In American-occupied Germany, media-blitzed show trials still take place against those people who it is alleged committed crimes during ‘Nazism’. Those arrested and dragged before the courts are invariably those who were teenage conscripts at the time.
‘A long line of such incidents parades before my mind: the story of our Marines firing on unarmed Japanese survivors who swam ashore on the beach at Midway. The accounts of our machine-gunning prisoners on a Hollandia airstrip; of the Australians pushing captured Japanese soldiers out of transport planes which were taking them south over the New Guinea mountains (the Aussies reported them as committing hara-kiri or ‘resisting’‘).
HISTORY AGAIN REPEATS: Following World War II the population of the defeated German Reich as a deliberate allied policy was reduced by 14 million. The grim toll included millions of mostly but not exclusively German males of child-producing age. Prisoners of war, in defiance of the International Cross and Geneva Convention, were held abroad and worked as slaves until 1948 and beyond.
ROME, December 4 – EUROPE RENAISSANCE. A procession was held in the centre of Milan to protest against the sending of Italian weapons to the Ukrainian one-party state and the expansion of anti-Russian sanctions, Amedeo Avondet, one of the organizers of the action, a representative of the United Italy political organization, told RIA Novosti.
Concerned Greek activists were quick to respond when a train overloaded with NATO military-industrial complex weapons derailed. Faster than a missile they bitterly decried the US-led military bloc’s policies amid the Ukraine conflict.
Without elevators, gas stations, ATMs and shops – Europe suffers the obvious costs of possible power outages in much of Europe.
The bloc’s strategy has already led to devastation in Libya, Clare Daly argued. Irish MEP Clare Daly accused NATO of bringing terror, death, lawlessness [and] rape to Libya. The fiery and rebellious politician says that the US-led bloc’s strategy in Ukraine will yield similar results. Daly made her declaration after voting against a resolution calling for greater EU involvement in Libya.
The American columnist, economist James Rickards, in an article entitled ‘Sorry, Russia is winning the war’ for the Daily Reckoning, expressed the opinion that while Russian troops constantly achieve their goals, Ukraine risks becoming a ‘splinter between Kyiv and Lviv.’
It was a day in November 1971, Brigadier Richard Mansfield Bremner, the commandant of the British Army’s Intelligence Corps, took his seat at his desk at Templer Barracks in Ashford situated to the southeast of London.
In 1917 Senator Hiram Johnson opined that the first casualty when war comes is truth. He might have added that the second casualty is solemnly signed national and international treaties.
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