Tag: Nazis

David Stockman, How American Neocons Wrecked the Middle East and Ukraine

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by David Stockman  THE FIRST GULF WAR – A CATASTROPHIC ERROR Confronted with the greatest opportunity for global peace in nearly a century, George H. W. Bush did not hesitate:  Upon the advice of his retainers, he immediately elected the path of war in the Persian Gulf. This endeavor was hatched by Henry Kissinger’s economically illiterate protégés at the National Security Council and Bush’s Texas oilman secretary of state, James Baker. They falsely claimed that the will-o’-the-wisp of “oil security” was at stake, and that 500,000 American troops needed to…

Why They Don’t Want You To Know What Types of Books the Nazis Burned

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Daily Veracity Staff Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the United States, recently advocated for children in schools to read “Gender Queer,” a book that contains what critics consider to be pornographic images. Weingarten’s post advocating for Gender Queer to be included in schools’ reading lists appeared on the AFT website, where she argued that “Gender Queer is a critically important work that helps to spark understanding, awareness, and respectful dialogue about the diverse gender identities and expression of gender…

Asa Winstanley, Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine

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Asa Winstanley The Azov Battalion uses the Nazi Wolfsangel symbol as its logo (above). Its founder Andriy Biletsky (center) has moved to ban “race mixing” in the Ukranian parliament. (Azov/Twitter) Israeli arms are being sent to a heavily armed neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine, The Electronic Intifada has learned. Azov Battalion online propaganda shows Israeli-licensed Tavor rifles in the fascist group’s hands, while Israeli human rights activists have protested arms sales to Ukraine on the basis that weapons might end up with anti-Semitic militias. In a letter “about licenses for Ukraine” obtained…

Cynthia Chung, How the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement Post-WWII was Bought and Paid for by the CIA

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Cynthia Chung In part 1 of this series Fact Checking the Fact Checkers, the question was posed “why does Ukraine seem to have so many Nazis nowadays?” In that paper we were led to the further question “is the United States and possibly NATO involved in the funding, training and political support of neo-Nazism in Ukraine and if so, for what purpose?” It was concluded that in order to answer such questions fully, we would have to look at the historical root of Ukrainian nationalism and its relationship with U.S. Intelligence…