Those of us who are not true believers in Fox’s propaganda are constantly amazed that this company is allowed to practice its virtual mind control in the United States. At a time when Donald Trump feels free to broadcast threats about what his administration will do to our system of government, Fox broadcasts his every word to the American people. But it’s even more outrageous than we know. Fox News was born in Nazi Germany. In 1932, the German newsreel subsidiary of Fox News Channel’s corporate ancestor, Fox Films, intervened in national elections in Germany.… Read the rest
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Misogyny is Part of a Complex Ideology
Reading Time: 7 minutesOften misogyny is part of a complex ideology. But it’s not clear which came first–the misogyny or the supporting ideology. For committed misogynists, hatred is a preference. Francis Parker Yockey and Baron Julius Evola were both misogynists. Kevin Coogan attributes this in large part to occult influences. The most prominent source of far right occult beliefs in the postwar period was Theosophy.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Among Yockey’s possessions when the FBI arrested him was a citation for the June 1937 issue of The Theosophical Forum, an American journal of the Theosophy Society.… Read the rest
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Divisions in the Postwar Fascist International
Reading Time: 19 minutesOswald Spengler was inside the Munich Beer Hall on November 8, 1923, when Hitler launched his putsch. Such encounters convinced him that the Nazis were the worst sort of proletarized street rabble. But although he cultivated an aura of political detachment, he was highly political. He wrote Prussianism and Socialism in 1919, in which he took part in the struggle against Russian-style Marxism, German social democracy, and Weimar liberalism. He once transferred funds from a right-wing German politician and former Krupp director named Alfred Hugenberg to one of the Bavarian paramilitary leagues known as the kampfbunde (Coogan pp.… Read the rest
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Biden Bows Out and Endorses Harris
Reading Time: 2 minutesI am concerned about the Democrats who seem to be rethinking the President, and maybe even the presidency itself. This has been impossible to ignore after the debate. I didn’t watch the debate–very few people did–but I’ve seen clips of it. What first concerned me was the sudden appearance of naysayers in the Democratic Party, especially Barack Obama. And large number of Democratic pundits have joined the establishment. They act as if it’s a small matter to discard a presidential candidate.… Read the rest
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Project 2025 and Fear in America
Reading Time: 2 minutesProgressives reject the use of violence, political or otherwise. This is especially true in this electoral cycle and in this political atmosphere. The use of violence toward Donald Trump or anyone else is not only deplorable, it is inflammatory. There are two possibilities. If this was a real assassination attempt, it may be directly attributable to the actions of the Supreme Court. The Court’s actions have now been compounded by threats by the head of Project 2025.… Read the rest
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European and American Fascism Are Connected
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhere did Christian nationalism come from? What’s so special about Carthage? Both of these concepts have echoes in the European Right. In other words, European and American Fascism are Connected.
The Christian Nationalist Party
Francis Parker Yockey and two associates launched the European Liberation Front (ELF) sometime in late 1948 or early spring 1949. His associates were John Anthony Gannon and Guy Chesham. ELF’s manifesto was The Proclamation of London. ‘Even at its height, the ELF only had about 150 supporters.… Read the rest
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Fascists Like Literary and Historical Fantasy
Reading Time: 5 minutesRoger Griffin argues that nostalgia for a holistic cosmology is important to the Italian sacred Right’.1 This explains why fascists like literary and historical fantasy. According to Griffin, they are motivated by a mode of aesthetic politics. They have this in common with the Left, with some important differences.
An old church door, Stow-on-the-Wold, England. Credit: RichVintage Griffin’s Argument
Roger Griffin came to the field of history by way of literature. Along the way he learned that
… Read the rest“all disciplines develop colonial or neo-colonial attitudes if they do not accept as an implicit premise of their ractivity that there are areas of human reality they are less well-equipped than others to document or explore.”
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The Foundation of American Civil Religion
Reading Time: 6 minutesRichard J. Bishirjain has argued that a deformation of history has the ability to destroy historical consciousness and replace it with a derivative, pseudo-interpretation. Unfortunately, a deformation of history has already occurred in the United States. This deformed historical consciousness is the foundation of American civil religion.
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When I first read Bishirjain’s article I accepted everything uncritically. I agree that American Civil Religion causes more problems than it solves. But unfortunately, it is impossible to ignore Bishirjain’s partisan attempts to absolve conservatives from any responsibility.… Read the rest
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The Radical Right’s Siren Song
Reading Time: 14 minutesChristian Churches have a problem. Right-wing ideology with claims to Christian orthodoxy is converting young people, mostly men, all over the world. This problem has become more noticeable since the Covid lockdown. Apparently, young people who were not able to talk to each other in person socialized online. Right-wing ideology associated with Christianity was the introduction for many of them. Afterward, many of them joined churches in an effort to further the right-wing agenda. Steve Hayes’s video on YouTube traces the progression of this increase in right-wing members.… Read the rest