Fascists in Russian Anti-Putin Coalition: Whither the Oil Rich and Largely Muslim Caucasus?

COMMENT: The coali­tion assem­bling to attempt the oust­ing of Vladimir Putin embraces lib­er­als, left­ists and “nationalists”–that’s New York Times code for fas­cists, a word that Amer­i­can jour­nal­ists sel­dom use.
That coalition–strained at the moment–is rem­i­nis­cent in some ways of the one that ousted the author­i­tar­ian Hosni Mubarak. That event, as we have seen, has led [...]

More Right-Wing Israeli Interface with Euro-Fascists

COMMENT: Another right-wing Israeli polit­i­cal con­tin­gent has reached out to Euro­pean fas­cists. Com­muning with Russ­ian fas­cists, the “National Unity” bloc has impressed the leader of the National Demo­c­ra­tic Alliance, who feels the two groups have much in com­mon.
Fol­low­ing on the heels of an Iraeli deputy minister’s schmooz­ing with a promi­nent Swedish neo-fascist financier, Aryeh Eldad’s [...]

Vladimir Zhirinovsky: Russia Can Use Environmental Weapons of Mass Destruction

COMMENT: Russ­ian fas­cist and Duma mem­ber Vladimir Zhiri­novsky has made threat­en­ing state­ments about using weather weaponry against coun­tries per­ceived as threat­en­ing Rus­sia.
Financed by Ger­man fas­cist Ger­hard Frey, Zhiri­novsky has always been viewed as a loose can­non. His com­ments about the exis­tence of  envi­ron­men­tal weaponry should not be dis­missed out of hand, how­ever.
This is NOT [...]

WikiCesspool

COMMENT: Ongo­ing For The Record pro­grams are detail­ing some of Wik­iLeaks’ activ­i­ties in con­nec­tion with Mid­dle East­ern polit­i­cal tur­moil. The  blog Harry’s Place has been focus­ing atten­tion on some of that mis­be­got­ten organization’s unsa­vory  activ­i­ties includ­ing: the access­ing of child pornog­ra­phy sites and defend­ing the use of same; the dis­tor­tion of the mean­ing of [...]

FTR #731 Interview with John Loftus about “America’s Nazi Secret”

Con­spir­a­to­r­ial process on a mas­sive scale pro­duced fas­cism, World War II; eco­nom­i­cally empow­ered by the Webb-Pomerene Act, the back­ers of the Axis col­lab­o­rated with Wall Street’s Rob­ber Barons before, dur­ing and after the war. State and Jus­tice Depart­ments complicit.

FTR #723 Doin’ the Earth Island Boogie

Are GOP/oil industry/Muslim Broth­er­hood ele­ments under­min­ing Obama’s for­eign pol­icy vis a vis Rus­sia? Are these same jihadist ele­ments stir­ring unrest in Rus­sia and Cen­tral Asia? Are they work­ing with the Turk­ish government?

U-2, Take II?

Com­ment: On the heels of Pres­i­dent Obama’s appar­ent diplo­matic rap­proche­ment with Russ­ian pres­i­dent Medvedev, in which progress on var­i­ous mat­ters appears to have been achieved, a “Russ­ian spy scan­dal” has dom­i­nated recent head­lines.
“Spy Scan­dal Casts Shadow on Obama-Medvedev ‘Burger Diplo­macy’” by Ria Novosti; Eura­sia Review; 6/29/2010.

Com­ment: In FTR #706, we exam­ined John Lof­tus’ con­tention that [...]

Islamist Elements Behind Violence, Kyrgystan Government Says

Com­ment: As noted pre­vi­ously, the towns of Osh and Jalal-Abad in Kyr­gys­tan, in addi­tion to being flash­points of lethal Uzbek/Kyrgyz eth­nic ten­sions, are epi­cen­ters of activ­ity for Hizb Ut-Tahrir, a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood affil­i­ate.
The gov­ern­ment of Kyr­gyzs­tan is now claim­ing that Islamist ele­ments, con­spir­ing with the fam­ily of the deposed leader, pre­cip­i­tated the vio­lence. In FTR [...]

FTR #699 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Anti-Semitic GOP big­wig shep­herd­ing Sarah Palin around Wash­ing­ton; McVeigh men­tor work­ing with Alaskan seces­sion­ists; Ger­many doesn’t like US cozi­ness with China and Under­ground Reich ele­ments work­ing to sub­vert that rela­tion­ship; British fas­cist rep­re­sents EU Par­lia­ment at Copen­hagen talks.

FTR #680 Interview [#2] with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

U.S. Cold War pol­icy pro­duces slaugh­ter of mod­er­ates in Afghanistan; Pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions drive U.S. pol­icy in that coun­try and led to U.S. sup­port of Tal­iban; Tal­iban cre­ated by U.S. “ally” Pakistan.