NY prosecutor nominees will remain on ice, Grassley says

The Senate Judiciary chair said he’ll respect the “blue slip” process.

Jordain Carney

04/28/2025, 3:43pm ET

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said Monday he won’t advance two of President Donald Trump’s U.S. attorney picks afterthey ran into opposition from one of their home-state senators.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this month he would not return his blue slip forJay Clayton’s nomination to serve as U.S. attorneyfor the Southern District of New York orJoseph Nocella Jr.'sin the Eastern District.

The blue slip isn’t a Senate rule but instead a precedent that allows senators to effectively block the approval of nominees to U.S. district courts and U.S. attorney’s offices in their states.

Asked if Schumer’s objections meant that the two nominees won’t advance, Grassley said in a brief interview,“We’re going to honor the blue slip.”

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/28/congress/grassley-blue-slips-ny-judges-00313271

Grassley is punishing Trump due to the Tariffs, I had no idea he is that petty, but he is. So he is now working with Schumer to circumvent Trump's choices.

Cole and Vought to huddle with questions mounting about White House spending plans

Hill Republicans are waiting on a rescissions request and a “skinny” budget.

Meredith Lee Hill 04/28/2025, 7:15pm ET

House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole will meet with White House budget chief Russ Vought this week as GOP lawmakers worry the White House is running behind schedule to deliver both a skeleton budget and a package of spending cuts for the current fiscal year, according to two people granted anonymity to describe private talks.

Republicans want President Donald Trump’s administration to deliver both items to Capitol Hill this week, but some GOP lawmakers are beginning to doubt whether that will happen.A “skinny budget,” which is standard for newly inaugurated presidents, would give lawmakers some guidance for the fiscal 2026 appropriations process ahead of a more detailed budget request due in May.

“Look, our goal is to get the bills all out of committee by the August break,” Cole said about spending legislation Monday evening. “That’s still our goal. It’s aspirational, and the quicker we get the data we need, then the quicker we’ll be able to move.”

The timing of Trump’s planned $9.3 billion rescissions request is also in question. Appropriators believe they have a commitment from the White House to review the proposed spending cuts before the package is publicly released, but that hasn’t yet happened, the two people said.

The formal submission will start a 45-legislative-day countdown for both chambers to approve the package, which is expected to codify Trump administration clawbacks of funding to the State Department, USAID, NPR and PBS. The president is obligated under federal law to disburse the money if Congress does not act,though Vought and some other administration officials contend Trump can simply “impound,” or refuse to spend, the funds.

Approval of the package won’t necessarily be a slam dunk: The Senate rejected a previous Trump rescissions request in 2018, and Republicans in swing districts and states could squirm at the new proposed cuts.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/28/congress/tom-cole-russ-vought-budget-rescissions-00314511

Why are these congressmen running to Politico to gossip and complain about Budget Department, there sure is a lot of arrogance in that place. They seem pissed about the findings in DOGE, maybe their special projects got cut.

House GOP leaders move to forestall potential Signalgate votes

The Rules Committee maneuver comes amid a Democratic effort to target Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

By Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill 04/28/2025, 10:23pm ET

House Republicans added language to a procedural measure Monday that would defang a Democratic effort to force votes on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of an unsecured group chat to discuss war plans.

The measure adopted by the House Rules Committee is primarily intended to tee up floor debate this week of five resolutions rolling back environmental regulations promulgated under former President Joe Biden. But it also includes language that would effectively block a brewing effort to bring questions about Hegseth’s conduct to the House floor in the coming months.

Democrats accused Republicans of trying to quash their plans to call up “resolutions of inquiry” demanding answers on what has become known as Signalgate — where several administration officials including Hegseth used the Signal app to discuss airstrikes in Yemen — as well as Hegseth’s broader use of the encrypted messaging app.

“I think Republicans are hiding because they are scared,” Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.) said during the Rules Committee vote. “Republicans want to hide behind this resolution so they don’t have to risk the wrath of the president.”

Democrats have already filed several resolutions of inquiry, which are entitled to privileged treatment that can sidestep the majority’s ability to control the floor. The House Oversight Committee is scheduled to vote on one measure targeting Signalgate this week, as well as others targeting Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative. But supporters expect those will be defeated in committee.

They believe Republicans are more worried about a resolution in the House Armed Services Committee that could win bipartisan support. That panel includes Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who previously suggested that Trump should fire Hegseth, as well as other Republicans who could face competitive races in 2026.

