Cut-up Germany

"The mythology states, in effect, that there is no history but Arab history. There is no history but Muslim history. Zionism (and Zionism is what he is talking about here) is an alien force. A bizarre, demiurgical act of violence against the natural development of human events. I must emphasize the artificiality of this mythos. History is not natural. That is, the very idea of history as a natural development, operating under reasonable and autonomous rules, is itself a human creation."

"The Ghetto of History"by The Anti-Chomskyite.

Those who repeat history are doomed to write it.

My guest post on Drink-soaked Trots for War

Classless Kulla rearranges The Guardian, Saturday May 7 2005, using scissors and word processors.



German forces were not defeated by the sheer numbers, but by the inventive tactics and sturdy technology of their enemy. If this had not been the case, a huge German-dominated economic empire would have confronted the western allies with a strategic nightmare.

We will listen to Günter Grass: The Federal Republic's almost unconditional subservience to the US was broken for the first time when the SPD-Green ruling coalition decided to make use of the freedom given to us in sovereign terms 60 years ago, by refusing to allow German soldiers to participate in the Iraq war.

Here we go again: A huge German-dominated economic empire confronts the western allies with a strategic nightmare

1945 may be a lesson learned but victory was not automatic. Soviet resistance meant the difference. Losses were the brutal product of German invasion in 1941. If they could do it then, what are the restraints that prevent the developed world from once again lunging into the madness of mass war and state violence?

It's very clear: we will listen to Günter Grass: Parliament is degenerating into a subsidiary of the stock exchange. Democracy has become a pawn to the dictates of globally volatile capital, so that it now only serves the so-called free-market economy in line with the neoliberal Zeigeist. Yet this concept, which has become a fetish, barely conceals the asocial conduct of the banks, industrial associations and market speculators.

It must have been easier with the Queen.We must break.

As the prime minister reconstructed his cabinet
I was on the streets. I had to do something.

Counterfeiters were subsequently busy coining new expressions and putting them into circulation. Crimes perpetrated by the Germans were described as "misdeeds perpetrated in the name of the German people", unconditional surrender was changed into "collapse", Parliament into a subsidiary of the stock exchange, Democracy a pawn to the dictates of globally volatile capital, banks asocial - if they could do it then, what are the restraints that prevent a huge German-dominated economic empire.

We will listen. And focus. Tell them to
leave the party
and the nation

guessing as to when he might go

Wonderful and funny Anti-German contribution to the World Cup hype - music by torsun, Antifa hooligan choir by the political activist group KP Berlin.

Question: Why can't the British forget the Second World War?

Answer: Because it is just too soon.

A residual resentment of Germany remains in our national consciousness, and that is entirely understandable.

Do you think the Chinese still resent the Japanese for their brutal occupation of their country? You bet they do. These wounds do not heal overnight. They do not even heal after 50 or 100 years. Have the Jews forgiven Germany for Belsen and Auschwitz? No - and why the hell should they?

If you are under 30 you probably have grandparents who lived through the war. And if you are in your middle years you certainly had a mother and father, like mine, whose lives were altered for ever by the war.

For my parents, and for millions of others, the war wasn't a history lesson, a forgotten episode from a dusty textbook. It was the defining experience of their lives.

MY parents lived through the Blitz. They saw neighbours blown to pieces. They lost friends.

My father carried the scars of a German grenade to his grave.

So it does make me laugh when we worry too much about hurting German feelings. Hurt feelings? Between 1939 and 1945 the German nation hurt a lot more than feelings.

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