BRITISH/ EU/ NATO COMPLICITY

MARTIN SIEFF—The second revelation to throw light on what Orwell had to do in those years comes from one of the most famous and horrifying scenes in “1984.” Indeed, almost nothing even in the memoirs of Nazi death camp survivors has anything like it: That is the scene where “O’Brien”, the secret police officer tortures the “hero” (if he can be called that) Winston Smith by locking his face to a cage in which a starving rat is ready to pounce and devour him if it is opened.

Sajid Javid, who was Britain’s Home Secretary from April 2018 to July 2019, attended “starlight chats” and “after-dinner cocktails” in a series of off-the-record conferences involving high-level US military and intelligence figures at a 5-star island resort off the coast of Georgia, USA. Many of those attending have been exposed in WikiLeaks publications and have demanded the organisation be shut down. 

Javid signed the Trump administration’s extradition request for Assange in June 2019. He was Britain’s Chancellor until his resignation 9 days ago. One of the criteria under which a British Home Secretary can block extradition to the US is if “the person could face the death penalty”.

JOHN HELMER—One day after Australia was defeated at the World Health Assembly in a joint effort with the Trump Administration to attack China, and after Beijing retaliated, calling the Australian Government a US puppet, a joke, and chewing-gum on China’s shoe, Australia has telephoned Moscow for help. In a call initiated by Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was asked to boost Russian imports from Australia and send more Russian tourists to the country.

DANIELLE RYAN—The UK has been a devious but eager and effective accomplice in almost all imperialist crimes committed by the US since the end of WW2. 

GEORGE SZAMUELY—The battles of Stalingrad, Kursk, Kharkov, Belgorod, Smolensk, Dnieper, Kiev, Crimea among many others, including the lifting of the siege of Leningrad, inflicted devastating defeats on the German armed forces. So catastrophic were these defeats that, in the summer of 1944, when the Red Army had moved outside of the borders of the USSR to take the war into Germany itself, the Wehrmacht was but a pale shadow of the army that had conquered most of continental Europe with such ease from 1939 to 1941.