Category Archives: Fascism Without Swastikas

Abu Ghraib: Not just a few bad apples

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“Torture: America’s Brutal Prisons”, a British TV documentary in five parts.This doc shows clearly how Abu Ghraib was not the exception, but the rule–and all the violence in it was a direct import from back in the good ol’ “freedom-loving” … Continue reading →

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Jorge Recio on the Venezuelan coup of ’02

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Sabina Becker

In several documentaries of the coup d’état of April 11, 2002, you can see a group of Bolivarian demonstrators on Baralt Avenue in Caracas, picking up and carrying the limp form of a tall young man past a newspaper kiosk … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: The Verdict in Venezuela

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Sabina Becker

…is GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY as charged for three commanders of the Metropolitan Caracas Police (and eight of their subordinates): At noon on Friday, sentences were handed down for three commanders and eight officers of the Metropolitan Caracas Police, involved in … Continue reading →

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Berluscoglioni smokes crack

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Coke bugs biting your crotch again, Silvio? It’s kind of a habitual thing with Da Berluscoglioni, this whole drug-smoking and willy-waving thing. Get a load of his latest, er, declarations: “Ours is a liberal, bourgeois and popular, moderate and inter-class … Continue reading →

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UN agrees: Porvenir WAS a massacre.

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Sabina Becker

(Shamelessly stolen from El Ventarrón. It was too good to pass up!)A certain prefect from a certain Bolivian department is in the calabozo right now. Some kooky people in Miami (where else?) say he’s an unjustly incarcerated “political prisoner”. Well, … Continue reading →

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The indigenous people’s holocaust

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Sabina Becker

AMERICAN INDIAN HolocaustHow did Hitler learn genocide and eliminationism? By taking his cues from what happened in North America. This concerns mainly what happened in the US, but in Canada it was not much better. Up here, we didn’t have … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Confessions of a Bad German, Fascism Without Swastikas, If You REALLY Care, Law-Law Land, Not So Compassionate Conservatism | 2 Comments

Cops Behaving Badly: Brutality in Barcelona, Part 2

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Hundreds of media photographers gather to protest the police brutality against Catalan students in last week’s protests in Barcelona. Some of them were also injured in the line of duty by those same stormtroopers.

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Fascist fashion in Israel

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Fashionable fascism dominates the sceneWhen the ends don’t meet it’s easier to justify the means… –Bruce Cockburn, “The Trouble With Normal” This really speaks for itself, does it not?Ha’aretz has the whole story.

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Cops Behaving Badly: Brutality in Barcelona

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“Watch them move into the futureGot a lot of catching up to doHope they take a lesson from their neighboursThat’ll show ’em what not to doShould have happened for them in the ThirtiesBut the pleasure got caught in painEnded up … Continue reading →

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Murder mysteries in a Bolivian government building

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Strange, macabre and tantalizing clues have been found in a secret chamber below a government ministry building in La Paz. Evo himself went down to see what’s been found there so far:According to the experts with him, this room was … Continue reading →

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