COMMENT: As things deteriorate, a growing number of voices are echoing a warning I’ve sounded for decades.
In the article below, Dominic Sandbrook notes that the collapse of the global economy during the Great Depression drove the desperate into the arms of political extremism.
Noting the inability of the feckless coalition government in Britain to [...]
COMMENT: The Indian media report that Youssef al-Qaradawi is mediating talks with the Taliban. Closely linked to the Bank al-Taqwa, Qaradawi may well be the most important of the Muslim Brotherhood’s religious theologians.
In part, this development (if true) may well be an outgrowth of the State Department’s alliance with the Brotherhood, delineated in the [...]
COMMENT: Although he insists on refraining from using the “F” word for what is transpiring in Europe, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has noted in a New York Times column that the “austerity” measures championed by Germany (and also the GOP in the U.S.) and being currently implemented, are driving forward extreme right politics in [...]
COMMENT: As noted by blogger David Seamon, the demise of American democracy took place amid the voluminous, flatulant pontification of U.S. media pundits, a profound distraction in the event.
With very little notice from politicial or media institutions and/or individuals, the National Defense Authorization Act has incorporated some features that would allow the virtual elimination of civil [...]
COMMENT: During the eurozone debt crisis, France and Germany have jointly announced/proposed various elements of solution, with statements carefully crafted to shape the actions as best for all parties involved and deriving from mutual interests.
Yet, the media have recognized that the solution will be a “Europa Germanica,” with German political and economic will [...]
COMMENT: The apparent capture and downing by Iran of a U.S. drone aircraft raises a number of interesting questions.
If the account presented in “Debka” can be believed, the possibility of some sort of “inside job” is one to be carefully considered. (“Debka” is an intelligence newsletter specializing in Middle Eastern and Israeli national security [...]
COMMENT: As Germany cements its control over the European economy and the European Central Bank, the German power elite are openly and derisively calling for Britain to join the EMU.
(Note that the ECB could solve much of the eurozone debt crisis by lending money, but has been blocked by Germany from doing so. The only [...]
COMMENT: Viewing events in Europe brings to mind the closing words of James Stewart Martin’s All Honorable Men. Quietly, the Eurozone debt crisis has brought about an orderly transition to the “calm judgement of business necessity” with which Martin closed his book.
As Greece and Italy have seen governments appointed by the German dominated “technocracy” with [...]
COMMENT: From Mark Ames comes an important new post, supplementing information about fascists in the new Greek government. Recall that Greece was under the rule of a fascist junta that came to power in 1967. Makis “Hammer” Voridis, the current minister of “Infrastructure, Transport and Networks” in the Greek Government, is a doctrinaire fascist and [...]
COMMENT: Germany’s domestic intelligence service is supposed to fight Nazis, not protect them. Yet Der Spiegel informs us that just such a situation is suspected by observers of a Nazi crime wave implemented over about a decade and a half.
As discussed in a previous Der Spiegel story, collusion between Nazis and elements of German intelligence [...]
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