al-Masdar News from Canthama’s twitter feed. The story was about Kurdish forces ambushing Syrian troops which had previously denied US troops passage through a checkpoint. Anyhow, I was careless with the cursor when scrolling and was immediately hit with malware. Just a warning to be careful.

Posted by: spudski | Sep 9 2018 19:45 utc | 14

date wise that is the evening of the 12th, or morning of the 13th..

Posted by: james | Sep 9 2018 19:52 utc | 16

@ David | 9
Re: “Does anybody know what happened to the Moon of Alabama logo and the Brecht quote?”
This laptop runs on Windows 8.1 (yeah, I know), and I use the Pale Moon browser. I can see the MOA logo and Brecht quote at the top of the page, i.e. as usual. I don’t remember it disappearing recently, but I suppose I might have simply failed to notice.
I don’t know why you’re not seeing them, but I hope this helps.

Posted by: Ort | Sep 9 2018 20:11 utc | 18

Pat Lang starts to wake up:

At some point even the most ardent Trump acolyte will have to admit this [Syria] is now Trump’s policy. It is not something done by the neocons, the deep state, the anonymous resister or the ghost of John McCain without Trump’s acquiescence. [And] He is not … clueless, oblivious …

Pat is half right.
I’ve been saying for over a year that Trump is the Republican Obama. He is a faux populist front man.
Just like “Obamabots”, “Trumptard” apologists blame hardliners for the failings of their hero. It’s all a game. It’s part of the faux populist political model. Faux populists SERVE THE ESTABLISHMENT so they destined to betray their ‘base’.
There are two other fallacies that keep cropping up to confuse things:

1) Triumph of Democracy
While some may recognize that USA is no longer a democracy, others continue to insist that “Trump won” and are incline to suspect Russian interference (even while acknowledging the flaws in that theory). Few care to delve much deeper (i.e. engage brain cells).
2) President’s Constitutional power
You see this mistake made as Pat Lang declares that Trump ‘owns’ the Syrian mess now. The President has great power in the US Constitutional system and (sadly) that is why it is so important to the establishment that it be controlled. Trump was SELECTED, not ELECTED.

Party and Personality are the masks used to keep us divided and maintain the illusion of democracy.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Sep 9 2018 20:21 utc | 20

Garrie’s Twitter explains why the EuraisaFuture website was attacked and forced offline. Seems he’s teamed with George Galloway to do a series of articles called “The History Boys,” which initially looks into how WW1’s result led to WW2–a thesis that’s pretty mainstream.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 9 2018 20:26 utc | 22

Merkel want to illegally bomb Syria like her puppetmaster Trump
Germany May Join Possible Western Airstrikes on Syria – Reports
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809091067884784-germany-may-join-western-airstrikes-damascus/

Posted by: Zanon | Sep 9 2018 20:32 utc | 24

Thanks ‘b’ the inclusion here of the world war 2 topic, hopefully will be usefull back ground information when we finally get to grips with the topic of ‘ present day nazi Germany’ and ditto Presant day nazi Europe !
This overlooked subject will be the end of the world as we know it ! Within the next two years.

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 9 2018 20:49 utc | 26

Canthama suggests reading this twitter thread on Syria even if you think you know everything.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 9 2018 21:02 utc | 28

Haunted by the horrors of Cast Lead
The Electronic Intifada: “The clock was approaching 11:30 in the morning. For children in Gaza, it was the last day in school before a new year holiday. The bell was due to ring shortly.
At 11:27 am on 27 December 2008, Gaza was bombarded by Israeli warplanes. Instead of the anticipated school bell, the children heard the horrifying sound of bombs.
Operation Cast Lead – which began that day – was Israel’s most comprehensive onslaught on Gaza in decades. Israel used its air force, navy, infantry and artillery against a population that already had a long experience of being under military occupation and, more recently, under siege.
By the end of the offensive more than three weeks later, Israel had committed numerous massacres and used phosphorous bombs to target heavily populated areas and even shelled United Nations schools and the main UN food aid warehouse.
In 23 days, Israel killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 1,100 civilians, of whom 326 were children and 111 were women. It also injured about 5,300, some of whom remain disabled to this very day, and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes.”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/haunted-horrors-cast-lead/22996

Posted by: Aras | Sep 9 2018 21:24 utc | 30

Actually no, we didn’t Win the Second World War. We started it, but, thanks to our weakness and shortage of cash had to hand it over to the USA and the USSR half way through.

