The tag 'SMOM' is associated with 6 posts.

Seymour Hersh: Joint Chiefs of Staff Dominated by Knights of Malta, Opus Dei

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

“New York Times” jour­nal­ist Sey­mour Hersh main­tains that U.S. Joint Chief­sof Staff are dom­i­nated by offi­cers belong­ing to, or sym­pa­thetic to the Knights of Malta and/or Opus Dei.

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

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 28, 2010 ⋅ One comment

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; [...]

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

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 17, 2010 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

The Cancer From Within

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ November 8, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

by David Antoon TruthDig “I will sup­port and defend the Con­sti­tu­tion of the United States against all ene­mies, for­eign and domes­tic. ...” —Oath of Office “Our mis­sion is to edu­cate, train, and inspire men and women to become offi­cers of char­ac­ter moti­vated to lead the United States Air Force in ser­vice to our nation.” —Air [...]

Malta ‘is Blackwater’s operational base’ – MEP report

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ October 15, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

by Noel Gri­maThe [Malta] Inde­pen­dent Online A Euro­pean Par­lia­ment work­ing doc­u­ment drawn up by Gio­vanni Clau­dio Fava has claimed “Malta is the oper­a­tional base of Black­wa­ter, the organ­iser of pri­vate mil­i­tary mili­tia which are increas­ingly tak­ing on more and more roles which used to be under­taken by US forces in Iraq and else­where”. Amer­i­can left-wing [...]

FTR #154 German Geopolitics and the Balkan War

Posted by FTR ⋅ May 16, 1999 ⋅ Post a comment

The pro­found role played by Ger­many in the breakup of Yugoslavia and the result­ing pre­cip­i­ta­tion of hostilities.

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