Category Archives: Fascism Without Swastikas

Criminal charges for Colonia Dignidad

The Beeb updates an ongoing story: A Chilean judge has indicted 18 people linked to a former German colony in southern Chile over human rights abuses committed during military rule. Among them are two former commanders of the Chilean secret … Continue reading

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There once was a man from Nantucket

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Can you tell the difference?

I’m having trouble… It’s getting harder and harder to stop comparing Bush to Hitler, isn’t it?

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Yes, Virginia, there IS a Downing Street Memo!

And the Beeb has finally confirmed it: From private talks between George Bush and UK PM Tony Blair, the memo makes it clear the US was determined to go to war whether or not he had UN backing. He is … Continue reading

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Boycott this ‘toon, it looks strangely familiar

“We have met the enemy and they is us!”

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More hopeful news from Argentina

More proof that things in Argentina are changing for the better, especially on the human-rights front: Argentina has decided to make public all secret archives of the armed forces to help uncover human rights violations committed under military rule. The … Continue reading

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They are losing in the Marketplace of Ideas

That’s the only conclusion I can draw about right-wingers after reading this, from RawStory.com: The San Diego affiliate of Air America Radio has offered a job to Linda Laroca, a Vista, California woman who is suing her former employer after … Continue reading

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Call it Slobocide

…because that’s what it is. A Dutch toxicologist said Monday he found traces of an unprescribed antibiotic in Slobodan Milosevic’s system earlier this year after the former Yugoslav leader did not respond to blood pressure medication given at the U.N. … Continue reading

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Fascism as corporatism, take 2…

And this happened in Aceh Province, the same as was recently hit by a disastrous tsunami, albeit before the wave-from-hell hit: Exxon Mobil Corp warned that a US judge’s decision to allow villagers to file a lawsuit against the oil … Continue reading

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The swiftboating of CITGO

Oil Wars and Juan Gonzalez have both got the goods on Joe Barton, the Texas Repug oil profiteer-cum-congresscritter squatting in the House of Representatives, who’s coming down hard on CITGO for reasons that can only be described as blatantly political. … Continue reading

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