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It would be easier to make an accusation of facisim if Holocaust and 20 million dead were not
Agnosticsherbet
Feb 2015
#1
i have probably owned the paperback since mid 90's. I think i assumed it was outdated and never
m-lekktor
Mar 2015
#83
We don't have to kill people on an industrial scale for facism to be bad.
Agnosticsherbet
Feb 2015
#36
Excellent article. We must face the truth that our excessive militarism is destructive
dissentient
Feb 2015
#6
They are still trying to put the lipstick on the pig by calling it "Patriotism", "Free Market",
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2015
#7
Sadly, flag waving and calls for "loyalty" still work. Even here on DU.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2015
#9
FOX News' Roger Ailes is a Big Fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite NAZI filmmaker.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#42
+10 Lately I've been re-studying WWII, Nazism & looking at the SS patches & insignia that Dad
appalachiablue
Feb 2015
#31
Steves is the most popular travel writer and travel log videographer in the US and he is great.
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2015
#67
Technical Note: Goering made these comments to (IIRC) a psychologist while
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#59
While I'm not sure as to whom or when the comments were made... Goering WAS tried and convicted
AzDar
Mar 2015
#106
Ah, shit, you are 1000% correct and I was mistaken. Goering did indeed face
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#109
Baloney, There is more extremist influence in the new government than ever.
newthinking
Feb 2015
#38
If your argument is that the Lyashko Radical Party essentially switched places with Svoboda...
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
#53
Stalin was a psychopath and didn't care about the well-being of his troops.
Tommy_Carcetti
Feb 2015
#28
Not to disagree per se (not having read the book you reference), why didn't the U.S. and U.K.
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#61
+100. I'd guess because they wanted Russia to lose, or at least be weakened. Either way,
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#76
I did not seek to pick a fight (npi) with that poster, but the USSR defeated the
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#78
There really is not doubt about the 'elements' of Fascism, now in the Government of Kiev, or in.
sabrina 1
Feb 2015
#50
I think our fascism is fueled by the dominionists in the New Apostolic Reformation/NAR Sir.
bobthedrummer
Feb 2015
#14
Korea...Vietnam...Brazil...Nicaragua...Panama...Iraq...Iraq...Afghanistan...Iraq...
Octafish
Mar 2015
#92
Rising fascism is relevant to Claire Conner, child of early John Birch Society leadership member
appalachiablue
Feb 2015
#22
Know your Tea Party Roots: Koch Fortune came courtesy of Josef Stalin and USSR
Octafish
Mar 2015
#93
Thanks for the excellent Pilger article and deep comments that generate further exploration.
appalachiablue
Feb 2015
#25
I always found Norman Mailer's analysis of the 'real' reasons we invaded and occupied
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#62
I would have read this piece by Mailer quite some time ago (at least one
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#98
I actually disagree with the thesis of the author Pilger referenced in the OP and agree
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#68
Orwell never knew Pilger. What do you think he'd say about ''Money trumps peace''?
Octafish
Mar 2015
#84
I'm so glad you understand. As for Bush, he lied America into a war of aggression. That's NAZI.
Octafish
Mar 2015
#111
Tories are the british conservative party. anarchist has nothing to do with "not conservative".
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#105
Pilger's ultimate point is undone by his own hypocrisy and willingness to engage in propoganda.
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
#58
How the elite talk in code: ''That way there will be no chance for misunderstanding.''
Octafish
Mar 2015
#95
'International law,' like the Geneva Conventions, is so quaint and obsolete. We're on a
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#73