Scanlon sought to strip out the language in the Rules Committee, butthe effort was defeated after Republicans argued Democrats engaged in a similar maneuver during the Covid pandemic— blocking resolutions of inquiry for much of the 117th Congress, when they held the House majority. The procedural measure is headed to the House floor Tuesday.

“Democrats are using this to clog things up,” Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R-Minn.) said during the meeting, adding that blocking the resolution for a “few months … is not going to create any great problems.”

Under House rules, once a resolution of inquiry is introduced and referred to a committee, that panel has 14 legislative days to take it up or it becomes privileged on the House floor. The language included in the Rules measure Monday would essentially block that provision through Sept. 30.

The GOP move follows a similar maneuver from House Republicans that has effectively blocked Democratic efforts to repeal sweeping tariffs Trump has put in place under national emergency powers.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/28/congress/house-rules-signalgate-pete-hegseth-00314755

You would imagine the House has bills to pass and other important stuff, like budgets etc., but they spend much of their time running after outrage matters, to get new voters. That place is useless like the Senate is also.

‘Tale of 2 Petes’: Fired adviser describes Pentagon chief consumed by image

Colin Carroll said the Defense secretary was focused on identifying leakers and proving his competence.

By Paul McLeary and Jack Detsch 04/28/2025 01:28 PM EDT (WTF is wrong with these people)

A former top adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described a head office gripped by paranoia and more focused on photo ops than leadership, the latest in a series of brutal accusations about the inner workings of the Pentagon. Colin Carroll, who was fired this month from his post as chief of staff to the deputy Defense secretary, told the Megyn Kelly podcast that Hegseth was obsessed with the spread of leaks and spent half his time investigating them at the detriment of defense priorities.

“He was very focused on the leaks, and I think it kind of consumed the team a little bit,”said Carroll, who was terminated amid a leak probe. “If you look at a pie chart of the secretary’s day, at this point, 50 percent of it is probably a leak investigation.”

His ouster came after a vicious brawl among Hegseth’s top advisers, including Joe Kasper, his former chief of staff. Hegseth’s senior adviser, Dan Caldwell, and deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick were also fired during the leak investigation. Kasper left the department last week.

Carroll portrayed a secretary intent on maintaining a public image of competence and control. Hegseth’s staff often films his early morning workouts with troops, which Carroll said was partly an attempt to push back against the idea of Hegseth as undisciplined and a heavy drinker — allegations that trailed him during his confirmation hearing and which he denied.

“In order to combat that image, it’s ‘hey, I’m gonna go work out with the troops,’” Carroll said. ”While that is important — and it’s a thing to do to get out there and helps recruiting and helps morale — if you’re taking a half day trip to the Naval Academy at the same time the budget is due, and we really need some support here … come on, you gotta weigh priorities.”

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell pointed to the increased number of troops on the southern border, the bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, and contracts canceled by DOGE as signs of progress.“Secretary Hegseth has delivered more change to the DOD in 100 days than most secretaries have in four years,” he said. While the media “focuses on gossip, we’re focused on results.”

The ousted adviser described a “tale of two Pete’s” in Hegseth’s behavior, a straight-talking leader able to convince skeptical Republicans to boost higher defense spending, and a Pentagon chief fixed on “weird details” who could get “very agitated” in internal meetings.

Carroll said that Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg assured Carroll he would not be ousted, even after the others were suspended. Carroll said he “very much” wants to return to DOD to work with Feinberg.

Hegseth, after losing his office’s most senior advisers, has relied on a smaller group that includes his wife, his personal lawyer and a former junior military aide.

The Defense Department on Thursday announced three new Hegseth advisers: the former military aide, Col. Ricky Buria; Justin Fulcher, a tech entrepreneur and DOGE adviser; and Patrick Weaver, who worked on Capitol Hill and the Department of Homeland Security in President Donald Trump’s first term but has no Pentagon experience.

Trump, in an interview with The Atlantic published Monday, indicated that he’s closely following the issues with Hegseth’s team. “He’s gonna get it together,” Trump said. “I had a talk with him, a positive talk, but I had a talk with him.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/28/caroll-hegseth-pentagon-00312849

Controversial Arctic Parcel of Land May Sell for €300 Million

The Manhattan-sized plot of land in Norway’s archipelago stirs national security worries. The land being sold belonged to a Norwegian holding company.

By Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth and Sarah Rappaport April 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM

A parcel of private land on Norway’s Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has attracted a group of buyers that is willing to pay the €300-million-euro ($341 million) asking price—if the Norwegian government won’t overrule the deal on geopolitical concerns.

The consortium includes both Norwegian and international investors who “take a long-term view to protect this area from environmental changes,’’ Birgit Liodden, one of the minority shareholders selling the land and a well-known climate activist, said in an interview Friday. Investors include nationals of NATO member states and countries that have signed the Svalbard Treaty, she said, adding the parties have not been in dialogue with the Norwegian government concerning the sale.

The Sore Fagerfjord property —14,830-acre plot of land approximately 40 miles away from the island group’s main town of Longyearbyen—was put on the market last May. The government subsequently said that any negotiations or agreements on the salehave to be cleared by the state in advance due to national security interests. The Norwegian trade ministry reiterated the stance to Bloomberg on Friday.

The archipelago is affected by growing geopolitical tensions as US president Donald Trump has insisted he wants to “take over” Greenland from Denmark. Svalbard is Norwegian territory, but is governed by a 100-year-old treaty signed by some 45 countries, among them Russia, China and the US. The rivalry of global powers in the region has intensified due to climate change, with new shipping routes opening up as the ice melts.

While over 1,600 Norwegians live on the islands, there’s also a permanent community of Russian-speakers of about 200, according to Statistics Norway. Russia has repeatedly accused Norway of breaching the treaty by militarizing the archipelago, which Norway denies. Last year, Norwegian authorities reprimanded China’s ambassador to Norway, after a Chinese tourist on the island posed in military gear.

The deal “is a very good solution, because we are taking care of the climate and there are no security aspects here,” says Per Kyllingstad, a lawyer representing the sellers of the land. He argues the Norwegian government cannot stop the sale as the buyers are environmentalists who are looking to preserve nature, meaning the deal doesn’t fall under the scope of the security law.

The plot being sold is is roughly the size of Manhattan, and has more than 3 miles of coastline and is full of mountains, fjords and Arctic wildlife. From April to August, it’s under constant sunshine; October to February is the dark season.

The parcel has been owned for more than a century by Norwegian holding company Aktieselskabet Kulspids. The company was founded by wealthy families from Oslo who were interested in the area for its natural resources—they wanted to mine for asbestos—but shares have changed hands over the past hundred years.

Liodden saidabout half the money from the sale would go to environmental projects on Svalbard. “These are huge and sensitive areas we know next to nothing about. This is a way to protect a precious area under threat from climate change”, she said.

https://archive.is/jr34P

Iranians face a sinking feeling as ground under Tehran cracks open

Country among worst affected by ground subsidence, threatening heritage sites and spurring suggestions to move the capital1/2

Bita Ghaffari in Tehran and Jana Tauschinski in London April 29, 2025

A long-running challenge in Iran has recently taken on added urgency: The ground is sinking beneath people’s feet, damaging vital infrastructure and endangering public safety.

Iran suffers from some of the worst land subsidence in the world, brought on by drought, climate change and poor water management. Cracks threaten the country’s main airport and Unesco sites such as the ancient city of Persepolis, while dozens of schools were evacuated in one city because of fears of collapse last year.

The situation is particularly urgent in and around urban areas including Tehran, where cracks have damaged nearby railway tracks and homes have become unstable.

This prompted President Masoud Pezeshkian to in recent months even moot the idea of moving the capital, saying the “menacing” phenomenon of sinking ground, coupled with acute water scarcity, was making Tehran “unlivable”.

Experts say the long-dormant idea of relocating the capital is impractical. But the intervention from the country’s highest elected official has rekindled debate about the risks posed by a problem that directly affects about half of all Iranians.

“Subsidence has become a huge challenge,” said Mehdi Pirhadi, a member of Tehran city council.He warned the “massive land sinking will destroy infrastructure and threaten lives” unless it was addressed urgently.

Prolonged drought conditions and decades of inefficient environmental governance have intensified subsidence, according to specialists working in the area. One recent global study said Iran was among the world’s top five countries in terms of the extent and rate of subsidence.

Iran’s National Cartographic Centre has calculated that southwestern Tehran was sinking by up to 31cm a year. Even an annual subsidence rate of 5mm is deemed concerning by international standards. In Tehran’s Shahr-e Ray neighbourhood, people fix their doors and windows every year as subsidence pulls at the foundations, said Mohammad Darvish, an environmental activist.

