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 [...]
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, [...]
FTR #716 Interview (#6) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”
Decades of Bush family intrigue culminates in Dubya’s eight year debacle; disasters overtaking the US are the inevitable outgrowth of Bush’s corporatist philosophy and corrupt administrative practice.
FTR #707 Update on Euro Fascism
European fascist movements dating to World War II are fashionable again; Sweden is home to virulent fascists, evolving from Per Engdahl’s 1930’s organization; Was investigative author Stieg Larsson murdered?
Guess Who Oversaw BCCI’s Afairs for the Treasury Department under Reagan/Bush?
Comment: The brilliant new book Family of Secrets by Russ Baker analyzes the BCCI imbroglio at great length. (It was the BCCI nexus that spawned the business relationship between the Bush and Bin Laden families.) Of course, the BCCI/James R. Bath concatenation lies at the foundation of the investigation into the terror-funding apparatus that was [...]
Fakin’ It: Eric Cantor and the “Non-Attack”
Comment: With numerous Democratic senators and congressional representatives having received overt and/or implicit threats, Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been grandstanding about a supposed shooting at his headquarters. In short, it appears to be “Not as Advertised.” “Cantor’s ‘Random Arc’ of Doom” by Josh Marshall; Talking Points Memo; 3/25/2010. It wasn’t quite as bad as [...]
GOP-Inspired Violence: Business as Usual
Comment: Threats against democratic legislators have become commonplace during the course of the Obama administration. It should not come as a surprise that a party that enthusiastically incorporated Nazi war crminals and Muslim Brotherhood jihadists and terrorists into its ranks would tacitly encourage such practices. In lectures we have examined the paramilitary right as an [...]
Texas Board of Education Attacks the Enlightenment
“Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change” by James McKinley, Jr.; The New York Times; 3/12/2010. Comment: Because of its size, Texas wields a disproportionately large influence over school curricula. The Texas Board of Education’s decision to delete textbook references to Thomas Jefferson in favor of mention of Thomas Aquinas and Jean Calvin will affect far more [...]
Nazi/SS Collaborator Stephan Bandera Named “Hero of Ukraine”
The largest Jewish human rights organization in the US, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, joined the chorus of those who condemn the declaration of controversial nationalist leader Stepan Bandera as a Hero of Ukraine.
FTR #689 Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave
William Faulkner noted that “the past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” War Gold stolen by the Japanese dominates the contemporary economic landscape; the engines of world political power turn in precision with these hidden engines of wealth.
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