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the holocaust industry and the DNC identity politics.......

For decades Democrats have been steadily abandoning the working class voters who used to make up the backbone of the party’s base, and in place of policies to benefit working people, Democrats have adopted… identity politics. Author and academic Norman Finkelstein lights into Democrats for spouting nonsense cloaked in the language of tolerance while conveniently neglecting issues like Medicare for All, student loan forgiveness and housing.

Guest host Aaron Maté speaks with Finkelstein about the phonies, poseurs and social climbers who have come to run the Democratic Party.

 

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ABOUT FINKELSTEIN:

 

Finkelstein has said of his parents that "they saw the world through the prism of the Nazi Holocaust. They were eternally indebted to the Soviet Union (to whom they attributed the defeat of the Nazis), and so anyone who was anti-Soviet they were extremely harsh on".[7] They supported the Soviet Union's approval of the creation of the State of Israel, as enunciated by Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, who said that Jews had earned the right to a state, but thought that Israel had sold its soul to the West and "refused to have any truck with it".[7]

 

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Finkelstein's doctoral thesis examined the claims made in Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial, a best-selling book at the time. Peters's "history and defense" of Israel deals with the demographic history of Palestine. Demographic studies had tended to assert that the Arabpopulation of Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a 94% majority at the turn of the century, had dwindled toward parity due to massive Zionistimmigration. Peters radically challenged this view by arguing that a substantial portion of the Palestinians were descended from immigrants from other Arab countries from the early 19th century onward. It followed, for Peters and many of her readers, that the picture of a native Palestinian population overwhelmed by Jewish immigration was little more than propaganda, and that in actuality two almost simultaneous waves of immigration met in what had been a relatively unpopulated land.[citation needed]

From Time Immemorial was praised by figures as varied as Barbara Tuchman, Theodore H. White, Elie Wiesel, and Lucy Dawidowicz. Saul Bellow wrote in a jacket endorsement, "Millions of people the world over, smothered by false history and propaganda, will be grateful for this clear account of the origins of the Palestinians."[24]

Finkelstein called the book a "monumental hoax".[25] He later opined that, while Peters's book received widespread interest and approval in the United States, a scholarly demonstration of its fraudulence and unreliability aroused little attention:

By the end of 1984, From Time Immemorial had...received some two hundred [favorable] notices ... in the United States. The only "false" notes in this crescendoing chorus of praise were the Journal of Palestine Studies, which ran a highly critical review by Bill Farrell; the small Chicago-based newsweekly In These Times, which published a condensed version of this writer's findings; and Alexander Cockburn, who devoted a series of columns in The Nation exposing the hoax. ... The periodicals in which From Time Immemorial had already been favorably reviewed refused to run any critical correspondence (e.g., The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Commentary). Periodicals that had yet to review the book rejected a manuscript on the subject as of little or no consequence (e.g., The Village Voice, Dissent, The New York Review of Books). Not a single national newspaper or columnist contacted found it newsworthy that a best-selling, effusively praised "study" of the Middle East conflict was a threadbare hoax.[26]

In Understanding Power, Chomsky wrote that Finkelstein sent his preliminary findings to about 30 people interested in the topic, but no one replied, except for him, and that was how they became friends:

I told him, yeah, I think it’s an interesting topic, but I warned him, if you follow this, you’re going to get in trouble—because you're going to expose the American intellectual community as a gang of frauds, and they are not going to like it, and they're going to destroy you. So I said: if you want to do it, go ahead, but be aware of what you're getting into. It's an important issue, it makes a big difference whether you eliminate the moral basis for driving out a population—it's preparing the basis for some real horrors—so a lot of people's lives could be at stake. But your life is at stake too, I told him, because if you pursue this, your career is going to be ruined. Well, he didn't believe me. We became very close friends after this, I didn't know him before.[13]

According to Chomsky, the controversy surrounding Finkelstein's research caused a delay in his earning his Ph.D. at Princeton University. Chomsky wrote that Finkelstein "literally could not get the faculty to read [his dissertation]" and that Princeton eventually granted Finkelstein his doctorate only "out of embarrassment [for Princeton]" but refused to give him any further professional backing.[27]

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein

 

IF CHOMSKY APPROVES OF FINKELSTEIN, THIS IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR US....

 

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US/Ukr goebbelisation....

