The tag 'Underground Reich' is associated with 414 posts.

Daily Mail [UK]: Will 2012 Be the New 1932?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 4, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Al Taqwa Imam Mediating Talks with Taliban?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 1, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Depression and Fascism: Krugman’s Analysis

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 22, 2011 ⋅ 13 comments

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 [...]

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, er . . . Democracy. Not With a Bang, but a Whimper!

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 20, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

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 [...]

Behind the “Merkozy” Phenomenon: German Domination of Corporate France

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 18, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

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 [...]

Droning On: Interesting Timing in the Middle East

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 10, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

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 [...]

“Now, Europe Will Speak German!” Germany to UK: Adopt the Euro, or Else!

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 27, 2011 ⋅ 9 comments

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 [...]

Au Revoir to European Democracy: “A Calm Judgement of Business Necessity”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 24, 2011 ⋅ 15 comments

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 [...]

Putting the “Hammer” Down in Greece: More about Fascists in the New Government

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 17, 2011 ⋅ 27 comments

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 [...]

Is Germany’s Domestic Intelligence Agency Protecting neo-Nazis?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 12, 2011 ⋅ 11 comments

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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