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Think you're impervious to propaganda? Do you recycle plastics? Check to see if there's a triple arrow logo? Well, That's all propaganda from the petroleum industry, designed to discourage us from abandoning plastics for less environmentally destructive alternatives. Turns out only around 5% of plastics are actually recycled, even when we separate and add them to our recycling bins. The rest are dumped. And those that are recycled, can generally only be recycled one time. Furthermore, the recycling process, itself, emits lots of toxic by products. THe FTC is currently deciding whether to change the labeling on plastics so that only those that are actually recycled can get this label. The petroleum companies are fighting it. #environment #ecology #recycling #plastic #climate #bigoil

Today in Labor History August 26, 1942: At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deported two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred children and sick people were murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day. Prior to this, Chortkiv had a large Jewish community. Overall, an estimated 900,000-1.6 million Ukrainian Jews were executed during the Holocaust, with the collaboration of the Ukrainian military. According to German historian Dieter Pohl, roughly 100,000 Ukrainians joined police forces that participated in Nazi atrocities. Many participated in mass shootings of Jews, as well. Ivan the Terrible was a Ukrainian who served as a guard at the Treblinka death camp. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), founded in 1929, is an ultra-right, racist and nationalist organization that, during the WWII era, boasted tens of thousands of members, and which also collaborated with Nazi atrocities, including the Lviv pogroms of 1941, in which up to 6,000 Jews were massacred. During the Cold War, and despite their fascistic and antisemitic tendencies, the CIA and other western intelligence agencies funded and supported the OUN because of their anti-communist ideology. The organization, which still exists today, helped to popularize the nationalistic slogan “Slava Ukraini!” in the 1930s, though the slogan first appeared during the Ukrainian War of Independence (1917-1921). The OUN was active in the 1914 Euromaidan protests, and they are one of numerous far right nationalist organizations participating in the current war against Russia. #workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #jewish #nazis #fascism #antisemitism #nationalism #ukraine #russia #cia #communism