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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022
There is a serious double standard in pages on Wagner Group and Azov Battalion. On the Wagner Group's page, only two sentences in the second paragraph of the lede are dedicated to political points or war crimes. This is despite the group's well-known attachment to neo-Nazism and far-right views, as well as strong evidence of repeated, systematic war crimes. In contrast, close to half of the lede on the Azov Battalion is dedicated to the group's purported neo-Nazi values and to alleged war crimes. Some of the academic experts in Ukraine or far-right politics who have written on the Azov Battalion in 2022:

Dr Anton Shekhovtsov, a Vienna-based Ukrainian expert:

Dr Andreas Umland at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies.

Dr Ivan Gomza, Head of the Department of Public Governance at Kyiv School of Economics.

Thankfully many journalistic sources, even without expert opinion, have moved to a more nuanced description of the Azov Battalion. The Guardian: Global News (CA):

The persistence of sources that use the "neo-Nazi" designator is largely because of a lack of area expertise among Western journalists. Furthermore, it should be obvious that the nature of Azov has changed markedly and that no sources from 2014, prior should be used as RS on Azov now. In short, the lede is neither accurate nor consistent with pages on other military units. Change is necessary and urgent.

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"Nationalist regiment with neo-Nazi roots... ultranationalist Azov Regiment, whose neo-Nazi roots have been used by Russia to justify its invasion of Ukraine" but now depoliticised

"In 2014 this battalion had indeed a far-right background, these were far-right racists that founded the battalion," said Andreas Umland at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies. But it had since become "de-ideologised" and a regular fighting unit, he told AFP. Its recruits now join not because of ideology but because "it has the reputation of being a particularly tough fighting unit," Umland said.

OkoPress (Polish media outlet, looks rigorous) article on Azov

Kyiv professor: https://krytyka.com/en/articles/too-much-ado-about-ukrainian-nationalists-the-azov-movement-and-the-war-in-ukraine https://globalnews.ca/news/8758467/who-is-ukraines-azov-battalion/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/why-azov-should-not-be-designated-a-foreign-terrorist-organization/

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Perhaps mostly prominently, Anton Shekhovtsov

Anders Umland:

Ivan Gomza:

There is a double standard here; for example, the well-known far right politics of the Wagner Group are not mentioned in the opening sentence on that page. I think it's clear that based on the most contemporary and rigorous sources, the uncritical designation of 'Neo-Nazi' needs urgent amending. I think a reasonable alternative would be something like

The Azov Regiment are a unit of the Ukrainian National Guard. They are frequently described as Neo-Nazi, while other sources contest this designation.

That said, I think I'm more thorough assessment could read something like "the Azov Battalion have variously been described as Neo-Nazi, having neo-Nazi roots, or neo-Nazi leadership, while other sources contest this, with some arguing that the Battalion has become depoliticised since its 2014 founding.

Pages that need to be created/improved
Needs a Wiki article - Russia and Eastern Europe: Nemiga district, Minsk. Needs a wiki page: Electrification of the Soviet Union

Needs a wiki page: 1905 Ivanovo-Voznesentsk strike

Improve: Bnito

Project: improve pages on palaces, manor houses and castles in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus

Needs page: Increase ceremonies

Needs a wiki page: Electrification of the Soviet Union

Needs a wiki page: 1905 Ivanovo-Voznesentsk strike

Project: improve pages on palaces, manor houses and castles in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus

Project: make page on Voluntarism in the United States

Needs a Wiki page: Banking in the Russian Empire

Needs a Wiki article: Second Kishinev pogrom

King Bay Plowshares

Needs improving

Project: Tatar mosque and make Tatar architecture page

Moscow uprising of 1905

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War Industry Committees

Family in the Soviet Union

Putilov strike of 1917 plus the Putilov Ironworks should have its own page

Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy

Assignation ruble

Electricity sector in Imperial Russia

Textile industry of Imperial Russia

Free agriculturalist

7. Role of slavery
Many historians have concluded that the desire of Anglo Texans to preserve the social and economic institution of slavery was the primary factor that led to them to secede from Mexico in 1835. Accordingly, Barba has written that the primary goal of the Revolution was "craft a political economy conducive to Anglo-American slavery". Others have concluded that slavery was one of several significant factors, or at least one amongst several factors. Stephen F. Austin, known as the "Father of Texas", wrote in 1833:

"''"Texas must be a slave country. Circumstances and unavoidable necessity compel it. It is the wish of the people there, and it is my duty to do all I can, prudently, in favor of it. I will do so."

