FTR #629 It’s Not Easy Being Green, Part II: “Ecofascism”

Recorded March 16, 2008
MP3: Side 1 | Side 2
REALAUDIO

Sup­ple­ment­ing infor­ma­tion pre­sented in FTR#628, the broad­cast high­lights the “green wing” of the Ger­man Nazi Party under Hitler, not­ing the movement’s pre-Nazi antecedents in Ger­man eco­log­i­cal think­ing, as well as its influ­ence on some ele­ments of the con­tem­po­rary green move­ment. Among the antecedents of Nazi green thinking [...]

FTR #628 It’s Not Easy Being Green: Nazi infiltration and Co-option of the Green Party

Recorded March 9, 2008
MP3: 30-Minute Seg­ment
REALAUDIO NB: This RealAu­dio stream con­tains both FTR #627 and FTR #628 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
“Green” pol­i­tics has become an impor­tant part of the polit­i­cal scene, assum­ing a piv­otal posi­tion in the pro­gres­sive com­mu­nity. This broad­cast high­lights Nazi and fas­cist infil­tra­tion and co-option of the Green [...]

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 be made [...]

The Youth Movement and the Weimar Era

Excerpt fromEco­fas­cism: Lessons from the Ger­man Expe­ri­enceby Janet Biehl and Peter Stau­den­maier1995, AK Pres­sISBN 1–873176 73 2
pp 13–17
[...]
In addi­tion to the youth move­ment and proto­fas­cist philoso­phies, there were, of course, prac­ti­cal efforts at pro­tect­ing nat­ural habi­tats dur­ing the Weimar period. Many of these projects were pro­foundly impli­cated in the ide­ol­ogy which cul­mi­nated in the vic­tory of [...]

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 spir­i­tu­al­ity of the [...]

Liberating the ‘Brown Parts’

Excerpt fromEco­fas­cism: Lessons from the Ger­man Expe­ri­enceby Janet Biehl and Peter Stau­den­maier1995, AK Pres­sISBN 1–873176 73 2
pp 50–53
Lib­er­at­ing the ‘Brown Parts’
Since the mid-1980s, Bahro has been remark­ably open about pro­claim­ing his embrace of the spir­i­tual con­tent of fas­cism for the ‘sal­va­tion’ of nature and human­ity. In The Logic of Sal­va­tion, he asks, “Is there really no [...]

Cult leader: George Bush agreed to drink our “Holy Wine.”

From YouTube.com

Michael Jenk­ins, U.S. leader of the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church (the “Moonies”) claims to have per­suaded George H.W. Bush to drink Holy Wine, dur­ing a visit to the pres­i­den­tial library at Texas A&M in 2007.
Holy Wine is the com­mu­nion juice of the Moonies, sym­bol­iz­ing the blood and body of the Rev­erend Moon, Jenkins’s mas­ter.
Moon owns the Washington [...]

The Beast Reawakens (excerpt)

Excerpt fromThe Beast Reawak­ensby Mar­tin A. Lee1997, Lit­tle Brown­ISBN 0–316–51959–6pp 216–217As in France, such notions were com­pat­i­ble with the hatred of refugees, asy­lum seek­ers, and eth­nic minori­ties. But this ani­mos­ity was obscured some­what by the Ger­man New Right’s strong endorse­ment of national lib­er­a­tion move­ments and “rev­o­lu­tion­ary strug­gles” around the world, rang­ing from the Basques [...]

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.”
The number [...]

German arms dealer extends scope of favor charges

OTTAWA (REUTERS) — An arms dealer wanted on fraud charges in Ger­many Thurs­day sought to draw the gov­ern­ment into a polit­i­cal storm over cash pay­ments to a for­mer prime min­is­ter, say­ing a request to Prime Min­is­ter Stephen Harper to help him avoid extra­di­tion was “well received.”
German-Canadian busi­ness­man Karl­heinz Schreiber told a par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee that former [...]