FTR #744 The Shape of Things to Come

Pan­ul­ti­mate exam­ple of “off­shore,” the seasted­ding move­ment sees “free­dom and democ­racy” as incom­pat­i­ble. Those left on shore must accept dis­so­lu­tion of pri­vacy, free­dom and, yes, democ­racy. Hedge fund man­agers buy­ing up all arable land in antic­i­pa­tion of eco­nomic and social armageddon.

Charter Cities: Another, BIG Step toward a Global “Corporate State”

COMMENT: Cor­po­rate advo­cates are push­ing the con­cept of  “char­ter cities,” which would allow foreign-based cor­po­ra­tions to assume gov­er­nance and what appears to be almost total con­trol of cites in OTHER coun­tries.
If this idea catches on, it will con­sti­tute a major step toward the imple­men­ta­tion of a global ver­sion of Mussolini’s “Cor­po­rate State”–his term for [...]

Taqqiya Sunrise: The Lies of Tariq Ramadan

COMMENT: A dar­ling of the so-called “pro­gres­sive sec­tor” (par­tic­u­larly in Europe), Tariq Ramadan has tipped his hand in a piece in The New York Times. Prog­nos­ti­cat­ing that the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Egypt would emu­late the “demo­c­ra­tic” char­ac­ter of the Islamist party of Erdo­gan in Turkey, Ramadan (son of the late Mus­lim Broth­er­hod chief Said [...]

European Polluters Finance U.S. Tea Party Candidates

COMMENT:The pre­tenses of the Tea Party move­ment con­tinue to melt away. Rep­re­sent­ing itself as “pop­ulist” and opposed to “spe­cial inter­ests,” the move­ment does not endorse poli­cies that ben­e­fit the aver­age Amer­i­can. On the con­trary, the move­ment con­tin­ues to man­i­fest the cor­po­ratist agenda con­cep­tu­al­ized by Mus­solini and real­ized by the Koch broth­ers.
It devel­ops that key European [...]

FTR #726 The Kochtopus: The Tea Party Movement Manifests Classical Fascism

Koch broth­ers espouse “Cor­po­ratism”, rep­re­sented as “Free­dom”; bil­lion­aire financiers of insti­tu­tions that gen­er­ate GOP pol­icy, Kochs per­vert pub­lic pol­icy to serve their pri­vatge inter­ests; grass roots “Tea Partiers” work­ing against their own interests.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

FTR #649 The Corporate State Revisited

Mussolini’s cor­po­rate state rewarded mem­bers of the eco­nomic and polit­i­cal elite who brought him to power. Com­pare fas­cist Italy with George W. Bush’s America!

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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