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  • When Republicans Won on an Antiwar Platform — and Delivered

    Hunter DeRensis - The American Conservative

    When Republicans Won on an Antiwar Platform — and Delivered

    … There once was an era, in the not too distant past, when Republicans campaigned against endless war and unnecessary military spending with huge electoral dividends (and then kept their promises). In 1952, the country was aching after 20 years of Democratic presidents. The Korean War was then in its third year, victory still out of reach despite tens of thousands of American casualties. Corruption scandals plagued officials in the Truman administration … And after his election — again, by an 11-point margin — Dwight D. Eisenhower, while admittedly an internationalist, did achieve an armistice in Korea and a decrease in military spending. The Republican Party may have changed, but the American voter hasn’t … That is why anti-war conservatives won in 1952, and it’s why pro-war conservatives will lose today.

  • How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World

    Brian McGlinchey - Stark Realities

    How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World

    … This is a relationship without parallel in world history. It’s no exaggeration to say that it’s the strangest relationship between two countries the world has ever seen. One in which the largest economic and military power the world has ever known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents. US support for Israel comes at a staggering, multifaceted price … And here’s a stark reality: every single dollar of aid to Israel violates US law.

  • Is It Worth It?

    Joseph Sobran

    Is It Worth It?

    … In the early 1980s it became clear to me that the pro-Israel lobby was trying to steer the United States into conflict with the Arab world. I saw nothing in the American interest in that; and my own two sons were approaching the draft age. Until then, I had been strongly pro-Israel myself; but sacrificing my boys for Israel was a higher price than I wanted to pay. Nor did I want other Americans to pay it. But as soon as I began arguing publicly that the U.S.-Israel alliance was not only costly but dangerous to the United States, I became the target of Zionist vituperation and worse. Some, like Podhoretz, tried to ruin my career. And I’ve seen others get the same treatment.

  • World War Two, The ‘No Good War’ War

    James Bovard

    World War Two, The ‘No Good War’ War

    … World War Two has been heralded for more than 50 years as the “Good War” – in contrast to subsequent U.S. military debacles in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran. But World War Two cannot be glorified without hiding a heap of lies and millions of corpses … President Franklin Roosevelt worked ceaselessly and shamelessly to drag America into the European conflict … The British and American air forces turned Dresden into an inferno, killing up to 50,000 civilians … The German civilians killed after the war were simply another asterisk ignored by Good War chroniclers … The halo that kowtowing historians slapped over World War Two made it far easier ever since for politicians to drag America into military quagmires.

  • The ‘Good War’ Myth

    Video - Zoomer Historian

    The ‘Good War’ Myth

    The worldview that prevails in the US and western Europe is based in large measure on the premise that that World War II was a battle of Good vs Evil, and that American intervention was unquestionably an admirable achievement. Even to question that premise is to risk being hounded and vilified. But there are good reasons to call the “good war” into question. The great justification for the British and French declarations of war against Germany in 1939 was to defend Polish independence. At the end of the war, British and American leaders agreed to hand over Poland and the rest of eastern Europe to brutal Soviet control. Eastern Europeans feared Soviet hegemony much more than German domination. Here’s a skeptical look at the “official,” prevailing narrative of “the good War.” Runtime: 11:28 mins.

  • Myths of the ‘Good War’: US Intervention in the World Wars

    Audio

    Mark Weber joins host Tim Kelly to talk about harmful but widely accepted myths about World War II. (Runtime: one hour, 13 minutes.) Weber talks about the self-righteous and calamitous policies of US President Woodrow Wilson in the First World War. Weber also reviews the even more delusional and catastrophic policies of President Franklin Roosevelt. His illegal and highly deceitful efforts to foment war in Europe, and then pull the US into the conflict continue to have harmful consequences for America and the world today.

  • Who is Making Billions From the Iran War?

    Ron Paul

    At a campaign rally over the weekend, President Trump dismissed Americans’ concerns over high oil and gas prices, claiming that it’s a small price to pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars “we” are making from these higher prices. “We’re making a fortune,” he said. “Hundreds of billions of dollars. Trillions of dollars.” People are paying a little bit more for gas, he explained, but it doesn’t matter because “we” are making so much money. The question is, “Who is ‘we’?” We know it is not the American people … But we understand what the President meant by “we.” He meant that part of the “private” sector directly or indirectly in bed with the government war machine. From oil companies to weapons manufacturers and everything in between, war and conflict drive up profits in well-connected corporations at the expense of the rest of us.

  • Top UK Jewish Group Declares Green Party Racist After It Rules Zionism is Racism

    The Times of Israel

    The Board of Deputies of British Jews has voted overwhelmingly to declare the Green Party of England and Wales a racist party, following the party’s approval of a resolution describing Zionism as racism and calling for Israel to be replaced with a Palestinian state. The board, an umbrella group for British Jews, passed the motion 118-1 at its October plenary meeting on Sunday. It means that the country’s representative Jewish body will treat the Greens as it would other parties it considers racist, and that political parties cooperating with the Greens would be seen as lax in fighting antisemitism. The decision follows the Greens’ October 4 adoption of a resolution equating Zionism with racism, while effectively calling for the erasure of Israel.

