[…] sharp history of the Catholic church’s greatest scandals. Wearing his philosophy PhD and MA in divinity lightly, Williams conducts the reader through the church’s enrichment by the Hitler and Mussolini regimes in exchange for its support; the church’s wartime role supporting the genocidal Croat regime; its post-war role in helping Nazis flee Europe; the […]
[…] — and the secret state — was very much more ramshackle in the 1920s than it is now; and fascism then did not carry the overtones of Hitler and Holocaust. Hope notes that some of the ‘radical right’ were anti-semitic but also notes that ‘tariff reform, a united Empire and patriotic nationalism served as […]
[…] It was the sectarian outfit the republicans said it was. That’s why it got disbanded. But hell, why stop with Guatemala and Argentina? Why not add Stalin, or Hitler? Compared to the SS, it is true, the UDR was exemplary in its conduct. He really does this, I kid you not. A Professor, too. RR
[…] (Lord Home) and the Duke of Hamilton. But second on this list was the Round Table (named as such). (21) Haushoffer, the German intellectual and mentor of Hitler, who prepared the list, evidently had a better understanding of the actual nature of Britain’s ruling elites than did Claud Cockburn, who, despite having worked at […]
[…] firstly by not recognising that it had a PR strategy; secondly by using dated Second World War/Cold War PR to combat it, the demonisation/personalisation of a figurehead: Hitler, Stalin and now, bin Laden. Which is to say, while al-Qaida has been running a multi-track, cutting-edge PR programme – sophisticated PR is not an exclusively […]
[…] Jewish world and so his call for Jews to shed the weight of Holocaust victimhood and its consequent ‘catastrophic Zionism’ is a very powerful one. Entitled ‘Defeating Hitler’ in its original Hebrew edition, Burg’s book is not, as he makes clear from the outset, an invitation to Jews to forget the creators of Third […]
[…] and representative of the National Interest, or of the consensus — or of sponsors of Political Action Committees. In reference to the Third World, a Leader. Another Hitler: Last year’s ‘moderate’, now threatening our interests. Public diplomacy: The Reagan era name given to a large-scale government propaganda operation, which included massive disinformation and intimidation […]
[…] as paper exercises to keep staff officers employed on the outside chance that something like it might occur. There are indications that in the twenties and before Hitler came to power the Army was planning for a war against Russia on the North West Frontier and in Afghanistan, the Navy was planning for a […]
[…] statute of the I C C and incorporated in the UK in the International Criminal Court Act of 2001.’ (p. 59) Whether Saddam Hussein was ‘worse than Hitler’, to quote George Bush Sr’s memorable 1990 tub-thumper, he was certainly a flawed, authoritarian leader who made incalculable errors. But he also stood as a central […]
[…] farmer and botanist J. E. Hosking; the poet and author Edmund Blunden; the historian Arthur Bryant, whose 1939 book Unfinished Victory was a paean of praise to Hitler (and can never, in my experience, be found alongside Bryant’s patriotic histories in second-hand bookshops); and Philip Mairet, editor of the New English Weekly, a periodical […]
