Tag: World War I
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Every Australian should know about the Jewish Anzac Diggers
15 July 2025 Dear Editor, Relative to population, the Jewish people are God’s and/or Mother Nature’s greatest gift to Western society when you look at their great, so-great contributions to ‘social justice’; the arts, music, medicine, technology, democracy, the law, academia, military development and application, civilization, etc., etc. Some 2,000 Jewish Anzacs served in WWI,…
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The Ghost of World War I is Rattling Its Chains
by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2025 (Mar. 3, 2025) — “Well, that’s special” – The Church Lady from SNL Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is the lead nominee for the Archduke Ferdinand Award as he acted like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown in the Friday White House meeting. This was supposed to be…
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Americans are Tired of Changing Their Clocks
by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2024 (Mar. 10, 2024) — Twice a year, Americans must change their clocks to adjust to standard or daylight-saving time. It is particularly painful in March to lose a precious hour of sleep, but the benefit is more sunlight in the evening hours. To address this craziness, on Friday, U.S.…
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Afghanis Today Might Well Say: “Don’t Knock the British Royals!”
December 22, 2022 Dear Editor, Look what’s happening in Afghanistan to women (and homosexual men) today! So don’t knock the British Commonwealth’s Royals! As a war baby, I remember the old WWI Diggers with missing arms, legs and minds, languishing around (in their often-tattered old army great-coats) the slum-surrounded industrial-area inner-city Melbourne streets and lanes where I grew…
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25 -The Fascist Decades
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jun. 16, 2022) — [Editor’s Note: See previous world history articles from the author here.] “Fascist” is a word still used in the twenty-first century for people we don’t like – a weapon word. Fascism was the dominant political movement of the two decades following World War I, growing out of the…
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24 – War as Revolution
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jun. 14, 2022) — The story of “The Great War,” or World War I, as we have come to call it, is not one of military genius and strategic campaigns but of horror and human suffering. The big picture is one of revolution that touched all of Western civilization, putting to an…
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23 – The Long Fuse
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jun. 9, 2022) — Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Just as the French Revolution is a textbook case for revolutionaries, with an appendix from the Revolution of 1848, so “the Great War,” World War I, is the textbook case, for diplomats, of crisis mismanagement. But it did not look that way in…
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The Duke So Often Honoured the So-Very- Often Missing Four-Letter Word of Today!
April 22, 2021 Dear Editor, As a war baby I remember the old WWI Diggers with missing arms, legs and minds languishing around (in their often tattered, old army great-coats) the slum-surrounded, industrial area inner-city Melbourne streets where I grew up and where so very many people were still recovering (and suffering) from the deprivation and…
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Trump, this 4th of July, Will Show He Will Never Desert/Betray Australia!
“BROTHERS-IN-ARMS” May 16, 2020 Dear Editor, During the 2020 U.S. 4th of July, Independence Day, celebrations, Donald Trump will almost certainly celebrate his confirmation of Australia’s vital role in producing parts for America’s revolutionary F-35 warplane, and his influencing of America’s allies to buy Australian goods and services)! For all his enigmatic, cavalier ways, U.S.…
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Anzacs were Right to Attack Turkey (and Defend Europe against Germany)!
“SUBJUGATED BY FOREIGN POWERS” April 25, 2020 Dear Editor, With the centenary commemoration of WWI ending on Remembrance Day the 11th of November 2018 along with the 2018 100-year commemoration of the greatly historic WWI Battle of Hamel in which Australian and American troops fought shoulder-to-shoulder for the first time (and under the Australian Command…
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Veterans Day: The Forgotten History of America’s Veterans Day and What It Commemorates
“THANK THEM FOR THEIR SERVICE” by Ammo.com, ©2019 (Nov. 11, 2019) — Veterans Day, celebrated each year on November 11th, was first celebrated on this same date in 1919, under the name of Armistice Day. The holiday was named in remembrance of the temporary ceasefire that brought about the unofficial end to World War I…
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From Roe vs. Wade to the Ovens of Treblinka (RR)
“A DEATH CULT” by OPOVV, ©2019 (Jan. 31, 2019) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the one place that exposes Socialism for what it truly is: a failed system of government that’s never worked to the benefit of freedom-loving people. Hello, my name is Roving and I’ll…
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Are the U.S. Air Strikes a Sign of Things to Come?
TRUMP RESPONDS TO SYRIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK ON CENTENNIAL OF U.S. ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR I by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 7, 2017) — On April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I by declaring war against Germany following a request from Congress by then-President Woodrow Wilson four days before. Germany was one of the…
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Democratic Deceit
“LET THE GAMES BEGIN” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2017 (Feb. 11, 2017) — In a recent column titled “The Elephant in the Living Room,” I surmised that liberals and Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by continuing to question the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency. What makes that bit of nonsense so dangerous for…
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OK, So Trump Was Elected. Don’t Be Expecting Miracles.
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Nov. 13, 2016) — Yes, Donald Trump has been elected President, but the situation America faces is just as dire as it was before November 8th, 2016. The accumulated difficulties that have piled up over the last 100 years are not going to…
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And They Call Me a Conspiracy Nut
DEATHS, MAIMINGS, THOSE LOST AT THE HANDS OF GOVERNMENT “EMOTIONALLY OVERWHELMING” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Oct. 16, 2016) — *Author’s note: I wrote this article several years ago but find it to be relevant today as well. If our government stays true to form there will soon be another False…
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Factionalism, Friction, Philandering, Part 2
U.S. PRESIDENTS DURING WAR AND PEACE by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), ©2016 (May 16, 2016) —[Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation from Part 1 found here of what will ultimately be Dr. Davis’s fourth book.] Wilson, the arrogant socialist Democrat, was succeeded in office by Warren G. Harding, who looked every…
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Factionalism, Friction, Philandering
THE FALLACY OF TWO-PARTY POLITICS by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.) (May 15, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following is Part 1 of a new book currently being written by World War II veteran and columnist Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.)] The Remedy 4:22 AM, March 16, 2014 I have just…
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Interview with World War II Veteran and Retired Colonel Tom Davis, Part 2
A CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH “THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR“ by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 24, 2015) — In part 1 of our interview with nonagenarian Dr. Tom E. Davis, he detailed how he began his military service in the Merchant Marine at the age of 17 following his high school graduation in Cut Bank, MT in 1942. Dr.…
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Disaster: The “Warrior Purge” In The U.S. Military
“WHERE DO WE FIND SUCH MEN?” by Capt. Joseph R. John (Ret.), ©2015, Chairman, CombatVeteransForCongress (Oct. 19, 2015) — The biography and photo of the newest member of the Board of Director of the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC, REAR ADMIRAL Edward S. McGinley, II, USNA ’61, USN (Ret) is attached. RADM McGinley forwarded the…