P-2, Take II?

Com­ment: A recent fis­sure between Ital­ian neo-fascist (he calls him­self a “post-fascist”) Gian­franco Fini and Ital­ian pre­mier Sil­vio Berlus­coni turned up indi­ca­tions of a cabal of pow­er­ful fig­ures, who have clan­des­tinely coa­lesced into a secre­tive, piv­otal influ­ence group. (Berlus­coni is pic­tured at right.)

This is rem­i­nis­cent of the sin­is­ter P-2 Lodge of Licio Gelli, a crypto-fascist [...]

LaRouchies and the Muslim Brotherhood

Com­ment: An early Mus­lim Broth­er­hood chief in the United States was one Ahmed Elkadi. Elkadi has been a sig­nif­i­cant con­trib­u­tor to the elec­tion camaigns of Lyn­don LaRouche, the American-born head of a German-based fas­cist net­work. (LaRouche’s var­i­ous polit­i­cal fronts in the U.S. are exten­sions of the Schiller Insti­tute, head­quar­tered in the Fed­eral Repub­lid of Ger­many.)
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More about Silvio Berlusconi’s Mafia Ties

Com­ment: Ital­ian prime min­is­ter Sil­vio Berlusconi’s Mafia ties are becom­ing more vis­i­ble. A mem­ber of the fas­cist P-2 lodge, Berlus­coni has “more con­nec­tions than a switch­board.” Suc­ces­sor to Mussolini’s fascisti, the P-2 has been a major focal point of these broad­casts for decades. (Berlus­coni is pic­tured at right.)

Berlus­coni and his Ital­ian fas­cist milieu also have [...]

FTR #696 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Japan­ese prime min­is­ter pub­licly dis­cusses the M-Fund, a deci­sive link between Japan­ese con­quest dur­ing World War II and its post­war pol­i­tics; Ital­ian prime min­is­ter Berlus­coni linked to the Mafia; Chris­t­ian fun­da­men­tal­ist orga­ni­za­tion The Fam­ily pro­mot­ing fas­cism from the 1930’s on.

FTR #677 Update on Global Fascism

The old SS giv­ing rise to new fas­cism in Aus­tria and Ger­many; Mussolini’s heirs move into the Ital­ian main­stream; Con­ti­nu­ity of for­eign pol­icy between the “new” Ger­many and the Third Reich.

Hitler, Mussolini and the Ikhwan: The Fascist History, Associations and Ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Broth­er­hood is best under­stood as part of “the fas­cist inter­na­tional,” before, dur­ing and after World War II. It has allied with Ger­man and Ital­ian fas­cists from WWII to the present.

FTR #320 Interview with Kevin Coogan

Lis­ten: One Seg­ment
High­light­ing aspects of con­ti­nu­ity between fas­cism past and present, this broad­cast reviews the career of the piv­otally impor­tant (but little-known) Fran­cis Parker Yockey. To do so, we visit with Kevin Coogan, author of the sem­i­nal Dreamer of the Day: Fran­cis Parker Yockey and the Post­war Fas­cist Inter­na­tional. (Copy­right 1999 [SC]; Autono­me­dia; ISBN 1–57027–039–2.)
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FTR #633 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Mus­lim Brotherhood-Al-Taqwa link to Berlus­coni; Eliot Spitzer scan­dal viewed in com­par­i­son to Pal­frey mur­der case; pan-Turkist move­ment link to shoot­ing of the pope.

FTR #595 European Vacation

As the Old World reju­ve­nates from cen­turies of dev­as­tat­ing reli­gious and polit­i­cal war­fare, Euro­pean polit­i­cal insti­tu­tions are man­i­fest­ing their old character.

FTR #559 The Opus Dei Code – The Vatican Rag Pt. III

Recorded June 18, 2006
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The movie “The Da Vinci Code” has focused pub­lic atten­tion on the Opus Dei order, a reac­tionary Catholic orga­ni­za­tion with strong his­tor­i­cal links to fas­cism. High­light­ing its influ­ence on the cur­rent pope and his pre­de­ces­sor, this pro­gram sets forth some of the areas of influ­ence of this secre­tive orga­ni­za­tion. Play­ing a significant [...]