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Armistice Day: myth and reality
TONY COLLINS reveals the true story of the end of WWI – a story of rebellions, mutinies and strikes by soldiers and others determined to end the horrific slaughter, a story buried under official rituals and ceremonies
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
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Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
ARMISTICE DAY is promoted as a celebration of national unity, “the day the guns fell silent,” and when the wounds of first world war began to heal.
But the reality is that November 11 1918 marked the start of a new phase of war: the escalation of the class war.
The night before the German high command formally surrendered, Britain’s war cabinet met in Downing Street. The minutes of that meeting reveal that the armistice was not the government’s most important issue.
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