I hope this is a joke. As by that b joins realm of Alex Johns hallucinations.
British did not start the WWII although they declared war on Germany September 3, 1939 before Germany reciprocated. But author is blind to historical truth that British were obligated by mutual security Treaty to defend Poland, hence decision was made under legal binding of treaty not an attack on Germany that never happened, no single British bomb fell on German territory until Brits were attacked in 1940 on. Brits although facilitated war by their inept politics they did not start WWII, Hitler knew he started WWII. The only question is, why Brits did not reneged on this treaty even if they did not commence any hostile activities against Germany for next eight months or so way after Poland was defeated, why not lay off and forget about it,
It is simple it was Pact of Ribbentrop Molotov signed barely few days before attack on Poland, which was a shock for British and French elites as earlier Hitler was declaring himself as anti-Soviet crusader, and remembering WWI and knowing that combined natural resources of Russia and German war industry spells their own quick defeat.
The declaration of war against Germany by France and Brits was a warning to Hitler to split from Stalin and return to his original mission of attacking and killing communist Russia. What he did in 1941.
French and British did not want war as in entire 1939 French alone had at least five to one advantage over German troops (10 : 1 wif Brits joined ) vast advantage in every type of weapons on western front as German army was engaged East in Poland, they did nothing as they waited for Hitler to drop Pact with Stalin.
Instead he attacked France in 1940 at this point US, earlier supporter of Hitler switched to political neutral and after Hitler failed to win Battle of England started to support Brits meaningfully. Perhaps his defeat and US engagement prompted Hitler to return to attacking USSR in another twist shocking for Stalin that after 1939 massively increased trade with Germany especially exports of fuel as well as cooperation in MIC of both countries. Stalin thought that after England, Hitler will end the war and seek peace on his terms with the west.
He was so shocked (also he killed most competent generals in 1938) that for weeks German Army advanced unopposed about 50 miles a day while rail transports of oil and other commodities for export From Russia to Germany contunued for days while brutal war raged.
The fact is there were two winners of WII Stalin ( while Soviets lost 30 millions) and US banking oligarchy, everybody else lost.
British Empire was effectively deateated via after war bankruptcy and collapsed in following 20 years by join effort of US and USSR during war struggle.

Posted by: Kalen | Sep 9 2018 21:58 utc | 32

Posted by: vk | Sep 9, 2018 3:51:48 PM | 13
Any calculations of the Nazi economy were the calculations of a war economy. If they had concentrated on consumption they would have made it out of the depression like everybody else.
The war needed oil and there were many ways to get it.
Germany synthezised oil from coal, but there were also imports from Romania and Austria.
There is speculation that the US and Britain could have finished the war much earlier by bombing German refineries but did not do so in order to weaken Stalin.
The thirst for oil was a consequence of war not the reason for it. Stalin would have sold Germany all the oil it needed – cheaply, just to keep it in the Hitler-Stalin pact. Germany – and Austria – were ruled by a military caste obsessed with colonizing the east. They had not realized the strategic stupidity of the First World War, they did not realize the strategic stupidity of the Second.

Posted by: somebody | Sep 9 2018 22:04 utc | 34

charles highams book Trading With the Enemy: An exposé of the Nazi-American money …
is all you need if you are interested in who provided the aviation fuel for nazi and britain during ww2
who owned and got paid for the synthetic oil from coal
who provided the lead neaded for military vehicles
funny old world

Posted by: norman normal | Sep 9 2018 22:27 utc | 36

add to 31/32
Soviet-German trade agreement of 1939

This agreement served two purposes. First, it brought two complementary economies closer together. To support its war economy, Germany needed raw materials—oil, manganese, grains, and wood. The Soviet Union needed manufactured products—machines, tools, optical equipment, and weapons. Although the USSR had slightly more room to maneuver and a somewhat superior bargaining position, neither country had many options for receiving such materials elsewhere. Subsequent economic agreements in 1940 and 1941, therefore, focused on the same types of items.

The Soviet Union did supply oil to Germany, and – of course – stopped supplying when Germany went to war.
Germany did not invade the Soviet Union for oil. They had already got it.
Germany was ruled by this mad East-Elbian military caste obsessed with owning eastern colonies. Germany had been late with industrialization (an advantage), they were late with colonizing. There was nothing rational about it as the time for the occupation of colonies was over. Britain and France lost most of them after the war, and the US inherited Vietnam.

