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In the late 1930s, the Soviet Union took in about nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. These kids, aged roughly from 5 to 12 years old, were placed in boarding schools in Leningrad, Moscow and elsewhere in the USSR. Their stay in this strange new land was supposed to be temporary. But fascist victory in the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of WWII made them exiles for the foreseeable future. Now responsible to their rearing and education, Soviet officials and their Spanish minders transformed these children into hybrid Hispano-Soviets. They were steeped in patriotism for their two homelands and taught to emulate Spanish and Soviet heroes, scientists, soldiers, and artists. How did these Spanish children fare in the Soviet Union and live through the multiple traumas of their childhood? What did it mean to Hispano-Soviet? What was their fate and memory of growing up as a refugee? Here’s Karl Qualls with this little known story.

Guest:

Karl Qualls is the John B. Parsons Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Dickinson College. He’s the author of From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II. His new book is Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.


Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR

The 21st century wars against Middle Eastern countries are bringing them together in what the author terms an ‘axis of resistance’ that includes Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen; what is most feared by American and Israeli strategists is an Iranian Land Bridge consisting of infrastructural links and integration between Tehran and the Mediterranean, including road, rail, communications, oil and gas pipelines and defense collaboration; characterization of empires and imperialism; the nature of Iran’s leadership role; Russia’s role within the ‘axis of resistance’ and its relationship with Israel; all terrorist groups have been backed by the US-led coalition; final stages of the failed war on Syria; devastating economic sanctions on the entire region; White Helmets; human organ trafficking; all claims of chemical weapon use by the Syrian government a fabrication; war on Syria was never a civil war; the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani and Iraqi Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and others have resulted in a call to expel US forces from the entire region.

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Political satirist C.J. Hopkins breaks down the pathologized totalitarianism of the "Brave New Normal" brought about by the "Virus of Mass Destruction". He discusses corona-totalitarians and how the global-hegemonic-system is attempting to put down any populist nonsense, left or right, for good.

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Show Notes
50 Headlines Darker: More of the “New Normal” https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/25/50-headlines-darker-more-of-the-new-normal
Covid-19 Global Lockdown https://consentfactory.org/2020/03/18/covid-19-global-lockdown
Brave New Normal https://consentfactory.org/2020/04/13/brave-new-normal
The New (Pathologized) Totalitarianism https://consentfactory.org/2020/06/29/the-new-pathologized-totalitarianism
GloboCap Über Alles https://consentfactory.org/2020/07/20/globocap-uber-alles
Uber offers COVID-19 contact tracing help amid chaotic U.S. response https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-uber-focus/uber-offers-covid-19-contact-tracing-help-amid-chaotic-u-s-response-idUSKCN24L17X
State Lab Finds 90 Positive COVID-19 Test Results Were False https://www.msn.com/en-us/Health/medical/state-lab-finds-90-positive-covid-19-test-results-were-false/ar-BB16Yche?ocid=sf
New COVID-19 restrictions on employment and entry into businesses will be needed for anti-vaxxers https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/new-covid-19-restrictions-will-be-needed-for-anti-vaxxers-20200616-p55330.html

Websites
Consent Factory https://consentfactory.org
Personal Website https://cjhopkins.com
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Books
Zone 23, Consent Factory Essays, Plays... https://cjhopkins.com/books

About C.J. Hopkins
C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His plays have been produced and have toured at theatres and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater (Los Angeles), 7 Stages (Atlanta), the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Brighton Festival, and the Noorderzon Festival (the Netherlands), among others. His writing awards include the 2002 First of the Scotsman Fringe Firsts, Scotsman Fringe Firsts in 2002 and 2005, and the 2004 Best Play of the Adelaide Fringe. His political satire and commentary has been featured on NPR Berlin, in CounterPunch, ColdType, The Unz Review, OffGuardian, ZeroHedge, Dissident Voice, The Greanville Post, ZNet, Black Agenda Report, and other publications, and has been widely translated.

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Dimitri and Khalid discuss the bizarre 2015 arrest of Kamala Harris's "Masonic Fraternal Police Department" aide, the political machinations of the San Francisco haute bourgeoisie, the history of the Knights Templar, and the curious business connections of SS Haupsturmführer Otto von Bolschwing.

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On this brand new episode of the Global Research News Hour we take a fresh and discerning look at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the week when the Democratic party is hosting its 2020 National Convention.

In the first half hour, Mark Robinowitz offers his assessment as a deep political thinker and ecological thinker. His website is oilempire.us. Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace and vice president on the Green ticket during the last presidential election, offer his uncompromising view of the Democratic party and leader Biden in our second half hour.

Dissecting the Democrats in 2020

Track by Florida Beuys (Matthias Braun and Dirk Schricker). All rights reserved.
Arranged by Dirk Schricker
Country: Germany
Produced in December 2020
Released on March 24, 2023 on the EP "The Many Rewards"
Label: ANALOGmusiq
Mastering: Guido Braun (@guidobraun)

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From Lubbock Texas, after the black-out cold storm, scientist Katherine Hayhoe talks record billion dollar climate disasters.  Her PBS YouTube series is “Global Weirding”.  From Bergen Norway, lead scientist Christoph Heinze warns about three OTHER crisis developing unseen below the seas.  His new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy is ominously titled: “The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points”.

Billion Dollar Black Out Climate Disasters

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we examine the idea of the COVID crisis being a mask for the Elites to bring about changes  on a global level that radically shift our lives in a way that benefits them.  In the first half hour, Catherine Austin Fitts of  solari.com makes her debut on the program, detailing her written report on the State of our Currencies: the End of Currencies. And in our second half hour, we hear from Mila Aleckovic-Bataille, a noted researcher into  psychopathology and psychology about how the COVID measures brought in place are a form of Dark Psychiatric experiment.

Dissecting the Democrats in 2020

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