War Of The Worlds

Is it security you

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world. Garet Garrett

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress … history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods … Read more

Mussolini is quite humiliated

Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance. Galeazzo Ciano

I mean, let’s face

I mean, let’s face it, it’s 2000 and people are beginning to wake up on some level. I think that, as I was saying earlier, there’s just no denying the impact that showing people the truth can have. It allows people to understand themselves, and when you understand yourself you can understand the people around … Read more

At first it was

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German – overdone. Evelyn Waugh

The first task of

The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous … Read more

Frank Capra made a

Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called ‘Why We Fight’ that explored America’s reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it’s crucial to ask the questions: ‘Why are we doing what we are doing? What is … Read more

For my mother, having

For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge – surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you. Etgar Keret

If you were to

If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and Palestinians. I think the Jews win: we, Isralians, go from the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms to the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion to World War II and the Holocaust – it’s … Read more

Classic music somehow changed,

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor. Esa-Pekka Salonen