In the summer of 1919, Winston Churchill, then secretary of state for war, planned and executed a sustained chemical attack on northern Russia against the Bolsheviks.
Britain’s imperial general staff expected outrage if the use of its secret stockpile became known, but Churchill, a long-term advocate of chemical warfare, set those concerns aside.
He also wrote in a secret memorandum that he was “strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.” Some 50,000 M Devices were shipped to Russia; aerial attacks began on 27 August 1919.
G. Milton, The Guardian, September 1, 2013.
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Electoral repudiations after domestic economic pressure and costly foreign commitments have repeatedly reset the terms of American governance.
The 2026 midterms followed that pattern. Trump and MAGA were rejected across the board.
Greg Johnson and Mark Weber will treat the year’s results as a concrete instance of this mechanism and outline the constraints it imposes.
Relevant books and booklets will be sold at the meeting.
Saturday, 28 November 2026, 6:30–9:30 pm. IHR offices, Orange County, southern California. Selection of historical and political volumes available for purchase on location; donations to cover costs accepted.
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Unconditional support for a modern state is not a purely theological outcome. It is a political decision that can be measured by outcomes on the ground.
Grace Halsell, a White House staff writer who spent years in the region, documented how curated Holy Land tours, selective editorial framing, and organized information campaigns systematically withheld the operational realities of occupation from American Christian audiences. The result is a loyalty that treats one contemporary nation as exempt from the standards applied to every other.
Her essay isolates the precise mechanism: biblical attachment converted into unexamined political funding, even when that funding underwrites the displacement of local Christian communities.
The 50-pack of leaflets exists so the distinction can be placed directly into the hands of people who have only ever received the filtered version.
50-pack of Grace Halsell’s “What Christians Don’t Know About Israel” leaflets:
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“Our territory has been subjected to more than 1,000 Israeli attacks in less than two years, killing dozens.”
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani made the statement on Saturday at the Manama Dialogue 2026.
He asked how demands for border control and exclusive state control of weapons can be justified while Syrian sovereignty is violated and targeted on a daily basis.
He reaffirmed that the occupied Golan Heights is Syrian territory and that UN Security Council Resolution 497 is the reference on the matter.
TRT World, October 31, 2026.
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In his book Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War, Pat Buchanan claims that Winston Churchill plunged Britain and its empire, including Canada, into wars whose outcomes were disastrous for all concerned.
Buchanan marshals a range of facts and historians to support the argument that Britain’s decisions in both world wars produced outcomes opposite to those intended.
The book examines lingering war propaganda and the record of the Allied leaders commonly described as saintly.
Eric Margolis, November 18, 2008.
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In March 1988 Mark Weber testified as an expert witness for the defense in the second trial of Ernst Zündel in Toronto District Court.
Weber was on the stand from March 22 to March 25.
Zündel was charged under a Canadian statute dating from 1892 with knowingly publishing false statements likely to cause injury to the public interest.
The publication at issue was the 32-page booklet Did Six Million Really Die?, first issued in England in 1974.
Weber testified that the booklet’s basic thesis was accurate: the allegation that six million Jews died as a direct result of an official German policy of extermination is unfounded.
Weber examined the text of the booklet line by line over three days.
He stated that no German wartime document refers to an extermination program.
Hermann Göring’s letter of July 31, 1941, to Reinhard Heydrich ordered a “final solution of the Jewish question” by means of emigration and evacuation.
The Wannsee Protocol of January 20, 1942, records a plan to deport Jews to Soviet territories.
An August 21, 1942, memorandum of the German Foreign Office describes a “territorial final solution” by evacuation.
Weber testified that no documentary evidence shows Hitler ordered an extermination program.
Weber noted that the first trial in 1985 had ended in conviction, but the Ontario Court of Appeal set the verdict aside in 1987 because of improper exclusion of defense evidence and improper jury instructions.
The second trial began on January 18, 1988.Zündel was found guilty on May 11, 1988, and sentenced to nine months in jail on May 13.
His attorney, Douglas Christie, appealed at once.The full essay is posted on the IHR website.
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“I believe the world will yet come to see a very great man … in Hitler.”
Canadian Prime Minister William Mackenzie King recorded that assessment after meeting Hitler in Berlin on June 29, 1937.
In a roughly 7,400-word diary entry he dictated the same day, he praised the “constructive work of his regime” and wrote that Hitler possessed “a very nice, sweet” manner that would inspire “profound love” among ordinary people.
He compared him to Joan of Arc and called him “distinctly mystic.”A. Levine, Winnipeg Free Press, October 15, 2011.
