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 Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: "Fascism" Frame Set Up by Right-Wing Press |
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WASHINGTON - The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W. Bush to depict U.S. foes in the Middle East as "fascists" and its domestic critics as "appeasers" owes a great deal to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing press over the past several months to draw the same comparison.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Network and The Weekly Standard, as well as the Washington Times, which is controlled by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, and the neo-conservative New York Sun, have consistently and with increasing frequency framed the challenges faced by Washington in the region in the context of the rise of fascism and Nazism in the 1930s, according to a search of the Nexis database by IPS.
All of those outlets, as well as two other right-wing U.S. magazines -- The National Review and The American Spectator -- far outpaced their commercial rivals in the frequency of their use of key words and names, such as "appeasement," "fascism", and "Hitler", particularly with respect to Iran and its controversial president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Nexis, for example, cited 56 uses of "Islamofascist" or "Islamofascism" in separate programmes or segments aired by Fox News compared with 24 by CNN over the past year. Even more striking, the same terms were used in 115 different articles or columns in the Washington Times, compared with only eight in the Washington Post over the same period, according to a breakdown by Nexis.
Similarly, the Washington Times used the words "appease" or "appeasement" -- a derogatory reference to efforts by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to avoid war with Nazi Germany before the latter's invasion of Poland -- in 25 different articles or columns that dealt with alleged threats posed by Ahmadinejad, compared to six in the Post and only three in the New York Times.
Israel-centred neo-conservatives and other hawks have long tried to depict foreign challenges to U.S. power as replays of the 1930s in order to rally public opinion behind foreign interventions and high defence budgets and against domestic critics.
During the Cold War, they attacked domestic critics of the Vietnam War and later the Ronald Reagan administration's "contra war" against Nicaragua -- and even Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon -- as "isolationists" and "appeasers" who failed to understand that their opposition effectively served the interests of an "evil" Soviet Union whose ambitions for world conquest were every bit as threatening and real as that of the Axis powers in World War II. |
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0901-01.htm
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beck's
Joined: 02 Aug 2006
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I think that Islamism as it is practiced in Iran and the other theocratic Muslim states does have many similarities with European facism/nazism.
For one both movements are virulently anti-semetic. It's no accident that neo-nazis in Germany parade with Iranian flags.
For another they are both irrational ideologies--the facists with their notions of the superiority "master-race" and the Islamists with their notions of the superiority of Islam and the necessity of Jihad.
As well, both movements negate basic human rights--freedom of the press/assembly/speech/religion etc. Both reject pluralism and universal suffrage.
Both movements are essentially anti-feminist. The role of women is to reproduce for the good of the collectivity.
Both movements stress the importance of sacrificing one's life for the good of the fatherland/relgion.
Both movements are based on the idea that huge injustices were done to them. With the Nazis it was the stab-in-the-back at the end of WWII and oppression at the hands of the Jews. With the Islamists it is the crusades and, of course, the oppression at the hands of the Jews.
Both movements harken back to a Golden Age. With the Italian fascists this Golden age was Rome. With the Nazis it was the old Tutonic society of the past. Islamists harken back to their golden age--the glories of the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphates. All three groups feel that purity of blood/religion will bring back the Golden Age. |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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The moonies control a Washingtion newspaper and are spreading neo-con
propaganda??
This world is too weird. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject: Hitler was a Closet Muslim Extremist |
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Mein Kampf, my struggle, my jihad
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