Duitsland kent vanaf komende week een speciale Holocaust-professor. Het is historica Sybille Steinbacher, die onder meer promoveerde op Auschwitz. Haar leerstoel is de eerste in Duitsland die helemaal is gericht op onderzoek naar de geschiedenis en de gevolgen van de Shoah.
De aanstelling van Steinbacher is een initiatief van de Duitse deelstaat Hessen, de Goethe-Universiteit in Frankfurt en een onderzoeksinstituut. Lees meer.
C-SPAN 22 July 2003 (video) Dr. Bryan Mark Riggs at the National Archives, 22 July 2003, speaking about his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military". (Audio only)
Lode Vanoost- Op 29 april is het 50 jaar geleden dat Mohammed Ali weigerde zijn militaire dienstplicht te vervullen, om in Vietnam te gaan vechten. “Zij hebben me nooit 'nxyyxr' genoemd, zij hebben mij nooit gelyncht”. Deftig Amerika was woedend over zoveel zwarte assertiviteit. Ali verloor vier jaar van zijn carrière, maar kreeg volledig gelijk van de geschiedenis, werd de grootste bokser aller tijden én een icoon voor de eeuwigheid.
Toen Mohammed Ali (1942-2016) in 1967 werd opgeroepen voor zijn legerdienst had hij zijn 'slavennaam' Cassius Clay al een tijd veranderd. Hij was moslim geworden en kondigde reeds een jaar op voorhand aan dat hij zou weigeren naar Vietnam te gaan. Lees meer + video.
NATO has expanded further into Eastern Europe, that’s after lawmakers in the small Baltic state of Montenegro unanimously accession to the military bloc.
The vote happened despite mass protests outside the parliamentary building with opponents calling for a referendum on the decision. Read more.
Protesters clashed with police in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Friday evening after a day of violence between police and demonstrators during a general strike to protest against proposed changes to Brazilian labour laws and the pension system.Read more.
AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST Barrett Brown was re-arrested and taken into custody Thursday, the day before he was scheduled to be interviewed for a PBS documentary.
Brown quickly became a symbol of the attack on press freedom after he was arrested in 2012 for reporting he did on the hacked emails of intelligence-contracting firms. Brown wrote about hacked emails that showed the firm Stratfor spying on activists on behalf of corporations. Brown also helped uncover a proposal by intelligence contractors to hack and smear WikiLeaks defenders and progressive activists. Read more.
Syria says the explosion that rocked Damascus earlier on Thursday was caused by several Israeli missiles on a military base southwest of the capital.
The Syrian army said the missiles were launched from the occupied lands that targeted the airbase near the Damascus international airport. According to the Syrian army, the attack caused material damages, saying the aggression will not prevent Damascus from its fight against terrorism. It added the attack is a desperate attempt to boost the morale of terrorists who are collapsing as a result of the armed forces' strikes.
Earlier Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said the incident is totally consistent with the regime’s policy.
Banken mogen van spaarders eisen dat ze erop toeleggen om hun geld te kunnen stallen op een rekening. Banken wordt voor deze negatieve rente niets in de weg gelegd.
Dat antwoordt demissionair minister Dijsselbloem (Financiën) op Kamervragen van de SP.
Volgens de bewindsman in zijn brief kan een verbod tot 'verstoring' van de markt leiden. Lees meer.
People are rallying under the motto “Neither Le Pen, nor Macron – against finance and fascism”. It follows a national call for students to block and occupy their high schools.
RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij has the updates. Read more.
Trump "changed his rhetoric completely and subjected himself to the terms of the deep American state, or the deep American regime," Assad said
"Yes, from a Western perspective, you are now sitting with the devil. This is how they market it in the west," Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told teleSUR's Rolando Segura in an exclusive interview from Damascus, addressing a range of subjects including claims of chemical attacks as well as the shifting geopolitical alignments impacting the war which has ravaged his country. Read more + video.
Venezuela's foreign minister, Delcy Rodrigues, has announced that her country will begin on Thursday the process of definitively leaving the Organization of American States, after the body decided to call a meeting on the situation in Venezuela without the government's consent.Read more.
The same plan used in the 1970s to overthrow Salvador Allende in Chile, is being used by the U.S. today in Venezuela against the Bolivarian Revolution.
Weapons from a NATO member state have ended up in the hands of Jihadists in Syria that is according to an investigation carried out by a Bulgarian journalist.
