The Fog of Delusion: The Collapse of Liberal Democracy and Atlanticism

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/donald-trump-and-the-new-world-order-the-end-of-the-west-a-b71fa1bd-6147-47a4-8738-5c17eff44a55

This piece was written before Trump even took office and yet it has proven prescient - to a point. You won't read or hear about any of this on the FOX channel. Visiting their website is like a trip to fantasy-land - they are completely detached and divorced from the reality that the rest of the world sees and is dealing with.

Setting Up the Asian Gameboard for the New Cold War

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/23/scse-m23.html

While I don't know that I would go so far to suggest the US is provoking a 'Gulf of Tonkin' incident as a prelude to war, I do think it's likely the US is looking for low-grade confrontations it can exploit.

The Churchill Cult and Vladimir Putin

http://www.albertmohler.com/2014/03/28/the-briefing-03-28-14/

Listening to Albert Mohler incessantly attack Putin I realized that he's one of the Evangelicals that can rightly be called a Churchill Worshipper.

Dobson famously had a huge portrait of Winston hanging behind his desk and Evangelicals were particularly vexed over an incident regarding a Churchill bust when Obama came into the White House. They reported that wrong as well.

World War II Podcasts

'Angry Days' Shows An America Torn Over Entering World War II

After WWII, Europe Was A 'Savage Continent' Of Devastation

 

Here are a couple of interesting interviews from NPR's Fresh Air. Both deal with aspects of World War II that have been largely ignored by our culture and its myth-making endeavours regarding 'The Good War'.

A Peace to End All Peace

I recently finished reading 'A Peace to End All Peace' by David Fromkin. This is a book I've perused from time to time but I finally finished it cover to cover.