FTR #721 A Mosque in Munich

The Nazi and fas­cist roots of con­tem­po­rary Islamism illus­trated by impor­tant new book; con­ti­nu­ity between Third Reich “Ost­poli­tik” and West­ern Cold War pol­icy per­pet­u­ate Islamic fas­cist and pan-Turkist ele­ments, many linked to Holocaust.

Consortium of European neo-Fascists Visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo

Com­ment: An inter­na­tional fas­cist organization–primarily Euro­pean in character–has vis­ited the con­tro­ver­sial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Com­mem­o­rat­ing Japan­ese war dead and count­ing war crim­i­nals among those com­mem­o­rated there, the shrine is con­tro­ver­sial, and Japan­ese lead­ers vis­its to it have stirred hos­til­ity in coun­tries vic­tim­ized by the Japan­ese in World War II.
Vis­ited by Jean-Marie Le Pen and the [...]

FTR #719 Interview with Philippe Karsenty about the Mohammed al-Dura Incident

Pales­tin­ian “Big Lie” exposed. Alleged “mar­tyr” Mohammed al-Dura could not have been killed by Israeli fire; he may not have been killed at all. French and world media cling to, and per­pet­u­ate the “Big Lie” anyway.

Wikileaks Connected to Swedish Nazi

Com­ment: Wikileaks–in the news after pub­lish­ing clas­si­fied U.S. mil­i­tary documents–is con­nected to “Pirate Bay,” the patron of which is the Nazi-affiliated Carl Lundstrom.

Are Nazi ele­ments seek­ing to under­mine [what’s left of] U.S. cred­i­bil­ity and/or assist­ing the Tal­iban. (Unlike the Pen­ta­gon Papers, with which the Wik­ileaks mate­r­ial has been com­pared, the doc­u­ments dis­close hard infor­ma­tion about [...]

Joerg Haider Hid Millions in Liechtenstein Accounts

Com­ment: The late Aus­trian fas­cist leader appears to have hid mil­lions in Liecht­en­stein accounts. Long a money-laundering vehi­cle for var­i­ous fas­cist and crim­i­nal ele­ments, Liecht­en­stein has become a focal point for var­i­ous coun­tries seek­ing accounts belong­ing to tax dodgers in their respec­tive coun­tries.
Note that his Free­dom Party began as a vehi­cle for the polit­i­cal resucitation [...]

Is Marc Garlasco a Nazi?

Com­ment: Dur­ing the 2006 Lebanon and 2008–2009 Gaza Wars, the world has been treated to sto­ries of Israeli mil­i­tary atroc­i­ties, largely debunked in the wake of their dis­clo­sure.
The “author­i­ta­tive” source for many of these sto­ries is Marc Gar­lasco, a for­mer Pen­ta­gon ana­lyst who dis­coursed on mil­i­tary affairs for Human Rights Watch.
Gar­lasco recently resigned his position [...]

Dead Nobel Prize Winner Received Threats from Neo-Nazis

Com­ment: Recently deceased, Nobel-Prize win­ning cli­ma­tol­o­gist Pro­fes­sor Stephen Schnei­der of Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity was receiv­ing death threats from Neo-Nazis. These are the same kind of ele­ments that were threat­en­ing the life of the late Stieg Lars­son before he, too, died of an appar­ent heart attack.
Admin­is­ter­ing drugs which can pro­duce a fatal heart attack is a capability [...]

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 [...]

Muslim Brotherhood Demonstration in Vienna Invokes Hitler’s Name

Com­ment: In the wake of the Gaza Flotilla inci­dent last month, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood helped engi­neer a demon­stra­tion in Vienna, at which Hitler’s polit­i­cal legacy was invoked. As noted in the fol­low­ing post, such behav­ior is ille­gal in Aus­tria.
In addi­tion to high­light­ing Hamas’s and the Brotherhood’s Nazi and fas­cist ide­o­log­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal under­pin­nings, this demonstration [...]

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’ [...]