Argentina's Supreme Court finds more than 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement

 

Staffers came across the boxes 84 years later while preparing for a Supreme Court museum

Dozens of boxes of Nazi material confiscated by Argentine authorities during the Second World War were recently rediscovered in the Supreme Court's basement, the court said on Sunday.

The 83 boxes were sent by the Germany embassy in Tokyo to Argentina in June 1941 aboard the Japanese steamship Nan-a-Maru, according to the history that the court was able to piece together, it said in a statement.

At the time, the large shipment drew the attention of authorities, who feared its contents could affect Argentina's neutrality in the war.

Despite claims at the time from German diplomatic representatives that the boxes held personal items, Argentine customs authorities searched five boxes at random.

They found postcards, photographs and propaganda material from the Nazi regime, as well as thousands of notebooks belonging to the Nazi party. A federal judge confiscated the materials, and referred the matter to the Supreme Court.

It was not immediately clear why the items were sent to Argentina or what, if any, action the Supreme Court took at the time.

Eighty-four years later, court staffers came across the boxes as they prepared for a Supreme Court museum.

"Upon opening one of the boxes, we identified material intended to consolidate and propagate Adolf Hitler's ideology in Argentina during the Second World War," the court said.

The court has now transferred the boxes to a room equipped with extra security measures, and invited the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires to participate in their preservation and inventory.  (more...)

Argentina's Supeme Court finds more than 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement

UK Leaders Have Betrayed Those Who Fought in WW2

 

Amid the 80th anniversary of VE day, we reflect on how British governments have failed to uphold the principles men and women defended during 1939-45.

We Britons can rightly be proud of helping to win the Second World War 80 years ago. 

Soviet and American power mainly proved decisive in defeating the evils of Nazi Germany and fascist Japan. But British and Commonwealth men and women played key roles and made huge sacrifices in many European and Asian theatres of war. 

Some 384,000 British soldiers died, along with over 70,000 civilians, mainly in the Blitz. Nearly 200,000 soldiers from Commonwealth countries were also killed.

For British officials imperialist interests were certainly at play during WW2, especially in protecting the Empire, which covered around a quarter of the world’s population in 1939. 

But ordinary Britons weren’t fighting to defend the Empire. They were risking their lives to protect the country from invasion, which meant stopping Hitler dominating Europe. In practice, this signified defeating fascism and liberating subjugated and occupied people from tyranny.

But how have British political leaders upheld such grand principles our forebears rose up to promote decades ago?  (more...)

UK Leaders Have Betrayed Those Who Fought in WW2

The Endless U.S.-Israel Kabuki Theatre

 

In his latest Rant of the Week, Dimitri Lascaris heaps scorn on claims that Donald Trump is about to abandon Israel.  

According to Lascaris, the Palestinian people will soon achieve their freedom, but they will not win their freedom as a result of the intervention of Donald Trump or any other U.S. President. 

Rather, Palestinians will be free thanks to their own immense courage, the fierce resistance of their allies in West Asia, and the tireless efforts of people of conscience from around the world.

Trump’s SHOCKING Turn Against Netanyahu! Is It Real?

 

Reports are emerging that President Donald Trump has cut off communication with Benjamin Netanyahu over concerns that the Israeli Prime Minister is seeking to manipulate Trump into pursuing policies beneficial to Israel but not the United States. Trump has recently been accused even by allies of abandoning his “America First” stance in favor of a more “Israel First” approach.

Jimmy and former HUD Assistant Director Catherine Austin Fitts discuss what will need to happen to demonstrate whether this break with Israel is real or just so much talk.

Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues

 

Former members of UK Special Forces have broken years of silence to give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged war crimes committed by colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children.

"They handcuffed a young boy and shot him," recalled one veteran who served with the SAS in Afghanistan. "He was clearly a child, not even close to fighting age."

Killing of detainees "became routine", the veteran said. "They'd search someone, handcuff them, then shoot them", before cutting off the plastic handcuffs used to restrain people and "planting a pistol" by the body, he said.

The new testimony includes allegations of war crimes stretching over more than a decade, far longer than the three years currently being examined by a judge-led public inquiry in the UK.  (more...)

Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues

IDU: Harper's Worldwide Winning Network

 

Coordination and collaboration helps right wing parties take and keep power

When Stephen Harper’s time as Prime Minister ended in 2015 with his party’s defeat, he didn’t stay in government long. By August of 2016, Harper had resigned his seat as a Calgary MP and started getting down to other business.

Harper’s infamous dedication to the long game was outlined in Paul Well’s biography of the PM, The Longer I’m Prime Minister. In a review for The Narwhal by Russel Blinch, the author wrote: “The very title of the book, The Longer I’m Prime Minister, refers to his plan to shift Canada to the right through small steps achieved over time and under the radar.” In a post-convoy, increasingly authoritarian Canada, it’s hard to argue with the success of Harper’s incrementalist approach. Wrote Blinch, “He wants to ‘re-legitimise’ the right and obliterate all traces of so-called leftish thinking.”

By 2018, Harper was confident enough that his long-term plans for Canada, and his consulting business, were in safe, loyal hands, leaving free to pursue bigger and better. In February of 2018, Harper was elected Chairman of the International Democratic Union (or IDU), succeeding John Key, former PM of New Zealand.

The official origin story has IDU formed in 1983, with founding members including Margaret Thatcher, George Bush Sr., and Jacques Chirac. The goal was “one strong voice” to promote “democracy and centre-right policies around the globe.” The founding declaration was signed by 19 parties.  (more...)

IDU: Harper's Worldwide Winning Network

As more Palestinians die, Canadian Zionists turn to fascism

 

The defeat of Pierre Poilievre has insulated Canada from the worst of the authoritarian Zionism sweeping the US. But Canadians promoting Israel’s final solution in Gaza continue to attack liberal democratic norms.

In recent days B’nai Brith and Honest Reporting Canada have called on the Canada Border Security Agency to block Irish rap group Kneecap from entering the country to perform. At the Coachella music festival in LA last month Kneecap displayed a graphic during their set reading “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine”. Another message noted, “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people” and “It is being enabled by the US government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes.”

Over 4,000 have signed a petition calling on promoters to cancel Kneecap’s show in Vancouver.

As they organize speaking tours for Israeli soldiers who participated in the genocide in Gaza, Zionist groups are calling on Ottawa to ban visitors critical of Israel.  (more...)

As more Palestinians die, Canadian Zionists turn to fascism