RICHARD SANDERS—Why, PM Trudeau, are Canadians supposed to memorialize Nazis as the “victims of communism? And, why are we supposed to “stand with” these Nazis’ descendants if they have still not faced the truth about their forbears’ complicity in the Holocaust and in the Nazis’ mass murder of almost 30 million Soviets?? Shame on you Mr. Trudeau and shame on your Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland for your shared, Cold-War McCarthyism, for your virulent Russophobia and for your equation of Nazis and communists.
Default Editor Patrice de Bergeracpas
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“Breaking the code of Silence”: Eddie Gallagher and the changing story of a death in Iraq
11 minutes readP. GREANVILLE—This central truth was not included in the CBS piece. CBS did not dare contextualise their report, thereby leaving it hard-hitting at the gut level, but also largely orphan of meaning, an unanchored act of unfathomable brutality lacking its proper social and political coordinates.
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Imperial Japan tested biological weapons & new poisons on Soviet prisoners, treasure trove of WWII declassified documents reveals
9 minutes readRT.COM—During their internment in the special brigade’s research unit, which was initially planned to hold 150 people, including Soviet pilots who had crash-landed in Manchuria, “new chemical poisonous substances and bacteriological agents” were tested on the prisoners, including anthrax and bubonic plague.
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RICHARD REESE—We evolved our ability to sweat on African savannahs, where the humidity is typically low (“dry heat”). So, we can survive for a few hours of 120°F (49°C) in Death Valley, California. It’s a different story in super-humid Florida, where “a single day of 120-degree temperatures in Palm Beach would be a mass casualty event. Dead bodies would pile up in the morgues, victims of hyperthermia, or heatstroke — cooked, alive, in their own bodies.” Alas, the cooling powers of sweating have limits.
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JIM MILES—The moral high ground assumed by Westmoreland, Schulz, Bundy, Biden, Blinken et al is that of an assumed morally superior civilization wondering why their technologically inferior opponents would not give up and surrender to them. Why would a philosophically Buddhist/Communist region resist the moral outreach of a Christian capitalist militarized state? Why would a tribe of Islamic fundamentalists, in association with many other variations of that religion, persist in resisting the modernization and moral uplift provided by the same capitalist militarized state, where democracy worked from the barrel of a gun or the warheads of drone missiles?