May 27, 2013

Rome Dodges a Fascist Bullet

A major election surprise in Rome may have crunched the close-to-fascist movement of Beppe Grillo, a very nasty character indeed.  Grillo received 39% of the Roman vote in the last election for the Italian parliament, and he quickly tried to imi...

May 4, 2013

Dangerous Times: Europe's New Crypto Cults Don't Hate Islam

There is something strange about the fast-rising European "crypto fascist" movements. They are peas in a pod -- with similar political programs, and similar nationalist and anti-capitalist rhetoric. They all hate the two Satans of Iranian propaganda,...

April 20, 2013

Beppe Grillo calls for march on Rome in response to 'coup d'état' (updated)

Today Beppe Grillo's  crypto fascist movement in Italy declared a popular revolt,  using Grillo's weblog and twitter. Grillo's Five Star Movement now controls a plurality of the votes in the Italian parliament. Grillo's stated goal is to ...

April 14, 2013

President Tinfoil of Italy?

This is getting silly.  One tinfoil-hatter in politics might be funny.  Two sounds like a cult.  But three is enemy action. What are we talking about?  The tinfoil-hatters running Italy's biggest new political party -- or "movem...

April 13, 2013

Dangerous Times: How to tell Conservatives from Fascists

Can we all agree that these two athletes who just celebrated their games by giving the Hitler salute in Europe are not, repeat not, conservatives? Right. Conservatives want to defend the best traditions. It's the left that is always coming up with ne...

April 13, 2013

Italian Presidential Candidate is Bilderberg Believer

If you think the inmates have taken over the asylum in American politics, you ain't seen nuthin' yet. By now the European press has caught on to the Beppe Grillo phenomenon in Italy, the rise to power of ex-Joker Grillo and his centrally controlled F...

April 6, 2013

Dangerous Times: When Paranoids Do Politics

In 1927, Jozef Stalin summoned the Russian neurologist Bekhterev to give a medical examination of the dictator.  Later that day, Bekhterev returned to a medical meeting and told colleagues, "I have just examined a paranoiac with a short, dry han...

March 23, 2013

Dangerous Times: Crypto-Fascism in Italy, Hungary, Greece, Albania

A great sense of alarm is spreading among ordinary Europeans today, especially in the south and east of the continent.  Now even the elitist media are giving us the worst international news since the Cold War. Americans do not want to hear thi...

March 16, 2013

Dangerous Times: Naomi Wolf Sleeps with the Patriarchs

In the past few weeks, militant jihadism has won two major propaganda coups. First, Al Gore, the world's most famous critic of dirty oil, sold his "progressive network" Current Media, LLC, to the oil sheikhs of Qatar for a reported $500 million. Sec...

March 9, 2013

Dangerous Times: Is Italy teetering?

Italy is the strategic center of the Mediterranean.  The U.S. Sixth Fleet is headquartered in Naples, and with Muslim radicals taking over the southern and eastern shores of the Med, Italy is once again Europe's defensive line against chaos and ...

March 2, 2013

Dangerous Times: How Euro-socialism Set off a Fascist Bomb

In the terrible economic crisis of 1922 Benito Mussolini got 25% of the vote in Italy. Two years later he had more than a majority. You know the rest. In the economic crisis of 2013, Beppe Grillo received 24% of the vote (see last week's analysis of ...

February 23, 2013

Dangerous Times: The Rage of Beppe Grillo.

Italian rabble-rouser Beppe Grillo (rhymes with Brillo) has the 10th most popular website in the world. For years he has whipped up big, angry crowds, and this week he offered a "tsunami" of demonstrations.  This weekend comes the election, and ...

February 16, 2013

Dangerous Times: Islamic fascism exploits Euro crisis

Silvio Berlusconi is one of the richest men in Italy, and he is not a fascist. So why is he saying nice things about Mussolini?  Because Berlusconi is watching Beppe Grillo, the comedian and fascist-talker, coming up fast in the election campaig...

February 9, 2013

Dangerous Times: Italy stares Into the Abyss

Italy lost 700,000 Italians in World War I, and then immediately voted in Mussolini's fascists, which militarized the whole of Italian society. If you wonder why Italians cheat on their taxes today, it's because they have 25 centuries of experience w...