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 [...]

More on the Increasingly Vitriolic (and Depressing) Debate on the “9/11 Mosque”

Com­ment: In the increas­ingly Kafkaesque polit­i­cal land­scape in this coun­try, noth­ing high­lights the intel­lec­tual and moral bank­ruptcy of both sides of the polit­i­cal aisle than the debate over the “9/11 Mosque.” Con­ser­v­a­tive ele­ments have cor­rectly noted the links of Feisal Abdul Rauf and asso­ciates to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, as well as dis­turb­ing indi­ca­tions that his [...]

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.

GOP Representative and “Family” Member Preaches Sedition

Com­ment: While wav­ing the flag with one hand, the GOP has been warn­ing of or openly preach­ing seces­sion. The lat­est GOP lumi­nary to preach sedi­tion is Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Zach Wamp. As we will see in the Salon.com arti­cle below, Wamp is a mem­ber of “The Family”–a con­sum­mately pow­er­ful, fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion with close ties to the [...]

FTR #715 Interview (#5) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Poppy Bush tabbed by Ger­ald Ford to head CIA as Kennedy assas­si­na­tion inves­ti­ga­tions pro­ceed; Dick Cheney, Don­ald Rums­feld, Karl Rove and Paul Wol­fowitz launch their careers cour­tesy of Poppy and Ger­ald Ford in same time period.

White Supremacists Targeting Tea Party Movement for Infiltration & Possible Takeover

Com­ment: It really shouldn’t come as a great sur­prise, but white suprema­cist ele­ments are tar­get­ing the Tea Party move­ment for infil­tra­tion and co– option. With the GOP’s his­tory of involve­ment with Nazi and fas­cist ele­ments, they shouldn’t be too far out of the Repub­li­can main­stream.
“Tea Party Rejects Racist Label, but Con­cerns Remain” by Judy L. [...]

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 [...]

Heads Up: Another Member of THAT Family Waiting in the Wings

Com­ment: Against the back­ground of six hours of inter­views on the sub­ject of Russ Baker’s remark­able recent book Fam­ily of Secrets, it is worth con­tem­plat­ing the pos­si­bil­ity that Jeb Bush might attempt to per­pet­u­ate the Bush family’s polit­i­cal dynasty. Con­cerned cit­i­zens should care­fully weigh the Bush polit­i­cal machine and its legacy–so amply illus­trated by Russ [...]

FTR #713 Interview (#3) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

With JFK safely out of the way, Poppy Bush safe­guards the inter­ests that killed him; elected to Con­gress, Poppy lands a plum com­mit­tee posi­tion, cour­tesy of his father; strings pulled to get Dubya into a National Guard posi­tion; Dubya goes AWOL.

Nazis Conducting Arizona Border Patrols; Connected to Sponsor of Arizona Immigration Bill

Com­ment: Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, asso­ciate of Rus­sell Pearce, the spon­sor of Arizona’s recent and highly con­tro­ver­sial immi­gra­tion leg­is­la­tion, is launch­ing a para-military bor­der patrol oper­a­tion.
Note the res­o­nance and polit­i­cal over­lap between this milieu and the GOP’s  Palin/Tea Party types, who use the same anti-immigrant rhetor­i­cal stance.

“Neo-Nazis Patrol the Vekol Val­ley; J.T. Ready Calls ‘Bor­der Ops’ [...]