MICHAEL BUERGERMEISTER—“The slaughter that followed the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941,” wrote Christopher Simpson, “is without equal in world history. Next to the Nazis’ operation of the anti-Jewish extermination centers at Treblinka, Sobibor, Birkenau, and elsewhere, the most terrible crimes of the entire war took place in name of anti-communism in the German-occupied territories on the eastern front. Civilian casualties in these areas were so enormous, so continuous, and so extreme that even counting the dead has proved impossible.
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CALEB MAUPIN—The US, given its ignorant, trusting and confused culture, and its aversion to serious thinking, is a dreamland for charlatans of all stripes. Most people who watch this video agree with Caleb, which testifies that there are sane and rational minds in the US, but they are starving for truth.
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ED CURTIN—The soldiers, who would be slaughtered by the millions as pawns in the great game, sardonically sung it to the tune of Old Lang Syne to express their bewilderment at why they were fighting in the so-called “War to End All Wars” or “the Great War.”
We children sang it because we had heard the words but had no idea where they came from, yet they seemed playful and weird and easy to remember and we were celebrating our good fortune in leaving the city and arriving at the farm for a week’s country idyll.
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Edward Curtin is a writer, researcher, poet, essayist, journalist and novelist. His new book: Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies Nov. 1,2020. He is educated in the classics, philosophy, literature, theology, and sociology, Edward teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His writing on varied topics has appeared widely over many years. Edward writes as a public intellectual for the general public, not as a specialist for a narrow readership. He believes a non-committal sociology is an impossibility and therefore sees all his work as an effort to enhance human freedom through understanding.
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JEFF BROWN—One of the great fabrications of Western mainstream media, among academics and on Wall Street is that China, starting in 1978 with Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, became a capitalist country. The favorite Western shibboleth bandied about is that, China’s authoritarian regime (it’s almost never called a government) runs a system of state capitalism.