Main rail lines including those linking Tehran and Mashhad needed to be repaired “many times” because of subsidence, which also caused power transmission towers to tilt and the highway between Isfahan to Shiraz to sink, he said.

https://archive.is/cbq3D

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The government plans to reduce water consumption in agriculture and industry by 45bn cubic metres by 2032 as part of efforts to address the water crisis that exacerbates subsidence.But the cash needed to tackle the problem is hard to come by, as US sanctions throttle the economy.(What about the $600 billion the Mullahs have?)

The scale of the challenge is vast. Subsidence directly threatens 11 per cent of the country’s land mass — an area that is home to almost half of its 90mn people, Iran’s vice-president for environmental affairs Shina Ansari said recently.

Ground fissures have also formed around Persepolis, the ancient Persian capital that dates back 2,500 years, as well as nearby archaeological site of Naqsh-e Rostam, resting place of four Achaemenid kings where massive rock reliefs are carved into a mountain.

Bahram Nadi, a professor of geotechnical engineering at the Islamic Azad University in Isfahan, blamed “untamed urban sprawl, industrial development and excessive farming” in places where dams were already running dry and aquifers depleted. This was not only “accelerating ground-level sinking” but also contributing to desertification.

The subsidence has led cracks to appear in Isfahan’s Unesco-listed Jame Atigh Mosque and some of the buildings and monuments that line Naghsh-e Jahan Square, he said. The eastern and western columns of the square’s Abbasi mosque tilted by 5cm and 8cm and crevices were visible at the stone bases, Nadi said.

Hassan Fartousi, secretary-general of the Iranian National Commission for Unesco, said the UN entity would provide “assistance” to protect heritage sites from subsidence. But he also warned of a worst-case scenario in which Unesco revoked world heritage site titles “if its guidelines are not adhered to and the monuments are damaged”.

The lighter side of Iran’s subsidence problem was highlighted by a recent viral video in which a group of bikers rode inside the dried up reservoir of the Latian dam near Tehran. It is one of four main suppliers of water to the capital and its satellite towns. All are close to running dry.

Mehdi Zare, a professor of engineering seismology at the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology in Iran, warned the country appeared to be locked into an “unsustainable” pathway that would only get worse.

“Continuation of past policies in agriculture and urban planning will accelerate subsidence across Iran in the years to come,” he said.

https://archive.is/cbq3D

Do you think Financial Times is doing a sympathy peace on Iran to get Trump’s attention? It looks like an awful place to live.

29 Apr, 2025 17:29

Lavrov claims Kiev wants ceasefire to halt battlefield losses

Ukraine has demanded an immediate and unconditional truce in reply to Moscow’s offer of a three-day armistice

Kiev is demanding an unconditional ceasefire because its forces are being routed on the battlefield, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Kiev a 72-hour truce from May 8 to 10 to coincide with this year’s Victory Day anniversary. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky criticized the offer as an attempt at “manipulation” and called for an immediate and unconditional full ceasefire instead.

Speaking at a press conference on following a BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Brazil on Tuesday, Lavrov noted a sharp departure in Kiev’s intransigence.

“Against the backdrop of what is happening on the ground, on the line of combat contact,where the Ukrainian regime is increasingly retreating again and again,” he said.

“They reversed their position 180 degrees and began to demand an immediate truce without preconditions,” the top diplomat added.

Whereas a month or two ago, “Kiev spouted dire warnings that they would not accept any truce,” Lavrov said.

European “radicals” were inciting Ukraine to continue the conflict, pumping it full of weapons and insisting that talks could only begin when Ukrainian authorities could negotiate from a position of power, “when Russia is weakened,” the top diplomat said.

Western Europeseems to be interested in continuing the conflict in Ukraine,as well as undermining any US peace efforts to end it, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last week.

Moscow has repeatedly criticized European arms supplies to Kiev, and condemned its plans to deploy troops in Ukraine as escalatory.

Russia has insisted that it has always been ready for peace talks, provided they are aimed at a permanent solution that addresses the core causes of the conflict. Any temporary ceasefire would instead be used by Kiev’s Western backers as a chance to rearm Ukraine, Moscow has said.

https://www.rt.com/russia/616513-lavrov-outlines-kiev-indefinite-ceasefire/

A couple of days ago Kiev said they are going to make a big push to conscript women and boys as young as 18, so they are losing a lot, because that is desperate and disgusting.

