America Is Not a Normal Country
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory202.html
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Fascist America: Is this election the next turn?
Our Future Blog
by Sara Robinson
10/22/10
In August 2009, I wrote a piece titled ?Fascist America: Are We There Yet?? that sparked much discussion on both the left and right ends of the blogosphere. In it, I argued that ? according to the best scholarship on how fascist regimes emerge ? America was on a path that was running much too close to the fail-safe point beyond which no previous democracy has ever been able to turn back from a full-on fascist state. I also noted that the then-emerging Tea Party had a lot of proto-fascist hallmarks, and that it had the potential to become a clear and present danger to the future of our democracy if it ever got enough traction to start winning elections in a big way...
http://tinyurl.com/28blunq
The Tea Party test case
In These Times
by David Sirota
10/23/10
What is the tea party? Many have tried to answer that question ever since CNBC?s Rick Santelli first launched the backlash with his trading-floor rant against the poor. Democratic operatives, for instance, say the tea party is merely a Republican Party facade. As proof, they point to GOP-linked corporate group?s involvement in tea party events, and cite the absence of tea party deficit and bailout protests during George W. Bush?s presidency. Social scientists, meanwhile, suggest that the tea party is not the entire Republican apparatus, but specifically the extreme conservative edge of the GOP?. For their part, tea party activists brush off these pesky facts with nostalgic paeans about the Constitution and indignant bromides against partisanship...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6579/the_tea_party_test_case/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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The Ruling Elite and the Perversion of Scholarship
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. They have inverted the traditional values of scholarship to turn four years of college into a mindless quest for collective euphoria and athletic dominance.''
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10590-the-ruling-elite-and-the-perversion-of-scholarship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fascis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/gregory
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sara+Robinson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Sirota
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chris+Hedges
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Fascist America: Is this election the next turn?
Our Future Blog
by Sara Robinson
10/22/10
In August 2009, I wrote a piece titled ?Fascist America: Are We There Yet?? that sparked much discussion on both the left and right ends of the blogosphere. In it, I argued that ? according to the best scholarship on how fascist regimes emerge ? America was on a path that was running much too close to the fail-safe point beyond which no previous democracy has ever been able to turn back from a full-on fascist state. I also noted that the then-emerging Tea Party had a lot of proto-fascist hallmarks, and that it had the potential to become a clear and present danger to the future of our democracy if it ever got enough traction to start winning elections in a big way...
http://tinyurl.com/28blunq
The Tea Party test case
In These Times
by David Sirota
10/23/10
What is the tea party? Many have tried to answer that question ever since CNBC?s Rick Santelli first launched the backlash with his trading-floor rant against the poor. Democratic operatives, for instance, say the tea party is merely a Republican Party facade. As proof, they point to GOP-linked corporate group?s involvement in tea party events, and cite the absence of tea party deficit and bailout protests during George W. Bush?s presidency. Social scientists, meanwhile, suggest that the tea party is not the entire Republican apparatus, but specifically the extreme conservative edge of the GOP?. For their part, tea party activists brush off these pesky facts with nostalgic paeans about the Constitution and indignant bromides against partisanship...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6579/the_tea_party_test_case/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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The Ruling Elite and the Perversion of Scholarship
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. They have inverted the traditional values of scholarship to turn four years of college into a mindless quest for collective euphoria and athletic dominance.''
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10590-the-ruling-elite-and-the-perversion-of-scholarship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=fascis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=elite
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/gregory
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sara+Robinson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Sirota
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chris+Hedges
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Starmail - 11. Sep, 06:25
