Month: February 2023

“Filipino movements protest Marcos Jr’s Decision to Further Open Up to US military” — by People’s Dispatch

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Filipino movements protest against the decision to expand EDCA sites in the Philippines, outside Camp Aguinaldo, the general headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). (Photo:ILPS/Twitter). The decision to allow US to access more Philippine military bases under the controversial EDCA deal has been criticized by progressive groups and activists
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“REVEALED: Britain Secretly Turned Non-Aligned Cyprus Into A Key NATO Asset” — Matt Kennard

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President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, outside 10 Downing Street in London, 17 July 1974. (Photo: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Britain’s territory on Cyprus formed a key part of NATO’s surveillance and nuclear capabilities in the Mediterranean during the Cold War, despite knowing this was “not consistent” with the island’s non-aligned stance.
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“Leaders of a Nazi Homeschooling Operation Unmasked in Ohio” — by John Wojcik

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German school children celebrate the ‘Day of the Founding of the German Reich’ with Nazi salutes in a classroom in 1934. Nazi parents in the U.S. have been collaborating on Telegram to educate their children in the ways of Hitler. | Bundesarchiv of Germany
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“How a Network of Nazi Propagandists Helped Lay the Groundwork for the War in Ukraine” — by Evan Reif

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The Nazi-Ukraine romance in World War II. [Source: greenvillepost.com]
“History isn’t what happened, but the stories of what happened and the lessons these stories include. The very selection of which histories to teach in a society shapes our view of how what is came to be and, in turn, what we understand as possible. This choice of which history to teach can never be ‘neutral’ or ‘objective.’ Those who choose, either following a set agenda or guided by hidden prejudices, serve their interests. Their interests could be to continue this world as it now stands or to make a new world.” – Howard Zinn
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“Suspicions of State Security Set-Up in Germany’s Far-Right ‘Coup’” — Kit Klarenberg

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A massive police raid foiled extremist plans to topple Germany’s government. But the timing of the plot and its absurdity raised questions about a state security role in instigating it – something seen many times in Germany’s past.
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