Posted by: somebody | Sep 9 2018 22:54 utc | 38

22
Along with the USA, Germany was instrumental in the destruction of Yugoslavia.
32
That Germany was trading with Mexico for oil explains why Mexico has German-built railroads dating back to that period. See for example the old railway from Chihuahua to Copper Canyon aka Las Barrancas Del Cobre.

Posted by: fast freddy | Sep 9 2018 23:12 utc | 40

b,
David @9

Does anybody know what happened to the Moon of Alabama logo and the Brecht quote? They’ve been broken for a few days now. b hasn’t uploaded copies?

You are not alone in this. I can see the Brecht quote, but not the MoA logo. Additionally, when perusing some other articles some images where missing. I see this issue on all browsers on my Mac.
Checking my browser console, I see this error: “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)”. (Safari, Opera; Firefox doesn’t flag any error, but doesn’t display the image)

Posted by: Philippe | Sep 9 2018 23:32 utc | 42

Anton Worter @33
Goring wanted to prove what air power could do.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Sep 9 2018 23:43 utc | 44

@ Posted by: somebody | Sep 9, 2018 6:04:01 PM | 31
@ Posted by: somebody | Sep 9, 2018 6:54:18 PM | 34
@ Posted by: Pft | Sep 9, 2018 7:04:58 PM | 35
The first and most elemental error people usually commit when judging past historical events is something called “anachronism”: when you project the reality of one world (usually, your own times) to the analysed event.
All those comments (and much more here) commit this simple, but easily avoidable, mistake.
1) the world in end of 1930s to the beginning of the 1940s was a world where there were only, for mass exports purposes, three sources of oil: the USA (by far the largest producer and exporter of oil at the time), Venezuela and the Soviet Union in a distant third place. The ME — believe it or not — produced and exported oil at the time, but it was very little: those vast reserves still weren’t discovered and/or were not economically viable at the time (political turnmoil included among these factors). Yes, Romania produced some oil and exported it, but even it was not nearly close enough to satisfying German needs.
The USSR, at the time, did produce oil in respectable quantities, and exported it to the Germans — but it still wasn’t nearly enough to satisfy both countries’ needs. Germany, even with Soviet oil, was incurring chronic deficits in oil — speciallly because it was expanding its Armed Forces first then everybody else.
So, as you can see, the world was a very different place than today. The oil powers of now were not the oil powers of then.
Documentation is clear: Germany had to start a war with the USSR in June 1941. German oil would end in September 1941 (at least that’s what they thought at the time). Situation was so critical that Operation Barbarossa actually doesn’t have any objective: aim was just to “get to the Caucasus” and then see what they would do from there (even if they had gone until Baku, the USSR would still have the south and eastern Caspian Sea as routes for their oil; Persia, future Iran, was at their side during the war).
2) there was no “special relationship” back then. There was simply no guarantee the British would get unlimited American aid. Hitler calculated the British might be reasonable. And documents really prove the British government almost surrendered after the shock of Dunkirk. British soldiers who survived are documented to have thought the war was already over.
Even in 1945, the USA was still very suspicious of the UK, to the point it denied it access to the atomic bomb. Things begun to get even more tense after Churchill actually lost the elections of 1946, giving place to Clement Attlee, the social-democrat. At the time, people weren’t sure a bipolar world would be born; spectation was that it would be a multipolar world, as it was in the interwar period. It was only after 1947 in the earliest that it became clear a bipolar world would take place.

Posted by: vk | Sep 10 2018 0:37 utc | 46

Completely off any topic, there’s a new Russian documentary just released by Masterskaya Movie Company about Moscow. I’m 10 minutes into it and so far it’s great. It’s very well made, and seems focused on the rapid growth and development happening there, as well as the touches of old and ancient that one finds in old cities:
Megapolis: Ground-Breaking Documentary on the Growing Pains of Moscow, Europe’s Largest City
There’s a grip that comes from living in a big city and especially a great one. I suspect it would be easy to fall in love with Moscow, and become as crazy as the other 12 million people living there.

Posted by: Grieved | Sep 10 2018 0:52 utc | 48

b,
metadata for the uk police photos show the airport pix used micro$oft photo editing app back on may 3rd. check the direct download buttons at the police site pages and ignore the html embed.
cctv1 cctv2
fotoforensics site just pulled them directly from those download links (copied from fotoforensics)
cctv1
Creator Tool Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384
Create Date 2018:05:03 18:43:50.00
Date/Time Original 2018:05:03 18:43:50.00
Image Size 695×363
Megapixels 0.252
cctv2
Creator Tool Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384
Create Date 2018:05:03 13:46:30.00
Date/Time Original 2018:05:03 13:46:30.00
Image Size 692×366
Megapixels 0.253
full report at fotoforensics on cctv1
full report at fotoforensics on cctv2
i still don’t buy the simultaneous timestamp explanation.

