Tag: war

Whispering Hope

Whispering Hope is one of Western civilisation’s most engaging and enduring ballads. I was told by my Liverpool-Irish mother that at the onset of World War II, the suicide rate went through the roof, such was the anti-war sentiment.

When propaganda movies need real corpses the Ukrainian Army obliges

The chairman of the International Public Tribunal for the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and Their Accomplices, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Maxim Grigoriev, provided RT with undeniable proof and evidence from residents of Lisichansk about how in the spring of 2022 security forces subordinate to Kyiv shot at civilians for the sake of filming propaganda materials.

Allied War, Betrayal and Savagery in South-East Asia

‘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’‘).