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Slovakia festival hosting Kanye West cancelled after 'Heil Hitler' furore
AFP, Published on 11/07/2025
» BRATISLAVA - The Slovakia festival due to welcome Kanye West next week has called off the event following the uproar over the US rapper's May release of a song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Australia cancels Kanye West's visa over 'Heil Hitler' song
Reuters, Published on 02/07/2025
» SYDNEY — Kanye West, also known as Ye, has had his Australian visa cancelled after he released “Heil Hitler”, a song promoting Nazism, the country’s home affairs minister said on Wednesday.
Musk salute at Trump rally celebrated by extremists online
AFP, Published on 22/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - Elon Musk's hand gestures at an inauguration event for US President Donald Trump, which quickly drew comparisons to Nazi salutes, appear to have resonated in some far-right extremist spaces online.
Musk raises eyebrows with salute gesture at Trump rally
AFP, Published on 21/01/2025
» WASHINGTON — Billionaire Elon Musk sparked controversy Monday after making a gesture at an event celebrating United States President Donald Trump's inauguration, with some calling it a "Nazi" or "fascist" movement.
Euro final venue known for moment of infamy
Published on 12/07/2024
» BERLIN - England face Spain in the Euro 2024 final on Sunday at the site of an infamous moment in their football history when the players gave the Nazi salute to the Olympiastadion crowd before the start of their 1938 friendly against Germany in Berlin.
Germany's anti-mask movement draws strange bedfellows
AFP, Published on 21/11/2020
» BERLIN - A dancer in harem pants moves down a Berlin street next to a skinhead wearing a "Reich" flag: Germany's escalating anti-mask protests in the coronavirus pandemic draw from a wide, seemingly contradictory range of political camps.
Lockdown anger boils over Down Under
Published on 05/09/2020
» MELBOURNE: More than a dozen anti-lockdown protesters were arrested on Saturday in Melbourne, as those deliberately flouting stay-at-home orders clashed with Australian police.
Stay ignorant or learn some history
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 11/02/2019
» A couple of weeks ago, Pichayapa "Namsai" Natha, a member of BNK48, became a hot topic on social media when she wore a T-shirt bearing the Nazi swastika during a concert rehearsal. Following the ensuing uproar, the singer publicly apologised in tears, admitting she'd made a mistake, and had been ignorant of what the image symbolised.
Beware the online culture warriors
News, John Lloyd, Published on 22/10/2018
» The news media in the Western world remains dominated by newspapers, magazines and broadcasters still known as the mainstream. The most vivid proof of their continued reign over public opinion is in the figure of US President Donald Trump, whose repeated attacks on "failing" publications like The New York Times and the Washington Post as "enemies of the people" is a backhanded tribute to their continued power.
Dr. Asperger 'actively cooperated' with Nazis: study
AFP, Published on 19/04/2018
» VIENNA - Austrian paediatrician Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger's syndrome is named, "actively cooperated" with the Nazi euthanasia programme, according to a new study published Thursday.