The Italo-Ethiopian war (1935–6) had a profoundly destabilising effect internationally and can be regarded as one of the events that led to the outbreak of the Second World War. Benito Mussolini's occupation of the country (then known as Abyssinia) was facilitated by the massive use of air power and chemical weapons – in ways that at the time were still unprecedented. Mussolini's chemical war, occurring in a country at the periphery of geopolitical spheres of interest, has remained marginal to established historical narratives, rendering it anachronistically topical to today's politics of memory. By examining two films based on archival film footage, respectively Lutz Becker's documentary The Lion of Judah, War in Ethiopia 1935–1936 (1975) and Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's video work Barbaric Land (Paese barbaro, 2013), this article considers the significance of the moving image as a trace of events that have mostly remained visually undocumented and questions its relevance vis à vis today's mediated warfare and the ethics of images
"All Is Calm" -- https://alliscalm.org/ a truly "vuderful" play (with music!) about the German and Yankee soldiers befriendin' each other on xmas...before their "commanders" put the kibbosh on the joviality -- clear to many've us they don't want no reachin' cross any divides...
There was a revolt in Egypt in WW2 as well. British, Australian and NZ soldiers started selecting their own leadership. It was put down after a few days.
'Are you my enemy?'
lol, you are your own enemy. you cann't accept that, so you project that on your neighbors
Who are you talking to and why?
I talk to self
I am my own enemy, wetiko
Not understanding that, I project my world onto my environment.
Yes the whole sorry episode is a rerun. Always wondered how we ended up in so many culdesacs.
New Zealand was doing gas chambers back in the 1920s.
https://plebeianresistance.substack.com/publish/post/43977900
The idea must have come from somewhere, even though the two functional ones were erected by the Soviets in 1946...
The site doesn't let me in. Strangely, other posts are available on the site. What is the title of this one?
Mussolini pioneered this tactic.
The Italo-Ethiopian war (1935–6) had a profoundly destabilising effect internationally and can be regarded as one of the events that led to the outbreak of the Second World War. Benito Mussolini's occupation of the country (then known as Abyssinia) was facilitated by the massive use of air power and chemical weapons – in ways that at the time were still unprecedented. Mussolini's chemical war, occurring in a country at the periphery of geopolitical spheres of interest, has remained marginal to established historical narratives, rendering it anachronistically topical to today's politics of memory. By examining two films based on archival film footage, respectively Lutz Becker's documentary The Lion of Judah, War in Ethiopia 1935–1936 (1975) and Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's video work Barbaric Land (Paese barbaro, 2013), this article considers the significance of the moving image as a trace of events that have mostly remained visually undocumented and questions its relevance vis à vis today's mediated warfare and the ethics of images
And H.G. Wells more or less peered into an outcome. https://www.nytimes.com/1936/04/18/archives/hg-wells-presents-an-outline-of-future-history-in-things-to-come-at.html
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"All Is Calm" -- https://alliscalm.org/ a truly "vuderful" play (with music!) about the German and Yankee soldiers befriendin' each other on xmas...before their "commanders" put the kibbosh on the joviality -- clear to many've us they don't want no reachin' cross any divides...
There was a revolt in Egypt in WW2 as well. British, Australian and NZ soldiers started selecting their own leadership. It was put down after a few days.
Rule no. 1--don't let 'em (really) pick their leaders.... As David Byrne sang, "same as it ever was..."