Annika Mombauer – Her Book on von Moltke Refuted

Annika Mombauer  – A Critical Review of her book Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War (Cambridge University Press 2001 Terry Boardman (Oct. 2002, revised Feb. 2014)   This detailed critical review of Annika Mombauer’s book Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War (CUP, 2001) was first presented to a small historical research group that met in...
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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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Axiomata and Metanoia – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century

This essay was first published in New View magazine Issue 63 June-August 2012 Axiomata and Metanoia (1) – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century        The Mood of the New Century Under the surface of all the turmoil of the new 21st century  has been the burgeoning hype surrounding “the 2012 phenomenon”: will the world end in 2012 because of the supposed predictions of the...
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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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The Balance of Spiritual Combat – China’s Cultural Challenge to the West in the 21st Century

© Terry Boardman   This essay appeared as an article in “New View” magazine Winter 2005/6     The Crucible of the 13th Century Many have recognised the great debt owed by western natural science to the spiritual stream of what has been called Islam, but which in fact is far broader than that of just the 7th century Arab conquerors of the Middle East, since it includes the...
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The 21st Century: American Dreams? European Imagination? Asian Contempt?

  © Terry Boardman  September 1997   The recent death of Diana, Princess of Wales has led many in the media to claim that ‘a quiet revolution’ has been taking place in Britain, and that Diana was a symbol of this. We now have a chance to consider Britain’s identity, they say, where we want to go as a people in the 21st century, and they reflect on how we are becoming...
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