Radio NZ | 11 May 2015 Dead Wake – the other Titanic Originally aired on Afternoons, Monday 11 May 2015 One-hundred years ago last week, May 7th 1915, a German U-Boat fired a torpedo into the passenger ship RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland killing 1200 of the 2000 people on board. It’s the…
RNZ | 26 April 2015 Originally aired on Sunday Morning, Sunday 26 April 2015 Nejat Kavvas has lived in New Zealand for close to 40-years and is a former Turkish honorary consul to this country. He says a century on the Gallipoli campaign has brought the two countries closer together but that the Turkish view…
New Dawn | 24 April 2015 The truth about Gallipoli has, unlike its victims, been buried deep. Historians like Peter Hart who describe it as “an idiocy generated by muddled thinking”1 are justified in their anger, but not their conclusions. The campaign was conceived in London as a grotesque, Machiavellian strategy to fool the Russians…
Stuart Jeanne Bramhall | VT | 15 Dec 2014 The 1914 Christmas Truce [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WgPi_me1p4?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] 2014 year marks the 100th anniversary of the Christmas truce during World War I. On December 25, 1914, two-thirds of the Western Front (roughly 100,000 British and German troops) spontaneously exited their trenches to exchange chocolate, cigarettes, brandy rum and…
by T. Hunt Tooley | Mises.org | November 24, 2014 Central banks finance war, which leads to assault on freedoms A surprising range of news and opinion outlets have memorialized a string of anniversaries related to the Great War over the last few months: the assassination of the Archduke, the July Crisis, the start of…
By Dominic Alexander | No Glory | 11 Nov 2014 1 The war was fought in defence of democracy This is contradicted by the basic facts. Germany had universal manhood suffrage while in Britain, including Ireland, some 40% of men still did not qualify for the vote. In Germany also, there were attempts to justify…
No Glory in War | 11 April 2014 Historian Neil Faulkner on the First World War and how political leaders like David Cameron and Michael Gove are trying to rehabillitate as a “just and noble” cause, with the intention of justifying today’s wars. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th51UMjbyoU?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] For more information about the No Glory in War campaign,…
Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com August 6, 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtN87fjRosU?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] “The Word Of A King”: George V Pledged British Neutrality to the German Emperor’s Brother — But on August 2, 1914 Told the Foreign Secretary It Was “Absolutely Essential” to Get Britain into War at Once Under Any Pretext
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. February 1995 « Against Oligarchy – Table of Contents “For long years, King Edward wove, with masterly skill, the Nessus robe that was to destroy the German Hercules.” – Leipziger Neuste Nachrichten, after the death of Edward VII, May 1910 “What neither Azincourt nor Poitiers could do, the genius of Edward…
Tarpley.net Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Coast to Coast AM June 29, 2014 [download audio]