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Austerity Measures Are Worse at Easter

Seth Engel | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Fascism, Greece Austerity Measures, Greece, Jobbik, Greece Debt Crisis, Nazism, Austerity Measures, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News
Seth Engel

In the face of the U.S.'s two greatest crises of the century, Americans have turned to FDR and George W. Bush for solace. The Germans had once chosen Hitler for theirs. Which path will the Greeks venture down on May 6? Who can lead a country that has hit rock bottom?

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Casablanca at 70: A Film That Is More Relevant Than Ever

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Fascism, Bosnia, Casablanca, Nazis, Arab Spring, The English Patient, Darfur, World War Two, 9/11, Sudan, Nigeria, Gay Marriage, Rwanda, Syria, Impact News
Rebecca Tinsley

Where are today's Casablanca-style heroes? They are in the streets of North Africa (and Syria), facing down well-armed, brutal, corrupt regimes, most of which were propped up by the West.

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Madame Le Pen Does Not Love France

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: French Politics, Fascism, Jean-Marie Le Pen, France, Marine Le Pen, France Front National, Front National, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

It's true that Marine Le Pen spends a great deal of energy trying to de-demonize her party and convince people that it has changed. But it is nonetheless true that this "change" doesn't go so far as a clear repudiation of the antisemitic provocations her father was so fond of.

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Over Netanyahu's New Israel, the B.S. Light Is On

Bradley Burston | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Fascism, Politics, Middle East Protests, Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz, Bradley Burston, Israel, Apartheid, Danny Danon, World News
Bradley Burston

Like the apocryphal 50 words for snow, the Hebrew language is rich in synonyms for something south of honesty. But nothing in the ancient lexicon quite fits the Black Flagging campaign.

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Hollywood Sending Evil Message?

Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Fascism, Clint Eastwood, Video, Conservatives, Liberal Hollywood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conservative Hollywood, Movies, Captain America, Frank Miller, 300, Hollywood, Celebrities, Entertainment News

While conservatives like to knock Hollywood for its supposed liberal bent, one columnist in England thinks that its films are promoting quite the oppo...

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Hemingway at War, America in Crisis

Brent Budowsky | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: American Century, Stop Complaining, Poverty, Right Stuff, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Economic Crisis, Nuclear Arms Race, A Farewell to Arms, Ronald Reagan, War, Ernest Hemingway, Camelot, Joblessness, Unfair Economy, Greatest Generation, Fascism, Tom Wolfe, Courage, Wealth, Heroism, John F Kennedy, Arab Spring, Nancy Reagan, Shared Purpose, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

We can read about the carnage of war in A Farewell to Arms, and the power of great aspirations in For Whom the Bell Tolls, and consider what each of us can do in our times by remembering what Ernest Hemingway and so many others did in theirs.

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Reporter Discovers Sickening Neo-Nazi Holocaust BBQ Grill

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: National Democratic Party, Jamel, Fascism, Video, Far Right, Holocaust, Nazis, Germany, Neo-Nazis, Europe, Elecions, Extremism, World News, World News

Despite the horrifying slaughter of millions of innocent people that resulted from Germany's previous experience with Naziism, it appears that some co...

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Israel's New Boycott Law: The Quiet Sound of Going Fascist

Bradley Burston | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Fascism, Israeli Settlements, Boycott, Haaretz, Gaza, Jerusalem, Israeli Occupation, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel Boycott, Israel, Bradley Burston, Palestine, Benjamin Netanyahu, Knesset, Palestinians, World News
Bradley Burston

This is the one. Don't let what we here like to call the relative calm, fool you. When the Knesset passed the boycott law Monday night, it changed the history of the state of Israel.

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A Villain Who Looks Like a Fascist and Talks Like a Communist: The Strange Politics of John Ford's The Fugitive

The New York Public Library | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Nypl, Cinema, New York Public Library, Movies, John Ford, Fascism, Community, Mexico, Cold War, The Fugitive, Seth Fein, New York News
The New York Public Library

How did the Cold War play out in Mexico? For Seth Fein, who is giving a free lecture at The New York Public Library tomorrow evening, much of the story can be understood in the production of a 1947 John Ford movie.

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There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley

Richard Karpala | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Communism, Roland Joffe, Catholic Film, Religious Film, Faith-Based Film, There Be Dragons Review, Fascism, Film Reviews, Spanish Civil War, Josemaria Escriva, Wes Bentley, Catholicism, Entertainment News
Richard Karpala

There Be Dragons is one of the few faith-based films that knows what "cinematic" looks and sounds like. That's what a $35 million dollar budget gets you.

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Propaganda: Art Of Gaddafi, Hussein And Kim Jong Il

BLTWY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mussolini, Photography, Msnbc, Napoleon, Ramses, Saparmurat Niyazov, Communist Art, Stalin, Sculpture, Constantine the Great, Propaganda, Josef Stalin, Dictator Art, Kim Jong Il, Dictators, Gaddafi, Libya, Communism, Fascism, Pharaohs, Saddam Hussein, Nude, Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Il Sung, Benito Mussolini, Tripoli, Fascist Art, Arts News

Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses I...

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An American Prophet (Chris Hedges) Is Vindicated

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fascism, Politics, The New York Times, Christian Right, Chris Hedges, Peace Issues, Far Right, War, Non-Violence, America, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

If Jesus ever actually showed up in America it would be our "Christians" who would shout him down -- if, that is, he talked about peace and the horror of an imperial nation addicted to war.

