John Laughland

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Sep 22 19:28:59 PDT 2002


On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, C. G. Estabrook wrote:


> As I recall, when Robert Harris' Fatherland was published in the UK a
> decade ago, it caused a bit of a scandal because it posited a world in
> which Germany had won WW II, but the geopolitical outcome was rather
> similar to what actually happened: after defeating Russia, Germany formed
> a European trading bloc with 12 Western nations, which established a
> friendly/competitive relation with the US. Grist for the mills of Brit
> Euroskeptics. --CGE

Now that you mention it, there's a guy who seems to be pushing the same argument directly in non-fiction form: John Laughland. Essentially he seems to be saying (in a book entitled _The Tainted Source_) that the Nazis were the original globalists, and all globalists today are their heirs, and nationalism is the only defense of freedom. Which I admit sounds kind of silly in one sentence like that, and may well be mad for all I know. But he's not stupid and he writes well and his individual articles on the ICC are interesting (which is all I've ever read by him). I was wondering if anyone could supply any context for where he fits in in the world. His ICC articles have been published by both the Guardian and the WSJ.

Michael



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