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It's Amazing What's Considered Radical These Days

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Fascism, Communism, Universal Health Care, Medicare, Socialism, Politics News

The House passed health care reform on Saturday night. I can't believe it's been this hard. How far has the Right (and the Left) moved to the right? Bear with me as I take you into the past.

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Mussolini And MI5: Documents Reveal Italy's Fascist Dictator Was Once British Agent

The Guardian | Tom Kington | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Moussolini and mi5, Italy, Germany, Nazi Germany, Wwi, mi5, Propaganda, Documents, Wwii, Mussolini a Spy, Mussolini, Fascism, Spy, Was Mussolini a Spy, Benito Moussolini, Secret Agent, Nazi, British Agent, World News

Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini got his start in politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5. For the British in...

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America Needs A True Revolution Of Values

David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Evangelical Christians, United Nations, Secession, Green, Green Business, Obama, Health Insurance, Green Energy, Fundamentalists, Fascism, Tax Day Tea Party, Values Voters, Mike Huckabee, Values, Green Technology, Republican Party, Health Care, Tea Party, Carrie Prejean, Jim Demint, Fascist, Environmentalism, Christian Right, Green Living, Barack Obama, Values Voters Summit, Michele Bachmann, Martin Luther King, Family Values, Health Care Reform, Environment, Green News, Value Voters Summit, Bill O'Reilly, Healthcare, Republicans, Marvin Gaye, Politics News

Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?

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The Tangled Roots of the Terror Psychology: J. Robert Lennon's Novel "Castle"

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fascism, Bush Administration Torture, Terrorism, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Castle, J. Robert Lennon, War on Terror, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Lennon's unusual, very ambitious novel brings us closer to the terror protagonist than any post-9/11 novel yet.

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Our Children Shouldn't Be Messengers Of Hate!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Regardless of which side of the religious and socio-political spectrum a child's parent or guardian is on, that child is innocent. Children are not billboards for hatred, malice and lies.

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New Protest Signs at Town Hall Rallies

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Rush Limbaugh, George Orwell, Media, Barack Obama, Fascism, Military, Sean Hannity, Health, Protest, Health Care Reform, Racism, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Medicare, Tea Party, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Bill O'Reilly, Comedy, Politics News

If you haven't seen them, some clever folks started showing up at these town hall protests with faux signs that make light of these Fox-fed people ranting and raving about Nazis and whatnot.

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Barney Frank Slams LaRouchite Fascism at Healthcare Meeting

Chip Berlet | Posted 09.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Fascism, Health Care, Right-Wing Populism, Lyndon Larouche, Barney Frank, Home News

When a woman castigating Barney Frank held up a sign comparing President Obama to Hitler, Frank did the right thing, asking: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?"

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Aiming at Obama

Nina Burleigh | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Fascism, Rightwing Smear Machine, Barack Obama, Guns, President Obama, Politics News

Can anyone remember what happened the last time a left-winger brought a loaded assault rifle to display in public within sight of a George W. Bush pre...

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Abolish the Nazi-Commie Nightmare of Public Firefighting

David Quigg | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Fascism, Communism, Nazis, Firefighters, Public Option, Satire, Health Care Reform, Socialism, Health Insurance, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, House Guests, Satirists, Politics News

If we seize this moment, if we maintain this momentum, we can give our children an America free from the totalitarian, communist abomination of public firefighting.

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In Case You Hadn't Noticed: Britain's Got Fascists

LabourList | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Fascism, Immigration Reform, World, England, Immigration, Immigrants, Europe, World News

New York remembers what London has forgotten: that we are all immigrants, even white Britons who can trace their ancestry back to Saxon mud-hut dwellers.

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A Cause for Comedy: A Cause for Mild Alarm

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Fascism, Communism, Slumdog Millionaire, Causecast, Marxism, A Cause for Comedy, Socialism, Islamo-Fascism, Nextaid, Comedy News

Here's the concept. A bunch of idealistic flower people put down their peace pipes for one minute and decide to host a comedy show. You, the sucker, go and shell out $10 of your hard-earned scratch to watch an hour of penis jokes or something. Here's the communist part: they take the money earned from the show and give it to some not-for-profit organization!

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WATCH: Republicans Debate "Socialist" Resolution

David Murdock | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Gop, Fascist, Jeff Kent, Democrat, Jim Bopp, Parties, Democrats, Steele, National Socialist, Republican, Fascism, Gio Cicione, Rnc, Democratic Socialist Party, Democrat Socialist Party, Socialist, Nazi, Politics News

The RNC concludes a special session this afternoon with a much-anticipated vote on a resolution to re-brand the Democratic Party as the "Democrat Socialist Party."