A commander from the western-backed Free Syrian Army claims the US-led coalition is aware of this but chooses to look the other way. RT’s Emily Sui investigates.
The mainstream media is in a panic over North Korea. But are they exaggerating the threat posed by “the Hermit Kingdom”?
John LaForge, editor of Nukewatch Quarterly, joins RT America’s Alex Mihailovich to offer his take on who the real threat is in the region and the apocalyptic outcome of nuclear war.
Honderden interne e-mails van het Amerikaanse bedrijf Monsanto zijn openbaar gemaakt. Ze tonen jarenlange verdraaiing van de wetenschap rond onkruidverdelger Roundup, een campagne die tot het hart van de Europese besluitvorming blijkt te gaan.
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Het bedrijf Monsanto heeft gesjoemeld met wetenschappelijke studies waarop de toelating van Europa's meest gebruikte onkruidverdelger is gebaseerd. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van OneWorld in samenwerking met het Belgische tijdschrift Knack. Het gaat om glyfosaat, een herbicide die het Amerikaanse agrochemiebedrijf sinds 1974 verkoopt onder de merknaam Roundup. Lees meer.
On The Listening Post this week: Turks vote "Yes" to expand presidential powers: we assess the role the media played in the outcome. Plus, the dilemma of inclusion: covering the far-right.
Turkey's referendum: Did voters receive balanced coverage?
Of Presidents, Plebiscites and Populism. Turkey’s constitutional referendum - if implemented - will grant President Erdogan sweeping powers. What role did the media play in the "Yes" campaign - and what does the vote mean for Turkey's democracy?
Contributors: Gulseren Adakli, media scholar | Fatih Polat, editor-in-chief, Evrensel | Borzou Daragahi, Middle East correspondent, Buzzfeed News | Mustafa Karoglu, columnist, Star Daily
On Monday a court in Jerusalem charged a teenager with dual citizenship in the US and Israel, with making 100 bomb threats against Jewish institutions in in the country, part of an estimated 2000 bomb threats worldwide the youth made for hire against organizations.
The unnamed teenager is also charged with attempted blackmail against Delaware Republican state Senator Ernesto Lopez, after the latter condemned the bomb threats. Read more.
The Russian Defense Ministry says Syrian government forces will suspend counter-terrorism operations near a town in the northwestern province of Idlib to help experts carry out an investigation into a suspected chemical incident there.
“The General Command of the Syrian Army and Armed Forces has expressed readiness to cease operations in Khan Shaykhun if a special mission of experts is sent there to investigate the events of April 4,” the ministry said in a statement released on Monday. Read more.
Have you ever heard about the oculist conspiracy? No? Based on some recently decrypted documents, there appears to be an ultra secretive group of highly enlightened magi who've remained virtually hidden for hundreds of years by using ciphers and cryptograms to conceal their mysteries and even their very existence. So it's no surprise that very, very few people have heard about this obscure but powerful group.
Most of what is known comes from this Wired article and the discoveries of a collaborate academic effort at Uppsala University and the University of Southern California.
Julian Assange has announced that he may run in the UK’s June snap election, mocking the country that the UN says is holding him in arbitrary detention.Read more.
Taking cannabidiol may cut seizures in half for some children and adults with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), a severe form of epilepsy, according to new information from a large scale controlled clinical study. Cannabidiol is a molecule from the cannabis plant that does not have the psychoactive properties that create a 'high.'
Taking cannabidiol may cut seizures in half for some children and adults with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), a severe form of epilepsy, according to new information released today from a large scale controlled clinical study that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 69th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 22 to 28, 2017. Read more.
UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has called missiles producer MBDA, known for controversial arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Libya’s Gaddafi government, a “role model” of cooperation, while unveiling multimillion deals between the firm and the UK government.
The U.S. secretary of state has slammed a nuclear deal with Iran, brokered by the Obama administration.
Rex Tillerson said that although Tehran has met its obligations under the agreement, it is still threatening U.S. interests, the region and the entire world. Read more.
An estimated 2,150 to 4,100 children in France suffered a major malformation in the womb between 1967 and 2016 after their mothers took a treatment against epilepsy and bipolar disorders known as valproate, France's drug regulator said on Thursday.
Valproate, which has been manufactured in France by Sanofi under the brand Depakine in the field of epilepsy and Depakote and Depamide in bipolar disorders, is also believed to cause slow neurological development. Read more.
