Monday, March 18, 2024

Polish Farmers in Ongoing Fight for Their Existence

 

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NSZZ RI Solidarity’s Request for a Shield for Agriculture in Connection with the War in Ukraine

On March 13 this year, NSZZ RI “Solidarity” Chairman Tomasz Obszanski sent letters to Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Czeslaw Siekierski regarding a shield for agriculture in connection with the war in Ukraine.

“The Independent Self-Governing Trade Union of Individual Farmers “Solidarity” maintains its demands for a halt to the introduction of the so-called “Green Deal,” which we believe will result, among other things, in the liquidation of family farming, industry and huge costs for households in Poland and the entire European Union.

We continue to demand an immediate halt to the uncontrolled import of agricultural crops and foodstuffs mainly from Ukraine and Russia, into the European Union especially Poland, and the restoration of the protection of the EU market under the rules in place before Russia’s assault on Ukraine.

Duty-free imports destroy Polish agriculture, especially commodity family farms. It does not support Ukraine’s defense potential, but only brings in crores of profits from unfair competition to multinational corporations. It also effectively destroys the friendship between the Polish and Ukrainian peoples born after the outbreak of war.

The current situation of agriculture in our country, which is mainly the result of the misguided policies of the European Union incompatible with the previous principles of the Common Agricultural Policy, requires decisive protective measures, similar to those taken to rescue business entities from the effects of Covid-19.

We demand the immediate introduction of a “war shield in and around agriculture,” sustaining the economic viability of farms affected by the irresponsible policies of the European Union and the Polish state after the outbreak of war.  (more...)

Polish Farmers in Ongoing Fight for Their Existence



War on Gaza: Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are Israel’s crimes

 

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Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities?

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised.

No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October - quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. 

Last week, an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz disclosed that some 27 Palestinians seized off Gaza’s streets over the past five months are known to have died during interrogations inside Israel.

Some were denied medical treatment. But most are likely to have been tortured to death.

Three months ago, a Haaretz editorial warned that Israeli jails “must not become execution facilities for Palestinians”.

Israeli TV channels have been excitedly taking viewers on tours of detention centres, showing the appalling conditions Palestinians are kept in, as well as the psychological and physical abuse they are subjected to.

An Israeli judge recently called the makeshift cages in which Palestinians are held “unsuitable for humans”.

Remember, a large proportion of the 4,000 or so Palestinians taken hostage by Israel since 7 October - probably the vast majority - are civilians, like the men and boys paraded through Gaza’s streets or held in a stadium stripped of clothing before being dragged off to a dark cell in Israel.  (more...)

War on Gaza: Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are Israel’s crimes


Staring Into the Abyss: the Malevolence of Weaponizing Humanity

 

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Anton Chaitkin examines history for a path to renewed American greatness




Sunday, March 17, 2024

Commemorating the Russian Fleets of Autumn 1863

 

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Historian Webster Griffin Tarpley talked about the contribution of Russian Tsar Alexander II to a northern victory in the U.S. Civil War. He said that the Imperial Russian government had issued an ultimatum to Britain and France specifying that if those powers should intervene on the side of the Confederate States of America they would immediately find themselves at war with the Russian Empire. Mr. Tarpley marked the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Russian Baltic Fleet in New York City on September 24, 1863, and of the Russian Pacific Squadron in San Francisco on October 12, 1863. He argued that it was the presence of those fleets that provided the final deterrence. Russia was the only country to extend direct military support to the Lincoln government.





Do Sweden and Finland have Nazi Skeletons in their Closets?

 

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The decision to induct Finland and Sweden into NATO’s collective suicide pact shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the growth of Nazism over the past 78 years.

Not only is this growth taking the form of a renewal of swastika-tattooed, black sun of the occult loving, wolfsangel-wearing Azov, C14, Svoboda and Aidar neo-Nazis in Ukraine today, but a whole re-writing of WWII history which has taken an accelerated dive into unreality during the 30 years since the Soviet Union collapsed.

