Harry Patch and the Panther’s Claw

© Terry Boardman July 2009 the UK declares the first part of its delicately and ‘democratically’ titled  “Panther’s Claw” operation (the British bit of the US army ‘surge in Afghanistan) to have been a success. The BBC today (27 July) said that the Foreign Secretary “has been setting out Britain’s diplomatic strategy” as if Foreign Secretary...
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Beneath the European Crisis

This article first appeared in New View magazine Spring 2011 As 2011 draws to a close we are being told from all sides of the corporate-controlled media that if Europe’s politicians  – and by this is usually meant in particular Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Europe’s strongest economy – do not do ‘the right thing’ within the next few days before the...
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Sir Edward Grey, Liberal Imperialism and British Responsibility in 1914 – From the British Empire to the American Empire

 ©Terry Boardman This article was first given as a lecture at an anthroposophical conference on modern history in Keene, New York State, August 2001 1. Introduction 2. Layne’s Critique of Preponderance 3. Recapitulation 4. British Imperatives in 1900 5. Two Imperialist Streams 1868-1914 6. Balfour 7. Balfour’s ‘Anglo-Saxon Confederation’ 8. Rosebery 9. Sir Edward...
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The Roots of the New World Order – the development of the Anglo-American Imperial Idea 1900 – 2008

    A lecture given at a conference of the Free Anthroposophical Association, Pforzheim  13-14 Nov. 2008 © Terry Boardman In my lecture today, I would like to address three points: I would like first to review certain historical phenomena prior to the 20th century in relation to the question why was the USA founded, why did it emerge out of Great Britain ? Then I shall turn to the...
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AFTER NAFTA…. TAFTA?

©Terry M. Boardman This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in March 1996 7th February 1996: A new rightwing British think tank “Conservatism 2000″ publishes a ‘white paper’ urging rejection of a single currency for Europe. Nothing strange about that; rightwing British Conservatives are notoriously Eurosceptic. But this think tank is headed by John...
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Dark Night of the World – Illuminating the Evil of our Times

 © Terry Boardman This essay was first presented as a lecture at Rudolf Steiner House, London  25th October,1998 Contents 1.  Percepts and Anthroposophical concepts 2.  A picture of evolution  – the prodigal son 3.  The role of evil in evolution 4.  9 members developed in each age: the 5th Post-Atlantean epoch 5.  The 1899 threshold and human threefolding 6.  The coming of the...
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