ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE

RICHARD SANDERS—Why, PM Trudeau, are Canadians supposed to memorialize Nazis as the “victims of communism? And, why are we supposed to “stand with” these Nazis’ descendants if they have still not faced the truth about their forbears’ complicity in the Holocaust and in the Nazis’ mass murder of almost 30 million Soviets?? Shame on you Mr. Trudeau and shame on your Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland for your shared, Cold-War McCarthyism, for your virulent Russophobia and for your equation of Nazis and communists.

The book exceeds expectations. It reads in a way that gives the impression more that it is a spy novel rather than an historical study. It is more than just about Thomas Edward Lawrence, although he is the character who all the others orbit around in this perspective. It includes a cast of characters that are wonderfully fallible and incompetent – liars, deceivers, manipulators – at their imperial best.

JAY THARAPPEL—On one end of the spectrum there’s Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Ghazali and Ibn Taymiyyah who all argued that an unjust status quo is preferable to the anarchy that would likely follow its overthrow, whereas on the other end of the spectrum, there are the Zaydis who argue that Muslims have an obligation to rebel against unjust and corrupt rulers.

Saudi Arabia is favourable to the “quietism” of the former sort, whereas the Yemeni national resistance led by Ansarullah are Zaydis, who far from being “sectarian” are more accurately the bridge between Sunni & Shia in the sense that they accept the legitimacy of the first three Caliphs (proto-Sunni) while reserving their preference for Ali (proto-Shia), and therefore, they are sometimes referred to as “the Sunnis of the Shia, and the Shia of the Sunnis”.

Quan, a member of the China Writers Group I belong to, has sent the following message: Dear CWG,  Today, Monday August 2-2021 is to be remembered ! HMS Queen Elizabeth did not dare enter Chinese waters in the South China Sea after China’s stern warnings & US’ disapproval…And this is happening 72 years & 2 days after the end of the Amethyst incident.

CYNTHIA CHUNG—It is thought by the ridiculous, that China somehow needs to answer to Britain as the overseer of what is democratic and civil, when Britain had violently taken the region while waging war to push opium on its people. But the problem actually runs much deeper.

HSBC can be regarded for all intents and purposes as a British entity operating for British interests under the guise of a Chinese bank.