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American Pravda: Lost Histories of the Great War
Female delegates to the 1915 Women’s Peace Conference in The Hague
BY RON UNZ • UNZ REVIEW • NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Friends of the Palo Alto Library runs a local monthly book sale, now reopened after nearly two years of Covid closures, and I usually attend, often buying for a pittance items that have caught my eye. A few weeks ago I picked up for a quarter a copy of Adam Hochschild’s widely praised 2011 volume To End All Wars, his account of the British anti-war movement during World War I, which I’d seen very favorably reviewed in the Times and elsewhere when it was originally released. My own knowledge of that era was relatively meager and sparse, so I spent a couple of days reading the text.
Hochschild seems a fine writer and researcher, certainly earning the glowing blurbs by prominent scholars that stud his book, and he told a very interesting story of the men and women who organized and led Britain’s powerful but heavily suppressed anti-war movement as it opposed the continuing slaughter in the trenches. Many of these individuals suffered harsh imprisonment for their dissent, including Keir Hardie, the founder of what became the Labour Party and Bertrand Russell, the brilliant mathematical philosopher and future Nobel Laureate.
Support for the war split the militant Suffragette movement straight down the middle, and important political families were also often deeply divided, with the beloved elder sister of Britain’s own military commander-in-chief in France becoming a prominent peace campaigner. Just a few years earlier, E.D. Morel, the country’s leading investigative journalist, had been celebrated as an international hero for exposing the horrors of the Belgian Congo, but he was now imprisoned for his anti-war writings, with the treatment so brutal that it permanently broke his health and he died at the age of 51, a few years after the war ended. … continue
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Sounds like John Forsythe to me so how accurate could it be? Nevertheless, let’s go with it.
I wouldn’t doubt it what with the synagogue of satan, and all. Everyone’s got to get their shekels, amirte? All of U.S. history—and then some—is pablum and fried dookie.
By the way, where are Dubya, Rummy, and Cheney? There are many more names but these are the three that trip from my tongue right now. Are they old history?
Not to me they’re not.
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Michelle Obama says that dubya is a good, kind man, etc. That’s a double amount of vomit for me. For example.
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Democraps and Repukes are so darn stupid. You’ve got CRAP and you’ve got PUKE. That’s it. Let’s choose which one we want to vote for. Crap, or Puke.
Me? I hate them both. U.S traitors have nothing to do with Russia, you fools. It’s Israel. Duh!
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My own government/media/jews/traitors are deceiving U.S. citizens. Lying outright to ME. To US! Why is it taking so long to see this?
My own government is, not only liars, but traitorous. Media are not only liars, but traitorous. Corporations are not only liars, but traitorous. Gather them all up and HANG THEM HIGH. I would watch and applaud.
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…and the military. The United States military. (Oops, just following orders, M’am.) Right. Where’s that pie chart showing the national budget? Defense gets a gazillion dollars, education gets what? A tiny part of the pie where parents have to contribute paper towels to the classroom! And THEN some. I try so hard not to curse. I’m trying very hard right now.
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In the meantime, my traitorous government is trying to privatize education AND my precious postal service AND social security. AND anything else they can get their hands on so they can get their shekels. Vote? Can you hear me laugh? I hope you can.
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I think they’re all called ‘money grubbers’. It’s so very disgusting.
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Or, brood of vipers, den of thieves.
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And I didn’t even quote a Bible verse or say anything about Jesus.
Yay, me.
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Okay, well, that last one. Maybe.
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I, and I’m sure many, many others, was totally unaware of this episode in American history. but, it doesn’t surprise me. It is only American citizens who HAVE to be patriotic, and “fight for America”, while rich boys like GW Bush, LBJ, Billy Clinton, (Trump even) and so many others can find a way to avoid ‘service’.
America’s serving army, Navy, and Air Force personnel, are considered to be ‘expendable’ by the ruling elite, and 58,600 young Americans died in the American War in Vietnam(and 350,000 were wounded), a war which was started on a LIE(as they usually are).
The American Government is the American people’s greatest enemy, not the Vietnamese, Iraqi’s, Syrians, or even the Iranians. To the American government, the American people are completely expendable…….”Cannon Fodder”..
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