The tag 'Collapse' is associated with 72 posts.

Fascism and the Dangers of Economic Concentration

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 6, 2012 ⋅ 20 comments

A 1980 broad­cast high­lights eco­nomic con­cen­tra­tion and its his­tor­i­cal rela­tion­ship to fas­cism. The issue of the “1%” ver­sus the “99%” is not new.

Daily Mail [UK]: Will 2012 Be the New 1932?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 4, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

COMMENT: As things dete­ri­o­rate, a grow­ing num­ber of voices are echo­ing a warn­ing I’ve sounded for decades.
In the arti­cle below, Dominic Sand­brook notes that the col­lapse of the global econ­omy dur­ing the Great Depres­sion drove the des­per­ate into the arms of polit­i­cal extrem­ism.
Not­ing the inabil­ity of the feck­less coali­tion gov­ern­ment in Britain to [...]

Depression and Fascism: Krugman’s Analysis

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 22, 2011 ⋅ 13 comments

COMMENT: Although he insists on refrain­ing from using the “F” word for what is tran­spir­ing in Europe, Nobel Prize-winning econ­o­mist Paul Krug­man has noted in a New York Times col­umn that the “aus­ter­ity” mea­sures cham­pi­oned by Ger­many (and also the GOP in the U.S.) and being cur­rently imple­mented, are dri­ving for­ward extreme right pol­i­tics in [...]

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, er . . . Democracy. Not With a Bang, but a Whimper!

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 20, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

COMMENT: As noted by blog­ger David Sea­mon, the demise of Amer­i­can democ­racy took place amid the volu­mi­nous, flat­u­lant pon­tif­i­ca­tion of U.S. media pun­dits, a pro­found dis­trac­tion in the event.
With very lit­tle notice from politi­cial or media insti­tu­tions and/or indi­vid­u­als, the National Defense Autho­riza­tion Act has incor­po­rated some fea­tures that would allow the vir­tual elim­i­na­tion of civil [...]

“Now, Europe Will Speak German!” Germany to UK: Adopt the Euro, or Else!

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 27, 2011 ⋅ 9 comments

COMMENT: As Ger­many cements its con­trol over the Euro­pean econ­omy and the Euro­pean Cen­tral Bank, the Ger­man power elite are openly and deri­sively call­ing for Britain to join the EMU.
(Note that the ECB could solve much of the euro­zone debt cri­sis by lend­ing money, but has been blocked by Ger­many from doing so. The only [...]

Au Revoir to European Democracy: “A Calm Judgement of Business Necessity”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 24, 2011 ⋅ 15 comments

COMMENT: View­ing events in Europe brings to mind the clos­ing words of James Stew­art Martin’s All Hon­or­able Men. Qui­etly, the Euro­zone debt cri­sis has brought about an orderly tran­si­tion to the “calm judge­ment of busi­ness neces­sity” with which Mar­tin closed his book.
As Greece and Italy have seen gov­ern­ments appointed by the Ger­man dom­i­nated “tech­noc­racy” with [...]

Putting the “Hammer” Down in Greece: More about Fascists in the New Government

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 17, 2011 ⋅ 27 comments

COMMENT: From Mark Ames comes an impor­tant new post, sup­ple­ment­ing infor­ma­tion about fas­cists in the new Greek gov­ern­ment. Recall that Greece was under the rule of a fas­cist junta that came to power in 1967. Makis “Ham­mer” Voridis, the cur­rent min­is­ter of  “Infra­struc­ture, Trans­port and Net­works” in the Greek Gov­ern­ment, is a doc­tri­naire fas­cist and [...]

Greek Fascists Set to Become Part of New Provisional Government

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 16, 2011 ⋅ 8 comments

COMMENT: In the wake of the eco­nomic and polit­i­cal tur­moil sweep­ing  Europe as a result of the Euro­zone debt cri­sis, Greece has formed a new coali­tion gov­ern­ment, one of whose par­tic­i­pants is the LAOS party.
Reported to have played a major role in the for­ma­tion of the new pro­vi­sional gov­ern­ment and pos­si­bly in line for a [...]

Democracy? Nichte! [Not!]

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 4, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: As cited by “ter­rafractyl” in a com­ment about “His­tory Teaches Us that We Learn Noth­ing from His­tory,” Floyd Nor­ris  com­mented in The New York Times, “Why Not Give Greeks Their Say?” A stark answer is to be found in a char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally excel­lent piece from German-Foreign-Policy.com, which feeds along the bot­tom of the front [...]

David Duke Endorses Occupy Wall Street

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 29, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: Long­time KKK and white suprema­cist leader David Duke has added his voice to the fas­cist and Nazi ele­ments climb­ing on the Occupy Wall Street band­wagon.
A num­ber of thoughts come to mind in this con­text. First, there are indi­ca­tions that far-right/fascist ele­ments (cloaked as “pro­gres­sives”) may have gen­er­ated the impe­tus for the move­ment in [...]

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