Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have pledged to strengthen their friendly relations as they exchanged messages on the 60th anniversary of a bilateral landmark defense treaty.
The close ties between the nations have been “gaining momentum” in recent years, having “comprehensively developed onto a higher stage in all fields, including politics, economy, military and culture,” Kim said, according to North Korean state news agency KCNA.
CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM
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Chile: Why Did the Coup Succeed? (Special Dossier)
21 minutes readP. GREANVILLE—The materials featured below is the work of great political didacts, people of great talent as filmmakers, and political analysts. Patricio Guzman, the Chilean documentarian and author of The Battle of Chile (BOC), filmed literally in the teeth of Chile’s bloody counter-revolution, its precious stock smuggled out of the country with the aid of a brave antifascist, none other than Harald Edelstam, the Swedish ambassador (who had already gained distinction in WW2 by rescuing Jews and many antifascists from the Nazis), needs little introduction. The documentary, needless to say, made on the mythical shoestring, and eventually completed with the aid of Cuba, is a masterpiece of astute and accurate storytelling. Indeed, Guzman’s small team seems to be everywhere something critical is happening: in the copper mines where the workers are wrongheadedly siding against the government; inspecting the critical truck owners strike that selfishly and myopically paralyzed the country at a decisive moment (an ominous sign that, as Communist party leader Luis Corvalán feared, the middle and lower-middle-classes had not been fully won to the revolutionary project); or inside the Chilean Congress itself, where one naked betrayal after another seals the fate of Chile according to plans already drawn up in the late 1960s (we now know for a fact) in the US White House and America’s sordid intelligence and military precincts in conjunction with the traitorous Chilean oligarchy.
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Class Uber Alles: Meet Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler’s Favorite Spy Who Used CIA Resources To Free Nazi War Criminals
18 minutes readUp until the end of his life, Gehlen enjoyed the protection of German and American leaders. They were willing to overlook his Nazi past in order to use his skills. As the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, noted decades after Gehlen’s death: “If there was ignorance on the matter, it was only because no one wanted to know.”
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The Western “democracies’ fought the Nazis, but were never against fascism, reminds us historian Jacques Pauwels
10 minutes readPauwels
Another important aspect of Pauwels analysis is his reminder that, contrary to propaganda, “fascism” was not the enemy of the “capitalist democracies”, it certainly was not to the Western elites, many of which openly supported and collaborated with the fascist movement. The enemy of the allies—chiefly Britain, France, and the US—was the German Reich, which represented a competing politico-industrial power liable to challenge the established spheres of Western imperialism. The proof of the puddling is that right after the war the “capitalist democracies” had no trouble opening their arms to thousands of prominent Nazis, handpicked to run the new “Western Germany” (where “denazification” was a farce); in fact Gen.Reinhard Gehlen, a prominent Nazi intelligence officer with an extensive network of Nazi spies, not only became a CIA spymaster, but was put in charge of Western Germany’s own security bureau. -
The lies have never been so blatant: Media Play Up Protests, Play Down Effect of US Sanctions in Cuba
18 minutes readFrom armies of bots crowding Twitter, to massive protest pictures that never happened in Cuba, but did happen in Egypt, or other countries, or the shameless attribution of a big demonstration in support of the Cuban government to its opponents, the cases of chicanery can fill volumes. The empire obviously pulled all the stops. Indecency rules.