What should be the Green Party case for free trade
23 May 2015 Leave a comment
in international economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Left-wing hypocrisy, New Zealand Greens
Colonel Bird, Commandant of Belsen Camp, gave the order for the last hut at Belsen Concentration Camp to be burned this day 1945
21 May 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Belsen concentration camp, The Holocaust, war crimes
Lt. Col. Ed Seiller speaks to 200 German civilians forced to see the Landsberg concentration camp, this day 1945
15 May 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: The Holocaust, World War II
via theatlantic.com
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
13 May 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill, World War II
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
Winston Churchill, 13 May, 1940. http://t.co/WjTlzWJ4tJ—
✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) May 13, 2015
Is Marxism hate speech? Is it safe to be allowed on campus?
13 May 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: campus speech codes, hate speech, Leftover Left, Marxism, trigger warnings
Global deaths in war since 1400
12 May 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: deaths in war
Global deaths in conflicts since the year 1400
From my web publication: ourworldindata.org http://t.co/Pe99Litae9—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 09, 2015
A short guide to the Middle East conflict
11 May 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Al-Qaeda, Hamas, ISIS, Middle-East politics, Muslim Brotherhood, war on terror
A short guide to the Middle East from @FT. Mind = Blown. http://t.co/kfzJ9b1NM8—
Mina Fayek (@minafayek) August 24, 2013
The men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima
11 May 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: World War II
The men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo from 1945 http://t.co/61a8adE3yW—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) March 31, 2014
The war situation in Iraq and Syria
10 May 2015 Leave a comment
ISW Iraq SITREP. Baiji-Repeat of Tikrit w/ roles of Iranian militias vs. Coalition airstrikes?
iswiraq.blogspot.com/2015/05/iraq-s… http://t.co/QLwhV0lkhS—
ISW (@TheStudyofWar) May 09, 2015
ISW Syria SITREP is out. Did Hezbollah decide to not engage JN or is "Qalamoun battle coming"? bit.ly/1JOMZ4R http://t.co/eb3zIQuhwU—
ISW (@TheStudyofWar) May 05, 2015
HT: Lorenzo M Warby
VE Day versus Europe at the height of Nazi occupation
08 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, VE Day, World War II
It's the 70th anniversary of VE day today – a look at how bleak things looked in 1941-42 brilliantmaps.com/what-if-nazi-g… http://t.co/F9qmzdLBfz—
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) May 08, 2015
Noam Chomsky’s fact free world about the poor dying fighting the wars started by the rich
08 May 2015 2 Comments
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Noam Chomsky, Vietnam war, World War I, World War II
Noam Chomsky hit a new low with his claim that the poor die fighting the wars started by the rich. Wartime casualty rates are available on the Internet in great detail to rebut this nonsense claim.
In the Second World War, First World War and Boar War, the British, Australian and New Zealand Army had minimum fitness standards. Many from poor backgrounds were rejected because of poor health or they were too short.
12% per cent of all men mobilised in Britain between 1914 and 1918 were killed; but nearly a fifth of Oxford graduates who served did not return from the war; the figure for Cambridge was 18 per cent.
UK wartime Prime Minister Herbert Asquith lost a son; future Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law lost two. Anthony Eden lost two brothers, another brother of his was terribly wounded, and an uncle was captured. At the end of World War II, Anthony Eden had to take a week off to grieve because he lost his son in the final days of fighting.
So much for the poor fighting the wars of the rich. Furthermore, taxes on both incomes and inheritances were very high both during and after both world wars.
Australia and New Zealand had volunteer armies in the First World War. The population of New Zealand in 1914 was approximately 1.1 million. Almost 100,000 New Zealanders served overseas in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. From a population of fewer than five million, 416,809 Australian men signed up.
By war’s end, over 60,000 Australians were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner. This compares with around 700,000 British, 60,000 Canadians and 16,000 New Zealanders killed.
In 1939, the New Zealand labour government went to great lengths to ensure it would declare war on Germany simultaneously with the Mother Country. As in 1914, Australia made no separate declaration of war because it regarded as automatic that it would be at war with the enemies of the Mother Country
Military service was all but indispensable to been elected to public office from much of the 20th century.
Bill Clinton’s and Michael Dukakis’s failure to serve were issues on their presidential campaigns that hurt them among their own voting base. They knew that and had to have very elaborate explanations as to why they didn’t serve.
The lack of a service in the First World War of Australia’s wartime Prime Minister in the Second World War, Sir Robert Menzies, was a constant source of taunting and heckling both in Parliament and at public meetings during that war and for the rest of his life.
The First World War broke out during the 1914 Australian federal election. There was ample opportunity for a popular vote on the wisdom of going to war. The opposition Labour party won that election on the pledge of fighting to the last man and the last shilling.
Being an intellectual, Chomsky forgets the patriotism of the working class and the plain desire to ward off foreign domination and conquest. What is a just war? Murray Rothbard explains:
a just war exists when a people tries to ward off the threat of coercive domination by another people, or to overthrow an already-existing domination.
A war is unjust, on the other hand, when a people try to impose domination on another people, or try to retain an already existing coercive rule over them
VE-Day in London and New York
08 May 2015 Leave a comment
The War in Europe is Ended! V-E Day is proclaimed 70 years ago today. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1… http://t.co/HKNasDQx3C—
NYT Archives (@NYTArchives) May 07, 2015
The Wichita Eagle front, 70 years ago today. PHOTOS of V-E Day celebrations in 1945: kansas.com/news/nation-wo… #VEDay70 http://t.co/uoRBc8utzJ—
Josh Wood (@joshwood) May 07, 2015
V.E. Day, 8th of May, 1945, London. By Wolfgang Suschitzky http://t.co/d7e1QrHpko—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) February 08, 2014
The night the Queen snuck out: What really happened when she joined the crowds on V-E day natpo.st/1c2P67i http://t.co/eILVc4tBHO—
National Post (@nationalpost) May 01, 2015
Jihad, Texas style
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: gun control, Jihad, taxes, war against terror
Nazi Germany surrendered 70 years ago today
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
Instrument of Surrender of All German Armed Forces in Holland, 5/4/1945, 70 yrs ago #TDiH todaysdocument.tumblr.com/post/118143287… #WW2 http://t.co/r4EGPmA0Kz—
Today's Document (@TodaysDocument) May 04, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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