Alan Simpson: Typical GOP Traitor Attacks Veterans for their Benefits

Com­ment: The Repub­li­cans con­tinue to outdo them­selves in their heart­less, amoral pro­nounce­ments and actions. Even with their track record of fil­i­bus­ter­ing to pre­vent an exten­sion of unem­ploy­ment ben­e­fits to Amer­i­cans who lost their jobs as a direct result of years of Repub­li­can “cor­po­ratism” (Mussolini’s term for fas­cism), it is hard to believe how out­ra­geous they [...]

FTR #716 Interview (#6) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Decades of Bush fam­ily intrigue cul­mi­nates in Dubya’s eight year deba­cle; dis­as­ters over­tak­ing the US are the inevitable out­growth of Bush’s cor­po­ratist phi­los­o­phy and cor­rupt admin­is­tra­tive practice.

IMF to US: Cut Social Security

Com­ment: Does the GOP run the IMF? That might be a con­clu­sion one might draw from the IMF’s con­tention that the U.S. should cut Social Secu­rity ben­e­fits, in order to reduce its deficit. Guess we can add IMF to the list of indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions that want lots of impov­er­ished, des­per­ate elderly and disabled.

The fol­low­ing [...]

Update on the Resurgence of Hungarian Fascism

Com­ment: In FTR #709, we high­lighted the recent elec­toral suc­cess of the Hun­gar­ian Job­bik Party. A recent For­eign Pol­icy arti­cle fur­ther detailed that dis­turb­ing phe­nom­e­non.
“Rise of the Hun­gar­ian Right” by Michael Jor­dan; For­eign Pol­icy; 7/13/2010.

While run­ning for a par­lia­men­tary seat in Hungary’s April elec­tions, far-right can­di­date Gabor Vona made one cam­paign promise that was controversial [...]

Dutch Elections Show Gains by Far Right

Com­ment: One of the ironies of the Euro­pean growth of the Mus­lim Brotherhood–an Islamic fas­cist organization–concerns the extent to which the pres­ence of Islamic fun­da­men­tal­ist ele­ments in that con­ti­nent is spurring polit­i­cal reac­tion.
In FTR #348, we noted this phe­nom­e­non, which may do much to effect the tri­umph of fas­cism in Europe, as well as the [...]

Belgian Fascist/Separatist Party Gains in Parliamentary Elections

Com­ment: The Vlaams Blok, a party advo­cat­ing the par­ti­tion­ing of Bel­gium into French and Dutch speak­ing enti­ties, has done very well in recent elec­tions. The Vlaams Blok has strong fas­cist over­tones and is closely con­nected to other Euro­pean Euro fas­cist par­ties and indi­vid­u­als.
“Sep­a­ratist Party Wins Big in Bel­gian Elec­tions” by Robert Welaard [AP]; Yahoo.com; 6/13/2010.
Excerpt: [...]

Economic Collapse Driving People to the Right

Com­ment: Nobel-Prize win­ning econ­o­mist Paul Krug­man has taken stock of a dis­turb­ing fact–economic cat­a­stro­phe pro­pels elec­torates in a right­ward direc­tion. In numer­ous broad­casts, we’ve high­lighted the deci­sive effect of the great depres­sion in win­ning hearts and minds for Hitler and his fel­low fas­cist dic­ta­tors.
Some­thing sim­i­lar is man­i­fest­ing itself today in the U.S. and Europe.
“Going to [...]

FTR #697 Christian Fundamentalism and the Underground Reich

‘The Fam­ily’ is the foun­da­tion of U.S. fun­da­men­tal­ism and was cen­tral to the reha­bil­i­ta­tion of Third Reich Nazis to serve in the “New” Ger­many, as well as U.S. intelligence.

FTR #693 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Black­wa­ter secu­rity out­fit plots to kill whistle­blow­ers; deadly pathogens miss­ing from Ft. Det­rick; viruses mutat­ing to infect other species; the bailout hasn’t assured eco­nomic secu­rity and has made the insti­tu­tions that are “too big to fail” even bigger.

FTR #676 Sedition! (Part 2): Target, America!

Wall Street Jour­nal fea­tur­ing advo­cacy for the dis­so­lu­tion of the US; Rea­gan admin­is­tra­tion vet­er­ans push­ing this view­point; Will a Nazi “cor­po­racracy” dom­i­nate the “leftovers”?