  • How the ‘Math Wars’ in Palo Alto Reflect a Raging Nationwide Debate Over Equity and Excellence

    San Francisco Chronicle

    How the ‘Math Wars’ in Palo Alto Reflect a Raging Nationwide Debate Over Equity and Excellence

    … Debate has raged in recent years about whether dividing kids into classes based on performance exacerbates the racial achievement gap and forecloses opportunities to lower-performing students. Both sides point to research to back up their claims, and California academics have at times engaged in bitter, highly public disputes. Socioeconomic achievement gaps and racial achievement gaps between Black and Hispanic students and white and Asian students have been widening statewide since 2009, according to a recent report by Sean Reardon, a Stanford professor. Palo Alto has also seen growing disparities in math proficiency rates in recent years. Last school year, 32% of Hispanic eighth-graders tested proficient in math, compared with 93% of Asian and 80% of white students, according to statewide assessment data.

  • Most Voters in Key States Want to Block US Arms Transfers to Israel

    Jim Lobe – Responsible Statecraft

    Most Voters in Key States Want to Block US Arms Transfers to Israel

    A majority of likely voters in each of six key swing states — Georgia, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas — say they approve of measures to block the transfer of bombs to Israel, according to a new poll released Wednesday by the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) and conducted by the YouGov data analytics firm. The poll also found that majorities or strong pluralities of 3,200 respondents in the six states favor “cutting $3.3 billion in taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel,” and believe the war in Iran benefits Israel more than the United States. As in other recent polls, the new survey, which was conducted from late September to mid-October, found that self-identified Democrats and Independents were significantly more likely to oppose more military transfers to Israel than self-identified Republicans in each state …

  • The War Tehran Believes Is Coming

    J. Scahill, P. Salehi, R. Grim – Drop Site

    The War Tehran Believes Is Coming

    The U.S. and Israel are preparing to resume attacks on Iran, according to senior Iranian officials and a U.S. official … Iran’s top security official, Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and personal representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, told Drop Site that, in the event of an attack, Iran still has capacity to continue launching missiles and drones at various U.S. assets across the region in retaliation, and that it would expand its range of targets … “Everyone must understand that action against Iran carries a cost,” he added … “We did not deploy all our capabilities in the previous stages. We brought more capabilities into operation in proportion to the intensity of the war, and we are also prepared for the next stage,” Rezaei said.

  • Secret 1930 American Plan For War Against Britain and Canada

    Institute for Historical Review

    Secret 1930 American Plan For War Against Britain and Canada

    American military officials drew up a secret plan in 1930 for war against Britain in which Canada would be the main battleground. “Joint Plan Red,” as it was known, envisaged the elimination of Britain as a trading rival. Professor Floyd Rudmin of Queens University in Ontario, Canada, charges that the plan was a blueprint for an American invasion of Canada. According to the plan, the United States was prepared to invade Canada if political unrest brought on by Quebec’s secession threatened American access to Canada’s fresh water and cheap hydroelectric power. The war plan document was drawn up by the Joint Board of the Army and Navy in May 1930, when Herbert Hoover was President … Its aim was to dismember the British empire on the grounds of “competition and interference with American foreign trade.”

  • ‘We Are Fighting for a Just Peace’: Top Yemeni Official on Ansarullah’s New War With Saudi Arabia

    Video - The Grayzone

    ‘We Are Fighting for a Just Peace’: Top Yemeni Official on Ansarullah’s New War With Saudi Arabia

    Max Blumenthal interviews Mohammad al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official, spokesman, and member of the Political Council of Yemen’s “Houthi” movement (Ansar Allah). He talks about the war with Saudi Arabia, and the latest in the conflict. The official is remarkably poised and articulate as he explains the movement’s outlook and political goals, and its relationship with Iran. He responds to the often-repeated claim by US officials that the Ansar Allah movement is a “puppet” or “proxy” of Iran. Runtime: 43 mins.

  • British Government Pledges to ‘Strengthen’ Holocaust to ‘Education’ to Counter Anti-Semitism

    BBC News

    Education Secretary Lucy Powell says the government will “update and strengthen” Holocaust education within schools after a major review highlighted the “shocking scale” of antisemitism in British society. Schools and colleges in England will be required to recognise antisemitism as a distinct category of harm and take explicit action against it. It means anti-Jewish hatred will be treated as a specific safeguarding risk rather than being dealt with through existing measures to stop racism and bullying … The review also calls for stronger guidance on political impartiality for teachers.

  • Why Iran Didn’t Walk Away

    Larry C. Johnson

    … On May 8, 2018, Donald Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the nuclear agreement that Iran had signed with the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China three years earlier … Iran had not violated the agreement … Iran’s patience was not unlimited, and it was never unconditional … The record shows a government that responded to the breach of an international agreement with restraint, then with measured and reversible pressure, and only escalated after its economy had been strangled and its officers and scientists killed. That is not the behavior of a regime determined to build a bomb at the first opportunity. It is the behavior of a government that wanted the deal to survive and concluded, slowly, that the United States would not let it.