The Texas Revolution was motivated by a number of factors, including resistance to the Mexican government's attempts to centralize power, and the desire of Anglo Texas to preserve the institution of chattel slavery in the territory.

In the early 19th century, the cotton economy based on plantation slavery grew rapidly in the Southern United States. Increasing numbers of slaveholding Anglos began to migrate into the the territory of Texas. As tensions between the Mexican government and Anglo settlers grew, Mexico declared in 1833 that it would no longer extradite fugitive slaves, despite strong objections from the US government. In 1835 the government of Mexico was overthrown and a new, centralist constitution was promulgated. The Constitution of the Republic of Texas of 1836 explicitly protected the institution of slavery, and prohibited free blacks from living in Texas without the permission of the legislature. All in all, thousands of slaves were able to flee Texas and gain their freedom in Mexico. In 1840 the legislature of independent Texas approved a law ordering all free blacks to leave the Republic, though some were exempted by the Ashworth Act.

The role played by slavery has become part of historical debates regarding the revolution's purpose and legacy. Earlier historical accounts tended to reject the contention that the preservation of slavery was a major factor in the revolt. Conversely, more modern scholarship has tend to affirm the importance of the desire to protect slavery in the role of the revolt against Mexico in 1835, and the declaration of independence in 1836. The desire to protect slavery also played a central role in Texas' accession into the United States in 1846, especially after Great Britain put pressure on the Republic of Texas to abolish the practice. Eventually, the desire to preserve slavery helped move Texas to secede from the United States and join the Confederate States of America in 1861.

Other factors that motivated Anglo Texans to revolt against Mexico was cultural mistrust of Catholicism and Hispanic Mexicans, clashes over their previous exemption from Mexican taxes and customs duties and repeated reductions in political autonomy granted to Texas.

By 1835 there were 20,000 Anglos in Texas, with settlement centred around Washington on the Brazos, and they outnumbered Hispanics in Texas ten to one. Davis has argued that had Mexico been prepared to preserve the earlier "benign neglect" and broad autonomy for Anglo-Texans, the settlers would have been content to remain within Texas. Anglo settlers had been invited into Texas to create a buffer with the United States and with hostile Native American groups, and initially enjoyed a "generous provision" of land grants in addition to a seven-year period free of Mexican taxes or customs duties. Nonetheless, the Anglo colonists and their plantation economy remained closely economically linked to the United States, and they did not develop a sense of loyalty to Mexico.

8.Tejanos in the Revolution
"On April 5, 1837, slavery was abolished,"without any exception," throughout the Republic. Slaveowners were to be indemnified, except for Texas colonists "who took part in the rebellion of that department" [sic]. Mexico refused to accept Texan secession, and the political divide between federalists and centralizers over the "Texas Question" would dominate Mexican politics for the next decade.

The Revolution led to divided loyalties among the Tejano population of Texas. Tejanos fought in the Revolution's major battles on both the rebel and Mexican sides, with members of the same family even fighting for opposite sides on occasion. Many Tejanos had been alienated by the Mexican governments abolishment of federalism, with many opposing secession but hoping to preserve unity with Mexico on a basis that upheld local autonomy. By 1835, many were concerned about the increasingly dominant presence of Anglos in nominally Mexican Texas. While some scholars have stressed that Tejano loyalties were divided, De la Teja has contended that most Tejanos embraced the cause of Texan independence. Despite the support of many Tejanos, the Revolutionary victory led to increased marginalization of Tejanos in the new Republic, and war "made potential enemies of all Mexicans" in the Republic. Anglo Texans dominated the political leadership of the Republic of Texas, and during the 1836-1845 period only a handful of Tejanos were elected to the Texas legislature.

