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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
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