A Seasonal Blog – The Christmas Truth, 1914 [External Link]

Posted by on Dec 11, 2014 in blog, First World War | 0 comments This is an interesting piece written by Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor on the Christmas Truce of 1914 and the current attempt by a British supermarket chain to cash in on the memory of the Truce, from Docherty and MacGregor's blog "Hidden History". Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor are the authors of the book Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War (2013), which investigates the activities of the Rhodes-Milner Group in the period 1890-1914 and their influence on British war-planning.
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BBC Radio The Christmas Truce 1914 & Syria 2014:

Posted by on Dec 9, 2014 in blog, First World War | 0 comments 2 mini-masterstrokes of BBC propaganda this morning (9 Dec. 2014) on the BBC Radio 4 flagship programme “Today”connecting Syria and the 1914 Christmas Truce! The context was a recent UN call for rich countries to take more Syrian refugees (Britain has taken 90 so far – after 3 years of the conflict; Germany has undertaken to receive 30,000. But there are 3 million already...
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China vs Japan: The Danger of War – 100 years on, it’s the same story

Posted by on Jan 24, 2013 in blog, east west issues | 0 comments    http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21569740-risks-clash-between-china-and-japan-are-risingand-consequences-could-be “CHINA and Japan are sliding towards war……America is obliged to come to Japan’s aid if it is attacked, and being sucked into a conflict with China is almost too unbearable to contemplate. But in the face of repeated Chinese incursions, a Japanese...
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China-Japan Islands Dispute : Key factor – Shintaro Ishihara

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in blog | 0 comments This Australian newspaper report on the East China Sea Islands dispute between China and Japan is typical of the tendency in western mass media, particularly those close to  the global elite of the ‘Anglo-sfear’,  – which is most of them -  to portray Japan as the victim of Chinese ‘bullying’...
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The realistic solution to the islands dispute between Japan and China

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in blog | 0 comments http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120915a3.html Nothing but bad news here in this Japan Times article: this collection of Prime Ministerial hopefuls in the upcoming LDP Party presidential election, which includes Nobuteru Ishihara, son of  the hardline nationalist and controversial Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, are all, if you read between the lines, talking about revising the...
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Japanese nationalist view of islands dispute with China lacks ‘emotional intelligence’

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in blog | 0 comments       http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_574935&feature=iv&src_vid=05x4iciT_z8&v=gnlr_OBN2uw A summary of Japanese arguments for why China  has no claim to the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Note the use (or rather, abuse) of music by Anton Bruckner! You’ll see here why nationalistically-minded Japanese are trying to use uncontextualised legalistic...
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