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Tal día como hoy, hace sesenta y nueve años, el Ejército Rojo liberó Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Red Army liberators recall shock of Auschwitz By Natalia Reiter With additional reporting by Ron Popeski Dated: 26 Jan 2005 KRAKOW, Poland, Jan 26 (Reuters) — When 60 years ago Anatoly Shapiro commanded his Red Army troops to secure a concentration camp complex in Auschwitz, he had no idea he was about to discover the…
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No es mi guerra
By Svitlana Tsiberganova Dear activists of Maidan, I understand that you have your mobilization, resistance, and your own war. But every one of your posts and reposts calling “all real men to come out” I associate with a call, voiced from the scene of your “Maidan,” where called the crowd to beat my boyfriend Dennis Levine and his…
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Día de Martin Luther King Jr.: las lecciones del pacifismo y el movimiento por los derechos civiles.
Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights leaders, was chosen to receive a federal holiday. The answer lies in history: Martin Luther…
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El verdadero legado de Ariel Sharon
Former Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Ariel Sharon died on Jan 11th, 2014, after having spent the last eight years in a coma. He was 85 years old. Sharon was directly involved in war crimes and massacres throughout his career and was one of the most dominant political and military figures in the history…
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Reseña: “Khrushchev mintió”, de Grover Furr
by Alfonso Casal There are certain assumptions one can make, with a high degree of certainty, regarding Grover Furr’s Khrushchev Lied. The first is that, had Furr written a similar book in any area of historical specialization other than Soviet-era studies, Khrushchev Lied would be immediately hailed as a work of major significance. Had Furr…
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Islam, terrorismo e hipocresía: el imperialismo estadounidense en el mundo musulmán.
by Douglas Hill Ever since 9/11, the U.S. government has launched the “War on Terror,” and enacted a virtual avalanche of legislation aimed at containing the threat of Islamic terrorism. Much of this legislation legitimizes the ethnic profiling of people who supposedly “look” like they are Muslim in places such as airports. According to sources such…
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Reseña: “Plan de lección: La historia de la tercera ola” (2011)
The opening title of Lesson Plan: The Story of the Third Wave (2011) reads: “In 1967 a High School student asked his history teacher how the German people could so easily follow Adolph Hitler. What follows is the result of that question.” The story of the Third Wave experiment has been adapted into a 1981…
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Los crímenes de Ariel Sharon
by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair Some incorrigible optimists have suggested that only a right-wing extremist of the notoriety of Likud leader Ariel Sharon will have the credentials to broker any sort of lasting settlement with the Palestinians. Maybe so. History is not devoid of such examples. But Sharon? Sharon’s history offers a monochromatic…
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Estados Unidos, la mayor amenaza para la paz mundial en 2013 – encuesta
The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey and Greece. A global survey conducted by the Worldwide Independent Network and Gallup at the end of 2013 revealed…
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La estatua de Lenin fue reinstalada horas después de haber sido derribada por fascistas ucranianos.
KIEV, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – A statue to Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin was toppled in the central Ukrainian town of Vatutino on Sunday night only to be put back in place several hours later, the UNIAN news agency reported Monday. “A group of unidentified persons detached the monument from the pedestal and toppled…
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