Nazism

Winston Churchill once described the Soviet Union as a ‘puzzle wrapped inside an enigma’. The same could be said for Russian President Vladimir Putin today. From the intricate and sometimes unpredictable diplomatic maneuvers of his foreign policy to his contradictory and sometimes ambiguous pronouncements on the legacy of the USSR, enigmatic is perhaps one of the most apposite words to describe him. This enigma is particularly evident in his approach to the politics of the Middle East and Israel in particular.

What is Fascism? Recently Chris Hedges wrote of an imperialist US that is infected by “the virus of fascism, wrapped in the American flag, held aloft by the Christian cross and buttressed by white supremacy.” Hedges was not using the term fascism as it would be used by a political theorist or historian. It is common to use “fascism” to indicate a more general and imprecise fascistic tendency.

Holocaust Survivor Says Obama’s America is almost Identical to Hitler’s Germany in the Beginning. There have been numerous articles written comparing Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler. I have written a couple myself. The articles mention about Obama trying to disarm the American people just like Hitler did and how Obama has shown himself to be very dictatorial, just like Hitler. However, we write only using…

Russia investigates teenage ‘Nazi’ amid ‘Good War’ celebrations 
By Brandon Martinez (Copyright 2015)
As Russia’s grandiose “Victory Day” parades celebrating the defeat of the Axis Powers in World War II come to a close, Russian authorities have initiated an Orwellian investigation into a 16-year-old Russian citizen for allegedly expressing pro-Nazi sentiments on social media.

V-E Day, or Victory in Europe Day, is celebrated every May 8th in Western Europe and the United States, but is celebrated as Victory Day every May 9th in Russia. Why? Because the Soviet Union’s representative had no authority to sign the German document of surrender at Reims, France, on 7 May 1945, but also because, on 8 May, Soviet forces were still shelling German units in Czechoslovakia that had refused to surrender. Thus, when the surrender ceremony was repeated in Berlin on 8 May, it already was 9 May in the Soviet Union.

On this episode of the Non-Aligned Media podcast, host Brandon Martinez is joined by historian and author Veronica Clark.

Image: Moshe Feiglin campaign sign travellerw / cc

Israel’s latest war brought its increasingly fascist politics before a global audience.

Today the driver of Euro-fascism is the Euro-bureaucracy, which gets its directions from Washington. The United States supports the eastward expansion of the EU and NATO in every way possible, viewing these organizations as important components of its global empire. In essence, the EU is a bureaucratic empire that arranges things within its economic space in the interests of European and American capital, under U.S. control.

From Hitler’s Germany in the 1930′s to Kiev Today, the United States’ Disturbing Partnerships with Nazis.