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Fear-Mongering and the 'Fox Effect'

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Free Press, Fascism, Socialism, Fox News Channel, Hannity, Marxism, Media News

Last week, conservative factions within the RNC circulated an e-mail urging party leadership to brand as a "socialist" anyone who advocates even moderate changes to the government's role in society.

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Poland Wants To Ban Che Guevara Image

The Telegraph | Matthew Day | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Fascism, Che Guevara, Poland, Warsaw Poland, Poland Fascism, Europe, Warsaw, Totalilarianism, Poland Che Guevara, World News

Poland's equality minister, Elzbieta Radziszewska, wants to expand a Polish law prohibiting the production of fascist and totalitarian propaganda so t...

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Dick Cheney: Through the Cracked Moral Compass, Darkly

Brian Ross | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Islamic Terrorism, Fascist, George W. Bush, Barack-Obama-Dick-Cheney, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics, Fascism, Nazis, Bill Kristol, Richard Nixon, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Muslims, Politics News

Should it be surprising that Dick Cheney, the guy who is the chief architect of the morally and ethically bankrupt Bush Administration policies on eve...

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Anti-Terror Strategy after the War on Terror

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Fascism, Anti-Terrorism, Rudy Giuliani, President Obama, War on Terror, Terrorism, George W. Bush, US Foreign Policy, Soviet Union, Politics News

Comments like those made recently by Giuliani, while offensive and ludicrous on the surface, can perhaps be viewed more charitably as a cry for relevance by a politician whose moment has passed.

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Glenn Beck's Set Designs and Sci-Fi Hero Dreams

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Ray Bradbury, Glenn Beck, Fascism, George Orwell, Media News

Glenn Beck's no longer bluffing. He's now pointing the finger at the Obama administration and declaring they're "marching us to a brand of nonviolent fascism."

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Whither Watchmen? Is This Big, Dark, Geeky, Lefty Movie The Next Comic Book Blockbuster?

William Bradley | Posted 04.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John F. Kennedy, The Golden Compass, Alan Moore, Alternate History, Lord of the Rings, McLaughlin Group, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Soviet Union, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Constantine, From Hell, Batman, Anarchy, 300, Fascism, Nuclear War, The Dark Knight, Watchmen, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Dirty Harry, Dave Gibbons, V for Vendetta, Watergate, Bruce Wayne, Woodward and Bernstein, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Video, Zack Snyder, Entertainment News

Watchmen lays out and alternate America in a stunning opening sequence that presents the 20th century as a relentless slog of war and murder. If hope is on the menu, it's in short supply.

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Tom Cruise Stars in Valkyrie, And Illustrates That Slide Down the Slippery Slope to Fascism

Brad Balfour | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Valkyrie, Fascism, Jack Boots, Oscars, Tom Cruise, World War 2, Adolf Hitler, Superstar, Movies, Germany, Awards, Hollywood, Jerry Maguire, Claus Von Stauffenberg, Entertainment News

Tom Cruise: When I read a script, I see it like an audience and not as a filmmaker, particularly when I get caught up in the picture.

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Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs Address Good and Wax Philosophical about the Nazis

Brad Balfour | Posted 02.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fascism, Actors, Jason Isaacs, Viggo Mortensen, Nazi Era, Harry Potter, Film, CP Taylor, Good, Germany, Vicente Amorim, Adolf Hitler, Jewish, British Play, Movies, Entertainment News

Viggo Mortensen: There was this... little Hungarian kid about five years old, playing with the little swastika flag on our first day of shooting. [He was] sticking it in the sand castle, really having fun with it.

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Weekly Roundup: OffTheBus Readers Engage in Social(ism) Networking

Chris Nelson | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Fascism, McCain Obama, Barack Obama, Obama McCain, Mccain Socialism, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Obama Socialist, John McCain, Obama Socialism, Offthebus, Home News

As scattered as the week has been now that all of the major campaign milestones have come and gone, turning the tables on John McCarthy, erm, McCain's criticism of Barack Obama this week has been the one thread in our inbox.

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Landslide Needed

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

We need a landslide. If 80 percent of the population think the country is on the wrong track, why can't we have an election where 80 percent vote for Barack and 20 for McCain?

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A Fox to Protect the Henhouse?

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Fascism, Congress, Phil Gramm, Henry Paulson, Mortgage, Goldman Sachs, Mccain, Economy, Pornography of Power, Foreclosure, Socialism, Wall Street, Business News

The marriage of highly concentrated corporate power with an authoritarian state that services the politico-economic elite at the expense of the people is more accurately referred to as "financial fascism."

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Welcome to the final stages of the coup...

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Powers, Democracy, Coup, Wall Street Crisis, The Business Plot, Economy, Terrorism, Fascism, Open Blackmail, Bailout Bill, Politics News

UPDATES AT BOTTOM If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. ~ Julius Caesar In 2000, the long fought for and ...

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