Many Tejanos fought bravely for the Texan revolutionary cause. Prominent Hispanic Texas Antonio Menchaca fought for the Revolution and was renowned for the bravery he displayed at the Battle of San Jacinto. After Texan independence was achieved, the Congress of the Republic of Texas passed a joint resolution in 1838 honoring Menchaca's service in the Revolution and granting him a home in San Antonio. He frequently spoke up for Tejano veterans who thought they had been denied proper compensation for their service and often served as a witness in legal proceedings on their behalf. Tejano José Antonio Navarro was one of the signatories of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

9.Legacy and historical commemoration
In 2021, the Governor of Texas announced a new "patriotic education" bill to be titled "The 1836 project". The stated aim of the bill is preserving the integrity of educational approaches to the Revolution in Texas. Nonetheless, there have been critics.

In popular culture?

Texas Revolution useful quotes and notes

 * Anglo cotton economy vs Tejano-Mexican rancher economy?

Siete Leyes

The University of Virginia Texas Slavery Project

High quality edited book on Tejanos in the Revolution and free E-book through the library: Recollections of a Tejano Life: Antonio Menchaca in Texas History (2013)

Clayton E. Jewett, John O. Allen Slavery in the South: A State-by-state History, p 240.

Slavery's Capitalism : A New History of American Economic Development, edited by Sven Beckert, and Seth Rockman, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, free in library online





Aboriginal history
Other eyewitness accounts include early settler William Thomas (Australian settler) (p106) who lived with Aboriginal people.

Task: improve page Ngurungaeta

WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia

Marcia Langton on Dark Emu.

Dark Emu blurb including academic praise.

Review of Dark Emu in academic journal Aboriginal History.

Notes on Andy Ngo...
Andy Ngo as "pseudo-journalist". Interesting article on how conservative content dominates on social media, including Ngo's coverage of BLM. "During the month that POLITICO analyzed, a third of Ngo’s roughly 50 posts ranked in the 30 most-shared digital messages about Black Lives Matter. Collectively, his top five messages on Twitter, based on shares, likes and retweets, received 35 times more engagement than the most prominent mainstream media post on the topic, from MSNBC’s Joy Reid, based on POLITICO’s analysis."

Interesting academic working paper on Ngo

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May 2020: Wall Street Journal and climate denial

Current version:

Climate Feedback on the WSJ: three pages of hits for around 30 articles!

Painter, J. (2011). Poles apart: The international reporting of climate scepticism. Oxford, UK: University of Oxford.

Climate change denial
The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. The Journal disputes that it poses a major threat to human existence and can be prevented through public policy and has published articles disputing that global warming is occurring at all. The Journal is regarded as a forum for climate change deniers, publishing articles by individuals that reject the consensus position on climate change in its op-ed section. These columns frequently attack climate scientists and accuse them of engaging in fraud. A 2015 study found The Wall Street Journal was the newspaper that was least likely to present negative effects of global warming among several newspapers. It was also the most likely to present negative economic framing when discussing climate change mitigation policies, tending to take the stance that the cost of such policies generally outweighs their benefit. The Washington Post has characterized The Wall Street Journal's editorial pages as "the beating heart of climate-change skepticism".

Climate Feedback, a fact-checking website on media coverage of climate science, has assessed that multiple opinion articles range between "low" and "very low" in terms of scientific credibility. The Journal has been accused of refusing to publish opinions of scientists which present the mainstream view on climate change. According to a 2016 analysis, 14% of the guest editorials presented the results of "mainstream climate science", while the majority did not. Also, none of 201 editorials published in the Wall Street Journal since 1997 have conceded that the burning of fossil fuels is causing climate change.

Other science coverage
In the 1980s and 1990s, The Journal published numerous columns disputing and misrepresenting the science behind acid rain and the scientific consensus behind the causes of ozone depletion and the health harms of second-hand smoke, and opposed public policy efforts to curb acid rain, ozone depletion and second-hand smoke. The Journal has also published columns attacking efforts to control pesticides and asbestos. By the 2000s, the Journal editorial board recognized that efforts to curb acid rain through cap-and-trade had been successful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Assumption,_Aglona



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