Who Knew: We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here
Edward Curtin My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I and the same song my sisters and I...
Lest we forget…
Philip Roddis And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon...
The One Ring and the Villain in All of Us
Kit Knightly This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of Peter Jackson’s trilogy adapting JRR Tolkien’s Lord of...
A Biden Adminstration Makes the Lessons of WWI Newly Relevant
Whatever Trump may be, there's no denying he's been the least militarily aggressive president in recent memory. For the first time in nearly 40 years, a President did not...
The ‘Clean Break’ Doctrine
Cynthia Chung In 1996 a task force, led by Richard Perle, produced a policy document titled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm for Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Green Fields of France
OffGuardian has covered the first World War at length. We have a category for it. We have deconstructed the old propaganda, watched in-depth documentaries, relived the historic trauma. We...
Wearing Your Heart on Your Lapel
W Stephen Gilbert We’re entering the poppy season again. Soon we’ll be able to play the game of spotting the parliamentarian, business executive or home-based television presenter, especially in...
WATCH: “The WW1 Conspiracy – Part 3”
The third part in James Corbett’s documentary series analysing the roots, and myths, of World War I. A week of rain, wind and heavy fog along the Western Front...
WATCH: “The WW1 Conspiracy – Part 2”
The second part in James Corbett’s documentary series analysing the roots, and myths, of World War I. The Lusitania, one of the largest passenger liners in the world, is...
WATCH: “The WW1 Conspiracy”
James Corbett offers his view on the hidden origins of WW1 What was World War One about? How did it start? Who won? And what did they win? Now,...
World War I: An Illustrated Guide to Propaganda
Terje Maloy These stories are not unique cases from a remote war. The same methods are constantly rinsed and repeated, the mentality in our ruling elites is the same,...
Armistice Day & the Resurrection of the Old Lie
In a profoundly dishonest society, the shared grief of World War I is one of the few things we all know the truth of. One of the few things...
Building Bridges vs. Buying Bombs
China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is famous as an extension of their domestic infrastructure investments, but Russia is also investing heavily in infrastructure. Both countries need to do it...
The Christmas Truce 1914
The unofficial Christmas truce of 1914, year 1 of the Great War, saw German, British and French soldiers defying orders to openly fraternise in no-man’s land and even...
Haunted by the Ghosts of War
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s...
VIDEO: Echoes of WWI: China, the US, and the Next "Great" War
In the early 20th century, the world’s dominant superpower looked warily on the rise of a competitor to its supremacy. The machinations of the British to contain the rise...
America Is Being Destroyed By Problems That Are Unaddressed
by Paul Craig Roberts One hundred years ago European civilization, as it had been known, was ending its life in the Great War, later renamed World War I. Millions...