Posted by: photofour | Sep 10 2018 1:02 utc | 50

As previously in Ghouta and Aleppo, some reports currently of US/UK ‘advisors’being trapped in Idlib. Does anyone know anything more about this? What was the result of these allegations previously?

Posted by: adamski | Sep 10 2018 1:56 utc | 52

@42 jackrabbit
The wall st journal alleges, in that link that according to an anonymous source, trump is considering attacking Russian or Iranian troops not just in the event of a chem attack or massacre in Idlib.
A story from an anonymous source late on Sunday (a time with low media viewership) means someone is testing the waters hoping the Russians and Iranians will back down but giving themselves an option to deny it if things go badly. It could just be a neocon putting sh*t out there or trump himself. In any case this is very desperate and dangerous. But it might indicate the reality that the US has no real option to stop the liberation of idlib so they are escalating threats

Posted by: Alaric | Sep 10 2018 2:04 utc | 54

james, Alaric
I think you got the wrong impression. I’m not commenting on the accuracy of the reporting. That’s why I gave the additional info that it was from an unnamed official BUT from a major MSM outfit.
I replied specifically to james @8 because the report (if true) would fit his astral timeline (even though I’m not a believer in astrology LOL).
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Whether you believe it or not (I have some reservations also), the report is consistent with warnings USA has made and with Russia’s military build-up (they seem to have not dismissed USA as a paper tiger like some at MoA).
Here’s my logic, FWIW:

1) FUKUS has committed themselves to taking some sort of action is there is a CW attack of any kind. As a result, the jihadis will almost certainly conduct one.
2) If Idlib is liberated, FUKUS has much less justification for remaining in Syria. And direct confrontation with R+6 is possible.
3) The only way that FUKUS can prevent R+6 from taking Idlib is to convince Turkey to enter Idlib for humanitarian reasons.
4) The price for Erdogan to enter Idlib is high and INCLUDES demonstrable military support from FUKUS – that means a willingness by FUKUS to take military action.
5) FUKUS proves their commitment to support Erdogan’s movement into Idlib with a strong response to any CW ‘incident’.

SAA and Russia can defeat 50-70,000 jihadis but they can’t take Idlib if Turkey (backed by FUKUSI) opposes them. Would Russia start WWIII over Idlib? FUKUSI/NATO might well bet that Putin will not.
The scariest game of chicken since the Cuban missile crisis is developing. Yet Westerners are mostly in the dark and pro-Russia “analysts” just believe in the magic of Putin and the inevitable defeat of AZW Empire. LOL.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Sep 10 2018 2:57 utc | 56

Money. Finance. Currency.
The Keiser Report has a very upbeat show today on RT, in which they celebrate how the NYT has finally come round to reporting the truth about US fracking, in ways that Max and Stacy were reporting 9 years ago.
Fracking has indeed produced oil and gas, but the fields deplete rapidly without massive additional investment. Only the zero-interest rates of the Fed’s Quantitative Easing could have financed the fracking boom – without QE, US oil and gas would not even exist on the world’s radar.
And yet Neocons are taking the US production of hydrocarbons as a major plank in their platform of war, building castles in the air from a mythical “energy supremacy” and treating current production levels as a weapon of war – but the economics of this relatively minor industry will shut it down soon.
In the second half of the 30-minute show, Max interviews Wolf Richter and they discuss Argentina mostly. It’s a rapid and valuable overview of how the US Hegemon deals with its favorite suckers south of the border, and how currencies and bonds work – and also why the IMF acts only to bail out investors and bond-holders, and never the real economy of the victim nation.
Fracking financial crisis lurking (Keiser E1277)

Posted by: Grieved | Sep 10 2018 3:27 utc | 58

“See for example the old railway from Chihuahua to Copper Canyon aka Las Barrancas Del Cobre.”
Get off at Creel, and take a public transport to Guachochic, then on to the logging
settlement of Turuachi; then catch a two-seater for scenic Sierra Madre flight to Parral.

