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 [...]

Eurozone Debt Crisis, Balkanization and the Growth of Greater Germany

COMMENT: The invalu­able german-foreign-policy.com newslet­ter (which feeds along the bot­tom of the front page of this web­site) sheds inter­est­ing light on how the indebt­ed­ness of fail­ing Euro­pean economies plays into the hands of those who aspire to the geo­graph­i­cal expan­sion of Ger­many.
Wealth­ier areas of strug­gling nations are mov­ing toward seces­sion, in some cases looking [...]

Rewritin’ History, Y’All!

COMMENT: Numer­ous broad­casts have high­lighted var­i­ous forms of revi­sion­ist his­tory. From Holo­caust Denial to blam­ing World War II on FDR, the advo­cates of evil have dili­gently pur­sued their end–the insti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of his­tor­i­cal lies.
Now, the state of Vir­ginia has adopted text­books fea­tur­ing revi­sion­ist his­tory of the Amer­i­can Civil War, cour­tesy of The Sons of  Con­fed­er­ate Vet­er­ans. The [...]

Kosovo PM Accused of Trafficking in Human Organs

COMMENT: Koso­var Prime Min­is­ter Hashim Thaci has been accused by Coun­cil of Europe inquiry of traf­fick­ing in human organs, as well as drugs.
The KLA is the suc­ces­sor to the fas­cist fight­ing for­ma­tions of the World War II period, the 21st Waf­fen SS or Skan­der­beg Divi­sion in par­tic­u­lar.
FTR #701 presents this line of inquiry in more detail.
“Kosovo [...]

Julian Assange Conneced to DARPA Hacker

Com­ment: In FTR #‘s 724, 725, we exam­ined Wik­iLeaks, noting–among other connections–the organization’s appar­ent con­nec­tions to intel­li­gence ser­vices.
Assange is part of a hacker milieu that includes one Peiter Zatko, aka “Mudge”, a cel­e­brated hacker cur­rently employed by DARPA to strengthen cyber­se­cu­rity.  This is a con­nec­tion that raises more ques­tions than it answers.

With web chat­ter asserting [...]

FTR #727 Whither China?

Nobel Peace Prize Win­ner Liu Xiaobo seeks return to China’s past; fore­go­ing most reforms of the past cen­tury, China would sur­ren­der its posi­tion on the world stage; Liu doing the bid of China’s export­ing rival Germany.

FTR #725 Leak This! WikiSpooks and the World of Stieg Larsson

Wik­iLeaks inex­tri­ca­bly linked with intel­li­gence ser­vices around the world; A founder of the group says they act like “spies”; Wik­iLeaks’ Swedish base of oper­a­tions over­laps the Swedish fas­cist polit­i­cal milieu por­trayed in the Stieg Lars­son books and movies.

FTR #724 Wiki of the Damned

Wik­iLeaks king­pin Assange appears con­nected to pow­er­ful mind-control cult; Aus­tralian intel­li­gence involved with the cult? Mem­bers die their hair blonde, have mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ties, pass­ports, birth­dates. Pos­si­ble Third Posi­tion ori­en­ta­tion of the group.

Convicted in China, U.S. Geologist Worked for Thyssen/“Peak Oil” Firm

Com­ment: The cov­er­age of China’s sen­tenc­ing of a U.S. Geol­o­gist to eight years in prison has not stressed the fact that Xue Feng worked for IHS, Inc–a firm spe­cial­iz­ing in analy­sis of the petro­leum indus­try and the epi­cen­ter of the “Peak Oil” hypoth­e­sis. A sub­sidiary of Thyssen/Bornemisza indus­tries, IHS pro­vides analy­sis derived from data submitted [...]

German Ethnic Policy Recapitulates Hitler’s Doctrine

Com­ment: The pol­icy that the “New” Ger­many is pur­su­ing vis a vis German-speaking minori­ties is very sim­i­lar to the for­eign pol­icy gam­bit effec­tively crafted by the Third Reich in order to jus­tify its war of aggres­sion. Claim­ing “per­se­cu­tion” of German-speaking minori­ties in neigh­bor­ing coun­tries, they ini­ti­ated mil­i­tary action in order to real­ize ter­ri­to­r­ial hegemony–this [ostensibly] [...]