[…] classical and jazz music critic, as well as an intelligence officer. That profile fits Henry Pleasants, another Philadelphian who served in the OSS during WWII. Pleasants debriefed Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen and became the CIA officer in Bonn, Germany, after the war, all the while writing classical and jazz music reviews. In their book […]
[PDF file]: […] and proof that Hess was most likely an eccentric acting without wider authorization. In fact, by seeking a direct meeting with the King, Hess was following established Nazi practice, as can be seen by looking at other instances where this approach was used: DENMARK – April 1940. Germany invaded Denmark at 4am on 9 […]
[PDF file]: […] strongly interventionist New York Post ran a series of sensational stories accusing Walsh of visiting a homosexual brothel in Brooklyn that was said to be infiltrated by Nazi spies. Walsh was secretly gay, putting him in a precarious position. Nonetheless, he denounced the stories and demanded a full investigation. The FBI actually cleared him […]
[PDF file]: […] he referred to a panel chaired by one Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Global Affairs from 2001-2009. Dobriansky, wrote Kuzmarov, is ‘the daughter of an ally of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera’. Stealing the 2020 presidential election? I’ve got some time for John Ward at The Slog. He often comes up with a new snippet […]
[…] process. After 1933-34 unemployment in the USA and the UK did start to fall and recovery became evident in much of Europe by the mid-1930s. But ( Nazi Germany being an exception) high levels of joblessness continued to exist and activity was erratic. Contemporary economic theory Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1845), Marxist Internet […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must for proof-reading help with some of this edition of Lobster. Grauniadia I received this from a correspondent of mine. A link I sent some of you yesterday morning was to a short Guardian beneath the line (BTL) comment I made in response to a piece by Labour MP Jess […]
[PDF file]: […] 18 years until his death in 2004, diversifying into related matters such as the rise, from 1988, of the Sweden Democrats, the successor party to various Swedish Nazi organizations. The opening part of the book is an account of Larsson’s Palme enquiry up until 1997 and includes correspondence with Gable on the subject. Reading […]
[…] Ivan Katchanovski’s ‘The far Right in Ukraine During the Euromaidan and then war in Donbas’.20 This essay shows that it was members of far right and neo- Nazi Ukrainian groups which did the Maidan massacre, leading to the resignation of the then pro-Russian president Yanukovych, which kick the present crisis into gear. (Conventional accounts […]