Posted by: Guerrero | Sep 10 2018 4:01 utc | 60

Grieved @50
I said something similar to your quote from the link a couple of days ago. Its part of the show
Frankly the whole Trump show is psyops theater. While the show is going on in public, in the the wrecking crew in the shadows is working to dismantle every aspect of government that works for the benefit of the population, whats left of it anyways.
I remember the Watergate hearings. They dared to interrupt soap operas which allowed me to grab the TV from my mother some summer afternoons and I found it more entertaining than the 50’s shows in UHF stations. Pure entertainment. Maybe we see something similar soon to liven up the show
Of course this time they might give us a civil war to have an excuse to declare martial law.
Cant really predict these things though . Stay tuned.

Posted by: Pft | Sep 10 2018 4:30 utc | 62

karlof1 @26
Very interesting. Thanks!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Sep 10 2018 5:00 utc | 64

The TR3B spycraft propulsion system and ancient Vimana’s quantum propulsion.
Here is a temple carving in India:
“A 1200 Year Old Vimana – Alien Flying Machine?”
Phenomenal Travel Videos: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rym865DWWrI
The author of the video has also been participating in “Ancient Aliens” TV Series.
Here is what the carving depictsand is not documented in the video.
A man/woman with a portable flying machine straped on his/her back.
An aparratus that works as a radar device, that holds with hisher left hand.
A navigation device that holds with his/her right hand and holds it in contact with his/her skull that acts like a neural link, putting the pilot in a dream state and uses the pilots actual limbic system in the brain to transmit information from the radar looking device in his left hand and possibly also from the flight device straped on his/her back.
This way this flying apparatus needs no other analog or electronic components and delivers information directly to pilot’s brain for height, orientation, environment, flightpath etc.
It is a portable “Vimana”.
Why did I post this.
I yesterday saw an interesting article in Sputniknews:
“TR3B Monitoring: Triangular Object above Texas”
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201809091067875311-triangular-object-texas-spy-craft/
and remembered a research I was doing on the internet about the Manta Ray (Black Manta) actually being real or not before some years.
Yes there is a chance it is indeed real and here is how its propulsion works:
First I will post another video link:
“Ancient Vimana recreated” (also from Phenomenal Travel videos channel.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UNt_Ye51WDk
This 3d object has a history.
It is not real, it is indeed a hoax from an movie artistic department team (by all posibilities) but it depicts some probably real technology, that was discovered somewhere, maybe India, China, Afghanistan, Europe, Russia, who knows, or was part of the Nazi research and US developed the TR3B propulsion from this.
It doesn’t work probably like it is displayed on the video, it ought to work like a mechanical/electrical stator and creates a luminus magnetic vortex inside it that behaves as a rotor, if you are familiar with triphase electrical motors. The vortex employs something similar to sonoluminesence, (sound vibration applied in water that creates a luminus aura)
This is why the “black triangle” craft employs these strange lights.
Now the really strange part of this technology.
It wasn’t suppose to be working like normal combustion engines or electrical motors etc. The enveloping magnetic/electrical fields actually react to human thought and it makes this technology unstable for dedicated use, especially military. In other words you can disrupt the mechanical cycle of the propulsion with your mere thought patterns. This means the vehicle is distabilized or other properties in use are disrupted, like being “invisible” to the eye. It briefly becomes visible or and appears to be changing shape/structure which in reality is not but if is affectd by the quantum properties of the field it is enveloped with the earthly physical quantum stream/field the magnetic rotor generated field “swims” through. They “desynchronize”.

Posted by: Greece | Sep 10 2018 7:29 utc | 66

It was late 1943 and Churchill was upset because the Yanks had nixed his pet project Operation Thunderclap, the one that aimed to kill 275,000 Berliners in one single 2,000-plane raid.
As a consolation he asked Roosevelt for a supply of anthrax bombs that would be used to wipe out the population of Germany’s six biggest cities. Again Roosevelt refused, but he offered a glittering alternative:
The Dugway Villages:
https://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/ut/ut0500/ut0568/data/ut0568data.pdf
Excerpt: “Dugway was a high-security testing facility for chemical and biological weapons. The purpose of the replicas of German homes, which were repeatedly rebuilt after being intentionally burned down, was to perfect tactics in the fire bombing of German residential areas. In order to build a facility that was an authentic reproduction, studies were conducted to determine which materials and furnishings available in the U.S would closely match those in use in Germany. A group of German-American architects including Eric Mendelsohn and Konrad Wachsmann, were employed to design the facility.
To ensure that the fires spread as realistically as possible, typical German home-interiors were included, and the wood was periodically doused to simulate conditions in the more humid German climate.
According to the official document no effort was spared. The “German” architects used their knowledge of their former country to design the buildings and contents in such detail that even children’s toys were included.
The houses had to be built, burnt, built and burnt, again and again.
But it was vital that no kids escape lest they grow up to be Nazis. At last the happy day arrived and the go-ahead was given to drop the bombs on the by now virtually undefended cities. The net result was that within a year more than 40% of German housing stock had been destroyed and up to half a million defenceless men, women and children slaughtered.
Can you just imagine going to work in that facility?
Every day you asked yourself practical questions like “how do we get the fire to spread spread quickly enough so that a mother doesn’t have time to reach her baby in the cot?”

