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Luxembourg FM: Turkish crackdown reminiscent of Nazi methods

Edit Orange County Register 07 Nov 2016
Luxembourg FM. Turkish crackdown reminiscent of Nazi methods. Associated Press - 7 November 2016 07.19-05.00. News Topics. General news, Turkey failed military coup, Human rights and civil liberties, Nazism, Government and politics, International relations, Events, Social issues, Social affairs, Coups d'etat, War and unrest. People, Places and Companies ... Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved ... ....

America used to be the world's last safe refuge. Trump changed that

Edit CNN 07 Nov 2016
(CNN)My family has been indulging in memories lately. Not everyone gets invited to a 95th birthday party; nor are most such occasions, I suspect, as invigorating as the celebration I recently attended for my grandfather's boisterous cousin Marianne. Marianne is one of life's great survivors -- she's had to be ... Read More ... Over the 20 years preceding, most of the family had already left Hungary, some fleeing Nazism; others communism ... As Mr....

Fighting fear together

Edit The Jakarta Post 07 Nov 2016
We are experiencing two-front anxieties this month. Many Americans I know have voted early and are urging other Americans to vote. In Indonesia, everyone was concerned about the Nov. 4 (Friday) protests, especially Chinese-Indonesians. They are not scared ... It does not matter that many Western bigots are racists who hate Muslims and people of color, as Indonesian bigots have no problem with the revival of Nazism and with racism and sexism....

Poland's treatment of Holocaust scholar tests speech freedom

Edit Orange County Register 04 Nov 2016
Poland's treatment of Holocaust scholar tests speech freedom. Associated Press - 4 November 2016 16.28-04.00. News Topics. General news, Religious strife, The Holocaust, World War II, Anti-Semitism, Freedom of speech, Crime, Government and politics, Nazism, Events, Racial and ethnic discrimination, Discrimination, Human rights and civil liberties, Social issues, Social affairs, Race and ethnicity. People, Places and Companies ... ....

Denmark ends probe into Dane over WWII murder of Jews

Edit Orange County Register 04 Nov 2016
Denmark ends probe into Dane over WWII murder of Jews. Associated Press - 4 November 2016 08.42-04.00. News Topics. General news, Homicide, Violent crime, World War II, Crime, Nazism, Events, Government and politics. People, Places and Companies. Denmark, Belarus. Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ....

Nazis on drugs: how the kick of crystal myth powered the Blitzkrieg

Edit New Statesman 04 Nov 2016
From droping at the 1936 Olympic Games to giving soldiers methamphetamine, two new books reveal the drugs that fuelled the Third Reich ... Germany has an impressive pharmacological history ... It was “part of the broader struggle against the commodification of culture”, and a way in which Nazism distinguished itself from the liberal notion of individual moral rights and the com­munist belief in subjugating the individual to the collective....

Nazis on drugs: how the kick of crystal meth powered the Blitzkrieg

Edit New Statesman 04 Nov 2016
From doping at the 1936 Olympic Games to giving soldiers methamphetamine, two new books reveal the drugs that fuelled the Third Reich ... Germany has an impressive pharmacological history ... It was “part of the broader struggle against the commodification of culture”, and a way in which Nazism distinguished itself from the liberal notion of individual moral rights and the com­munist belief in subjugating the individual to the collective....

David Duke’s Last Stand

Edit Politico 04 Nov 2016
Facebook Twitter Google + Email Comment Print. NEW ORLEANS—It was strange enough to see former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, his surgically-altered face fixed in a grin, standing on a stage at historically black Dillard University on Wednesday night ... 10 ... *** ... In August, retired Tulane University historian Lawrence Powell and several others reactivated the Louisiana Coalition Against Nazism and Racism to combat Duke once again ... ....

Grand Hotel Abyss by Stuart Jeffries review – what happened to Cafe Marx?

Edit The Guardian 03 Nov 2016
Twitter. Horkheimer once contended that “those who cannot speak of capitalism should keep silent on fascism”; Jeffries misunderstands this as a comparison between capitalism and fascism, but he does trace very well the way in which the Frankfurt school and its thinkers were decisively affected by nazism, war and the Holocaust ... Jeffries traces very well how the Frankfurt school was decisively affected by nazism, war and the Holocaust ... ....

Remarks at ‘From Conflict to Communion: Together in Hope’ (Prime Minister's Office of Sweden)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Nov 2016
(Source. Prime Minister's Office of Sweden). Friends,. I would like to begin with the words of the German Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who confronted Nazism in his time. For this, he was interned and murdered. But his thoughts on optimism live on. He said ... Friends,. the number of armed conflicts in the world have increased over the latest decade ... A force that compels warring parties from the trenches to the negotiation table....

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the University of Piraeus, Athens, November 2, 2016 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Nov 2016
(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation). Mr Minister,. Ladies and gentlemen,. First of all, I would like to thank the leadership of the University of Piraeus for conferring an honorary doctorate upon me. A great deal has been said about me and I have learned a great many new things about myself ... This was the case more than once in the 19 and 20 centuries, especially when we fought side by side against Nazism ... (noodl....

UNITED NATIONS EXPERT HAILS ROLE OF EQUALITY BODIES AND ACTION PLANS IN COMBATTING RACISM (UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Nov 2016
(Source. UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva). 2 November 2016 ... Ruteree said, presenting a report* to the United Nations General Assembly ... Mr ... The Special Rapporteur also presented a report on combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (http.//www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/71/325)....

Sony Music apologizes for Japanese band's Nazi-like outfits

Edit The Jakarta Post 02 Nov 2016
Sony Music Japan apologized Tuesday after a popular Japanese all-girls band came under fire for performing in outfits resembling Nazi-era German military uniforms. The mostly teenage members of Keyakizaka46 appeared at an Oct ... Sony Music is the group's label. "We express our heartfelt apology for causing offense ... Sony Music spokesman Yasuyuki Oshio said there had been no intention to link the performance to Nazism ... ....
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