Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 100

We will be covering the Warsaw Uprising soon, what with the anniversary. The German view. I’m not going to go all Polish on the podcast.

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Thx to Lewis Baston and Greg Olear for their recommendations.

Been difficult posting a roundup every week but somehow I’ve managed it for almost two years.

So let’s go for episode 100…

Unfortunately the military is still heavily sovietized

You can see that in uneven results and the failure last year.

A rosy perspective

A certain milhist’s favorite film

Rarraarararararaa rarara raara

Down the rabbit hole we go

A load of boomer nonsense about junior officers

Nope, the issue was that there was no distribution beyond the pier and the weather. Not boomer junior officer rants. He’s right about it being designed to plug into existing harbours behind wave guards. Always was a ridiculous idea. It did however provide some food and aid.

Have a listen, some good points. I called it a smoke screen and diversion, though it did do some good.

Generally, I’m not a fan of Jacobin writers. Somehow, Biden can make Netanyahu do anything he wants. I doubt Netanyahu can make Netanyahu do what he wants.

More war because Netanyahu needs war

On this edition of Parallax Views, Israel commentator Ori Goldberg joins me from Tel Aviv to discuss the rocket that hit a soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams within the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel has blamed the attacked on a Hezbollah strike. Hezbollah denied being behind the attack. Speculation arose that it was actually due to a malfunction of Israel's Iron Dome. That said, there is evidence that this was likely a Hezbollah rocket. In any case, 12 Druze children perished due to the rocket. At the funeral for the dead children, members of the Druze community protested the presence of Israeli ministers. Meanwhile, a number of Israelis are turning "We Are All Druze Now" into a slogan as fears of a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah grow.

Quiet ethnic cleansing in Europe

In September last year, an established community in a European country of hundreds of thousands of people was removed in its entirety after a devastating military campaign. This was not Ukraine, but the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has now ceased to exist. To understand this and the dynamics of a little understood region including the complex interplay between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, all under the watchful and interfering Russian eye, it was a great pleasure to speak to Neil Hauer, a Canadian journalist based in the region for several years.

Kłódzko - and its weird history

The Czech Prussians and the Rothschild gates

There are a few oddities along the Czech-Polish frontier that I didn’t cover in the published version of Borderlines. There is Kłodzko (Glatz), a shovel-shaped promontory of what is now Poland but before 1945 was Germany; it was the one anomalous county of Bohemia that was annexed by Prussia in the 18

Borders and byways

American madness

What the History of Abortion Can Teach Us About Project 2025

Jessica Cale, my guest on today’s PREVAIL podcast, is the host of the “Dirty Sexy History” podcast. She’s the author of ten works of historical fiction, including the Southwark Saga, and numerous nonfiction pieces. She earned degrees in Ancient History, Medieval Studies, and Creative and Media Writing at Swansea University while climbing castles and pho…

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Palette cleansing - some summer dnb for you

I’m reading a nice secret book

So no cover!

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