  • By Pursuing a Big ‘Win’ in Iran, Trump is Destined to Lose

    Paul R. Pillar – Responsible Statecraft

    By Pursuing a Big ‘Win’ in Iran, Trump is Destined to Lose

    … What Trump would welcome as a “win” could take one of two basic forms: either the Iranian regime somehow cries “uncle” and makes concessions that clearly and significantly go beyond anything it offered before, or the regime collapses … Even considered separately, however, each of the two versions of a supposed “win” raises major questions … The most feasible way out of the war is a skeletal ceasefire agreement that defers most substantive negotiations, like the Memorandum of Understanding that the parties agreed to in June, but without the ambiguous language concerning the Strait of Hormuz that led the MoU to break down. A president looking for a “win” will have to rely on his rhetorical ability to depict such a ceasefire and the destruction already inflicted on Iranian forces as a victory.

  • The Israel Lobby’s Changing Fortunes

    Scott McConnell – The American Conservative

    The Israel Lobby’s Changing Fortunes

    A natural question to ask about Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s [new book] Israel’s Lobby is how it differs from the magisterial work of similar name published by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt nearly 20 years ago … Scores of Israel-First billionaires joined them with more power to shape American policy than ever before. As Clifton and Lustick put it, “These donors form the backbone of an Israel First movement which crosses party lines” … The authors track the exponential rise in the budgets of pro-Israel advocacy groups. AIPAC had $19.5 million in assets in 2000, nine times that amount in 2023. Similar advances were made by the Washington Institute for Mideast Policy, and the Jewish Institute for National Security of America … Clifton and Lustick have written an important, extremely well-researched book …

  • Harry Elmer Barnes, RIP

    Murray N. Rothbard

    Harry Elmer Barnes, RIP

    … The quantity and scope of his productive output would alone stamp Harry Elmer Barnes as a memorable scholar, but this alone barely begins to scratch the surface of how remarkable a man he was. For he was that rarity among scholars: a passionately committed man. It was not enough for Harry to discover and set forth the truth; he must also work actively and whole-heartedly in the world on behalf of that truth … Like Beard and Flynn, Barnes found himself hounded by former friends and colleagues and denounced as a “Nazi” merely for cleaving to the liberal and pro-peace principles which all alike had shared a few short months before.

  • Barnes Against the Blackout: Essays Against Interventionism

    Harry Elmer Barnes -- Book Available from IHR

    Barnes Against the Blackout: Essays Against Interventionism

    An outstanding American historian is at his best in these passionate, rigorous, and well-reasoned essays and reviews on the Second World War, and on the “Cold War” that followed. These far-sighted writings are relevant today, because they counter the often-made claims of politicians and other “establishment” leaders about World War II to justify seemingly endless US military intervention overseas. The widely-accepted, “official” narrative about World War II, which has been promoted for decades in the mainstream media and by Hollywood, has been cited to justify the calamitous US wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran. This book of more than 350 pages includes the texts of nine Barnes writings.

  • Trump Endorses Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for Reelection

    Associated Press

    Trump Endorses Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for Reelection

    President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late in his reelection campaign … Trump said in a post on social media that Netanyahu “has been a Great Warrior Prime Minister, and an even greater Partner for Peace in combatting the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Israelis are set to vote Oct. 27, in the first national elections since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 … In his post, Trump again threatened to “soon finish the job” against Iran “unless they change their ways, rapidly,” but added he might not want to if Netanyahu loses the election. “If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so,” Trump said.

  • When Republicans Won on an Antiwar Platform — and Delivered

    Hunter DeRensis - The American Conservative

    When Republicans Won on an Antiwar Platform — and Delivered

    … There once was an era, in the not too distant past, when Republicans campaigned against endless war and unnecessary military spending with huge electoral dividends (and then kept their promises). In 1952, the country was aching after 20 years of Democratic presidents. The Korean War was then in its third year, victory still out of reach despite tens of thousands of American casualties. Corruption scandals plagued officials in the Truman administration … And after his election — again, by an 11-point margin — Dwight D. Eisenhower, while admittedly an internationalist, did achieve an armistice in Korea and a decrease in military spending. The Republican Party may have changed, but the American voter hasn’t … That is why anti-war conservatives won in 1952, and it’s why pro-war conservatives will lose today.

  • How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World

    Brian McGlinchey - Stark Realities

    How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World

    … This is a relationship without parallel in world history. It’s no exaggeration to say that it’s the strangest relationship between two countries the world has ever seen. One in which the largest economic and military power the world has ever known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents. US support for Israel comes at a staggering, multifaceted price … And here’s a stark reality: every single dollar of aid to Israel violates US law.

  • Is It Worth It?

    Joseph Sobran

    Is It Worth It?

