IRANS FLOW OF TERRORISTS

 WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday she might meet with Iran’s foreign minister at an upcoming conference on stabilizing Iraq.

 ”What do we need to do?” Rice said. “It’s quite obvious. Stop the flow of arms to foreign fighters. Stop the flow of foreign fighters across the borders.”

‘If you repeat something to the masses they will eventually believe it’ Hitler, in his propaganda chapter in Mein Kamp.

VIEW FROM 1944

Here is an interesting article. Italics mine. 

FROM the New York Times, April 9, 1944.
From Henry A. Wallace, Democracy Reborn (New York, 1944), edited by Russell Lord, p. 259.

On returning from my trip to the West in February, I received a request from The New York Times to write a piece answering the following questions:

What is a fascist?
How many fascists have we?
How dangerous are they?

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The supreme god of a fascist, to which his ends are directed, may be money or power; may be a race or a class; may be a military, clique or an economic group; or may be a culture, religion, or a political party.

The perfect type of fascist throughout recent centuries has been the Prussian Junker, who developed such hatred for other races and such allegiance to a military clique as to make him willing at all times to engage in any degree of deceit and violence necessary to place his culture and race astride the world. In every big nation of the world are at least a few people who have the fascist temperament. Every Jew-baiter, every Catholic hater, is a fascist at heart. The hoodlums who have been desecrating churches, cathedrals and synagogues in some of our larger cities are ripe material for fascist leadership.

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The really dangerous American fascists are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends. They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism. They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Several leaders of industry in this country who have gained a new vision of the meaning of opportunity through co-operation with government have warned the public openly that there are some selfish groups in industry who are willing to jeopardize the structure of American liberty to gain some temporary advantage. We all know the part that the cartels played in bringing Hitler to power, and the rule the giant German trusts have played in Nazi conquests. Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us. The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. It was Mussolini’s vaunted claim that he “made the trains run on time.” In the end, however, he brought to the Italian people impoverishment and defeat. It was Hitler’s claim that he eliminated all unemployment in Germany. Neither is there unemployment in a prison camp.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan. Democracy can win the peace only if it does two things:

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Fascism in the postwar inevitably will push steadily for Anglo-Saxon imperialism and eventually for war with Russia. Already American fascists are talking and writing about this conflict and using it as an excuse for their internal hatreds and intolerances toward certain races, creeds and classes.

AMERICA’S INEXORABLE DRIFT INTO FASCISM

Has anybody not read Naomi Wolf’s powerful article in Tuesdays Guardian? In which she elucidates finely the ‘10 steps’ a state needs to tread to accomplish the close down of an open society.

All very true of course but it is questionable whether Bush is not taking these steps, but has already taken them.

Churchill, a man who, in similarity to Bush, was at heart an authoritarian trying to work within a democratic framework, said that a reading of ‘Mein Kampf’ exposed Hitler’s whole belief structure.

Bush’s Mein Kampf is ‘The Project for the New American Century’. If this isn’t a fascist agenda then what is? Its all there, including America’s planned world domination. (And the domination of outer space, with the help of small fighter spaceships). Read or re-read it and be afraid, particularly if your American as, to succeed at world domination the PNAC ’plan to overthrow the democratic republic of the United States’.

Read Terry Jones prescient article on this theme. Although a few years old it is still relevant.

PUTIN’S HAWKISH FOREIGN POLICY LEGACY

Putin’s last state of the union address posits a hawkish foreign policy which he hopes will be an example for his successor to follow. Putin put his anger over US plans for a missile ‘defence shield’ into a suspension of Russia’s participation in a multilateral a arms control treaty.

America wants a ‘defence shield’ to counteract any ‘terrorist’ threats. The problem is, they are right next to Russia’s borders!

With states like Iran and the comic-opera state of N. Korea calculated not to be able to produce nuclear weapons, let alone deliver them, till about eight years time, one wonders who Bush has in mind as being terrorist or potential terrorist.

 Any state that dares show an indepent line from Washington, such as using their oil wealth to actually improve the lot of the indigenous population, instead of giving it to American corporations, who in turn get help (mainly military aid) from Washington to prop up their unpopular and murderous dictatorships, is now deemed terrorist it seems.

RIOTS IN SSTONIA

 Hundreds of people were arrested in protests against the government’s removal of a Bronze Soldier statue and the exhumation of the remains of Soviet soldiers. Of Estonia’s 3.3 million population nearly a third are Russian.

Russian soldiers liberated Estonia in 1944. The Estonian government have shown how grateful they are by removing a statue in commemoration of this liberation. They say that in reality one occupation was exchanged for another.

A Russian spokesperson said, “I cannot understand it when people try to lay blame for historical events on somebody, or try to compare communism to Nazism.”

What the Estonians seemingly don’t or wont understand is that if their country had stayed under the occupation of the Nazis, then, under Hitler’s insane racial categorisation, Estonia, as a country, would now not exist. The people would either have been exterminated in death camps or would be slaves serving the thousand year reich.