*Winston Churchill, and his war cabinet, were indeed responsible for millions* *of deaths in Bengal—somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million deaths by famine. * *Madhusree Mukerjee examines Churchill's stance and policy exhaustively in* *her book, Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India* *During World War II (Basic Books, 2010). She paraphrases her discoveries in* *this highly nuanced interview in Harper's: * *https://harpers.org/2010/11/churchills-dark-side-six-questions-for-madhusree-mukerjee/ <https://harpers.org/2010/11/churchills-dark-side-six-questions-for-madhusree-mukerjee/> *
*That's apparently why Google literally—but only briefly—blacked out Churchill's * *image, both **in its comprehensive picture gallery of Britain's prime ministers, and * *in its **picture gallery of the major national leaders during World War II.* *So Google did not black out any other British prime minister—not Robert Peel,* *in spite of his complicity in the Irish famine that killed a million people in 1845; not* *Benjamin Disraeli and **Lord Palmerston, despite their Opium Wars with China, the* *casualties of which included some 10 million opium-addicted Chinese people (a* *crime that later PM William Gladstone found abhorrent); and **not David Lloyd George, * *in spite of his complicity in starting, and prolonging, World War I, a slaughter that* *eventually killed 20 million people. * *Nor did Google black out the images of Adolph Hitler or Josef Stalin, but only* *Churchill's, evidently because "black lives matter" (as if Hitler didn't see black* *people as "half-born apes"). * *Google's black-out was discussed by these two British rightists, who—despite * *their **seeming unawareness of (if not indifference to) the history of Churchill's * *wartime **India **policy, and **their mistaken view that Google took that step because * *some **zealous "woke" types pushed them into it (and not because the world's * *most **powerful corporations are all hailing BLM for propaganda purposes)—* *make **some good points. (It may have been their video that prompted Google to * *reverse itself, as of five hours ago.)* *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy4G2xUgXU4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy4G2xUgXU4>* *This mad PC erasure of the past—now including HBO's **blacking out Gone with * *the Wind—is, to say the obvious, straight out of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,* *whose doomed hero, Winston Smith, does exactly that, day after day, as an* *Outer Party member working for the Ministry of Truth. * *https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-max-removes-gone-wind-1297806 <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-max-removes-gone-wind-1297806> * *And while "the left" is vandalizing statues, and getting people fired for making* *taboo statements, even privately, We the People everywhere are bickering in the * *ever-spreading **shadow of a global **fascist order unlike anything the world has * *seen before.* *MCM* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W-_o5V9_wkwLqj-ZePOi7K2Z5iVa4yPB0nmFVRQh1hf1Q%40mail.gmail.com.
