On July 22, 1944, the final liquidation of the German concentration camp in Lublin took place.
82nd Anniversary of the Liquidation of KL Lublin https://t.co/wflkyp8ChS
The Siege of Leningrad has always troubled me as a European.
Hitler basically ordered the city erased from the earth…
Encircle it completely, bombard with every caliber of shell and constant air raids, starve the population into oblivion, and reject any offer of surrender.
Our continent answered the call with grim enthusiasm.
Spain’s Blue Division held sectors south of the city and bled fiercely at Krasny Bor.
Finnish forces sealed the northern approaches.
Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians and scattered volunteers from across the West filled Wehrmacht and SS ranks.
Old hatreds and twisted ideology drove them forward as part of a wider European complicity.
It still failed spectacularly.
Over a million civilians perished on rations cut to 125 grams of bread amid savage cold and relentless shelling.
Yet the improvised “Road of Life” across frozen Lake Ladoga delivered vital supplies and evacuated over a million souls despite constant attacks and cracking ice.
The defenders soldiers and ordinary people alike drew on a collective endurance born of existential stakes that a divided, exhausted Europe could not match.
We are watching the same pattern unfold in Ukraine today.
Sanctions designed as economic siege, proxy forces, and endless pressure were supposed to crack Russia quickly.
Instead it absorbs the punishment, relocates production, maintains cohesion, and holds its ground.
The same elite miscalculation repeats…
Underestimating a civilizational depth and will that outlasts fragile coalitions built on short-term fervor and outsourced fighting.
It leaves me deeply uneasy as a European.
We keep repeating the old arrogance, preferring comfortable narratives over hard lessons.
Empires and coalitions that refuse to understand their adversary’s resilience eventually break themselves.
We ignore this at our own peril.
Israel has been committing a genocide for almost three years.
The majority of Jewish Canadians support it.
Major Jewish orgs conflate the religion with the state.
Some non-Jewish Canadians are now taking their word for it.
This is a much more plausible explanation than DEI.
The United States is not a fascist country yet. But the process to become one is unfolding rapidly. The primary reason for this is the capitulation of the Democratic Party to the corporate donor class. The liberal class — intent on crushing any attempts to subvert the agenda of its oligarchic masters — has ushered in this new dark age.
Imagine death penalty for Christians only, for Jews only, for Bavarians or Parisians only. People belonging to a group presumed guilty and deprived of civilians status.
Only because they want to live as a people. Free on their land.
This is what colonial repression looks like.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Congress BLOCKED its own members from even voting on the plan to merge U.S. and Israeli military supply chains...
-The House rules committee refused to allow a vote on the amendment challenging Section 219, the NDAA provision integrating American military technology and supply chains with Israel's
-Massie's account: "No debate or vote was allowed on section 219, integration of US military technology and supply chains with Israel's"
-Khanna: "We do not even have the chance to vote in the House to stop Israel and the United States from co-producing weapons. We need to now fight to strip this amendment in the conference between the House and the Senate"
-The provision advances as the $38 billion aid era winds toward its 2028 "partnership" replacement, and after the House rejected Massie's separate aid-cut amendment 314-104
Whatever one thinks of integration itself, this process is indefensible.
Binding American defense production to any foreign state, ally or not, is exactly the kind of sovereignty question the House exists to debate, and the rules committee answered it by forbidding the debate.
A measure confident of its merits wins a floor vote; a measure smuggled past one admits it can't.
@RoKhanna@RepThomasMassie / Writer: Daniel
Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich warns that Section 219 of the NDAA is a complete, well-planned takeover of the United States military by Benjamin Netanyahu.
He says the bill will give Netanyahu the ability to direct the U.S. military.
"But the truth is that it is laying the groundwork for an entanglement that has never happened in the history of the United States."
"This is totally unprecedented."
Today marks the 84th anniversary of the beginning of one of the largest deportation actions of the Holocaust.
It was bad from the beginning. In 1939, Warsaw's Jews were stripped of their rights, robbed, humiliated, forced into labour, and locked inside the Warsaw Ghetto.
Then it got worse.
30% of the city's population was crammed into just 2.5% of its area. Hunger, disease, and death became everyday life. Children smuggled food because adults couldn't.
🗓Then came 22 July 1942.
The Germans launched the Grossaktion.
For the next two months, more than 250,000 Jews were deported from the Umschlagplatz to Treblinka, where most were murdered within hours of arrival.
🕯Remember the victims.
Both halves of Poland’s ruling duopoly have discredited themselves on this issue
Korybko To Kosiniak-Kamysz: Defending Poland’s Skies Is More Important Than Defending Ukraine’s https://t.co/kNLRSPAen6
A significant shift in US public opinion against Israel
'Netanyahu belongs in the Hague': Mamdani says weighing arrest of Israeli PM https://t.co/ryEKNgBB7H
The modern British security state
The mask of the managerial spy: Decoding the redbrick masque of Home Office intelligence chief https://t.co/LpuN1By2UH
Another front in Israel's desperate hasbara
Irish Band Kneecap Sue Another Canadian for Defamation After Bogus Banning from Canada https://t.co/HLoYDDs9tx
I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Demand Accountability for Israel’s Systemic Torture of Palestinian Prisoners. Write one here: https://t.co/np1xYnDKOk
"Germany is a hypocritical, pitiful State" that supports the Genocide of those it deems to be 'lesser human beings'. The rearming of Germany is silently accepted as normal, but this is not normal, this is more 'White Supremacy' on the march again...
#OTD in 🗓1946, Arthur Greiser was hanged in Poznań after being sentenced by a Polish court.
He governed the "Wartheland," part of the Polish territories annexed by the Third Reich, where he expelled Polish citizens, settled German colonists, and approved mass executions.