Category Archives: Fascism

Where racism and xenophobia are manifest in Germany

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Official statistics show that most racist crimes in Germany last year occurred in the country’s eastern-most states and Berlin. A civil society expert says that’s no surprise.

via Where racism and xenophobia are manifest in Germany.

Japan marks 70 years since its surrender ended World War II Some Still Support Japan’s War – fail

Hiromichi Moteki, secretary-general of the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact, said he was “disappointed” by the tone of the statement by the prime minister on the eve of the anniversary, in which Abe apologized for the “immeasurable damage and suffering” the nation’s military caused before and during the war.

“We have no reason to apologize to other nations in Asia that became independent because the Japanese military took on the European colonial powers,” Moteki told DW. “We helped them achieve freedom and they should be thanking us.”

 

Nationalist Moteki claims Japan’s aim was to “liberate” Asia from colonialism

Liberating Asia?

Like many nationalists, Moteki believes that Japan invaded and occupied parts of the Pacific and mainland Asia to create a “co-prosperity sphere” and that it was liberating its neighbors from colonialism.

Equally, Moteki and many on the right in Japan are convinced that China triggered the Sino-Japanese war in August 1937, there was no massacre of civilians in Nanking four months later, the United States provoked Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and “comfort women” were not coerced across Asia and the Pacific to serve as prostitutes for Japan’s soldiers.

via Japan marks 70 years since its surrender ended World War II | News | DW.COM | 15.08.2015.

Angry White Man | The New Republic Ron Paul analysis from 2008

To understand Paul’s philosophy, the best place to start is probably the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Auburn, Alabama. The institute is named for a libertarian Austrian economist, but it was founded by a man named Lew Rockwell, who also served as Paul’s congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982. Paul has had a long and prominent association with the institute, teaching at its seminars and serving as a “distinguished counselor.” The institute has also published his books.

The politics of the organization are complicated–its philosophy derives largely from the work of the late Murray Rothbard, a Bronx-born son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and a self-described “anarcho-capitalist” who viewed the state as nothing more than “a criminal gang”–but one aspect of the institute’s worldview stands out as particularly disturbing: its attachment to the Confederacy. Thomas E. Woods Jr., a member of the institute’s senior faculty, is a founder of the League of the South, a secessionist group, and the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, a pro-Confederate, revisionist tract published in 2004. Paul enthusiastically blurbed Woods’s book, saying that it “heroically rescues real history from the politically correct memory hole.” Thomas DiLorenzo, another senior faculty member and author of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, refers to the Civil War as the “War for Southern Independence” and attacks “Lincoln cultists”; Paul endorsed the book on MSNBC last month in a debate over whether the Civil War was necessary (Paul thinks it was not).

via Angry White Man | The New Republic.

The Donald Is a Lot More Dangerous Than You Think | Dame Magazine

Like his White Populist predecessors, Trump is capitalizing on widespread anti-immigrant sentiment. And this kind of rhetoric is just a more socially acceptable form of anti-Black racism. Trump with his anti-p.c. stances and anti-Mexican rhetoric can rally his White troops against everything from #BlackLivesMatter to demands for the expulsion of ethnic studies out of our classrooms, for more prisons and police. He is the personification of White supremacy and patriarchy, cloaked in a mirage of the American Dream and its related ideology of American exceptionalism.

He is recycling a trusted playbook of demonizing immigrants of color, playing on the fears and anger from the White working- and middle-class people who have long supported the GOP since the introduction of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” which capitalized on White bigotry throughout the South while mobilizing White fears of Black crime by advancing an aggressive law and order platform.

His anti-immigrant and racist message is an old historical narrative. It worked from the Know-Nothing Party that mobilized around anti-Irish and anti-Black sentiments. It worked for countless Republican politicians who used fear of the “Yellow Peril” which led to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, and the 1942 Bracero Agreement, a labor and wartime strategy that was used to maintain political power. And of course, racial fear has been fundamental to the maintenance of slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration and the amped-up militarization of the police who are disproportionately killing people of color and being acquitted for it.

via The Donald Is a Lot More Dangerous Than You Think | Dame Magazine.