    … In the early 1980s it became clear to me that the pro-Israel lobby was trying to steer the United States into conflict with the Arab world. I saw nothing in the American interest in that; and my own two sons were approaching the draft age. Until then, I had been strongly pro-Israel myself; but sacrificing my boys for Israel was a higher price than I wanted to pay. Nor did I want other Americans to pay it. But as soon as I began arguing publicly that the U.S.-Israel alliance was not only costly but dangerous to the United States, I became the target of Zionist vituperation and worse. Some, like Podhoretz, tried to ruin my career. And I’ve seen others get the same treatment.

  • World War Two, The ‘No Good War’ War

    James Bovard

    World War Two, The ‘No Good War’ War

    … World War Two has been heralded for more than 50 years as the “Good War” – in contrast to subsequent U.S. military debacles in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran. But World War Two cannot be glorified without hiding a heap of lies and millions of corpses … President Franklin Roosevelt worked ceaselessly and shamelessly to drag America into the European conflict … The British and American air forces turned Dresden into an inferno, killing up to 50,000 civilians … The German civilians killed after the war were simply another asterisk ignored by Good War chroniclers … The halo that kowtowing historians slapped over World War Two made it far easier ever since for politicians to drag America into military quagmires.

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  • A Straight Look at the Jewish Lobby

    Mark Weber

    A Straight Look at the Jewish Lobby

    … Jews wield immense power and influence in the United States. The “Jewish lobby” is a decisive factor in US support for Israel. Jewish-Zionist interests are not identical to American in­terests. In fact, they often conflict. As long as the “very powerful” Jewish lobby remains entrenched, there will be no end to the Jewish-Zionist grip on the US polit­ical system and the American media, the Zionist oppression of Palestinians, and the Israeli threat to peace.

  • Was Hiroshima Necessary?

    Mark Weber

    Was Hiroshima Necessary?

    America’s leaders understood Japan’s desperate position: the Japanese were willing to end the war on any terms, as long as the Emperor was not molested. If the US leadership had not insisted on unconditional surrender — that is, if they had made clear a willingness to permit the Emperor to remain in place — the Japanese very likely would have surrendered immediately, thus saving many thousands of lives … General Curtis LeMay, who had pioneered precision bombing of Germany and Japan (and who later headed the Strategic Air Command and served as Air Force chief of staff), put it most succinctly: “The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war.”

  • Zionism and the Third Reich

    Mark Weber

    Zionism and the Third Reich

    A little-known chapter of history is the wide-ranging collaboration between Zionism and Hitler’s Third Reich. During the 1930s, Jewish Zionists and German National Socialists shared similar views on how to deal with the “Jewish Question.” They agreed that Jews and Germans were distinctly different nationalities, and that Jews did not belong in Germany. During the 1930s no nation did more to substantively further Jewish-Zionist goals than Hitler’s Germany.

  • Straight Talk About Zionism

    Mark Weber

    Straight Talk About Zionism

    … A Zionist Jew, by definition, owes his primary loyalty to the Jewish community and to Israel. Zionism is not compatible with patriotism to any country or entity other than Israel and the world Jewish community … Zionist Jews and their non-Jewish supporters embrace a blatant double standard. Jewish-Zionist organizations, along with their non-Jewish allies, support one social-political ideology for Israel and the world Jewish community, and a completely different one for the United States and other non-Jewish countries. They insist that ethnic nationalism is evil and bad for non-Jews, while at the same time they vigorously support ethnic nationalism — that is, Zionism — for Jews.

  • What Christians Don’t Know About Israel

    Grace Halsell

    What Christians Don’t Know About Israel

    American Jews sympathetic to Israel dominate key positions in all areas of our government where decisions are made regarding the Middle East. This being the case, is there any hope of ever changing U.S. policy? … The answer to achieving an even-handed Middle East policy might lie elsewhere — among those who support Israel but don’t really know why. This group is the vast majority of Americans. They are well-meaning, fair-minded Christians who feel bonded to Israel – and Zionism – often from atavistic feelings, in some cases dating from childhood.

  • The Enduring Legacy of a Great Man: Charles de Gaulle

    Mark Weber

    The Enduring Legacy of a Great Man: Charles de Gaulle

    No figure of modern French history is as honored as Charles de Gaulle … In 1940 he refused to accept his country’s defeat by Germany, and from London he founded and led the pro-Allied “Free French” force during World War II. From 1944 to 1946 he headed the provisional government of France. In 1958 he was called from retirement by popular acclaim to resolve the seemingly unsolvable crisis over Algeria … During the years that he dominated his country’s political life – 1958-1969 – he charted an independent foreign policy, tied neither to the US nor the USSR, and strove to make France the preeminent nation in Europe … It’s impossible to read any lengthy biography of this man without admiration for his audacious self-confidence, courage, determination, and cunning.

