Oxford Union Debate with David Irving Disrupted by Protestors
The Telegraph (Britain)

Protesters broke through a security cordon and forced their way into the Oxford Union where Nick Griffin, leader of the far-Right BNP party, and David Irving, the controversial historian, were due to debate the limits of free speech. After pushing and shoving their way through the doors into the hall, around 20 demonstrators staged a sit down protest and began chanting at the debating table. The debate eventually began one-and-a-half hours late, with Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris and journalist Anne Atkins speaking against Mr Irving in one room whilst two Oxford University post-graduate students took on Mr Griffin in another.

Ukraine Commemorates Anniversary of Great Famine 1932-33
Agence France Presse

Ukraine mourned Saturday the millions who died in the Soviet-era famine of 1932-1933 which remains a bone of contention between Kiev and Moscow, with flags at half-mast and a solemn religious service. "It was a genocide, an attempt to subjugate the nation, deliberately planned and put into effect," charged pro-Western President Viktor Yuschenko in a speech to thousands gathered in the centre of the capital … Some four to 10 million people are estimated to have starved to death as a result of a Soviet program of forced collectivisation launched by dictator Josef Stalin in 1932.

IHR Employment Opportunity
Institute for Historical Review

The Institute for Historical Review needs another full-time staff member to join our team here in southern California. As office manager and website specialist, he or she should have good computer skills, a demonstrated ability to produce quality work on a timely basis, reliability, self-initiative, a commitment to the ideals and goals of the IHR, and be able to work together well with others. Preference will be given to applicants who already live in southern California.

The US Dollar: The Long Farewell?
Gwynne Dyer

… The main reason for the collapse of the US dollar is President George W. Bush’s attempt to fight expensive foreign wars while cutting taxes at home. This involved deficit financing on a very large scale, and inevitably the value of the dollar began to fall -- slowly at first, but with increasing speed as it became clear that the White House did not care … The last time the world went through a change like this, it took over forty years to complete … In any case the long farewell of the US dollar has begun. 

'For Fear of the Jews'
Joseph Sobran

The news that I would be addressing the Institute of Historical Review came to some people as, well, news … The IHR's mission can't be fairly summed up as "Holocaust denial." Its real mission is criticism of the suffocating progressive ideology that has infected and distorted the telling of history in our time … In short, the Holocaust has become a device for exempting Jews from normal human obligations. It has authorized them to bully and blackmail, to extort and oppress. 

Fromm Stripped of His Teaching Certificate
Altermedia

Paul Fromm, the well-known Canadian pro-White activist and anti-illegal immigration campaigner, has had his teaching certificate revoked. Fromm, who was fired from his teaching post by the Peel District School Board in 1997, was stripped of his certificate by an Ontario College of Teachers disciplinary panel, a full ten years after his last teaching post. Through the decades since the early 1970s, Fromm has been in and out of the media spotlight for his association with some of North America ’s most famous pro-White groups, including the Heritage Front. 

Hitler Watercolors of Vienna and France For Sale
News-Antique.com

While not well known for his watercolors, the failed dictator of Germany, Adolf Hilter, was quite a gifted artist. The esoteric fact Hitler aspired to artistic endeavor, preceding the atrocities for which he is remembered today, is an idiosyncratic component of WWII history. Understandably, a gallery visit is unlikely to yield any of his work, but occasionally his pieces are bought and sold. Two such paintings have recently surfaced on Manion’s International Auction House - www.manions.com: a 1911 dated watercolor of the Votivkirche in Vienna, and his WWI era interpretation of a French farmhouse.

Overlooked World War II Combat in Italy
Tony Perry -- Los Angeles Times

Much of [Rick] Atkinson's attention [in his new book, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944] is on familiar figures: Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, Kesselring, Eisenhower. He is no hagiographer. Patton was charismatic but sloppy logistically, often failing to get the proper equipment and medical care to his frontline troops. Bradley was more than the "GIs' general" of lore: tough-minded, often intolerant, sometimes eager to sack a successful division commander … The fight to liberate Italy took 608 days and cost 120,000 American casualties, including 23,501 deaths. About 750,000 Americans took part. 

Pakistan: Musharraf’s Grip on Power Weakens
Eric Margolis (Canada)

Henry Kissinger once quipped that being America’s ally is more dangerous than being its enemy. The latest example: Washington is abuzz with leaks the Bush administration plans to dump its faithful but embattled Pakistani retainer, Gen. Pervez Musarraf, and replace him with a new general or a co-operative civilian-led government … The Bush administration is again studying military strikes against Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. The Pentagon worries they could fall into the hands of al-Qaida … Adding danger, a U.S. attack on Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal could quickly be joined by Pakistan’s old foe, nuclear-armed India, and/or even Israel .

Croatia: There Lies a Red Shadow
Jeffrey T. Kuhner -- The Washington Times

The communist habit of deceit and double-speak continues to haunt countries once trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Such is the case in Croatia as it is led by Eastern Europe's most incorrigible and brazen liar, Ivo Sanader. Few peoples in Eastern Europe suffered under the yoke of Marxism-Leninism as much as Croatians did. For decades, Croatia was a captive nation within Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his death in 1980, communist dictator Josip Broz Tito brutally suppressed dissent. Presented to the world as a utopian multinational federation, Yugoslavia was in fact a Serb-dominated totalitarian empire.  