29 Apr, 2025 18:26

Media freedom deteriorating in EU – report

News organizations are increasingly controlled by wealthy owners or governments, the Liberties group has said

Media freedom is deteriorating in a number of EU countries, according to a recent report by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties).The group has claimed that pluralism and freedom of speech are “under attack” as media companies become increasingly controlled by governments and wealthy owners.

In the Media Freedom 2025 report, the authors have outlined a range of pressures facing journalists and independent outlets, including legal and physical threats, declining ownership transparency, and political interference in public broadcasting.

The group has warned that these factors have had a significant impact on the work of the media, limiting the diversity of opinions and the independence of publications, reducing public trust in content.

Liberties has identified Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Croatia, France, Hungary, Slovakia and Spain as among the EU member states where the situation is most alarming. According to the report, public broadcasters in several of these countries are routinely manipulated by political interests, and legal protections for media workers remain weak or poorly enforced.

The group also recorded at least 156 physical or verbal attacks on journalists in 2024, including cases of police intimidation and criminal defamation charges. In some states, the report notes, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are still being used to silence critical reporting, despite the EU’s recent efforts to curb their abuse.

Liberties also noted that Russian and Belarusian journalists working in the bloc have repeatedly faced threats and harassment and become targets of spyware, raising concerns over their safety and what effect it could be having on their work.

Earlier this month, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported that the EU had denied its journalists accreditation for 2025, citing sanctions regulations. The outlet has appealed the decision, referencing the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and earlier EU statements that had assured journalistic activity would not be restricted.

The rejection follows a broader crackdown on Russian media in the EU since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. The European Council has banned Russian outlets such as RT, Sputnik and RIA across the bloc. In its 16th sanctions package adopted this February, the bloc also added eight more Russian news outlets to the blacklist, including Lenta.ru and the Zvezda TV channel.

Russian officials have repeatedly condemned the bans, arguing EU officials are afraid of people seeing a viewpoint that differs from the Western mainstream narrative and drawing their own conclusions about current events.

https://www.rt.com/news/616515-eu-media-freedom-deteriorating/

Link to report attached

https://www.liberties.eu/f/oj-aem

29 Apr, 2025 17:31

Argentina publishes files on notorious Nazi fugitives=

The newly-released documents detail times spent in the country by infamous death camp doctor Josef Mengele and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, amongst others

The Argentinean governmenthas made public almost 2,000 declassified secret service fileson hundreds of Nazi war criminals who fled to the Latin American country after the Third Reich’s defeat in the Second World War.

According to estimates, as many as 10,000 Nazis utilized so-called ‘ratlines’ to escape as the Axis powers collapsed. Infamously, around half of them are believed to have chosen Argentina –known for its reluctance to grant extradition requests — as their refuge. (Link to archive below-all in Spanish)

The 1,850 files uploaded online by the Argentinian National Archives (AGN) on Monday included intelligence reports, photographs, and police records. The documents on “Nazi activities in Argentina” are now available to all “thanks to extensive restoration and digitization work,” the AGN said in a statement.

Among other things, the papers depict how the likes of Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and Adolf Eichmann were able to make it to Argentina and what they did in the country.

Mengele was a physician and Nazi SS officer, nicknamed the ‘Angel of Death’ for his inhumane medical experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The published records show he entered Argentina in 1949 under the name of Gregor Helmut and then openly lived in the country.

“References obtained from different sectors of the German community allowed us to learn that he was commander of the Assault Guards and, at the same time, doctor in the German extermination camp of Auschwitz,” one of the files on Mengele read.

The newly-published papers also included the 1995 extradition documents for Priebke, a mid-level SS commander, who had been in charge of a unit responsible for the massacre of 335 Italian civilians at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome in 1944.

They also shed light on the time that Eichmann, a high-ranking SS official often described as the logistics chief of the Holocaust, spent in Argentina.He was kidnapped in Buenos Aires in 1960 by Mossad agents and hanged for his crimes by Israel two years later.

The files in question were declassified in 1992 under a decree from then-Argentine President Carlos Menem, but they could only be viewed in a specially designated room at the AGN.

The country’s current leader Javier Milei ordered that the Nazi papers be released to the general public in March on a request from the US Jewish human rights organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center,which is currently investigating links between Swiss bank, Credit Suisse, and Nazi Germany.

Link to report in Spanish: Couldn't find it in English, he supposedly released the first report.