CENSORED NEWS: Al Giordano responds to Project Censored’s Attack on Censored News

http://www.denaisgazet.be/nieuws/al-giordano-s-reactie-op-aanval-op-censored-news-van-project-censored

*AL GIORDANO’S REACTIE OP AANVAL OP CENSORED NEWS

DOOR PROJECT CENSORED

Al Giordano, uitgever van Authentic Journalism bij Narco News, reageert op de hypocriete aanspraak die Project Censored maakt op het woord ‘censored’ en zijn dreigement tegen Censored News.

Beste Peter Philips

Toen ik in 2007 uw Project Censored award geweigerd heb, heb ik u mijn mening gegeven over uw organisatie.

Ik beschouwde uw organisatie als een gigantische zwendel die journalisten misbruikt; tevens heb ik u het verbod opgelegd om mijn verhaal te publiceren in het boek waarmee uw organisatie mijn werk probeerde toe te eigenen uit winstbejag.

Nu, acht jaar later bewijst u dat mijn oordeel over u en uw parasiterende frauduleuze ploeg volledig correct was, waarvoor dank.

Narco News en al onze bondgenoten van de School of Authentic Journalism zullen aandachtig volgen of u de bedreiging tegen journalist Brenda Norrell zal uitvoeren, en uw voortdurende pogingen om haar het zwijgen op te leggen en te censureren.

Kerels die kwistig woorden zoals “ cease and desist” rondstrooien, zijn gewoonlijk diegenen die hun eigen raad moeten opvolgen en moeten stoppen met zulke infantiele en hebzuchtige pogingen om een journalist te intimideren, en door haar de Native Amerikaanse bewegingen waarover zij en Censored News ongekende en essentiële coverage levert.

De suggestie dat, omdat u “Project Censored” bent niemand anders het woord “Censored” mag gebruiken omdat het uw ‘handelsmerk’ is, is gewoon zo lachwekkend dat het verwerpelijk is.

Het woord is “part of your lexicon?”

Bezorg me a.u.b. een kopie van uw geregistreerd handelsmerk Censored News, voor het artikel dat ik aan het schrijven ben over deze aanval op persvrijheid te voordele van censuur.

Liefst volledig met de datum van registratie die aantoont dat u geregistreerd bent voor Mrs.Norrell met haar publicaties begon.

Zonder dat hebt u geen zaak, Sherlock, en u weet het.

Dit is enkel een poging om een journalist, waarvan u de steun van andere journalisten duidelijk hebt onderschat, te intimideren.

Volhard u in uw poging om het gebruik van de woorden te censureren en wees niet verwonderd dat u eens te meer de pispaal wordt van de hele internationale journalisten gemeenschap, alleen nog meer dan voorheen, omdat deze laatste stunt zo heerlijk hypocriet is dat het beneden alle menselijke waardigheid is.

Oh, en verder nog een prettige dag, Mr. Philips, jij miserabele sukkel.

Oprechte groeten,

Al Giordano

Uitgever, Narco News

http://www.narconews.com

“Cease and Desist” brief van Project Censored, nadat ze mij in 2008 een prijs hadden toegekend en mijn werk, zonder vergoeding hebben gepubliceerd in hun boek .

Censored News werkt voor inheemse volkeren en grassroots mensenrechtenactivisten.

Publiceert zonder advertenties of subsidies.

Brenda Norrell,

Uitgever Censored News

Van Peter Philips

8 augustus 2015

Beste Brenda Norrell

Project Censored gebruikt de titel “Censored” nieuws en het gebruik van deze term door u doet iedere normale mens geloven dat zij verband houden met Project Censored.

Stop onmiddellijk (Cease and desist) met het gebruik van deze titel in uw blog.

Media Freedom Foundation Inc. is de wettige eigenaar van de naam Project Censored.

De termen Daily Censored, Censored news, Censored logo en Censored Notbook maken deel uit van onze lexicon.

U mag termen zoals ‘unreported news’ of ‘hidden news’ gebruiken voor uw blog, maar gebruik het woord Censored niet.

Wij hopen oprecht dat wij niet genoodzaakt zijn om juridische stappen te ondernemen.

Peter Phillips Ph.D.

President Media Freedom Foundation

P.O. Box 571

Cotati, CA 94931

707-874-2695

NAIS zal deze verwerpelijke zaak blijven volgen.

Wij steunen onvoorwaardelijk Brenda Norrell en Censored News.

Brenda Norrell staat volledig ten dienste van Native Amerikaanse grassroots, milieu- en mensenrechtenactivisten.

Dit zonder een enkele vergoeding te ontvangen.

