US fascism

EDITORS—Prof. Rockhill presents an in-depth overview of fascism, stressing that this ideology far from being defeated in WW2, actually survived and prospered thanks to the protection of the West’s intel services, chiefly the CIA and MI6, who offered prominent Nazis ratlines (with Vatican assistance) to escape to the US, Canada and Latin America, and literally integrated many of these fascists in their ideological, intelligence, and military networks. As a result, fascism, which usually exists semi-submerged, side by side with “liberal democracy,” and simply moves almost seamlessly to replace it when capitalism is threatened by a serious crisis and pro-worker mobilizations, is now clearly thriving again across many key nations in the so-called “collective West”.

EDITOR—The oligarchs have long eviscerated democracy, says Chris Hedges, and now the masses confront a gloomy choice, to stand up and fight or be smashed by brutal fascism American style.

CHRS HEDGES—President-elect Donald Trump does not herald the advent of fascism. He heralds the collapse of the veneer that masked the corruption within the ruling class and their pretense of democracy. He is the symptom, not the disease. The loss of basic democratic norms began long before Trump, which paved the road to an American totalitarianism. Deindustrialization, deregulation, austerity, unchecked predatory corporations, including the health-care industry, wholesale surveillance of every American, social inequality, an electoral system that is plagued by legalized bribery, endless and futile wars, the largest prison population in the world, but most of all feelings of betrayal, stagnation and despair, are a toxic brew that culminate in an inchoate hatred of the ruling class and the institutions they have deformed to exclusively serve the rich and the powerful. The Democrats are as guilty as the Republicans.