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The tag 'Fascism' is associated with 45 posts.

Imagine, “Morsi Is a Textbook Islamic Fascist”: I Told You So, Part 3 (Democracy, Muslim Brotherhood Style, Part 3)

We recall the tsuna­mi of praise, Hosan­nas and Hal­lelu­jahs gush­ing forth from the world’s media and polit­i­cal pun­dit­ry. Hail­ing the “Arab Spring” as the dawn­ing of a new enlight­en­ment in that part of the world, they missed the boat–fundamentally. We, on the oth­er hand, were warn­ing that this phe­nom­e­non was a Nazi oper­a­tion, hav­ing been ini­ti­at­ed by pow­er­ful cor­po­rate forces in the sec­ond admin­is­tra­tion of George W. Bush, it had its trig­ger with the Wik­iLeaks milieu–itself a far-right, Nazi-linked enti­ty, as we demon­strat­ed in FTR’s 732 and #745. (In addi­tion to the doc­u­men­ta­tion in the orig­i­nal WikiLeaks/Arab Spring series, see the arti­cle excerpt­ed below.) Before delv­ing into details, an excel­lent overview of recent events in Egypt was pro­vid­ed in an Eng­lish-lan­guage blog by a cit­i­zen of that tor­tured coun­try. The con­tra­dic­tions and dead­ly under­cur­rents of unfold­ing events were elo­quent­ly summed up by Mah­moud Salem in “Imag­ine.”


Terminator V: The machines want your job.

In a fun change of pace, we’re going to have a post that’s light on excerpts and heavy on ranty link­i­ness. That might not actu­al­ly be fun but it’s not like there’s a robot stand­ing over your shoul­der forc­ing you to read this. Yet.


That 30’s Show

Many com­men­ta­tors have observed the omi­nous par­al­lels between our present fis­cal cri­sis and the eco­nom­ic fac­tors that led to the Great Depres­sion and the rise of fas­cism, although few note the con­nec­tions between con­sum­mate­ly pow­er­ful polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic forces and the sad, trag­ic events that result­ed from their poli­cies.


“Austerity” Equals Fascism, Part I: The Republicans are Nazis

Descend­ed from political/economic inter­ests that sup­port­ed Hitler, tried to over­throw Franklin Roo­sevelt and did kill JFK, the GOP man­i­fests the her­itage of decades of covert oper­a­tions that brought Third Reich vet­er­ans into the Amer­i­can polit­i­cal main­stream. The upcom­ing elec­tion may deter­mine the fate of our civ­i­liza­tion.


Getting in Dutch: The Third Reich and the Royal Family of the Netherlands (“A Prince Too Far”)

Gen­er­a­tions of the Nether­lands’ Roy­al Fam­i­ly link to the Third Reich and its post­war man­i­fes­ta­tions. Prince Bern­hard was SS, an IG Far­ben spy and a trai­tor to the Allied Cause. Was he “the Trai­tor of Arn­hem?”


Memorial Day Post: The Past Isn’t Dead and Buried, It Isn’t even Past

As Amer­i­ca remem­bers its dead from fall­en wars, it is incum­bent upon us to remem­ber what caused those wars, and for what ideals our sol­diers fought. The polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic forces that pre­cip­i­tat­ed World War II are only too much with us today, and the com­men­tary by Dorothy Thomp­son and James Stew­art Mar­tin has nev­er been more rel­e­vant.


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

Anti-Putin Russ­ian coali­tion includes promi­nent fas­cists, includ­ing Alex­ei Naval­ny. One won­ders what effect this will have on the large­ly Mus­lim Cau­ca­sus?


Rolling Back the New Deal, Trashing the United States, Roiling International Financial Waters

Com­ment: The “deficit reduc­tion” pro­pos­als now being pre­sent­ed by the “bipar­ti­san” com­mis­sion on the bud­get are, sim­ply put, a frontal assault on the New Deal, the Amer­i­can peo­ple and the coun­try itself. For­mer GOP sen­a­tor (Wyoming) Alan Simp­son has sound­ed a bat­tle cry to gut social secu­ri­ty, raise tax­es for the bot­tom 80% of the […]


FTR #726 The Kochtopus: The Tea Party Movement Manifests Classical Fascism

Koch broth­ers espouse “Cor­po­ratism”, rep­re­sent­ed as “Free­dom”; bil­lion­aire financiers of insti­tu­tions that gen­er­ate GOP pol­i­cy, Kochs per­vert pub­lic pol­i­cy to serve their pri­vatge inter­ests; grass roots “Tea Partiers” work­ing against their own inter­ests.


Update on the Resurgence of Hungarian Fascism

Com­ment: In FTR #709, we high­light­ed the recent elec­toral suc­cess of the Hun­gar­i­an Job­bik Par­ty. A recent For­eign Pol­i­cy arti­cle fur­ther detailed that dis­turb­ing phe­nom­e­non. “Rise of the Hun­gar­i­an Right” by Michael Jor­dan; For­eign Pol­i­cy; 7/13/2010. While run­ning for a par­lia­men­tary seat in Hun­gary’s April elec­tions, far-right can­di­date Gabor Vona made one cam­paign promise that […]