Posted by: Aras | Sep 10 2018 9:55 utc | 68

Churchill declared in 1914:
“I know this war is smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment — and yet — I cannot help it — I love every second I live.”[23]
By 1919, “four months after Germany had accepted an armistice and laid down her arms,” Churchill again declared, “We are enforcing the blockade with rigour, and Germany is very near starvation.” [24]
There is more: “When the Kaiser requested permission to buy 2.5 million tons of food, Churchill denied the request because his aim, in his own words was to “starve the whole population — men, women and children, old and young, wounded and sound — into submission.” [25]
When all was said and done, about 863,000 Germans died of starvation during World War I. Churchill was largely responsible for this. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. Roosevelt allied with this man and even Stalin to commit more crimes during World War II.”
[23] Quoted in Ralph Raico, Great Wars & Great Leaders (Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010), 101.
See also E. Michael Jones, Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict Between Labor and Usury (South Bend: Fidelity Press, 2014), 1210.
[24] Jones, Barren Metal, 1211.
[25] Ibid

Posted by: Aras | Sep 10 2018 11:05 utc | 70

Posted by: vk | Sep 9, 2018 8:37:02 PM | 48
Well if Germany could buy oil from the Soviet Union, it was completely irrational to go to – a much more expensive – war for it that would have needed even more oil.
There is nothing inevitable about history, there are always other routes that could have been taken.
The “inevitable” was created by the mindset (and the stupidity) of the actors.

Posted by: somebody | Sep 10 2018 11:17 utc | 72

Grieved 57
Nixon moved US to the petro dollar and resigned before being impeached. Trump is the next major change after Nixon and is trying to move US from the petrodollar hegemony to Energy dominance monopoly. Nixon an Kissinger got their move through, but Trump Kissinger need Russia onside to pull off the new move. A good chance Trump will go down without pulling off the move to US global energy dominance.

Posted by: Peter AU 1 | Sep 10 2018 11:36 utc | 74

Staged Gas Attacks & US Shortcomings: US Senator Tells Sputnik About Syria Trip

The problem is that he is surrounded by the deep state. We use the term to refer to the elements of the CIA, the State Department, to a smaller extent to the Defense Department, some members of Congress, the Senate. Not all Senators, of course, but certain key people. John McCain was a good example. And then we had those think tanks which were typically funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, places like that. They may have a dozen people and their job is to write articles that undermine secular governments and lead to their overthrow.

Posted by: virgile | Sep 10 2018 12:07 utc | 76

That Hichens tweet is standard pro-Nazi garbage expounded to excuse Nazi crimes. Not a surprise that there are extremist Nazi supporters in the UK in 2018.
The Daily Mail link at least avoids that level of lying. But given the Daily Mail’s record of extremism mixed with gossip it’s best to avoid that crap.
Will Moon of Alabama next post the Nazi imagery of George Soros as an overtly Jewish puppet master? (Yes, I’ve seen such posts on websites that most certainly understand that Nazi Germany started the war and inflicted the Holocaust on Jews and Roma in Europe in the early mid-1940s.)
If you read the Daily Mail link, not just the tweet, Hichens is clearly expressing his father’s angst at loss of British power.
Now, Hitchens is delusional to imply that anyone ever believed that Britain fought World War Two to save Jews in Europe. And the fact that he pretends that’s one of the “myths” is a sign of his desperation. Such desperation be par for the course for the likes of extreme right in the UK.
It’s a pretty safe bet that somewhere, not necessarily on Twitter, Hichens has said inflammatory things about UK citizens of Pakistani, Indian, African, and Caribbean origins.

Posted by: Jay | Sep 10 2018 12:52 utc | 78