The Strange Case of Kim Schmitz aka “Kim Dotcom”: Cyber Agent Provacateur for the Corporations, Underground Reich?

COMMENT: In the after­math of the arrest of Kim Schmitz aka “Kim Dot­com” in the wake of the MegaU­pload take­down by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, Herr Doc­tom has been var­i­ously por­trayed as a mar­tyr for inter­net free­dom and the Sec­ond Com­ing of Christ by his cyber-libertarian sup­port­ers and as the Beast of the Apoc­a­lypse by [...]

Fascists in Russian Anti-Putin Coalition: Whither the Oil Rich and Largely Muslim Caucasus?

COMMENT: The coali­tion assem­bling to attempt the oust­ing of Vladimir Putin embraces lib­er­als, left­ists and “nationalists”–that’s New York Times code for fas­cists, a word that Amer­i­can jour­nal­ists sel­dom use.
That coalition–strained at the moment–is rem­i­nis­cent in some ways of the one that ousted the author­i­tar­ian Hosni Mubarak. That event, as we have seen, has led [...]

Iranian/Hezbollah Terror Team Allegedly Arrested in Argentina: Descendants of WWII Nazis Involved in Plot?

COMMENT: A joint Iranian/Hezbollah ter­ror team has been arrested in Argentina for plot­ting to attack a Habad cen­ter in Argentina, accord­ing to the DEBKA newslet­ter. (DEBKA has some good infor­ma­tion in it, but has an edi­to­r­ial bias that favors the Israeli right wing, which itself has a fas­cist her­itage, as we’ve seen.  Its content [...]

Muslim Brotherhood/Islamist Coup Attempt in Bangladesh

COMMENT: It appears that an Islamist coup attempt in Bangladesh has been foiled (at least for the time being).
Note that the Jamaat-e-Islami (a Mus­lim  Broth­er­hood off­shoot) was a major ele­ment in the coup attempt. If such an future attempt  were to be suc­cess­ful, it would flank India with hos­tile Mus­lim nations–a devel­op­ment that would move the [...]

Another Picture worth a Thousand Words

COMMENT: We’ve seen any num­ber of pic­tures of Sunni Islam­o­fas­cists and Shi­ite Islam­o­fas­cists. The pic­ture at the link below shows sup­port­ers of embat­tled Syr­ian leader Bashar Assad pledg­ing to fight for him and his Baathist party.
Sec­u­lar in ori­en­ta­tion, the Baathists nonethe­less draw overtly on fas­cist tra­di­tion. There is no ges­ture in Mus­lim or Arab history [...]

Dominating New Egyptian Parliament, Muslim Brotherhood Controls that Body’s House Speaker

COMMENT: Hav­ing gained 45 % of the seats in the new Egypt­ian par­lia­ment, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood has now maneu­vered the sec­re­tary gen­eral of its Free­dom and Jus­tice Party into the posi­tion of house speaker.
Por­trayed as “mod­er­ate,” the Broth­er­hood is, of course, noth­ing of the sort.  Allied with the Axis in World War II, the [...]

Reflections on S & P’s Downgrade of European Debt (Except for Germany’s): Pushing “Austerereich”

COMMENT: Stan­dard & Poor’s recent down­grade of euro­zone coun­tries’ credit rat­ings leaves us with much to ponder:

Germany’s credit rat­ing remained at triple-A.
The McGraw family–owners of S & P–are decades-long power elite asso­ciates of the Bush fam­ily.
As noted by Paul Krug­man (and the vig­i­lant “ter­rafractyl”)  S & P’s own analy­sis warns that the “con­tin­ued austerity” [...]

Eurozone Debt Crisis, Balkanization and the Growth of Greater Germany

COMMENT: The invalu­able german-foreign-policy.com newslet­ter (which feeds along the bot­tom of the front page of this web­site) sheds inter­est­ing light on how the indebt­ed­ness of fail­ing Euro­pean economies plays into the hands of those who aspire to the geo­graph­i­cal expan­sion of Ger­many.
Wealth­ier areas of strug­gling nations are mov­ing toward seces­sion, in some cases looking [...]

Pictures Worth a Thousand Words: “If I Had a Hammer . . . ”

COMMENT: The Euro­zone cri­sis and the advance of fas­cism in its afflicted nations has afforded us some telling imagery. Mus­solini took the name for his “Cor­po­rate State” from the fascis–a bun­dle of rods bound together with an axe head joined to it.
In the wake of the for­ma­tion of the pro­vi­sional gov­ern­ment in Greece, we [...]

Strange Brew in L.A.: Massage Parlors, German Nazis, Arson, Chechnyan Refugees

COMMENT: A case that raises more ques­tions than it answers con­tin­ues to unfold in Los Ange­les.  A Ger­man cit­i­zen of Chech­nyan extrac­tion was arrested for set­ting numer­ous fires in the L.A. area.
He allegedly per­formed the acts to protest his mother’s impend­ing extra­di­tion to Ger­many. Fol­low­ing the arrest, his mother had some inter­est­ing things to say. (His [...]