It will be “very difficult” for the UK government to refuse military assistance to the US in Syria if they expressly ask for it, British FM Boris Johnson has said, responding to an MP’s question on if he intends to heed parliament’s vote against the incursion.Read more.
From German politicians and their swine vaccines to Bill Gates' kids and common core, it's one rule for the powers-that-shouldn't-be and another for the plebs. But surely you knew that already. What other examples of this phenomenon do you know of?
Leave your answers in the comments section below. Read more.
Tens of thousands of war crime files documenting early evidence of the Holocaust, which were smuggled out of eastern Germany at the height of World War II, are finally being made available to the public for the first time.
The documents, some of which date back to 1943, were gathered by the United Nations War Crimes Commission over six decades ago and were previously sealed to all but a few with special permission. Read more.
Residents in several Istanbul neighborhoods staged protests late on April 16 against a dispute over vote counting at the constitutional referendum earlier in the same day.
Protesters were particularly incensed after the Supreme Electoral Board (YSK) abruptly decided halfway through voting day to accept unsealed ballot papers as valid. Read more.
Militaire vergelding voor de (vermeende) gifgasaanval in de Syrische provincie Idlib, een MOAB bom in Afghanistan en de USS Carl Vinson richting Korea. Donald Trump lijkt 180 graden gedraaid in zijn buitenlandbeleid. Of is Trump klem gezet door een militaire junta in het Pentagon? En welke rol spelen de 'neocons'? Hoeveel invloed heeft schoonzoon Jared Kushner?
Professor Karel Van Wolferen en hoogleraar Laszlo Maracz gaan in deze aflevering op zoek naar antwoorden op deze vragen. Voor Van Wolferen is het overduidelijk dat je voor grondige analyses niet meer terecht kan bij de traditionele media. Lees meer.
Army confirms that two members of elite Duvdevan unit 'delayed' by Palestinian police forces while on raid in Nablus, but were then returned to IDF.
Palestinian security forces detained - and then released - two members of an elite undercover Israeli army unit on a raid in the Palestinian city of Nablus. Read more.
Thousands of anti-NATO protesters have marched through the streets of the German capital Berlin, demanding that the German armed forces end their operations in foreign countries.
The protesters were carrying placards that said "No to NATO, no to war" and "NATO out of Syria". They called on the German government to reduce the volume of weapons exports to other countries. The demonstrators denounced NATO’s increasing deployment of troops near the Russian border.
They also slammed the German government for siding with the U-S in the case of the suspected chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib province earlier this month. Berlin blamed President Bashar al-Assad for the alleged attack and supported the ensuing U-S missile strikes on a Syrian military airbase in Homs province.
Germany has approved more major weapons deals with the UAE, including deliveries of high-caliber ammunition. The UAE is involved in a conflict in Yemen that has caused famine and humanitarian disaster.
Germany is supplying more weapons to belligerents in the Yemen conflict, even though the ongoing war in the Middle East's poorest country has triggered a famine and a refugee crisis. Read more.
Daesh terrorists have launched a toxic gas attack on a newly-liberated area in the Iraqi city of Mosul
An Iraqi officer with the counter terrorism forces says the Takfiri group fired a rocket with chlorine gas toward the Al-Abar district in Western Mosul. He added that at least seven soldiers suffered breathing problems and are being treated at a field clinic.
It is not the first time that the terror group uses chemical weapons in Mosul. Iraqi forces have documented numerous similar incidents since October 17 when operations to recapture the city began. In November, the United Nations said Daesh is stockpiling chemical weapons in Mosul.
Price rises for generic cancer drugs are estimated to cost the NHS in England around £380m a year
Leaked internal emails appear to show employees at one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies calling for “celebration” over price hikes of cancer drugs, an investigation has revealed. Read more.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the Syria Strikes from the truth-telling truth-tellers in the truthful government and true mainstream news!...in under 5 minutes!!
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson begins his visit with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. The agenda is expected to focus on spiking Russia-US tensions in light of an alleged chemical attack in Syria and a US missile strike in response.
Israel has closed off the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip as well as the crossings leading to Jerusalem al-Quds under the pretext of marking Passover Holidays.
Palestinians have slammed the measure that they believe is aimed at making life harder for them.
Christelijk zionisme staat aan de basis van Joods zionisme, stelt Theoloog des Vaderlands dr. Janneke Stegeman. Het christelijk zionisme wortelt op zijn beurt in de Reformatie.
