Category Archives: Fascism Without Swastikas

Evo’s watching his back, and how!

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Aporrea has a couple of interesting items. First, the helicopter “accident” of last week: The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said on Friday that it was “surely not coincidental” that the helicopter loaned to him by the government of Venezuela … Continue reading →

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The Wall Street Journal’s “Jewish Problem”

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Oh, look. The Wall Street Journal seems to have twigged to the fact that their leading “expert” on Latin America, Mary Anastasia O’Grady, is nothing more than a discredited hack parachuted in from the Heritage Foundation to promote far-right “values” … Continue reading →

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Historical revisionism at Der Spiegel

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Verdammt noch mal. You’d think a German newsmagazine could, in the interests of journalistic integrity, at least get its own country’s history right. But Der Spiegel is now so far up the ass of neo-con Washington, it’s even rewriting that…and … Continue reading →

Posted in Confessions of a Bad German, Crapagandarati, Fascism Without Swastikas, Newspeak is Nospeak, The War on Terra | Comments Off

M-13 terrorists kill their own

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Sabina Becker

The Venezuelan opposition is so rabid and so bloodthirsty, they’ll stop at nothing to get Hugo Chavez out of office. They’ll stage violence as a way of “protesting” it. They’ll even kill their own. We saw that already on April … Continue reading →

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Oh the irony. The IRONY!

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Only one paragraph from the head of a news item in Venezuelanalysis, but oh my… A notoriously violent Venezuelan student organization aligned with the Venezuelan opposition known as the March 13th Movement (M13) fired gunshots and threw Molotov cocktails at … Continue reading →

Posted in Crapagandarati, Do As I Say..., Fascism Without Swastikas, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't That Illegal?, The Hardcore Stupid, The WTF? Files | Comments Off

Chilean student douses education minister

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Sabina Becker

For those of you who’ve been following the situation in Chile for awhile, you’re probably aware that Chilean students are unhappy with their minister of education, and that they have good reasons to be. Yesterday, all that frustration spilled over, … Continue reading →

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Hideous tanorexia strikes again!

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Oh God, I won a rhinestone tiara for one whole year! All the torture has been worth it!” Well, here’s a foregone conclusion that I wish the world could forego: Once again, a totally un-Venezuelan-looking Miss Venezuela has been crowned … Continue reading →

Posted in Crapagandarati, Do As I Say..., Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Huguito Chavecito, If You REALLY Care, Oceania, She Blinded Me With Science, The Nausea | 3 Comments

Quotable: Jeff Sharlet on imperialism

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Fascism may be a purer evil, but empire is a more pervasive one, and ultimately more dangerous because it’s able to call on the loyalties of well-intentioned people who’d never go near fascism. But if you’re a Vietnamese kid napalmed … Continue reading →

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17 seconds to moral clarity with Christopher Hitchens

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

If you haven’t seen this video yet, you simply must. In the space of five minutes, you get to see how Christopher Hitchens saw the light on waterboarding in an undisclosed location somewhere in North Carolina. Not only does he … Continue reading →

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It’s not just Evo or Chavecito…

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Sabina Becker

…it’s all of Mercosur rejecting that draconian, disgusting European “Return Statute”–you know, the one that deprives undocumented immigrants of all legal rights, including recourse to an attorney before the country they’re in decides to boot them out–after a prison stay … Continue reading →