Another Sign of the Times: Hungarian Government Implements Forced Labor Program

COMMENT: The right wing gov­ern­ment of Hun­gary con­tin­ues to man­i­fest pro­grams and ide­o­log­i­cal pro­nounce­ments dis­turbingly rem­i­nis­cent of that country’s past–a fas­cist nation allied with the Axis in World War II.
Under the stew­ard­ship of the Arrow Cross orga­ni­za­tion, Hun­gary fought along­side Nazi Ger­many and was an enthu­si­as­tic par­tic­i­pant in Hitler’s social agenda as well.
Now that nation has [...]

S and P Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating: “Hail Victory” for the SS Kampfgruppe Norquist

COMMENT: Well, folks, they’ve done it. The GOP’s Tea Party fas­cists (with a gen­er­ous assist from an appar­ently clue­less and def­i­nitely gut­less Barack Obama) have suc­ceeded in caus­ing S & P to down­grade the U.S.‘s credit rat­ing from AAA–the first time in his­tory that this has been done.
In FTR #412, we out­lined the strat­egy of [...]

Doin’ It To It in Michigan

COMMENT: With dra­con­ian pro­vi­sions on the books in Michi­gan to dis­man­tle demo­c­ra­tic process in the name of finan­cial emer­gency, we are see­ing the begin­ning of the real­iza­tion of the laws’ intent.
“This is sad news for democ­racy in Michi­gan,” said Mark Gaffney, pres­i­dent of the Michi­gan AFL-CIO. “With the strip­ping of all power of duly elected [...]

The Wolverine State Is Going to the Dogs

COMMENT: Some scary and [pos­si­bly] precedent-setting events are unfold­ing in Michi­gan.
The GOP in The Wolver­ine State has crafted a blue­print that would use the need for “fis­cal aus­ter­ity” to imple­ment an agenda that is clearly unde­mo­c­ra­tic and, in its fun­da­men­tals, fas­cist.
“Rachel Madow Exposes Michi­gan Repub­li­cans’ Secret War on Democ­racy” by Sarah Jones; politicususa.com; 3/9/2011.
EXCERPT: [...]

Was the Comcast/NBC Universal Merger Behind Keith Olbermann’s Sign Off?

COMMENT: Yes­ter­day, there was the sur­prise announce­ment that Keith Olber­mann was end­ing his show on MSNBC.  It’s offi­cially being declared that this had noth­ing to do with the approval of Com­cast’s takeover by NBC Uni­ver­sal but that seems ques­tion­able given that Com­cast’s leader’s are staunch GOP sup­port­ers.
Com­cast’s long-time rul­ing duo, Tom Mur­phy and Daniel Burke, [...]

Now, About Jared [Lee] Laughner . . .

COMMENT: In the wake of the shoot­ing in Ari­zona, many unan­swered (and often unasked) ques­tions sug­gest them­selves. To do jus­tice to the event will require more time and analy­sis than can be put into a Food For Thought post.
Suf­fi­cient analy­sis and dis­cus­sion will nec­es­sar­ily have to wait for a For The Record pro­gram and [...]

Former Reagan, Bush I, Bush II Staffer Found Murdered

COMMENT: John Wheeler III, an expert on the U.S. mil­i­tary who served in the admin­is­tra­tions of Rea­gan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush was found mur­dered in a Delaware land­fill.
Who killed him and why remains to be seen.
In this con­text, it is worth not­ing that Wheeler was very afraid of the pos­si­bil­ity of cyber warfare. [...]

FTR #730 Interview with Russ Baker (Author of “Family of Secrets”)

Break­ing jour­nal­is­tic taboos about the JFK assas­si­na­tion, Russ Baker por­trays the real­ity of Amer­i­can power pol­i­tics, as exem­pli­fied by the Bush family’s use of covert action to manip­u­late the United States and its citizens.

Rolling Back the New Deal, Trashing the United States, Roiling International Financial Waters

Com­ment: The “deficit reduc­tion” pro­pos­als now being pre­sented by the “bipar­ti­san” com­mis­sion on the bud­get are, sim­ply put, a frontal assault on the New Deal, the Amer­i­can peo­ple and the coun­try itself.
For­mer GOP sen­a­tor (Wyoming) Alan Simp­son has sounded a bat­tle cry to gut social secu­rity, raise taxes for the bot­tom 80% of the population, [...]

Truth in Advertising: GOP Candidate Dresses in Waffen SS Uniform

Com­ment: GOP Con­gres­sional can­di­date Rich Iott of Ohio has been fly­ing col­ors that demon­strate the true nature of the Repub­li­can party. A favorite of the Tea Par­ties, Iott for years par­tic­i­pated in “reen­act­ments” of bat­tles of the Fifth Waf­fen SS divi­sion (Viking). (Iott is sec­ond from right in this photo.)

As noted in numer­ous broad­casts, the [...]