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Departing Democrat Warns Of Rise Of 'Fascism'

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Fascism, John Hall Fascism, Fascism, Rep. John Hall, John Hall, Citizens United, John Hall Citizens United, John Hall American Fascism, Campaign Finance, Politics News

Rep. John Hall (D-N.Y.), who is leaving Capitol Hill after being defeated by Republican challenger Nan Hayworth, recently warned that with the massive...

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China Wants Power and Respect

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Qaeda, Mao, The End of History, Martin Jacques, U.S. Liu Xiaobo, Tito, Mecantilism, John Darwin, Hitler, China, Mussolini, Cole Porter, Fascism, Iran, West, Mark Mazower, Afghanistan, Nixon, Stefan Halper, Communisn, World News
Leon T. Hadar

Chinese foreign policy is focused not on achieving global preeminence, but on maintaining access to energy resources and on creating a regional sphere of influence in East Asia.

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Oh, Roger, What Ailes You?

Sam Greenfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roger Ailes, Fascism, Nazis, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Smears, Hooters, Media News
Sam Greenfield

Roger Ailes did apologize for the 'nazi' remarks about NPR. Was it because he was really sorry, or was it because of the public's reaction?

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The Tea Party Republicans' Malek Problem

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Racism, Obama, Malek, Republicans, Republicans 2010 Elections, Fascism, Nazis, Nazism, Fascists, Politics News
Chip Berlet

Fred V. Malek, is a key political strategist for the American Action Network which just spent some $7 million to unseat Congressional Democrats with v...

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Please Vote! Plus Some Comments on Fears of Fascism, the Upcoming Elections, and Higher Education Finance Reform

C. Cryn Johannsen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fascism, Mid-Term-Elections-2010, Voting, Higher Education Finance Reform, Sara Robinson, Keith Olbermann, Rick Staggenborg, College News
C. Cryn Johannsen

If we don't turn out to vote, any inkling of hope I currently posses about higher education finance reform will surely be extinguished.

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Clinton Again? It Could Happen Here

Andrew Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fascism, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton Obama, Tea Party, 2010 Elections, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andrew Levine

One of the more remarkable features of the Obama years is how "the Great Rightwing Conspiracy" switched its animosity from Hillary and Bill Clinton to...

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Tea Party Rage, Part Three: The Role of Democratic Party Enablers

Stephen Ducat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fascism, Tea Party Movement, Corporate Personhood, Democrats, Politics News
Stephen Ducat

The Tea Party is as much the political consequence of the Obama administration as it is the result of oil billionaire backers like the Koch brothers.

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Tea Party Rage, Part One: Benign Confusion or Serious Threat to Democracy?

Stephen Ducat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rightwing Populism, Fascism, Tea Party Movement, Corporate Power, Politics News
Stephen Ducat

There is no other way to understand the Tea Party movement other than by invoking the excruciatingly overused appellation, fascist. Despite its constant misuse, that term does indeed apply.

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Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raoul Wallenberg, Shoah, The Academy Awards, Nazi, Leni Riefenstahl, Propoganda, Stellan Skarsgard, Best Movies on DVD, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Best Movies by Farr, Rod Steiger, The Pianist, Sophie's Choice, Vittorio De Sica, Fascism, Dominique Sanda, Sidney Lumet, The Diary of Anne Frank, Triumph of the Will, Meryl Streep, Genocide, The Holocaust, Documentary, Adrien Brody, Roman Polanski, Criterion Collection, Entertainment News
John Farr

We should all periodically revisit the best books and films on the Holocaust, however unpleasant, to keep our own awareness, watchfulness, and revulsion very much alive. There is no shortage of worthy choices.

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Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, Communism, Europe, New York City Hall, Evil in America, Cultural Revolution, Islamophobia, Ten Reasons to Burn a Koran, Pakistan, Fascism, 9/11, Anti-Islamic, Prophet Mohammad, Canada, Donahue Show, Worldview, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Martin Niemoller, E-Filled Book., Moderates, Theology, Muslim, Gainesville, Manhattan, Fran Ingram, Jim Luce, World Trade Center Mosque, Atheism, Liberals, Florida, Germany, Islam Is of the Devil, Fundamentalist Mindset, Evil, United States, Islam Is Evil, Devil, God, Facebook, Freedom of Speech, Burn Koran, Dove World Outreach Center, Nazism, Hatred, Killing Fields, U.S. Fundamentalist Group, Christianity, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Aclu, Buddhism, Hinduism, Extremism, World News
Jim Luce

One need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in ...

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Glenn Beck Could Happen Here

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fascism, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Harvey Wasserman

On a bright, sunny day in front of the Lincoln memorial, surrounded by monuments to our great presidents and wars, this had all the trappings of well-scrubbed audition for a presidential candidacy.

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Bucking Beck, Episode 1 (VIDEO): Fascism vs. Communism vs. What?

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Capitalism, Sally Kohn, Fascism, Communism, Video, Popular Education, Bucking Beck, Racism, Glenn Beck, Democracy, Socialism, Capitalism, Social Justice, Glenn Beck Social Justice, Glenn Beck Progressives, Politics News
Sally Kohn

2010-08-26-sally.jpg In this first episode, I debunk Beck's claim that communism and fascism go hand-in-hand and are the goals of the progressive movement.

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Mosque Is About Fear and Hate, the Real Harvest of War

Hal Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fascism, Ground Zero Mosque, Judeo-Christian, Congress, Department of Defense, Military, Terrorism, Muslims, Christianity, Muslim, Mosque, Ira, Politics News
Hal Donahue

The Vietnam conflict is far, far different from today's wars. What is not different is the highly toxic effect that war has on a nation and its people.

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