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Ukraine through the eyes of Vladimir Putin
At the centre of the greatest crisis Europe has faced since the Second World War is one man – President Vladimir Putin. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) In an impassioned address to the nation on Monday he set out in 7,500 rambling words … Continue reading
Facts About SLAVERY They Don’t Teach You at School
This is an excerpt from ‘Intellectuals and Race’ — https://amzn.to/3rknNP4
Whitewashing 101: How To Rewrite Black History
It’s Black History Month, so it’s about time we talked about the recuperation of Black radicals like Dr. King and Nelson Mandela. Everyone and their mother likes to claim MLK as their own, and use his words as a rhetorical … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: The USA is a mafia | with Fatima Bhutto
Part 3: https://youtu.be/I0m_7pqq7rg The war in Afghanistan and the mafia-like global order; Modhi and the collapse of Indian democracy; the “China Threat” and the “pivot to Asia; Joe Manchin and climate change. The world seems like a dark place, and … Continue reading
The truth about refugees and the English Channel
It is a myth that a few thousand people fleeing war and famine are the UK’s biggest problem. They aren’t even Dover’s.
Ian Hislop embarrasses MPs in their own select committee on lobbying and transparency
Ian Hislop, Solomon Hughes and Richard Brooks of Private Eye attended the parliamentary select committee on standards to give evidence today. Proceedings became combative and at times cringeworthy as the journalists began reading out the MPs’, who were meant to … Continue reading
United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
Honour the victims of the Holocaust and take a stand against Holocaust denial and distortion. On 27 January, International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, join the @unitednations @UNHOP in an virtual ceremony. Watch it … Continue reading
Holocaust memorial day: ‘The Nazis experimented on me at Auschwitz’ – BBC News
A woman in her nineties who has been diagnosed with dementia has shared her story of how she escaped the Nazis with her son for the first time. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Alina Peretti was sent to a … Continue reading
An unflinching speech encouraged Germany to face the Nazi past | Aeon Essays
Helmut Walser Smith is the Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History and professor of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His books include The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Antisemitism in a German Town(2002), The Continuities of German History: Nation, … Continue reading