De Theoloog des Vaderlands hield dinsdagavond in het gebouw van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam een publieke lezing over het zionisme. Lees meer.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says ‘Hitler didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons’ during press briefing and later gives clarification after remark from journo.
Exclusief bij Follow the Money: het volledige afgetapte telefoongesprek waarin Shell-ceo Ben van Beurden en voormalig cfo Simon Henry praten over een inval van de Fiod en het Openbaar Ministerie. Onderwerp: de betaling van een miljard euro aan steekpenningen voor een olieconcessie in Nigeria. Hier werden speciaal oud-werknemers van de Britse geheime dienst voor ingehuurd.
‘Wacht even, ik moet even weg van de nanny…,’ horen we Ben van Beurden, de ceo van Shell telefonisch zeggen tegen Simon Henry de (toenmalige) cfo van Shell. Lees meer + audio (registratie vereist).
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit enters the secretive world of the surveillance industry. Spy Merchants reveals for the first time how highly-invasive spyware, which can capture the electronic communications of a town, can be purchased in a 'grey market’ where regulations are ignored or bypassed. Mass surveillance equipment can then be sold onto authoritarian governments, criminals or even terrorists.
During a four-month undercover operation, an industry insider working for Al Jazeera filmed the negotiation of several illegal, multi-million dollar deals that breach international sanctions. The proposed deals include the supply of highly restricted surveillance equipment to Iran. The undercover operative also secured an extraordinary agreement to purchase powerful spyware with a company who said they didn’t care who was the end-user. Read more.
There may be good reason for your curiosity if you have ever wondered about what is really going on at the southernmost continent.
With so many myths and rumors flying around about the place lately, we decided to do a little research of our own into the claims… which turned into a whole lot of research… and what was going to be a 10-minute video turned into this.
Russia has intelligence from "trusted sources" that chemical weapons provocations are currently being prepared in more regions in Syria, including Damascus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella Tuesday.
"We have information from various sources that such provocations — and I cannot call them anything else — are being prepared in other regions of Syria, including in the southern suburbs of Damascus, where they intend to plant some substance and blame the official Syrian authorities for its use," Putin told a briefing. Read more.
Belgium’s top diplomat has called on US President Donald Trump to make sure his next foreign policy decisions are made within the United Nations’ framework, referring to an order to carry out a missile strike on Syria’s Shayrat Airbase overnight Thursday.
“What we are seeing today is an escalation,” Foreign Minister Didier Reynders told Bel RTL radio on Monday. Read more.
First evidence linking Vault 7 tools to known cyberattacks
Spying tools and operational protocols detailed in the recent Vault 7 leak have been used in cyberattacks against at least 40 targets in 16 different countries by a group Symantec calls Longhorn. Symantec has been protecting its customers from Longhorn’s tools for the past three years and has continued to track the group in order to learn more about its tools, tactics, and procedures. Read more.
Israeli forces have arrested 509 Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem al-Quds in the last month alone.
According to a joint report by Palestinian Prisoners Club, al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Palestinian prisoners' rights group Addameer and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the figure included 75 children, 13 women and five journalists. Read more.
F. William Engdahl- Events are moving rapidly to a possible new war involving Israel, the United States, Syria and Russia. Were it to take place, I honestly hope not, it would be yet another stupid war over oil. Only this oil war somehow feels far more dangerous than the US war against Iraq or Libya or previous oil wars. It’s about the part of Syria named the Golan Heights.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first heads of government to go to the United States to meet Donald Trump on February 16, in Trump’s new role as President. After the event major media focused on the themes of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the Iran nuclear deal or a Palestine two-state solution. Read more.
Canadian independent journalist Eva Bartlett is the object of a smear campaign by Canada’s mainstream media. Listen to what she has to say and then decide who is telling the truth.
The mainstream media denies the existence of terrorists linked to Al Qaeda. According to mainstream sources, there were no terrorists in Aleppo.
Al Qaeda and the Islamic State are supported by US-NATO, Saudi Arabia and Israel. They are the state-sponsors of terrorism. We are dealing with a war of aggression. Eva Bartlett provides detailed evidence of war crimes.
More than 80 people were killed in the incident in Syria, but a few weeks ago in the Iraqi city of Mosul, a U.S.-led coalition airstrike reportedly killed more than 200. In both cases government officials claimed terrorist munitions had been targeted.