  • YouTube Censors 'Restrict' IHR Videos

    Institute for Historical Review

    YouTube Censors 'Restrict' IHR Videos

    In line with a recent crackdown policy, YouTube has “restricted” a number of independently produced videos of IHR talks and presentations. To watch a “restricted” video, the viewer must first click through a warning screen. Also, comments on the video are not allowed, and the number of views is not given. Even worse, YouTube will never “suggest” a “restricted” video to viewers, which is how many people find our videos. While YouTube claims that its “restriction” policy is aimed at videos with “inflammatory religious or supremacist content,” applying it to IHR videos is absurd. YouTube restricts our voice not because we have violated any objective standards, or because we have done anything wrong or illegal — but because it doesn’t like what we say.

  • The Civil War Concentration Camps

    Mark Weber

    The Civil War Concentration Camps

    No aspect of the American Civil War left behind a greater legacy of bitterness and acrimony than the treatment of prisoners of war. “Andersonville” still conjures up images of horror unmatched in American History. And although Northern partisans still invoke the infamous Southern camp to defame the Confederacy, the Union had its share of equally horrific camps. Prison camps on both sides produced scenes of wretched, disease-ridden and emaciated prisoners as repulsive as any to come out of the Second World War … In addition to camps for captured soldiers, the North also established concentration camps for civilian populations considered hostile to the Federal government.

  • Why Germany Attacked the Soviet Union

    Institute for Historical Review

    Why Germany Attacked the Soviet Union

    As dawn was breaking on Sunday morning, June 22, 1941, military forces of Germany, Finland and Romania suddenly struck against the Soviet Union. The stunning news of this attack was announced to the world by German radio at 5:30 that Sunday morning, when Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels broadcast the text of a proclamation by Adolf Hitler to the German people that laid out his reasons for the historic offensive. Following that was the broadcast of Germany’s declaration of war against the Soviet Union. This was in the form of a diplomatic note to the Soviet government. Because Hitler’s proclamation and the German Foreign Office declaration explain at some length the reasons and motives for the fateful decision to strike against the USSR, these are documents of historic importance. With a foreword by Mark Weber.

  • Was America’s World War II ‘Crusade’ Worthwhile?

    Spencer J. Quinn

    Was America’s World War II ‘Crusade’ Worthwhile?

    … This flagrant betrayal of the principles and goals for which the US fought in World War II, Chamberlin explains [in America’s Second Crusade], was inevitable given Roosevelt’s abiding trust in Soviet dictator Stalin, and his unwillingness to leverage America’s massive military and economic aid to the Soviets to press for a better postwar world … This book … distinguishes itself by challenging the American public to consider that the death, destruction, and trauma of the Second World War may not have been “worth it” in the end. Chamberlin is … not afraid to measure the stated goals of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill against the objective historical record by which the question he poses might be answered. The arguments for America’s entry into the war, he concludes, ultimately come up wanting.

  • Zionism’s Violent Legacy

    Donald Neff

    Zionism’s Violent Legacy

    … The Irgun was not the only Jewish terrorist group but it was the most active in causing indiscriminate terror in pre-Israel Palestine. Up to the time of the Jaffa attack, its most spectacular feat had been the July 22, 1946, blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, with the killing of 91 people – 41 Arabs, 28 Britons and 17 Jews. The other major Jewish terrorist group operating in Palestine in the 1940s was the Lohamei Herut Israel – “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel,” Lehi in the Hebrew acronym – also known as the Stern Gang after its fanatical founder Avraham Stern.

  • Joe Biden Acknowledges ‘Immense’ Jewish Role in American Mass Media and Cultural Life

    Mark Weber

    Joe Biden Acknowledges ‘Immense’ Jewish Role in American Mass Media and Cultural Life

    In a remarkable but under-reported address, one of America’s most prominent and influential political figures has acknowledged the “immense” and “outsized” Jewish role in the US mass media and cultural life. Joe Biden – now President of the U.S. – said that this has been the single most important factor in shaping American attitudes over the past century, and in driving major cultural-political changes. “Jewish heritage has shaped who we are – all of us – as much or more than any other factor in the last 223 years. And that’s a fact,” Joe Biden told a gathering of Jewish leaders in Washington, DC … “Behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those [major social-political] changes, whether it’s in Hollywood or social media, are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry. The influence is immense … And, I might add, it is all to the good,” he went on.

  • Vinnytsia — The Katyn of Ukraine: A Report by an Eyewitness

    M. Seleshko

    Vinnytsia — The Katyn of Ukraine: A Report by an Eyewitness

    … With the aid of the civilian population, mass graves had been discovered, in which thousands of corpses had been buried. These graves were to be opened and the commission was to establish whom the [Soviet] NKVD had murdered … The exhumations in Vinnytsia began on May 25, 1943, and were carried on in three places. The [local] population was of the opinion that there were around 20,000 victims in the war years … I had been a soldier in the Ukrainian army during the First World War and had seen many men killed in battle, but what I had then seen can in no way be compared with what I witnessed in that park … The horror of Vinnytsia I shall never forget, and it is doubtful whether ever a Dante would be able to portray the agony that had taken place.

