The tag 'Nationalism' is associated with 27 posts.

Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ May 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 planted evi­dence and [...]

Fascist Ecology: The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ March 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 be made [...]

Rudolf Bahro: Volkisch Spirituality

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ March 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 spir­i­tu­al­ity of the [...]

Live From Lhasa

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ March 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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 the cell-phone [...]

Russia, Ukraine Trade Harsh Words Over Historical Memory

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ December 8, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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.”
The number [...]

Fascist Overtones From Blithely Oblivious Rock Fans

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ July 2, 2007 ⋅ One comment

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 Croatia’s infamous [...]

Murder by Cricket

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ April 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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 a big black [...]

Japan revises role in WWII Okinawa

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ April 2, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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 major atrocity [...]

CIA papers reveal 1950s Japan coup plot

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ March 2, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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 II, according [...]

CIA files show how postwar ‘spies’ snookered U.S. intelligence

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ February 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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 more fully than [...]

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