Tag Archives: history

Fascism and America’s Ruling Elites – from the Archives

Posted on January 4, 2023 by toritto

Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle Awarded to Henry Ford by Adolph Hitler – 1938 So it’s the 1930s and Hitler and Mussolini, not to mention Franco have established nazism / fascism in Europe. Hitler has already … Continue reading →

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The North Platte Canteen – December 1941 – from the Archive

Posted on December 13, 2022 by toritto

 

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The Death of Thich Quang Duc – June 11, 1963

Posted on June 12, 2022 by toritto

This repost is for those too young to remember Vietnam, their father’s hell. Memorial to Thich Quang Duc – Ho Chi Minh City Thich Quang Duc was a Buddhist – a Vietnamese Buddhist living in South Vietnam in 1963. South … Continue reading →

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A Good Day to Remember Sherri Finkbein

Posted on May 3, 2022 by toritto

Remember the hearings for Trump’s Supreme Court nominees?  Remember when asked, each of them said that Roe is “settled law” and has been for 50 years and each vowed they had “no agenda?”  Remember when the female Senators from Alaska … Continue reading →

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From Republic to Empire – from the History Archive

Posted on May 1, 2022 by toritto

Standard of the IV Cohort XXIV Legion At Cannae, in Southern Italy, the Army of the Roman Republic faced Hannibal in the 2nd Punic War. At the time a Roman citizen could not “join” the Army; it was an honor … Continue reading →

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La Pasionaria – from the History Archive

Posted on April 3, 2022 by toritto

Dolores Ibarurri – 1895-1989 La Pasionaria bidding farewell to the International Brigades in Barcelona – 10/17/1938 before 13,000 foreign volunteers. “It is very difficult to say a few words in farewell to the heroes of the International Brigades, because of what they … Continue reading →

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Kronstadt and the End of the Revolution – from the History Archive

Posted on March 19, 2022 by toritto

A Re-Post from March 2015 It was the first weeks of March, 1921 in the new Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Kronstadt was and still is a naval fortress on an island in the Gulf of Finland. It served … Continue reading →

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George Washington Williams, the Congo Genocide and “Crimes Against Humanity”

Posted on June 26, 2020 by toritto

Political cartoon from 1906 showing King Leopold of Belgium entangling the Congolese in rubber coils   So who coined the phrase “Crimes Against Humanity?”  Was it first defined at Nuremberg by the victorious allies?  Or was it used by someone … Continue reading →

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Fascist Italy, Adowa and the Conquest of Abyssinia

Posted on May 14, 2020 by toritto

From the History Archives – 2015 Most folks know of fascist Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia in the 1930’s. The conquering of Abyssinia was greeted in Rome with wild celebration culminating in Il Duce’s famous balcony speech from the Palazzo Venezia … Continue reading →

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Fifty Years Ago – May 4 – Kent and Jackson State

Posted on May 2, 2020 by toritto

  This Monday, May 4, marks the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings involving the killing of 4 unarmed university students by the Ohio National Guard.  It was a time when armed soldiers of the state shot down unarmed … Continue reading →

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