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race

    Robert Morgan

    Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race

    Many Americans think of Abraham Lincoln, above all, as the president who freed the slaves. Immortalized as the “Great Emancipator,” he is widely regarded as a champion of black freedom who supported social equality of the races, and who fought the American Civil War to free the slaves. While it is true that Lincoln regarded slavery as an evil and harmful institution, it also true, as this paper will show, that he shared the conviction of most Americans of his time, and of many prominent statesmen before and after him, that blacks could not be assimilated into white society. He rejected the notion of social equality of the races, and held to the view that blacks should be resettled abroad.

  • The Past Marches On

    George Morgenstern (1953)

    The Past Marches On

    … Add to these the operations of an organized propaganda capable, apparently, of doping Americans into belief in any myth, and there is formidable reason why public opinion should be so stupefied and stultified that the nation can be led from war to war in pursuit of ever retreating goals. Yet, despite the general numbness, Americans, surveying the results of half a century of intermeddling, dimly perceive that all is not well.

  • The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed

    David L. Hoggan

    The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed

    In this important, detailed study of the origins of the Second World War, Dr. Hoggan explains why Hitler decided to attack Poland in 1939, and examines the short-sighted policies that made war all but inevitable. The author dismantles the often-repeated charge of sole German responsibility for the war, which for many years has been a centerpiece of the prevailing narrative of twentieth century history. The eminent American historian Harry E. Barnes called this “the first thorough study of the responsibility for the causes of the Second World War in any language … likely to remain the definitive revisionist work on this subject for many years.” With an introduction by Mark Weber, dust jacket, detailed index, source notes, extensive bibliography, map, and 30 photographs. Also available in softcover edition.

  • Anti-Semitism: Why Does It Exist? And Why Does it Persist?

    Mark Weber

    Anti-Semitism: Why Does It Exist? And Why Does it Persist?

    Over the centuries, rage and hostility against Jews has repeatedly erupted in terrible violence. Again and again, Jews have been driven out of countries where they’d been living. Why does anti-Semitism exist? And why has furious hostility toward Jews broken out, again and again, in the most varied nations, eras and cultures? … Anti-Semitism is not a mysterious “disease.” As Herzl and Weizmann suggested, and as history shows, what is often called anti-Semitism is the natural and understandable attitude of people toward a minority with particularist loyalties that wields greatly disproportionate power for its own interests, rather than for the common good.

  • British WWII Veterans: Unhappy With What’s Become of the Country They Fought For

    F. Roger Devlin

    British WWII Veterans: Unhappy With What’s Become of the Country They Fought For

    More than once I have come across the view that if British lads of the 1940s could have foreseen the state of their country today, they would never have bothered to fight the Second World War. Few of those who have heard that view may realize that there is empirical evidence to support it … The prevailing tone of their letters is one of bitterness over what had become of the county they once cherished. Of the four or five most often voiced complaints, the most common is over mass migration from other countries and continents, and how that has drastically changed British life, culture and society … “The men who offered their lives have been betrayed and gave their lives in vain. Most of the older people say thank goodness we are ending our lives. It is no longer the Britain that we fought for.”

  • `Darkest Hour’: Great Movie, Defective History

    Mark Weber

    `Darkest Hour’: Great Movie, Defective History

    … While it’s an artistic achievement and grand entertainment, “Darkest Hour” is badly flawed history … “Darkest Hour” reinforces the widespread belief that Churchill’s speeches played a crucial role in sustaining British morale. A scholar who has carefully looked into the matter has found that this view is largely a myth … “Darkest Hour” reinforces the widely held impression, which Churchill himself encouraged, that an honorable or lasting peace with Hitler was simply not possible. But as he himself later acknowledged, that’s simply not true … The British leader’s famous “We shall never surrender” speech was little more than “sublime nonsense,” says British historian John Charmley.

  • Why I Survived the A-Bomb

    Akira Kohchi

    Why I Survived the A-Bomb

    Hiroshima native Kohchi was a 16-year-old schoolboy when his city was devastated by the first nuclear attack in history. He tells the dramatic, personal story of how he experienced and survived the bombing, and provides a moving account of his search for his family through the burning rubble of the doomed city. Then Kohchi recalls how, years later, he forced himself to come to grips with his past and uncover the facts about the bombing and the history the led up to it. The author’s frankness and humane spirit make this a first-hand Japanese account of a war crime that dwarfs almost all others. A unique revisionist classic. Praised by the Japan Times newspaper as a “noteworthy” and “authentic” personal account, and by Book­watch newsletter as a “moving, gripping account.” With full color dust jacket, photos and notes

  • The Origins of the Second World War: A Review

    Murray N. Rothbard

    The Origins of the Second World War: A Review

    It is not often that one is privileged to review a book of monumental import, a truly significant “breakthrough” from obscuran­tism to historical knowledge and insight. But such a book is the magnificent work by A.J .P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War … The central theme of Taylor is simply this: Germany and Hitler were not uniquely guilty of launching World War II (indeed they were scarcely guilty at all) … Basically, Hitler has no “master plan”; he was a German intent, like all Germans, on revising the intolerable and stupid Versailles-diktat, and on doing so by peaceful means, and in collaboration with the British and French … Not only did Hitler do this with insight, he did it with patience, as Taylor excellently shows …