Ban on Kosher Slaughter of Animals in Some European Countries
WorldNetDaily

One of the first steps in Hitler's anti-Semitic drive in the creation of his Third Reich was instituting a ban on the kosher slaughter of animals. Today, as a new wave of ugly, and sometimes violent, anti-Semitism sweeps through the European continent, at least five countries have banned kosher food production, and one of them is considering halting all import of kosher meat. The latest nation to join the movement is Holland, where the move was guised in concern for cruelty to animals.

It is long past time for American politicians to quit carrying water for the state of Israel and its powerful U.S. lobby. Congress' craven obedience to the lobby is a disgrace. America's strategic interests in the Middle East lie with the Arab countries. Israel is a strategic and economic liability. The U.S. government's slavish support of Israel brands us as a hypocrite and is responsible for most of the hostility toward the U.S.

Entangling Alliances
Rep. Ron Paul

… When we look at global situations today, the words of our founding fathers are becoming more relevant daily. We need to understand that a simple, humble foreign policy makes us less vulnerable and less targeted on the world stage. Pakistan should not be getting an "allowance" from us and we should not be propping up military dictators that oppress people. We should mind our own business and stop the oppressive taxation of Americans that makes this meddling possible.

Zionist ADL Deplores 'Extremist’ Help to Paul Campaign
JTA

The Anti-Defamation League plans to ask Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul to distance himself from extremist groups. Paul, a U.S. congressman from Texas, has come under fire for the support his campaign has enjoyed from leading white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. His campaign reportedly has accepted a donation from Don Black, the owner of the white supremacist Web site Stormfront. Sites for several extremist groups also feature prominent links supporting Paul's candidacy.

A Warning Shot for Iran, Via Syria
Gareth Porter

Until late October, the accepted explanation about the September 6 Israeli air strike in Syria, constructed from a series of press leaks from US officials, was that it was prompted by dramatic satellite intelligence that Syria was building a nuclear facility with help from North Korea. But new satellite evidence has discredited that narrative, suggesting a more plausible explanation for the strike: that it was a calculated effort by Israel and the United States to convince Iran that its nuclear facilities could be attacked as well.

U.S. is Haven for War Criminals, Says Senator
McClatchy Newspapers

More than 1,000 people from 85 countries who are accused of such crimes as rape, killings, torture and genocide are living in the United States, according to Department of Homeland Security figures. America has become a haven for the world's war criminals because it lacks the laws needed to prosecute them, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said Wednesday. There's been only one U.S. indictment of someone suspected of a serious human-rights abuse. Durbin said torture was the only serious human-rights violation that was a crime under American law when committed outside the United States by a non-American national.

US and Israel Prepare Plans for Iran Attack
The Telegraph (Britain) 

America and Israel are secretly drawing up plans to deal with an Iran that has acquired nuclear weapons, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. Teheran's two arch-foes are preparing for what they have long declared is an unacceptable scenario … At a security cabinet meeting last weekend, Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, told officials to draw up proposals for dealing with an Iran that had built atomic weapons, according to leaks … Israel is believed to be equipping a fleet of German-made submarines with atomic weapons ready to respond to any nuclear threat from Teheran, and Ehud Barack, the defence minister, is keen to develop a sophisticated ballistic anti-missile system. 

Tony Blair has admitted for the first time that he ignored the pleas of his aides and ministers to deter President Bush from waging war on Iraq because he believed that America was doing the right thing. And he has acknowledged that he turned down a last-ditch offer from Mr Bush to pull Britain out of the conflict … The documentary contains clear evidence that many of those around Mr Blair, including Sir David Manning, his foreign policy adviser, Jeremy Greenstock, Britain’s ambassador at the UN, Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary at the time, and even Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, had huge reservations about the rush to war. 

The Middle East’s Secretive Nuclear Power
George Monbiot -- The Guardian (Britain)

George Bush and Gordon Brown are right: there should be no nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The risk of a nuclear conflagration could be greater there than anywhere else. Any nation developing them should expect a firm diplomatic response. So when will they impose sanctions on Israel? … So when will our governments speak up? When will they acknowledge that there is already a nuclear power in the Middle East, and that it presents an existential threat to its neighbours? When will they admit that Iran is not starting a nuclear arms race, but joining one? When will they demand that the rules they impose on Iran should also apply to Israel?

Poland Seeks Arrest of Stalinist-Era Prosecutor
Agence France Presse

Justice authorities in Poland Tuesday said they had issued a European arrest warrant for an 88-year-old British citizen of Polish origin accused of involvement in Stalinist-era show trials. Polish investigators have already made two failed attempts to extradite Helena Wolinska in 1999 and 2001 … She is accused of having been behind the wrongful arrest of 24 members of the non-communist resistance, which battled the occupying Nazis during the war but subsequently fell foul of the Soviet army and its Polish communist cohorts … Wolinska, who is Jewish, managed to escape from the ghetto set up by the Nazis in Warsaw after they invaded Poland.

The Dollar's Decline
Andy McSmith
The Independent (Britain)

The decline of the dollar, symbol of US global hegemony for the best part of a century, may have become so entrenched that some experts now fear it is irreversible. After months of huge and sustained turmoil on the money markets, lack of confidence in the world's totemic currency has become so widespread that an increasing number of international traders are transferring their wealth to stronger currencies such as the euro, which recently hit its highest level against the dollar.

 … In a new book [The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy], John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt have broken the Israel Lobby's power to suppress truth by demonizing and intimidating all who would criticize Israel … American patriots who glorify in their country's status as the "sole superpower" have much to learn about the subservience of their country's foreign policy to a tiny state of five million people. There is no better place to begin than with Mearsheimer and Walt's The Israel Lobby.