Thursday, 20 October, 2022 — THe Grayzone
Tag: fascism
Fascism returns to Europe’s centerstage
Monday, 26 September 2022 — Indian Punchline
The troika leading the far-right coalition that won Italy’s election: Giorgia Meloni (R), Silvio Berlusconi (C) and Matteo Salvini (L)
The stunning victory of a far-right coalition in Italy’s parliamentary election on Sunday is largely seen from the distinct prospect of Giorgia Meloni becoming the country’s next prime minister, whose hardline views on immigration and the preservation of the “Christian family” are rooted in the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a party founded after World War II by the nostalgic former members of Benito Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship.
The Worst is Yet to Come: When the Center Cannot Hold
Friday, 15 July 2022 — Global Justice in the 21st Century
Richard Falk
[Prefatory Note: The following post was published in slightly modified form in
COUNTERPUNCH on July 15, 2022. It attempts to connect my despair about developments
In America with wider global systemic tendencies. It is not hopeful about the future, yet
Its central message is that we should continue to struggle for a future we can believe in given that we live at a time of radical uncertainty.]
How Pre-WW II Ukrainian Fascists Pioneered Brutal Terror Techniques; Later Improved By CIA, Now Ironically Taught to Descendants
Thursday, 9 June 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
Meet the CIA’s eager students—star pupils in the art of terrorizing civilian populations: Organization of Ukrainian Nationalist (OUN) partisans recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets. [Source: rbth.com]
“Terror will be not only a means of self-defense, but also a form of agitation, which will affect friend and foe alike, regardless of whether they desire it or not.”
– UVO (fascist Ukrainian Military Organization), brochure from 1929.
Part I of a 3 Part Series on Ukrainian Fascism and the U.S.
The history of Ukraine is long and rich. For millennia, the fertile lands of Ukraine with their black earth and rich seas have been highly contested. From the Scythians of antiquity, the Varangians who would eventually become the Rurukids and the first Tsars, to the Mongols, the Hetmanate and the Ukrainian SSR, it is impossible to truly understand the situation in Ukraine today without some historical background.
2005-22′: The crisis of western capitalism behind the left and far right radicalism
Saturday, 23 April 2022 — MROnline
Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on April 21, 2022 by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
First of two articles
In a previous article we have tried to explain the rise of the extreme right in Europe, in its various forms, as a result of the deep crisis of world (western) Capitalism. The same is true of the rise of the radical left, where and when we witness it. It is simply impossible to understand what is going on now in the world if we don’t take into consideration the crisis the globally dominant Western capitalism has been facing since 2008. The depth of this crisis is comparable to the depth of the two biggest crises in the history of capitalism, those of 1873 and 1929.
The Reasons For And Dangers Behind The War In Ukraine
Monday, 11 April 2022 — Moon of Alabama
The war in the Ukraine continues but the propaganda hysteria around it seems to have calmed down a bit as reality is setting in.
This gives room from more sane voices to be heard by the public. I will start with the Russian ones.
NATOstan: She’s looking at YOU
Sunday, 27 March 2022 — The New Dark Age
by Supratim Barman
NATOstan: she’s looking at YOU. A Roma untermensch packaged by Ukrainian “democracy”.
The above picture and text is from a tweet by Pepe Escobar.
Is this what you are supporting? That’s great. I am not. I have never been to the territory of the Russian Federation nor of Ukraine; but; I don’t need to; because there is no way I can support this anywhere on Planet Earth.
Understanding Ukrainian Nazism
Saturday, 26 February 2022 — Struggle – La Lucha
Solidarity rally in Galicia, Spain, in 2014.
In the West, media outlets are claiming that Russia’s agenda to “denazify” Ukraine is unfounded. At the same time, public opinion in Western countries is totally alienated from the Ukrainian reality, tending to believe only what is reported by the hegemonic media. The result of this is strong disapproval of the Russian attitude based on the lie that there is no trace of Nazism in contemporary Ukraine. In this sense, it is urgent that quality information be disseminated to the Western audience to avoid the proliferation of lies about the Ukrainian reality.
Zelensky And The Fascists: “He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk”
Saturday, 5 March 2022 — Moon of Alabama
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism states:
Lambert and I both find this is the worst informational environment either of us have faced, orders of magnitude worse than the war in Iraq, …
and:
Dear patient readers,
Lambert and I, and many readers, agree that Ukraine has prompted the worst informational environment ever. We hope readers will collaborate in mitigating the fog of war – both real fog and stage fog – in comments. None of us need more cheerleading and link-free repetition of memes; there are platforms for that.
I ask readers and commentators here to live by the same standard. There are too many comments now for me to police. Please notify me via email if there are certain trolls or offenders who deserve to be excluded from this site.
Now back to Ukraine.
