The Second World War is usually seen as a confrontation between giant military alliances. However, in reality, many smaller separate conflicts unfolded within this epic war, and the struggle between peoples and countries was often conducted without compromise or mercy. One of the darkest and least-known pages of the Second …
Read More »Black hobbits, female heroes and other races in Amazon’s new ‘Lord of the Rings’ series draw mixed reactions
Earlier in the week, British actor Lenny Henry revealed that he would be playing a “black hobbit” from an “indigenous” tribe called the Harfoots – a variety of hobbit described by Lord of the Rings (LOTR) author J.R.R. Tolkien as having darker skin. Describing the series as a “prequel to …
Read More »From ‘healthcare heroes’ to 2nd-class zeroes: New York hospitals sack their unvaxxed employees as police state’s jaws snap shut
Monday was the deadline for New York’s healthcare workers to receive their first vaccine dose, and the state’s facade of blissful obedience has already begun to crack. While New York City Health + Hospitals head Dr. Mitchell Katz has reported that just 5% of city nurses were unvaccinated (and presumably …
Read More »‘The real heroes’: CNN’s Stelter outrages Twitter by sharing story calling ‘network TV anchors’ the ‘moral authority’ on 9/11
“Network TV anchors were ‘the closest thing that America had to national leaders on 9/11. They were the moral authority for the country on that first day,’” Stelter tweeted on Saturday, the quote coming from an Associated Press piece highlighting the major news anchors covering the 9/11 terrorist attacks while …
Read More »‘Heroes’: Small group of Afghan women protest in Kabul, demand Taliban regime does not roll back freedoms (VIDEOS)
On Tuesday, a small group of women in Kabul boldly spoke out in public to demand that the new Taliban regime commit to the maintenance of women’s rights in the war-torn nation. Kabul-based journalists have shared videos and photos of the women, who stood chanting slogans and holding heartfelt messages …
Read More »War heroes or murderers? Damning and sickening revelations about the conduct of Aussie troops in Afghanistan just keep mounting
The Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case resumed in Sydney this week, and it continues to cast a critical light on the conduct of Australian troops during their deployment in Afghanistan. Roberts-Smith’s lengthy cross-examination by Nicholas Owens, counsel for the three newspapers that the war hero is suing, was very revealing. The …
Read More »No garden for American heroes, yes to censorship & monument destruction? Biden revokes more Trump executive orders
The White House announced on Friday that it was revoking half a dozen of Trump’s orders and amending the one aimed at placing federal bureaucrats under tighter control of elected officials. Among the orders on the chopping block were two that would have rebuilt historic monuments that Democrats and social …
Read More »Honoring WWII heroes is RACIST? WNBA & Nike cancel jersey commemorating female army pilots because no black women were allowed
The Dallas team’s new ‘Rebel Edition’ jersey, which Nike introduced earlier this month as part of a collection of new Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) uniforms, was meant to pay tribute to the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs). The WASPs helped the war effort amid a manpower shortage by testing …
Read More »In Covid-19 mindset, panic has become a twisted new virtue. Heroes of old who conquered their fears would now be branded as idiots
Sociologists, political theorists and other experts credit the ongoing coronavirus pandemic with forging countless changes in global society. Some are practical, some psychological. Some are temporary, while others will remain in evolving forms. It’s difficult to deduce if the most troubling change we’re seeing really resulted from the viral crisis, …
Read More »Cancelling national heroes makes us historically illiterate and will create an identity crisis for our young people
You could not make it up! The primary school headteacher announced that the names of houses named after some of Britain’s greatest historical figures will be replaced with those of Greta Thunberg, Marcus Rashford, Malala Yousafzai, and Amanda Gorman. Apparently, the cancelled historical heroes – Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Nelson, …
Read More »