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/archivo-general-de-la-nacion

Link to Argentia News:

https://en.mercopress.com/2025/04/29/argentina-releases-nazi-related-documents-online

https://www.rt.com/news/616498-argentina-nazi-papers-archive/

https://portal.ehri-project.eu/institutions/ar-005439

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Argentina releases Nazi-related documents online

Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

Argentina's General Archives (AGN) made available some 1,850 documents regarding Nazi activities in the country, including the presence of Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and Adolf Eichmann. These files can now be accessed online at argentina.gob.ar/interior/archivo-general and include intelligence reports, photographs, and police records. Until now, the documents could only be accessed on site at the AGN headquarters.

“The General Archive of the Nation made public declassified documents on Nazi activities in Argentina and secret presidential decrees. Thanks to extensive restoration and digitization work, more than 1,850 reports and almost 1,300 classified decrees are now accessible,” Argentina's Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death,” entered Argentina in 1949 under a false name and lived openly in the country. Priebke, involved in a 1944 massacre in Italy, was extradited in 1995. Additionally, about 1,300 secret presidential decrees from 1957 to 2005, covering topics like arms purchases and intelligence operations, have been released.

The records show how Mengele entered Argentina in 1949 under the name of Gregor Helmut. In 1956 he submitted his legalized birth certificate as Joseph Mengele. Other files offer testimonies of those who knew him during his residence in Vicente Lopez, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

“References obtained from different sectors of the German community allowed us to learn that he was commander of the Assault Guards and, at the same time, doctor in the German extermination camp of Auschwitz,” reads one of the memorandums written months after the Federal Republic of Germany requested Mengele's extradition.

Also available are Priebke's extradition documents from 1995. The former Nazi officer participated in the massacre of 335 civilians in the Ardeatine Graves, in the outskirts of Rome.

The archives on Nazi activities in Argentine territory consist of around 1,850 documentary pieces. The State handed them over in copies to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is currently investigating the links between the Credit Suisse bank and Nazism and had requested them to the government last February.

The AGN also made available confidential presidential decrees issued between 1957 and 2005 dealing with various topics, including the purchase and sale of arms, budget modifications, the organization of the Argentine Intelligence Service, and the “fight against communism” in the 1960s and 1970s. Also available is María Estela Martínez de Perón's “Decree for the purchase of EXOCET missiles” eventually used in the 1982 South Atlantic War.

See Documentación cobre el Nazismo

https://en.mercopress.com/2025/04/29/argentina-releases-nazi-related-documents-online

29 Apr, 2025 21:07

Russia and US were on brink of WWIII – Oliver Stone

Tensions between the two superpowers reached Cold War heights during the Ukraine conflict, the director has said

There was a point in the last three years of the Ukraine conflict where Russia and the US have teetered on the edge of a nuclear war, acclaimed filmmaker Oliver Stone has said.

Speaking to Russian students at the ‘Knowledge.First’ event in Moscow on Tuesday, spoke out against the US role in the Ukraine conflict, as well as its coverage in Western media.

The Hollywood legend suggested that over the past three years, Moscow and Washington have relived the Cold War spike in tensions that previously culminated in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and said he hoped a corresponding wind down would follow. The US and the Soviet Union almost came to a nuclear clash at the height of the Cold War, after the USSR retaliated by placing nuclear weapons in Cuba, following Washington’s deployment of nukes in Turkey.

”I want to emphasize to you students how very close we came to World War III because of this awful leadership,” he said.

”We bring a great waste of our resources and height of this futility was a war which [former US President Joe]Biden recently dedicated to weakening Russia,” Stone said. “It is a retrograde war.”

Western media coverage of the conflict and Russia has shocked him during the past three years, the director admitted.

”Even at the height of the Cold War, we didn’t treat Russia like this,” he said. Whereasnow, the media has trained people in the West to equate Russia with President Vladimir Putin, Stone added.

This is a tragic substitution of hatred for intelligence.

“The propaganda state in the West is an incredible empire. Far further and stronger than I ever imagined. You are unable to see the inside of the matrix,” he said.

Straight out of the works of George Orwell.

While the anti-war filmmaker has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, he has criticized Biden and the US “neoconservative movement” for the Ukraine conflict. Stone produced the 2016 ‘Ukraine on Fire’ documentary showing the role Washington played in the 2014 Maidan coup that overthrew Kiev’s democratically-elected president Viktor Yanukovich.

https://www.rt.com/news/616519-brink-wwiii-oliver-stone/