Here's a not-so-fun historical fact they definitely didn't teach you in school:
After World War II, capitalist West Germany created "a secret army of Hitler’s former soldiers, waiting to settle scores with the Communists." sports.yahoo.com/story-secret-e…
After overseeing genocide in the Holocaust, former Nazi generals who had happily worked with Hitler became senior commanders of capitalist West Germany’s army, the Bundeswehr - which remains Germany's military today sports.yahoo.com/story-secret-e…
This fascist army in capitalist Western Germany was supported by former Nazi war criminal generals "such as Hans Speidel, who became chief of NATO ground forces in Central Europe in 1957, and Adolf Heusinger, the first inspector general of the Bundeswehr." sports.yahoo.com/story-secret-e…
NATO is and has always been the Nazi Aiding and Training Organization.
And anti-communism always brings together Western liberals, conservatives, and fascists.
During the Cold War, the CIA, capitalist West Germany, and the Ford Foundation funded terrorist armies of ex Nazis to attack and sabotage communist East Germany.
(This is from journalist William Blum's legendary book "Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII")
Keep in mind the Ford Foundation started out as a CIA cutout that used the endless wealth of pro-Nazi oligarch Henry Ford to fund anti-communist activities.
Then in recent decades, the Ford Foundation rebranded as "woke" and funds a ton of "progressive" and "anti-racist" groups.
The CIA and capitalist West Germany funded ex Nazi terrorists to, in their own words, "make the commies look bad."
In East Germany, these terrorists:
-backed armed uprisings
-bombed civilian infrastructure
-massacred livestock
-poisoned school milk
-killed and kidnapped leftists
For some reason, Yahoo took down this article detailing how capitalist West Germany, in alliance with NATO, created a secret army of Nazis after World War II, preparing for a unified capitalist-fascist war on communism.
To understand the genocide in Gaza, it's important to recognize Zionism's roots in European colonialism.
Israel was not created due to the Nazi Holocaust. The British empire endorsed creating Israel in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when Europe was colonizing the Middle East🧵
It's not a coincidence that the Balfour Declaration came immediately after the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, in which the British and French empires carved up the Ottoman empire's territory and established their own colonies in the Middle East (West Asia).
Zionism was directly modeled after 19th-century European colonialist movements.
Zionist "founding father" Theodor Herzl wrote a letter to Cecil Rhodes, the genocidal colonizer of Africa, asking for help to colonize Palestine.
Herzl boasted that Zionism was "something colonial".
The neo-feudal corporate landlords at Apple are charging creators on Patreon a 30% fee for all new memberships registered using the iOS app.
It's the perfect symbol of the future of the economy -- neo-feudal rent extraction by corporate monopolies.
🧵This is how the scam works:
It all started with Big Tech corporations first offering supposedly "free" services (which were paid for by selling users' information).
Those "free" platforms soon became monopolies, and were so deeply embedded into the economy that they are now (privatized) digital utilities.
A 20th-century economy needed utilities like an electrical grid, water plants, sewage system, highways, etc.
These natural monopolies should be publicly owned, provided as public goods to prevent rent-seeking by corporate landlords (although neoliberals want them privatized too)
Russia was banned from the Olympics in 2019 due to doping. Now we know that the US has allowed athletes to use steroids (ie cheat) since at least 2011, with no punishment
Also, Russia was banned this year due to the war in Ukraine, but the US invaded Iraq and faced no punishment
What the US government calls the "Rules-Based International Order" is a global imperialist dictatorship, in which the US makes up "rules", and violates them whenever it's in its interests.
But then the US invades or sanctions foreign countries it accuses of breaking the "rules".
Before WWII even ended, the US government recruited genocidal Nazi monsters to launch its cold war on the Soviet Union.
Later, the CIA recruited Nazi spies like infamous criminal Reinhard Gehlen, Third Reich's spy chief on the Eastern Front, to continue Hitler's war on the USSR.
Many US corporations profited from investments in Nazi Germany, such as Chase Bank, Standard Oil, IBM, Ford, GM, Coca-Cola, and Kodak.
Hitler also got help from US Senator Prescott Bush, father of President George H W Bush, grandfather of George W Bush. theguardian.com/world/2004/sep…
Crucial point by prominent Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad:
"The claim that the Israel lobby controls US policy in the Middle East amounts to absolving the US of responsibility for its imperialist policies".
The US empire has always violently opposed anti-colonial struggles.
The US gov't has been an "implacable enemy of all national liberation groups".
"Why the US would then support Palestinian national liberation absent the Israel lobby is something this argument fails to address"
Blaming the Israel lobby for the Iraq War is absurd
The invasion of Iraq follows a consistent US imperial policy since WWII of overthrowing Third World states that control their national resources, land, oil, minerals
See: Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Venezuela & Iran today