Nick Fischer is Adjunct Research Fellow of the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. He answered some questions about his book Spider Web: The Birth of American Anticommunism.
Q&A with Spider Web author Nick Fischer (archived)
Tag: WWII
Radhika Desai: Western Press Uses ‘Ankle-Biting Yappy Dog’ Pseudo-Academics to Silence Critics
A prominent Canadian academic has come under fire in the Canadian press for attending the Valdai Forum in Russia. She told Sputnik that the Western press uses government-funded “lapdog” academics to smear the reputations of those who criticize Western policies and highlight how they have discredited themselves.
Radhika Desai: Western Press Uses ‘Ankle-Biting Yappy Dog’ Pseudo-Academics to Silence Critics
The Maidan Massacre, Censorship & Ukraine: Interview with Ivan Katchanovski
By Natylie Baldwin, Consortium News, 10/20/23
Canadian-Ukrainian professor Ivan Katchanovski’s investigation of the Maidan massacre in Kiev in February 2014 found an organized mass killing of both protesters and the police, with the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government and its forces and seizing power in Ukraine, as he wrote for Consortium News in an in-depth article in 2019. (On Wednesday three policemenwere sentenced for the massacre, one was acquitted and one was released for time served. The official investigation ignored Katchanovski’s academic research.)
The Maidan Massacre, Censorship & Ukraine: My Interview with Ivan Katchanovski
AP erases Israeli pledge to attack Gaza like ‘Axis Power’ as officials threaten Palestinians with ‘Dresden’ doctrine
As Israeli officials proudly compare their bombardment of the Gaza Strip to the Allied firebombing of Dresden, the Associated Press has quietly removed a section noting US alarm over the historical comparison.
AP erases Israeli pledge to attack Gaza like ‘Axis Power’ as officials threaten Palestinians with ‘Dresden’ doctrine
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UKRAINIAN FASCISM: Bandera Lobby
“I want to draw Bandera Lobby, out of the dark”
On the background of the “Nazi gate”, the networks of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists, and the new anti-Communist hysteria. A conversation with Moss Robeson. Interviewer: Susann Witt-Stahl.
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Relations Sour Between US and Colombia Over Colombian President Petro’s Refusal To Condemn Hamas
“The only way for Palestinian children to sleep in peace is for Israeli children to sleep in peace. The only way for Israeli children to sleep in peace is for Palestinian children to sleep in peace. War will never achieve this.”
Relations Sour Between US and Colombia Over Colombian President Petro’s Refusal To Condemn Hamas
Warmongering: Spot the Difference!
Mashup of RFK Jr’s bizarre claims about BRICS, China, Iran, & Venezuela—while denying that Israel occupies Palestine—with Biden claiming that the USG would need to invent Israel, for
strategiccorporate interests, if there weren’t already one!RFK Jr clip from Michael Tracey.
Joe Biden clip from CSPAN.
Spot the Difference!
Already knew that RFK Jr was a fraud. Just messing around with my screen recorder and iMovie.
Another Communist leader, Georgi Buiko, arrested in Ukraine
This is the “democracy” and “freedom” that our tax dollars are supporting! 🤬
On Aug. 16, Ukraine’s secret police force—the SBU, or Security Service of Ukraine—announced it had arrested Georgi Buiko, a veteran Communist Party member and leader of the Ukrainian Anti-Fascist Committee. Officials accused him of participating in “anti-Ukrainian activities” and of possessing communist and “pro-Kremlin” publications in his home.
Another Communist leader, Georgi Buiko, arrested in Ukraine
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Read More »Liberal alliances with Nazis produce inevitable blowback
NaziGate highlights Canadian ties to far-right Ukrainian nationalism, support for NATO and a long history of conflict with Russia. It should also shine a light on a foreign policy entangled with fascistic groups in many places. But politicians and media, as well as many on the left, have minimized the most salient points of NaziGate.
Liberal alliances with Nazis produce inevitable blowback
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Canada: Neo-Nazis, white nationalists go on pilgrimage to Galicia Waffen-SS memorial
Canada: Neo-Nazis, white nationalists go on pilgrimage to Galicia Waffen-SS memorial
Neo-Nazis and white nationalists have gone on a pilgrimage to an Ontario memorial to the Waffen SS Galicia division, the Ukrainian Nazi-led unit, after one of its veterans received a standing ovation in Parliament last month, prompting renewed calls for the monument to be torn down.
Neo-Nazis, white nationalists go on pilgrimage to Galicia Waffen-SS memorial
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Active Clubs are a nationwide network of localized white supremacist crews who are largely inspired by Robert Rundo’s white supremacist Rise Above Movement (R.A.M.)
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