Blockbuster Story: Germany Reopens Oktoberfest Bombing Probe

COMMENT: While the world awaits the out­come of the Greek ref­er­en­dum on the EU bailout pack­age, a block­buster story from Der Spiegel has been eclipsed.
Ger­man offi­cials have reopened the inves­ti­ga­tion into the Munich Okto­ber­fest bomb­ing of 1980, blamed on a “lone nut,” Gun­dolf Kohler. Far from being a lone nut, Kohler actu­ally had profound [...]

Clearstream Network Sued for Trafficking Iranian Terror Money

COMMENT: Sur­vivors of the 241 Marines killed in the 1983 Beirut bar­racks bomb­ing have sued Clearstream, a sub­sidiary of Deutsche Borse (itself owned by the major Ger­man com­mer­cial banks and, by exten­sion, the Bor­mann cap­i­tal net­work.)
Chan­nel­ing mil­lions of dol­lars back to the Iran­ian regime, Clearstream is alleged to have sub­stan­tively aided that government’s terrorist [...]

Gay Theologian Expounds on the Church’s Homophobia and Shift to the Right

Com­ment: A recent Spiegel arti­cle recorded the obser­va­tions of  David Berger, a gay for­mer Catholic priest. Berger dis­cussed homo­pho­bia in the Church and among its pow­er­ful sup­port­ers, as well as the Church’s polit­i­cal lurch to the right.
Inter­view With Gay The­olo­gian David Berger: ‘A Large Pro­por­tion of Catholic Cler­ics and Trainee Priests Are Homo­sex­ual’”; Spiegel Online; 11/22/2010.
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Vatican Bank Chief’s Free-Market Ideology and Opus Dei Background

Com­ment: Ettore Gotti Tedeschi–head of the Vat­i­can Bank–espoused the free-market ide­ol­ogy that led to the crash of 2008. Tedeschi has also advised then Car­di­nal Ratzinger and helped him write an eco­nomic the­sis. (Ratzinger became, of course, Pope Bene­dict.) Not sur­pris­ingly, Tedeschi  is a mem­ber of Opus Dei, the fas­cist lay Catholic order that has been [...]

Vatican Bank Being Investigated for Money Laundering

Com­ment: For many years, we’ve looked at the Vat­i­can Bank–the IOR (Insti­tute for Reli­gious Works.) Long a vehi­cle for the financ­ing of fas­cism and crim­i­nal under­tak­ings, the insti­tu­tion has FINALLY come under inves­ti­ga­tion for money laun­der­ing. (The Vat­i­can Bank was dis­cussed at length in AFA #18.)

“Vat­i­can Bank ‘Inves­ti­gated over Money Laun­der­ing”; BBC News; 9/21/2010.
The head [...]

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.