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The good war myth

9th June 2025 well_chuffed 2395 Comments

It has long been a given that World War 2 was a “good war”. The allies were fighting against the beastly Germans and “right” was on their side. A chap called Chad Crowley has put [more…]

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Whittaker Chambers, Part Three

20th November 2024 well_chuffed 2268 Comments

In 1938 Whittaker Chambers defected. Well they call it defected but he was an American in the USA who worked for the NKVD but saw the light and severed relations with the Soviets. Defection is [more…]

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The Venona Project, Part Two

30th October 2024 well_chuffed 2398 Comments

The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]

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Stalin won the war, Part One

23rd October 2024 well_chuffed 1986 Comments

Instead of diving further into the UK’s entanglement with the commies in the thirties, it’s time to take a look at what was going on over the pond. Much of the thirties antics over here [more…]

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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Five

13th February 2023 Going Postal 1780 Comments

FDR had abolished private ownership of gold money but retained gold as the underlying asset for U.S. currency, exchangeable one for the other. Variations in the price of U.S. currency in ounces of gold served [more…]

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Money, Corruption and Power: The Stolen Elections of Lyndon Johnson – Part 2

2nd December 2020 The Black Swan 4172 Comments

“The power of money was less ephemeral than power based on elections or individuals. It could last as long as the money lasted, exerting its effect not only on an incumbent but on his successors. [more…]

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Roosevelt’s Disastrous New Deal

1st July 2020 Godfrey Bloom 3853 Comments

Britain’s Keynesian press & public service broadcasters view President Roosevelt’s New Deal as something to ‘put on a pedestal’ (Guardian June27). Sadly the New Deal has gone into main stream academic & political economic archives [more…]

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The Morgenthau Plan behind the scenes

8th January 2020 well_chuffed 4087 Comments

Having written about the Morgenthau Plan, I finally found my book that detailed all the behind the scenes machinations involved in producing the Plan. It is not a pretty sight seeing as many of those [more…]

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Tyler Gatewood Kent

9th October 2019 well_chuffed 4074 Comments

Those of you who have defied all tradition and read my ramblings about The Right Club may just remember the name Tyler Kent. He was the cipher clerk at the US Embassy who was passing [more…]

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