Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey
Arrest of 47 people over alleged coup plot sparks fears of hidden ultra-right network by Jason Burke THE OBSERVER It has the elements of a thriller: a shadowy group of right-wing former soldiers, a mafia don, extremist lawyers and politicians; hand-grenades in a rucksack; plots to kill the Prime Minister and a Nobel-prize winning writer; allegedly [...]
Fascist Ecology: The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents
Excerpt fromEcofascism: Lessons from the German Experienceby Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier1995, AK PressISBN 1–873176 73 2 pp 4–12 “We recognize that separating humanity from nature, from the whole of life, leads to humankind’s own destruction and to the death of nations. Only through a reintegration of humanity into the whole of nature can our people [...]
Rudolf Bahro: Volkisch Spirituality
Excerpt fromEcofascism: Lessons from the German Experienceby Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier1995, AK PressISBN 1–873176 73 2 pp 48–50 Rudolf Bahro: Volkisch Spirituality If fascists are using ecological themes to update their racial and nationalist aims, other thinkers are developing an ecological spiritualism along New Age lines that bears no small resemblance to the völkisch Germanic [...]
Live From Lhasa
Shaky cell-phone videos from Tibet foretell doom for the Chinese empire. by Anne ApplebaumSLATE Cell-phone photographs and videos from Tibet, blurry and amateur, are circulating on the Internet. Some show clouds of tear gas; others burning buildings and shops; still others purple-robed monks, riot police, and confusion. Watching them, it is impossible not to remember [...]
Russia, Ukraine Trade Harsh Words Over Historical Memory
by Taras KuzioEurasia Daily Monitor On December 14 Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) issued a strongly worded statement complaining of “open nationalist, anti-Russian, and Russphobic feelings and developments in Ukraine.” Attempts are being made, it claimed, to “use difficult periods in our joint history to receive brief political rewards based on doubtful ideological pretensions.” [...]
Fascist Overtones From Blithely Oblivious Rock Fans
by Nicholas WoodNEW YORK TIMES ZAGREB, Croatia, June 30 — On a hot Sunday evening in June, thousands of fans in a packed stadium here in the Croatian capital gave a Nazi salute as the rock star Marko Perkovic shouted a well-known slogan from World War II. Some of the fans were wearing the black caps of [...]
Murder by Cricket
by Patricky HrubyESPN E-Ticket KINGSTON, Jamaica — The body is gone, long since removed, stuffed into a black zip-up bag, chilled to 40 degrees. Lifeless and embalmed. Yet still the detective is taking pictures. Actually, he’s not taking pictures. He’s telling another guy to take pictures, which makes sense, since the other guy is holding [...]
Japan revises role in WWII Okinawa
Textbooks will no longer say army ordered civilians to commit suicide as conflict ended by Norimitsu OnishiTHE NEW YORK TIMES (04–01) 04:00 PDT Tokyo — In another sign that Japan is pressing ahead in revising its history of World War II, new high school textbooks will no longer acknowledge that the Imperial Army was responsible for a [...]
CIA papers reveal 1950s Japan coup plot
by Joseph ColemanASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — Declassified documents reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952. The scheme — which was abandoned — was concocted by militarists and suspected war criminals who had worked for U.S. occupation authorities after World War [...]
CIA files show how postwar ‘spies’ snookered U.S. intelligence
by Joseph ColemanAP TOKYO — Col. Masanobu Tsuji was a fanatical Japanese militarist and brutal warrior, hunted after World War II for massacres of Chinese civilians and complicity in the Bataan Death March. And then he became a U.S. spy. Newly declassified CIA records, released by the U.S. National Archives and examined by The Associated Press, document [...]
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