FTR #720 Update on the Pan-Turkist Movement

Seek­ing a return to Ottoman Empire glory, Tur­kic peo­ples have been used by the Axis and then West­ern intel­li­gence to pro­mote fas­cism and desta­bi­lize the for­mer USSR, mod­ern Rus­sia and China. Pan-Turkist alliances with fas­cist ele­ments loom large today.

P-2, Take II?

Com­ment: A recent fis­sure between Ital­ian neo-fascist (he calls him­self a “post-fascist”) Gian­franco Fini and Ital­ian pre­mier Sil­vio Berlus­coni turned up indi­ca­tions of a cabal of pow­er­ful fig­ures, who have clan­des­tinely coa­lesced into a secre­tive, piv­otal influ­ence group. (Berlus­coni is pic­tured at right.)

This is rem­i­nis­cent of the sin­is­ter P-2 Lodge of Licio Gelli, a crypto-fascist [...]

Vatican Lawyer for Abuse Case Defended the Vatican Bank in Holocaust Suit

Com­ment: In the recently re-aired FTR #508, we exam­ined the ascen­sion of Pope Bene­dict, whose elec­tion came at a time when unfold­ing Vat­i­can scan­dals threat­ened to unravel, reveal­ing that institution’s darker side for the blood-soaked hor­ror show that it truly is. Avail­able evi­dence sug­gests that Ratzinger/Benedict is a prod­uct of the Vatican/fascist axis so exhaustively [...]

More about Silvio Berlusconi’s Mafia Ties

Com­ment: Ital­ian prime min­is­ter Sil­vio Berlusconi’s Mafia ties are becom­ing more vis­i­ble. A mem­ber of the fas­cist P-2 lodge, Berlus­coni has “more con­nec­tions than a switch­board.” Suc­ces­sor to Mussolini’s fascisti, the P-2 has been a major focal point of these broad­casts for decades. (Berlus­coni is pic­tured at right.)

Berlus­coni and his Ital­ian fas­cist milieu also have [...]

FTR #677 Update on Global Fascism

The old SS giv­ing rise to new fas­cism in Aus­tria and Ger­many; Mussolini’s heirs move into the Ital­ian main­stream; Con­ti­nu­ity of for­eign pol­icy between the “new” Ger­many and the Third Reich.

FTR #675 Interview with Lucy Komisar: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Food Ser­vices Giant Sodexo’s scams cost tax­pay­ers, school chil­dren big bucks; Tim­o­thy Gei­th­ner ignored U.S. Trea­sury bonds naked short sell­ing; Swiss Banks join­ing AIG in off­shore machinations.

Hitler, Mussolini and the Ikhwan: The Fascist History, Associations and Ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Broth­er­hood is best under­stood as part of “the fas­cist inter­na­tional,” before, dur­ing and after World War II. It has allied with Ger­man and Ital­ian fas­cists from WWII to the present.

Repost: FTR #500 Conversation with Sander Hicks and Allan Duncan

Involve­ment of Pak­istani intel­li­gence in 9/11 and Mum­bai attacks; sting man Randy Glass learned in 1999 from R.G. Abbas that the attacks were imminent!

Repost: FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Insur­ance giant AIG’s pro­lific use of off­shore scams, cap­tive rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions, aided by high-level gov’t offi­cials and legislators.

FTR #633 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Mus­lim Brotherhood-Al-Taqwa link to Berlus­coni; Eliot Spitzer scan­dal viewed in com­par­i­son to Pal­frey mur­der case; pan-Turkist move­ment link to shoot­ing of the pope.