  • The Weight of Tradition: Why Judaism Is Not Like Other Religions

    Mark Weber

    The Weight of Tradition: Why Judaism Is Not Like Other Religions

    … Judaism is not just “another religion.” It’s unique among the world’s major religions. The core values and ethos of Judaism are markedly unlike those of Christianity, Islam, and the other great faiths … A core message of the Hebrew scriptures is that Jews are a divinely “chosen” people — a unique community distinct from the rest of humanity … The seemingly intractable Middle East conflict is more than just a problem of Zionism or politics, or a dispute over land. Israel’s often arrogant policies, and especially its inhumane treatment of non-Jews, have roots in centuries-old attitudes that are laid out in ancient Jewish religious writings.

  • The Book That Predicted the Return of Great Power Conflict

    Jose Nino

    The Book That Predicted the Return of Great Power Conflict

    In years when so many politicians and foreign policy experts waxed poetically about their vision of a “rules-based international order” of enduring global harmony, John Mearsheimer persistently warned against the delusions and dangers of this outlook. For years he has been a leading voice for a realist foreign policy, an outlook impressively laid out in his most important work, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics … a hard-nosed examination of international politics rooted not in sentiment or presumed idealism, but in the immutable realities of power politics … While liberals speak of economic interdependence and international norms, and neoconservatives push regime change in the name of “democracy,” Mearsheimer contends that material power, not ideology, drives the foreign policy decision-making of government leaders.

  • Liberating America From Israel

    Paul Findley

    Liberating America From Israel

    Nine-Eleven would not have occurred if the U.S. government had refused to help Israel humiliate and destroy Palestinian society. Few express this conclusion publicly, but many believe it is the truth. I believe the 9/11 catastrophe could have been prevented if any U.S. president in recent decades had had the courage and wisdom to suspend all U.S. aid until Israel withdrew from the Arab land seized in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The U.S. lobby for Israel is powerful and intimidating, but any determined president could prevail and win overwhelming public support for the suspension of aid by laying these facts before the American people.

  • The 'Good War' Myth of World War II, and Why It's Dangerous

    Mark Weber

    The 'Good War' Myth of World War II, and Why It's Dangerous

    How accurate is this hallowed portrayal of America’s role in World War II? As we shall see, it does not hold up under close examination … The three Allied leaders accomplished what they accused the Axis leaders of Germany, Italy and Japan of conspiring to achieve: world domination … Presidential deception to justify war did not start with George W. Bush. Americans who express admiration for the US role in World War II, and for Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential leadership, have little moral right to complain when presidents follow his example and lead the country into war by breaking the law, subverting the Constitution, and lying to the people.

  • The Spanish Inquisition and the Jewish Question

    Brian Chalmers

    The Spanish Inquisition and the Jewish Question

    It is nearly impossible to dig into any chapter of Jewish history without uncovering lessons for our own age. Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries is a particularly striking example. Even today, our view of this period, and particularly of the Spanish Inquisition, colors our attitudes regarding relations between Jews and non-Jews. The Inquisition is considered one of Jewish history’s darkest chapters — and one of Christian history’s most shameful.

  • Stalin's War Against His Own Troops

    Yuri Teplyakov

    Stalin's War Against His Own Troops

    … In August 1941 Hitler permitted a Red Cross delegation to visit the camp for Soviet POWs in Hammerstadt. It is these contacts that resulted in an appeal to the Soviet government, requesting that it should send food parcels for our officers and men. We are prepared to fulfill and comply with the norms of the Geneva convention, Moscow said in its reply, but sending food in the given situation and under fascist control is the same as making presents to the enemy … How great was Stalin’s hatred for those who had found themselves behind enemy lines. It made no difference: who, where, how and why? Even the dead were considered to be criminals.

  • The Ethics of War: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Gregory P. Pavlik

    The Ethics of War: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Since the last “good war,” a debate has ensued over the moral legitimacy of the use of nuclear weapons, particularly against civilians. The critics hold that it is a crime to incinerate civilians en masse; defenders commonly claim that the bombing was necessary to bring the war to a close, thereby saving countless American lives. Most of those who make this claim do so in earnest. The problem is that this defense is both historically false, and taken to its logical conclusion, extremely dangerous … The U.S. War Department and related agencies that specialized in producing hate propaganda and lies developed specifically racialist attacks on the Japanese.

  • On the Importance of Revisionism For Our Time

    Murray Rothbard

    On the Importance of Revisionism For Our Time

    Revisionism as applied to World War II and its origins (as also for previous wars) has the general function of bringing historical truth to an American and a world public that had been drugged by wartime lies and propaganda … Revisionism brings to the artificial frenzy of daily events and day-to-day propaganda, the cool but in the last analysis glorious light of historical truth. Such truth is almost desperately needed in today’s world.

