Fascism Watch — Thom Hartmann: National Security Should Never Be a For-Profit Industry

The privatized national security apparatus isn’t just wasteful—it’s contrary to the founding principles of our democratic republic.

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National Security Should Never Be a For-Profit Industry
Thom Hartmann

The corporate state, aka the market state, aka national security state,aka the surveillance state, the police state, aka fascism, on the march. Mussolini would love it.

First, we had a central bank controlled by the financial industry in the the US sitting on top of a command economy, then a Treasury secretary chosen from the ranks of Wall Street, then a contractor-based military, then a militarized domestic security force directed by a cabinet department, and then a privately-operated surveillance force that has continued the supposedly discontinued Total Information Awareness program run by Iran-Contra figure Admiral Poindexter.

Hope you have either already left or have an escape hatch.

Tom Kington — Il Duce is back: New reverence for fascist dictator Benito Mussolini spreads across Italy

Every year, around this time, Mussolini calendars appear in newspaper kiosks up and down Italy, offering a year’s supply of photos of the fascist leader.

They are often tucked away with the specialist magazines, but according to the manager of one firm that prints them, they are much in demand.

“We are selling more than we did 10 years ago,” said Renato Circi, the head of Rome printer Gamma 3000. “I didn’t think it was still a phenomenon, but young people are now buying them too.”...

Among his adherents today are the masked, neo-fascist youths who mounted raids on Rome schools this autumn to protest against education cuts, lobbing smoke bombs in corridors and yelling “Viva Il Duce”.

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Il Duce is back: New reverence for fascist dictator Benito Mussolini spreads across Italy
Tom Kington | The Guardian