Net zoals NAIS weigert zij principieel alle advertenties, zij ontvangt geen subsidies en steekt haar kleine inkomen volledig in het volgen en publiceren van acties die door de reguliere media worden doodgezwegen of verdraaid.

Wij roepen iedereen op om Censored Nieuws te steunen!

via CENSORED NEWS: Al Giordano responds to Project Censored’s Attack on Censored News.

CENSORED NEWS: Resisting the Censors, Gatekeepers and Powermongers

It is more annoying than anything. First, Project Censored gives me an award in 2008. Then, they use my work without paying for it in a book. Then they use my work at other times without asking. Now, they threaten to file a lawsuit against me eight years after the award because they think they own the words ‘censored news.’

The whole thing is a scam. What a joke: Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation at Sonoma State University, Calif.

One has to wonder if Peter Phillips came up with this lawsuit threat all by himself.

This latest threat to Censored News comes one day after Censored News published this article, Cynthia McKinney’s Dissertation: Hugo Chavez, White Supremacy, COINTELPRO and Wikileaks.

The threat comes shortly after the takedown order from Google Blogger, when Google ripped the article off Censored News about the Anonymous member killed by Canadian police, James McIntyre, jaymack9, as he was defending Treaty 8 from Site C dam in British Columbia.

via CENSORED NEWS: Resisting the Censors, Gatekeepers and Powermongers.

CENSORED NEWS: My grandmother loved words

My grandmother loved words. She was a dirt farmer in the old south. Each day she would work the word puzzles in the newspaper, challenged and awakened by those words. At the turn of the Nineteenth Century, she received a college degree in English. But she returned to the land. She never cut her hair or said unkind words about others.

I aked her once if she could have been anything, what would it be. She said, ‘A cotton farmer, but the boll weevils ended that.’

It was words that took me out of the old south. It was words that took me out into the world.

It is words that can make peace or war. It is words that transform us into what we are becoming. Words awaken our spirits, they carry us forward.

Tonight when Peter Phillips of the Media Freedom Foundation threatened to sue me, claiming he owned the words ‘Censored News,’ I thought of my grandmother.

She lived in a different time and place, but she knew the power of words. She knew their beauty, she knew their resilience, and she knew that like the land and river water, no one can own the words.

via CENSORED NEWS: My grandmother loved words.

Turkey’s Push Into War Is Seen as Erdogan’s Political Strategy – The New York Times

so when Mr. Erdogan, now president, suffered a stinging electoral defeat in June that left his party without a majority in Parliament and seemingly dashed his hopes of establishing an executive presidency, Turks were left wondering how he would respond.

Now many say they have their answer: a new war.

In resuming military operations against the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., analysts see a calculated strategy for Mr. Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party to regain its parliamentary majority in new elections.

Having already delayed the formation of a coalition government, analysts say, Mr. Erdogan is now buttressing his party’s chances at winning new elections by appealing to Turkish nationalists opposed to self-determination for the Kurdish minority.

via Turkey’s Push Into War Is Seen as Erdogan’s Political Strategy – The New York Times.

Israel approves jailing Jewish militants without trial

{Doesn’t this more or less prove, they know who has been acting out terror against Palestinians and moderate Israelis?}

Israel’s security cabinet approved on Sunday the detention of citizens suspected of waging violence against Palestinians without trial in a crackdown aimed at capturing the perpetrators of a lethal West Bank arson attack blamed on Jewish militants.

via Israel approves jailing Jewish militants without trial.

Palestinian Vigilante Effort Marks Stark Change in West Bank – The New York Times

“Can we explode against the occupation, without exploding against the authority?” asked Mohammad Dawabsheh, 32 (most residents of the hamlet share the same family name). “No. You don’t fix your garden before fixing the house,” he said.

But this shift to lashing out, to vigilante patrols, to vociferously condemning Palestinian governance, it is a shift that is bleeding out across the West Bank amid rising frustration. Weary of conflict after the violence of their second intifada, Palestinians speak of deep unease over the future, and despair with their present.

Peace talks have been stalled for years, and Palestinian efforts to hold Israel to account in international forums — particularly the International Criminal Court — are unlikely to bring results in the near future. The Palestinian government, led by Mr. Abbas, 10 years into what was supposed to be a five-year term, is increasingly seen as neglectful and corrupt.

via Palestinian Vigilante Effort Marks Stark Change in West Bank – The New York Times.