Across the spectrum of post Warsaw Pact members absorbed into NATO such as Lithuania, Estonia, Albania, Slovakia, and Latvia, Nazi collaborators of WWII have been glorified with statues, public plaques, monuments, and even schools, parks and streets named after Nazis. Celebrating Nazi collaborators while tearing down pro-Soviet monuments has nearly become a pre-condition for any nation wishing to join NATO.

In Estonia, which joined NATO in 2004, the defense ministry-funded Erna Society has celebrated the Nazi Erna Saboteur group that worked with the Waffen SS in WWII with the Erna advance Guard being raised to official national heroes. In Albania, Prime Minister Edi Rama rehabilitated Nazi collaborator Midhat Frasheri, who deported thousands of Kosovo Jews to death camps.

In Lithuania, the pro-Nazi Lithuanian Activist Front leader Juozas Lukša who carried out atrocities in Kaunas was honored as a national hero by an act of Parliament which passed a resolution dubbing “the year 2021 as the year of Juozas Luksa-Daumantas”. In Slovakia, the ‘Our Slovakia Peoples Party’ led by neo-Nazi Marián Kotleba moved from the fringe to mainstream wining 10% of parliamentary seats in 2019.  (more...)

Do Sweden and Finland have Nazi Skeletons in their Closets?



Saturday, March 16, 2024

The AGO Protest Took the Right Lessons from the Christie Pits Riots: Opposing Fascism and Dehumanization

 

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Commentators have tried to smear pro-Palestine protests in all kinds of ways. Flavio Volpe invoking the memory of the 1933 Christie Pits Riot to try to do so, though, is particularly absurd, and requires correction.

As someone who studies fascist culture and history, I’m worried we are being led to take the wrong lessons from the Christie Pits Riots. 

The events of  August 16, 1933, which would later become known at the Christie Pits Riot, are the seminal example of Toronto working class and immigrant history. Communities stood together against violent hatred from white supremacists. 

In the summer of 1933 Anglo-Canadian supremacists had organized themselves in so-called Swastika Clubs. Members saw their Anglo-supremacy (i.e. British supremacy) in the same way that Nazis saw their racial supremacy.

Tensions rose to a breaking point when fascists brought a swastika banner to a baseball game in Christie Pits to incite the Jewish and Italian athletes and their fans. The resulting violence saw the swastika banner seized and torn up, and the city enacted anti-hate speech laws in response. 

At the AGO a bit over a week ago, on March 2, outside a scheduled reception for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, hundreds of people protested at entrances denouncing the complicity of both governments’ support of Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. A similar protest was held outside a Liberal Party fundraiser dinner in the Yorkville neighbourhood hosted by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Minister Ya’ara Saks, preventing them from attending, according to police.

Despite what Flavio Volpe, president of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, wrote for The Toronto Star last week in his op-ed, “AGO protest was intimidation fuelled by police inaction,” those antifascists in 1933 would have been supportive of the protesters. 

We must not be drawn to the wrong lessons, especially from Volpe, who has liked social media posts by far-right supporters of Israel and is the son of hard-line Israel supporter and former MP Joe Volpe.

It should be noted that Flavio Volpe was given quite the media platform: in addition to his Star op-ed, he was also quoted about the protest in a reported Star article and in separate articles in the Globe & Mail and National Post, and he was a guest on a Global talk radio show. The Star published no critical opinions responding directly to Volpe.

Let’s remember, though, that those who protested at the AGO were confronting complicity and indifference in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the far-right, fascist-adjacent Italian prime minister’s visit. In doing so, they were following in the footsteps of those who fought the Anglo-supremacists in Christie Pits. 

Invoking Christie Pits as justification for further police crackdowns on protest, as Volpe does, suggests that he isn’t offended so much by fascists as much as by disorderly protest of them.  (more...)

The AGO Protest Took the Right Lessons from the Christie Pits Riots: Opposing Fascism and Dehumanization


Children of Satan

 

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This book is a composite of three excellent pamphlets on the Bush-Cheney apparatus, their creation, the baby boomer phenomenon, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other stuff.