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In February 1942 Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt requested the evacuation of “Japanese and other subversive persons” from the West Coast.
President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066 on February 19, authorizing the military to exclude any persons from designated areas.
Executive Order No. 9102 established the War Relocation Authority under Milton Eisenhower.
Congress affirmed the orders with Public Law 77-503.
Evacuation began in March 1942.
It affected 77,000 Nisei (U.S. citizens of Japanese origin) and 43,000 Issei.
Posters ordered Japanese residents to report by April 7 with only bedrolls and hand-carried baggage.
A postwar survey found that 80 percent of the goods they stored were rifled, stolen, or sold during their absence.
Colonel Karl Bendetsen stated: “I am determined that if they have one drop of Japanese blood in them, they must go to camp.”
Approximately 120,000 people were held in ten permanent camps.
At Tule Lake the population reached 18,000.
The camps were enclosed by barbed wire, with guard towers, searchlights, and machine guns.
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Eight internees were shot and killed.
Dozens more were wounded.
At Manzanar, tear gas was used against protesters; one person was killed and nine were injured.
J. Edgar Hoover protested that the program rested on “public political pressure rather than upon factual data.”
The Supreme Court upheld the curfew and the evacuation.
In Ex Parte Endo the Court ended the detention of loyal citizens.
The full essay is posted on the IHR website.
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“It does not matter whether it is a Republican or a Democrat in the White House. Senior Iranian officials see both parties to have been bought by the Zionist terrible power of the purse.”
Iran does not care who wins the midterms or the 2028 presidency; for its leadership the two parties are interchangeable.
Iranian officials regard the distinction between them as irrelevant because both are seen as subject to the same financial pressure.
Iran is preparing for war, not for a deal.
Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture, October 26, 2026.
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In March 2021 Mark Weber issued a progress report from the Institute for Historical Review.
He noted that the new president and his fervently pro-Zionist administration had made clear their eagerness to crack down on what they call “extremism.”
Major Zionist groups had for years targeted the IHR as a particularly prominent “extremist” organization.
The high-level administration posts to which President Biden named Zionist Jews include Secretary of State, Treasury Secretary, Attorney General, Homeland Security Secretary, Director of National Intelligence, and White House Chief of Staff.
YouTube banned many videos of IHR lectures and podcasts.
Google severely restricted access to hundreds of IHR articles, reviews, and other postings.
Last September the company that had been handling credit-card payments and donations for two years suddenly and without explanation cancelled the account.
That was the fourth time a company handling IHR credit-card processing had abruptly cut its service.
On November 27 Facebook removed the IHR from its platform.
In spite of these measures the Institute continued to reach a large global audience through online outreach, its e-mail newsletter, interviews, and distribution of books, discs, and flyers.
Shortly after the Facebook removal the IHR appeared on two new, smaller social-media platforms.
The full report is posted on the IHR website.
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The Board of Deputies of British Jews passed a motion by 118 votes to 1 declaring the Green Party of England and Wales a racist party.
The vote occurred at the board’s October plenary meeting. It followed the Green Party’s October 4 adoption of a resolution describing Zionism as racism and supporting the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine.
The board will treat the Greens as it treats other parties it considers racist. Political parties cooperating with the Greens would be seen as lax in fighting antisemitism.
The Times of Israel, October 25, 2026.
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In March 2020 Mark Weber joined James Edwards on “The Political Cesspool” to discuss the coronavirus measures that had shut down normal life across the United States and Europe.
Weber noted that the crisis had been unthinkable only a few months earlier.
He observed that chatter about open borders and the wonders of diversity had vanished.
The border with Mexico was closed after years of debate.
National leaders and the mass media had persuaded Americans to change their behavior in a few weeks.
When a severe situation is confronted, talk of holding hands and singing Kumbaya goes by the wayside.
Weber described the reaction in Europe.Each country looked first to what would be good for its own people and began closing borders.
The president of Serbia said European Union solidarity had vanished entirely and that Serbia could rely more on China than on the European Union.
China reacted more authoritatively and more quickly than the United States or Italy.
The governor of California said he thought half the population of California would come down with the virus.
Weber pointed out that the United States was already living on the federal credit card.
None of the political leaders of either party had begun to address the national debt.
Democratic leaders focus on the short term and on getting reelected.
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Weber compared the American response to wartime rationing in Germany in 1939.
The German government imposed rationing across the board so that people would not buy up remaining goods and create shortages.
He noted that American media loves panic because scary news draws more attention.
He stated that Americans want a Western white country.
That kind of society does not happen by accident or by people simply pursuing individual self-interest.
Nothing can be taken for granted.
The full audio is posted on the IHR website.
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