Ukrainian intelligence has partnered with the FBI and other US government agencies to remove ‘Russian’ content on Silicon Valley platforms, a senior official told independent journalist Lee Fang earlier this week at the RSA Convention in San Francisco.

“Once we have a trace or evidence of disinformation campaigns via Facebook or other resources that are from the US, we pass this information to the FBI, along with writing directly to Facebook,” Ilya Vitiuk, head of the Department of Cyber Information Security in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), told Fang.

Vitiuk spoke at the cyber security conference, sitting on a panel alongside FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran, Special Agent Alex Kobzanets from the San Francisco field office, and Laura Galante from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Fang noted that the Ukrainian official thanked the many “private sector allies” in the US, including Google, Amazon, Starlink, and CrowdStrike – the DNC contractor that claimed ‘Russian hacking’ in 2016 but later testified it had no evidence for it.

“I don't know how many times we’ve called the CEOs here in San Francisco to drive to their office on a Sunday afternoon and really engage with our Ukrainian partners,” Kobzanets said during the panel.

According to Vitiuk, the SBU tells the FBI that a certain person or account is “probably Russia’s influence” in order to get them censored. He described the FBI as his agency’s “top partner” and US cyber support as a “psychological game changer” for Ukraine.

“Everything that is against our country, consider it a fake, even if it’s not,” Vitiuk told Fang when asked how the SBU determines what might be disinformation. “Right now, for our victory, it is important to have that kind of understanding, not to be fooled.”

By way of example, Vitiuk cited reports of tensions between President Vladimir Zelensky and Ukraine’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny, saying they were completely fabricated by Russia. In early March, the openly pro-Ukraine German tabloid Bild reported on their disagreements about military tactics.

Fang has previously documented US government plans to work with social media platforms on censoring “disinformation” related to “the nature of US support to Ukraine.” In December, he also revealed that the Pentagon had teamed up with Twitter to “amplify certain messages” for the US military.

 

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https://www.rt.com/news/575515-ukraine-fbi-online-censorship/

 

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nazi celebrations....

Banning Russia from Auschwitz ceremony ‘perverted’ – Serbian president
Those who built the Nazi death camp will presumably attend, Aleksandar Vucic has said

 

Excluding Russians from marking the 80th anniversary of Soviet troops liberating Auschwitz illustrates what’s wrong with the West, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said.

Troops of the Red Army’s 332nd Rifle Division reached the death camp, built in southern Poland by Nazi Germany, on January 27, 1945, liberating around 7,000 remaining prisoners. 

“Soon you will have the ceremony marking the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp,” Vucic told Serbian media on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York.

“Those who liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Russians, won’t be invited. I presume that those who had the camp built will be invited,” Vucic said. “Everything in this world is, pardon my phrase, perverted and inverted.”

The Auschwitz Museum in Poland has made a point of not inviting Russia to the anniversary since the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine in 2022. Last year, museum director Piotr Cywinski accused Moscow of a “similar sick megalomania” and “similar lust for power” as the Nazis, drawing a rebuke from Moscow.

“This is the anniversary of liberation,” Cywinski said in a statement earlier this week. “We remember the victims, but we also celebrate freedom. It is hard to imagine the presence of Russia, which clearly does not understand the value of freedom. Such presence would be cynical.”

The Serbian president brought up Cywinski’s gesture in the context of Western leaders repeatedly invoking “territorial integrity and respecting the UN Charter,” but only when it comes to Ukraine.

“When it comes to the Serbs, who cares?” Vucic said. “They don’t care, that’s the point. They can seize Serbian territory and back secession with impunity.”

The US and its allies backed the ethnic Albanian separatists in the Serbian province of Kosovo to declare independence in 2008, and have since pressured Belgrade to recognize this act. Vucic has refused.

The Serbian president lamented that Kosovo Albanians and other groups in the Balkans routinely trample the rights of the Serbs “because they think they can do whatever they want, since they are protected by big Western powers.”

Moscow has accused the US of historical revisionism in recent years, as Washington pushed a narrative that World War II started with a “joint” Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland, while omitting the Soviet role in defeating the Third Reich and liberating Auschwitz.

It is believed that more than 1.1 million people perished in the complex of death camps near the town of Oswiecim, most of them Jews deported from all over Eastern Europe.

https://www.rt.com/news/604689-auschwitz-ceremony-perverted-vucic/

 

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.