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Not a Dime’s Worth of Difference on Foreign Policy
Jacob G. Hornberger

An op-ed in the conservative Wall Street Journal provides another example of how there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats, especially when it comes to foreign policy. The op-ed, entitled "Don’t Expect a Big Change in U.S. Foreign Policy" by Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. Singh, argues that no matter who is elected president - McCain, Obama, or Clinton - foreign interventionism will continue to be the order of the day. We all know where John McCain and Hillary Clinton stand, especially with respect to the war of aggression against Iraq, a type of war that was punished as a war crime at Nuremberg.

A Brazen Evil
Justin Raimondo

Evil usually hides its face, because the sight of it repulses all but the depraved. However, in the case of Benny Morris, writing in The New York Times, we see something new: a proud evil, glorying in pure malevolence. His piece is a cold, calculated attempt to simultaneously shock and intimidate, one that succeeds at the former but fails miserably at the latter. Here's the shocker, really a double jolt: "Israel," he avers, "will almost surely attack Iran's nuclear sites in the next four to seven months." Either that, he writes, or else Israel will eventually have to launch "a preemptive nuclear strike." His message to the West: take out Iran, or we'll nuke 'em!

Solzhenitsyn's Critical View of the US
Agence France Presse

Alexander Solzhenitsyn may have come to hate the Stalinist Soviet Union, but the capitalist United States did not win his heart either ... The conflict blew up on June 8, 1978, two years after Solzhenitsyn left Switzerland to set up in Cavendish, a village of 1,300 people, which Solzhenitsyn described as a little piece of Russia. On that day, addressing Harvard University students, the survivor of the Stalinist gulags said he would not recommend the United States as a model f or transforming the Soviet Union.

While in the East the party manages everything, he said, in the West everything is managed by commerce.

A World Split Apart
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Harvard University (1978)

... If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge, we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but, even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern era. This ascension will be similar to climbing onto the next anthropologic stage. No one on earth has any other way left but -- upward.

Television Under The Swastika
Spiegel TV (Germany)

Documentary on television broadcasting in Third Reich Germany. Runtime: 54:44 mins. Includes portions of broadcasts from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, entertainment, propaganda, and more. The world’s first regularly scheduled television broadcasting begin in Berlin on March 22, 1935. It continued, with steady improvements in broadcast quality, until the fall of 1944.

Honorable Exit From Empire
Patrick J. Buchanan

As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat... From 1989 to 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and breakup of the U.S.S.R., America had an opportunity to lay down its global burden and become again what Jeane Kirkpatrick called "a normal country in a normal time."

We let the opportunity pass by, opting instead to use our wealth and power to convert the world to democratic capitalism. And we have reaped the reward of all the other empires that went before: A sinking currency, relative decline, universal enmity, a series of what Rudyard Kipling called "the savage wars of peace."

Rendering Public Opinion Irrelevant
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

... The worldwide consensus is crystal clear -- citizens want their governments to be neutral and even-handed in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, not tilted towards either side. And that consensus is shared not just by a majority of American citizens, but by the overwhelming majority. Few political views, particularly on controversial issues, attract more than 70% support among American citizens. But the proposition that the U.S. government should be even-handed -- rather than tilting towards Israel -- attracts that much support.

Enabling Tyranny
Paul Craig Roberts

... Without the Constitution we have no protection. We simply stand naked before unbridled government power. That’s pretty much how we stand now after seven and a half years of the Bush Regime. Electing a Democratic Congress in 2006 did not make any difference... Across the political spectrum, Americans are happy to shred the Constitution in behalf of some agenda or the other. .. Bush’s "war on terror," essentially a hoax, has transformed the United States into a lawless nation. We are not lawless in the sense of an absence of laws. We are lawless in the sense that despite a surfeit of laws, we no longer have the rule of law.

Women's Brains Are Different From Men's
The Independent (Britain)

Men and women show differences in behaviour because their brains are physically distinct organs, new research suggests. Male and female brains appear to be constructed from markedly different genetic blueprints. The differences in the circuitry that wires them up and the chemicals that transmit messages inside them are so great as to point to the conclusion that there is not just one kind of human brain, but two, according to recent neurological studies.

U.S. Hispanic Population Now 15 Percent of Total
Kansas City InfoZine

The nation's Hispanic population increased 1.4 million to reach 45.5 million on July 1, 2007, or 15.1 percent of the estimated total U.S. population of 301.6 million. National and state estimates by race, Hispanic origin, sex and age released by the U.S. Census Bureau also show that the Hispanic population exceeded 500,000 in 16 states. Hispanics remained the largest minority group, with blacks (single race or multiracial) second at 40.7 million in 2007.

Obama: 'Make Sure Your Child Can Speak Spanish'
Newsmax

At a campaign event in Powder Springs, Georgia, Barack Obama told the crowd that "instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, they'll learn English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish." Obama called America's lack of bilingual speakers "embarrassing," and said that "we should have every child speaking more than one language."

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Irving Describes His Austria Imprisonment at IHR Meeting

In an engaging talk at a memorable IHR meeting, June 14, 2008, David Irving described his harrowing arrest in Austria, his sensational trial in Vienna, and his 13 months of imprisonment. The British historian also spoke about wartime Germany’s harsh treatment of Jews, presenting a view of "the Holocaust" similar to the one he laid out more than 30 years ago in the first edition of Hitler's War. Mark Weber took aim at the American national mythology about World War II. He spoke about the two new books by Patrick J. Buchanan and Nicholson Baker, praising them as important antidotes to the familiar, much propagandized portrayal of the war.

First-Rate Talks Mark Successful IHR Meeting

First-rate talks by three seasoned speakers marked a memorable IHR meeting on May 24, 2008, in southern California. Paul Fromm reported with insight and humor on the battle for on-line free speech in Canada. Mark Weber, in a closely reasoned and well-referenced lecture, dismantled the myth of World War II as a "good war" clash between virtue and evil. Mark Green explained why the dread label of "anti-Semitism" is inaccurate and bogus.

The `Good War’ Myth of World War II

By Mark Weber

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.

Israel at 60: A Grim Balance Sheet

By Mark Weber

... Contrary to claims made by American and Israeli political leaders, US support for Israel has never been in America’s authentic national interest, nor has it been based on a commitment to democracy and freedom ... In spite of its impressive military arsenal, and virtually unlimited support from the United States, Israel’s long-term prospects are not good ... Although Israel is a formidable military power, it is an aberrant, crisis-prone state, artificially kept alive with outside support, and based on an unworkable ideology.

Weber Speaks on the Israel Lobby at University of Oregon

“The Israel Lobby: How Powerful Is It?”
By Mark Weber

New Book On Mass Killings and Brutal Mistreatment of Germans
at the End of World War II
By Mark Weber

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