Fred Aarten

politiek & geschiedenis; België, Spanje, NL

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Two very different headlines today in Russia. The army paper: “Victory will be ours!” Nezavisimaya Gazeta: “Is there a way out of the petrol crisis if infrastructure isn’t protected?” #ReadingRussia

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

🚨🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE. Meidas has obtained footage of Trump hiding in the catering truck while switching planes.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Another murder of an innocent young person in Iran and another day of deafening silence by the mainstream Western media. Actually, not a complete silence -- there is the sound of outlets practically cheering Iranian success in the Trump's botched war. Don't do this. Don't let your dislike of Trump or the war blind you to the dangers and horrors of the Islamic Republic's terrorist regime.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Today’s Russian papers report on Russia’s “Anti-crisis petrol” – lower grade fuel now being sold “to prevent a petrol shortage.” One paper warns: “regular use of lower grade petrol” causes problems for modern cars. #ReadingRussia

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

What are this morning’s Russian papers saying about Saturday’s restaurant bombing in Moscow?

Almost nothing. #ReadingRussia

[Joan J. Torró @torromartinezj]

Hui ens ha deixat Rosario Llin Belda, una de les últimes testimonis de l’Hospital Militar Internacional d’Ontinyent.
Amb només 15 anys va treballar al costat de les Mamàs Belgues. Més tard dedicà tota la seua vida a la infermeria
Descansa en pau, Rosario.

[Joan J. Torró @torromartinezj]

Hui, 2 d’agost, Madrich Berliner hauria complit 88 anys.

Va nàixer a Ontinyent

Cada aniversari que no va poder celebrar és una invitació a recordar-la.
Madrich Berliner (1938–1942). Que el teu nom mai no caiga en l’oblit.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

If Joe Biden did this: impeachment. Trump? Another Thursday.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Today one Russian paper claims that Ukrainian strikes “haven’t yet caused Russia damage that could be regarded by the authorities as a reason to compromise.” Meanwhile, Russian “agriculture is plunging into crisis…construction already deep in the red.” #ReadingRussia

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

“Seriously wounded and in intensive care”: how one Russian paper describes the ‘Spirit of Anchorage.’ Russian officials used the 'spirit' phrase a lot after the Trump-Putin Alaska summit. Another paper (in the joke section) explains how to create a small business. #ReadingRussia

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?

AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.

So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.

[Dany Neudt @danyneudt]

Jules Merlot. Luik. Ambtenaar. Gehuwd. Verzetsgroep Vandest en Francis-Daniel. Inlichtingen. Sluikpers. Arrestatie op 5 november 1942. Jules wordt gefusilleerd op 11 december 1942. 42 jaar. #heldenvanhetverzet

[Nick Lloyd @Civil_War_Spain]

Militiaman perhaps writing home. probably anarchist Ascaso Division Banastás, Aragón front, 1937. Another one by Kati Horna. Budapest-born. She tended to aim her lense at the back scene, often focusing on women and children.
He's taken off his alpargatas to left to cool his feet.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

The seven plagues.

[Dany Neudt @danyneudt]

Valère Saelens. Oudenburg. Arbeider. Vrijgezel. Arrestatie in 1943. Opsluiting in Brugge en Sint-Gillis. Deportatie naar de concentratiekampen van Buchenwald, Dora en Bergen-Belzen. Valère sterft op 19 april 1945. 26 jaar. #heldenvanhetverzet

[Nick Lloyd @Civil_War_Spain]

Kati Horna capturing militiamen in the anarchist Ascaso column, around the village of Banastás during the siege of Huesca, Aragón, March 1937. Huge pan of something. Guitar player accompanied by handclaps, so perhaps flamenco-ish. Horna taught Robert Capa how to use a camera back in Budapest. She always had a fresh, interesting angle in Spain.

[(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten]

Trump's "I love the inflation" is one of the most politically tone deaf statements I've ever heard.

No prez before him ever had a -50 pt or worse net approval in an inflation poll. Trump's done it 8+ times.

Trump's the only prez to ever hit 80% disapproval on gas prices.

[Nick Lloyd @Civil_War_Spain]

The moving memorial standing atop of granite boulder to the Gracia family -and by extension the whole of the Republican exile- at La Vajol, Catalonia, just a few kilometres from the French border. Inspired by a famous 1939 photo. 450,000 fled over these moutain passes into an uncertain and often deadly exile.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

And Democrats just won the midterms

[Dany Neudt @danyneudt]

Marcel Zegels. Moresnet. Handelaar. Vrijgezel. Verzetsgroep Kléber. Inlichtingen. Arrestatie op 25 augustus 1942. Marcel wordt gefusilleerd in de citadel van Luik op 29 november 1942. 21 jaar. #heldenvanhetverzet