The Syria attack sparked immediate reaction - both in the media and from Western officials. Read more.
US claims about the alleged gas attack which saw US President Donald Trump launch cruise missiles against a Syrian military facility should not be taken at face value, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone told RT.
Trump launched 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in the northwest of the country in retaliation for what the US claims was a regime gas attack against civilians in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun days previously. Read more.
Former MP makes fresh remarks about ‘real collaboration’ between Nazis and Zionists ahead of tribunal hearing over bringing Labour party into disrepute
Ken Livingstone has claimed there was at one point “real collaboration” between the Nazis and Jews, ahead of a hearing concerned with whether he has brought the Labour party into disrepute. Read more + video.
“It's vital for us to remember what history teaches us, he said,” holding up a photo of former United States national security advisor Colin Powell during his “Weapons of Mass Destruction” speech that led to the US invasion of Iraq
De Amerikaanse luchtaanval op een Syrische luchtmachtbasis roept veel positieve reacties op. Landen als het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Frankrijk, Turkije, Israël en ook Nederland keuren de aanval van de VS goed of juichen hem zelfs toe.
Maar er zijn ook heel andere geluiden te horen. Rusland veroordeelt de aanval en zegt dat die in strijd is met het internationaal recht. Heeft Moskou een punt? Volgens Marieke de Hoon, universitair docent internationaal recht aan de VU in Amsterdam, wel. Lees meer.
Daesh (banned in numerous countries) terrorist fighters had attacked the Syrian armed forces at the same time and in the same vicinity as the US missile strike on its airfield near Homs, an informed source told Sputnik on Friday.
The source said the terrorists launched an attack on a Homs-Sha'irat stretch of highway at around 23:00 GMT and held their territory for over an hour until the arrival of reinforcements. Read more.
Ludo de Brabander - Opnieuw is er een gifgasaanval net wanneer het westen zeer ontevreden is dat de kaarten voor Syrisch president Assad goed liggen. Opnieuw verbaast de inschikkelijk meelopende en kritiekloze eenstemmigheid van kwaliteitskranten De Morgen en De Standaard. Zonder enig bewijs of onderzoek is de dader 'bekend'. Neen, zegt Ludo De Brabander: “We beschikken helemaal niet over feiten die duidelijk maken wie de verantwoordelijken zijn”.
Oorlog is propaganda
De Morgen kopt op 5 april 2017 'Assad gebruikt gifgas, het Westen kijkt toe’. De Belgische media gaan nog maar eens in voorbarige overdrive met een dubbele vooringenomen suggestie in één titel: ... Lees meer.
US President Donald Trump used an outlandishly large chart to explain why he wants to tackle federal regulations while speaking at a Town Hall meeting with business leaders.Read more.
Rally comes hours after stabbing attack in Jerusalem, which organizers say 'was a painful reminder of the price of the occupation.'
Saturday's event is the first in a series organized by Standing Together, an umbrella movement consisting of pro-peace organizations and left-wing parties, marking 50 years since the Six-Day War. Read more.
France’s pro-Palestinian community has remembered 'Land Day' even though activists were targeted by death threats.
Protesters had to be encircled by police for protection from an extremist pro-Israeli group, which was allowed to make a counter-demonstration despite the threats.
Israel's security cabinet has approved construction of a new settlement in the occupied West Bank, the first settlement in over 20 years. This after a weekend marred by violence in Washington, DC amidst the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.
Author and journalist Max Blumenthal joins RT America's Manila Chan to discuss.
Two residents win court case over the postcard-sized plaque bearing the name of Joachim Elte, who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp.
City workers dislodged and relocated a postcard-sized memorial plaque from the entrance to the former home in Amsterdam of a Holocaust victim following complaints by residents. Read more.
Research programme will send aerosol injections into the earth’s upper atmosphere to study the risks and benefits of a future solar tech-fix for climate change
US scientists are set to send aerosol injections 20km up into the earth’s stratosphere in the world’s biggest solar geoengineering programme to date, to study the potential of a future tech-fix for global warming. Read more.
A group of Paraguayan senators voted for a bill that would allow for re-election, permitting right-wing President Horacio Cartes to stand.
Thousands of Paraguayans on Friday night took to the streets to protest against the decision of their country’s Congress to amend the constitution to allow for presidential re-election - a move that would allow right-wing President Horacio Cartes to stand in 2018. Read more.