“A gang of drug addicts and neo-nazis”
Saturday, 5 March 2022 — Voltaire Network
by Thierry Meyssan
By evoking “a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis” in power in Kiev, President Putin has shocked many. The Atlanticist press tried to present him as a mental patient. However, the facts are there: the power in Ukraine is verily occupied by a bunch of drug addicts who stole the gas revenues. A racial law has been passed. Monuments to the Nazi collaborator Stepan bandera have been erected. And two Nazi battalions have already been incorporated into the regular army.
MintPress Study: NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia Over Ukraine
Friday, 4 February 2022 — MintPress News
Propaganda War
This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describe Putin as Hitler incarnate.
by Alan Macleod
William I. Robinson: The Global Police State, Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism
Friday, 7 January 2022 — Dandelionsalad
Image by Geoff Livingston via Flickr
Originally posted Oct. 27, 2020 | goingundergroundRT on Oct 26, 2020
We speak to William Robinson, author of The Global Police State. He discusses how capitalism’s crises have fuelled the rise of the global police state, the drastic inequality and poverty that has become a theme of modern capitalism which necessitates the global police state, whether there is class warfare on the poor, the growing industry of militarism and oppression and much more!
The Telegraph – Austria’s precedent-setting lockdown is an assault on human rights
19 November, 2021 — Big Brother Watch
[How ironic that it’s left to a rightwing rag like the Telegraph to warn us of the approaching fascism. WB]
Europe is in the midst not only of a public health crisis, but also of a dangerous shift towards authoritarianism. The Austrian government’s introduction of a lockdown only for unvaccinated people this week was a precedent-setting assault on human rights: liberty, privacy, freedom of movement, freedom of association and freedom from discrimination. And yet, if you follow the work of the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency, which sits in the heart of Vienna, you wouldn’t know that it is even happening.
An Australian horror story
1 November 2021 — Information Clearing House
By Jeremy Salt
The Premier of the Australian state of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, has just tabled legislation in parliament which is possibly the most monstrous ever introduced into a country calling itself democratic. Basically it gives Andrews the power to do whatever he wants and whenever he wants it. He has been turning Victoria into a police state for the past year and a half but behind the bland face and earnest manner, the legislation openly stamps him as a totalitarian psychopath.
Capitalism has no endgame besides collapse & feudalistic warfare
15 October 2021 — See You in 2020
I got the image above from here
In the future that capital and empire are creating, the ones with the power will be people like Erik Prince. The ultra-wealthy oligarchs that have created private armies, and can hold a monopoly on violence in a world where even the imperialist countries have largely devolved into failed states. This type of dystopian vision for what could come after capitalism collapses has been called techno-feudalism. A reversion to the socioeconomic system that produced capitalism, one where the new feudal lords have the powers of modern weaponry.
NATO Is Replicating Nazi Germany’s Crimes In Ukraine—Along With The Dangers Of World War
21 August 2021 — See You in 2020
NATO and its fascist partnered regimes are facilitating a process in Ukraine that can be compared to the rise of Nazi Germany. The difference being that Ukraine’s fascist regime isn’t going to start invading European imperialist powers, which in the long term will make this regime more sustainable than the Third Reich; whereas the Nazis went rogue and brought the wrath of the other imperialist powers, Ukraine’s Nazis have the reliable backing of the United States and its imperial collaborators.
Climate Collapse Will Create The Next Wave Of Genocide Against Colonized Peoples
8 August, 2021 — See You in 2020
At the end of this century, people will conclude that the warming of the climate precipitated a rise in white nationalism like we’ve never seen before. This climate-related fascist upswell, which is already at play, will be unprecedented in that the crisis preceding it is unprecedented. The rise of fascism in the early-to-mid 20th century was produced by economic and environmental collapses which will be tiny in comparison to the ones that we’re going to see.
Return of the Leviathan: The Fascist Roots of the CIA and the True Origin of the Cold War
11 March 2021 — Off Guardian
Whose interest did the creation of the Cold War serve and continues to serve? Cynthia Chung addresses this question in her three-part series
Cynthia Chung
In 1998, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), at the behest of Congress, launched what became the largest congressionally mandated, single-subject declassification effort in history. As a result, more than 8.5 million pages of records have been opened to the public under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (P.L. 105-246) and the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act (P.L. 106-567). These records include operational files of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA, the FBI and Army intelligence. IWG issued three reports to Congress between 1999 and 2007.
The Cult of the Brave New Normal
23 October 2020 — Off Guardian
Dr Bruce Scott
(Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
In March, it was just a three-week lockdown, to flatten the curve so as not to overwhelm the NHS. The narrative has quickly evolved. It has progressed from what seemed a reasonable idea of keeping NHS bed space free based on the completely false Neil Fergusson prediction that hospitals would be overwhelmed by patients suffering from COVID19.
The New Normal: “Covert Moral Enhancement” for “coronavirus defectors”
14 August 2020 — Off Guardian
Academic article suggests putting psycho-active drugs in the water supply to make people “co-operative”
Kit Knightly
Four days ago the Conversation – an “independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community” – published an article headlined:
‘Morality pills’ may be the US’s best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist
The New Dark Age 