Kyoto Protocol and Atlantic Charter : all smiles on outside , all self interest inside

As a moderately well known (and formerly very active) Green politician and activist , it must seem very odd that I have seemingly suddenly turned my back on the party and the movement.

All to devote myself instead to a book on some obscure events from seventy five years ago during WWII.

But I disagree.

I see lessons for us all today from those events so long ago, as the Anglo-American "special relationship" faces its toughest ever crisis : human climate change.

Hitler creates the war-winning Allied coalition

It should never have turned out this way, but it did.

Except for the British and French empires - and even they very reluctantly - no Allied nations ever went into combat against the evil Axis, unless directly attacked by the Axis first.

Nobody , at least no nation , (some individuals did much better) went to war against the Axis because innocent fellow beings, who they didn't know personally , were being murdered by armed thugs.

No nation ever showed any selfless agape love for their fellow beings.