  • Suggested Reading: A Study Guide

    Mark Weber

    Suggested Reading: A Study Guide

    In an age when vast amounts of information from a wide range of sources are instantly available online, it can be difficult to sort out what’s reliable, useful, and trustworthy. In response to many inquiries over the years, here are recommended books on five important historical topics: The Second World War, American History, International Relations, Communism, Marxism and the Soviet Union, and, Zionism, US-Israel Relations, and the ‘Jewish Question.’ This listing is neither exhaustive nor final. Additional subject categories and titles are planned, and descriptions may be revised or updated.

  • How Hitler Tackled Unemployment

    Mark Weber

    How Hitler Tackled Unemployment

    To deal with the massive unemployment and economic paralysis of the Great Depression, both the US and German governments launched innovative and ambitious programs. Although President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” measures helped only marginally, the Third Reich’s much more focused and comprehensive policies proved remarkably effective. Within three years unemployment was banished and Germany’s economy was flourishing. And while Roosevelt’s record in dealing with the Depression is pretty well known, the remarkable story of how Hitler tackled the crisis is not widely understood or appreciated.

  • Collusion: Franklin Roosevelt, British Intelligence, and the Secret Campaign to Push the US Into War

    Mark Weber

    Collusion: Franklin Roosevelt, British Intelligence,  and the Secret Campaign to Push the US Into War

    Secretive and unlawful collusion by an American leader with a foreign power that subverts the US political process is not new. The most far-reaching and flagrant case was by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1940-41. In the months before the US formally entered the war in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt did everything he could to get America into the global conflict without actually declaring war. The cooperation with British intelligence by the President and other high-ranking US officials during that period was quite illegal. Such collusion by the nominally neutral US to further the war aims of a foreign government was contrary to both US law and universally accepted international norms.

  • The Boer War Remembered

    Mark Weber

    The Boer War Remembered

    The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 was more than the first major military clash of the 20th century. Pitting as it did the might of the globe-girdling British Empire, backed by international finance, against a small pioneering nation of independent-minded farmers, ranchers and merchants in southern Africa who lived by the Bible and the rifle, its legacy continues to resonate today. The Boers’ recourse to irregular warfare, and Britain’s response in herding a hundred thousand women and children into concentration camps foreshadowed the horrors of guerilla warfare and mass detention of innocents that have become emblematic of the 20th century.

  • Our Job in a Time of Crisis

    Institute for Historical Review

    Our Job in a Time of Crisis

    Mark Weber explains why the work of the IHR in countering the forces of historical deceit, bigotry and cultural distortion is vitally important. An awareness of factual history is essential to an understanding of ourselves and the great issues of our age, says the IHR director in this five-minute video presentation. Unless and until the interests that have gripped our nation are clearly identified and discredited, he says, there will be no change in basic policies or direction.

  • President Roosevelt’s Secret Pre-War Plan to Bomb Japan

    Mark Weber

    President Roosevelt’s Secret Pre-War Plan to Bomb Japan

    Several months before Japan’s Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt secretly authorized devastating American bombing raids against Japanese cities. A top-secret document declassified in 1970 shows that in July 1941 Roosevelt and his top military advisers approved a daring plan to use American pilots and U.S. war planes – deceitfully flying under the Chinese flag – to bomb Japan’s major cities … An air strike force of 500 Lockheed Hudson bombers was to be organized as “The Second American Volunteer Group” under Chennault’s command. Its mission would be the “pre-emptive” bombing of Japan. The strategic objective of JB 355 was the “destruction of Japanese factories in order to cripple munitions and essential articles for maintenance of economic structure in Japan.”

  • Tactics of Organized Jewry in Suppressing Free Speech

    Prof. Tony Martin – Institute for Historical Review

    Tactics of Organized Jewry in Suppressing Free Speech

    … I’m going to try to extract from my experience certain basic sort of tactics that I think the Jewish lobby has used over the years pertaining to my particular situation … The first and major tactic that I discovered in their attack on me was their reliance on lies — just straight-up lies. There’s no other way to describe it, just telling lies. Many of the categories that I will enumerate overlap, and many of them could also come under this general rubric of telling lies. But I think that if one had to isolate a single tactic, it was a tactic of telling lies. I think they’ve elevated telling lies to a very high artistic form.

  • Machinations of the Anti-Defamation League

    Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey, Jr.

    Machinations of the Anti-Defamation League

    I was in politics for fifteen years, and I think you should start with the assumption: never trust a politician … When people finally learn the truth, they turn against those who have been lying to them. And I think that if the movement of which you people are the cutting edge can retain dispassion in the face of outrages, setbacks and humiliations, the truth can ultimately prevail. You are doing something worse than criticizing the government of the United States; you’re threatening the security of the state of Israel. And the Jewish community is dedicated to preserve that state, and to destroy those who speak against it. Good luck!

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