Things to consider—

Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

Peace in Our Time: Obama’s Munich, Part II

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Apr 242013
 
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From our archives—
BY STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH
Shaking the official tree of history

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In the first part of this series, I presented “what really happened” at  the famous meeting in Munich, Germany between the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.  As revealed in the 1995 book by Clement Leibovitz and Alvin Finkel, In Our Time: The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion (New York: Monthly Review Press), based on British government documents released under the British Official Secrets Act and related materials, the real story was rather different from the “appeasement” tale that has been the standard treatment in the Western press since that time. Continue reading »

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Peace in Our Time: Obama’s Munich, Part I

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[From our archives, originally published 12/08/2010]

"Peace in our time!" Yet one more piece of evidence to distrust official histories.

“Peace in our time!” Do governments ever speak without a forked tongue?

BY STEVEN JONAS

Wikileaks is all the rage right now — in two senses.  The substantive rage is among those U.S. people who care about the nefarious and sometimes illegal schemes that its government has perpetrated on the U.S. and around the world for so many years; among the peoples of other countries who suffered from those schemes; and the foreign governments who were complicit on the schemes and now stand exposed.  The process rage is on the part of U.S. officials and media who want to totally distract the U.S. people from the content of the leaks onto whether Mr. Assange is a spy, an unsafe modern Casanova, a terrorist, or worse.  (Can’t be treason, folks, because he ain’t a U.S. citizen and likely never will be.)  And they are surely succeeding in the U.S., although hardly abroad. Continue reading »

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Exploiting Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Apr 092013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

The Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto: indelible images. How could the Israelis—of all people— forget what oppression is like?

Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated annually. It runs from sundown April 7 to sunset April 8. This year’s theme is “Defiance and Rebellion during the Holocaust: 70 years Since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.” 

Sunday night Warsaw and Jerusalem ceremonies included government officials, dignitaries and holocaust survivors.  At 10AM Monday morning, a two-minute siren echoed across Israel. It marked the beginning of other ceremonies that followed. Continue reading »

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Medical experiments at Dachau

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Apr 082013
 
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Editor’s Note: People are quick to forget or simply ignore the crimes of fascism. Fascism is a hideous and horrendous system in method and purpose.  German fascism possibly the greatest monster of them all. Today in America, as the world, and this country, continue to slide toward the fascist path, albeit behind a “friendly face,” too many people remain indifferent to the monster they are abetting through their passivity. These materials are designed to reawaken a proper interest in these topics, and educate the masses about the dangers of allowing the United States to sink further into a de facto police state. The source for this material is ScrapbookPages.
Medical Experiments at Dachau
Medical experiments were done for German Air Force
Among the worst atrocities committed at the infamous Dachau concentration camp were the cruel and inhumane medical experiments, using prisoners as guinea pigs, conducted by Dr. Sigmund Rascher for the benefit of the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force. From March 1942 until August 1942, Dr. Rascher performed high altitude experiments under the authority of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. The Nazi justification for these experiments was that this was done in an effort to save the lives of German pilots. Continue reading »

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Unmasking re-emergent proto-fascist populism in Italy

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Mar 222013
 
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The political significance of Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star Movement

The success of Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in the recent Italian election is a development requiring attentive examination.

By Marc Wells and Peter Schwarz. wsws.org

The MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S), founded in 2009, won a quarter of the popular vote in its first ever participation in a federal election and is the biggest single party in the House of Representatives.

Beppe Grillo—former comedian, now supposedly a new tribune of the people. Is he a rightwing populist with sinister overtones, or a Huey Long type with genuine feelings for the masses? The man remains a bit of an enigma.

Beppe Grillo—former comedian, now supposedly a new tribune of the people. Is he a rightwing populist with sinister overtones, or a Huey Long type with genuine feelings for the masses?  His program leaves few doubts as to his true allegiance. —Eds

Layers of the working and middle classes voted for M5S to express their opposition to austerity measures imposed by the European Union (EU) and the government of Prime Minister Mario Monti. However, Grillo’s program stands in stark contrast with the class interests of those who fell victim to his populist appeals. They will soon confront the reality of his reactionary, right-wing program.

To understand Grillo’s rise, one must take account of two things: the deep crisis of Italian and European capitalism and the complete bankruptcy of the traditional “left” parties. Continue reading »

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