>> guest: fascism, the official title for found a fascism has to go to mussolini who was in his our life one of the most important socialist intellectuals of the 20 century. he was extremely popular as a socialist leader. if he hadn't broken with the congress international, basically what the common term, the vatican of communism at the time, if he hadn't broken it, if he hadn't proved to be a heretic who was disloyal to moscow in effect he probably would've gone down in history as one of the half-dozen, does the most important socialist of the 20th century. but instead of what he does is he comes up with what i recall a hermetic reform of socialism, a national socialism. and becomes the founder of what they call fascism. fascism gets its meaning from the fascia, bundle of sticks that is wrapped around. you can find it all over the place in america in republican architecture and art and all that kind of things. historically, it was a sim of the authority of rome and was also symbolize strength in numbers. strength of unity. in the late 19th century there were bands of what not to recall

>> fascism? >> well, the official title for founder of fascism has to go to benito mussolini who was in his earlier life one of the most important socialist intellectuals of the 20th century. he was extremely popular as a socialist leader. if he hasn't broke with the communis,t international basically what the common term, the vatican of communism at the time. if he hadn't proved to be a heretic who was disloyal to moscow in effect, he probably would have gone down in history as one of the half dozen, dozen socialists, t intellectuals and activists in the 20th century. but instead of what he does is he comes up with a -- what i would call a heretical social reform of socialism and becomes the founder of what they called fascism. and fascism gets its meaning fromdl the bundle of sticks wrapped around ash and you can find itn all around architectur and art and historically it was a symbol of the authority of rome and it was also to symbolize strength in numbers. strength of unity. and in the late 1

of confidence is this questions president slovenia was one of the countries to be consumed both by fascism and communism during world war two you actually stressed the importance of the red army and its role in liberating europe from fascism but as it seems today. you were placed under strachan specially touring the recession what do you think you should do to tackle the rising fascism . i'm not sure whether the extremist movements that we see today fascist movements in the sense of the first of the twentieth century this a different movements what we now all have used them all the burst of dissatisfaction among people in the week she's turned against immigrants in particular so we see. elements of racism elements of chauvinism coagulate bringing being brought together into into a sweet gender based movement of our time and we have seen this in all parts of europe that's very worrying we see this from from south to north even in sweden this kind of policies have made progress in the in the past month we need obviously the conservative christian democrat element which has to be strong and w

human history remarkably there are those who deny and the use of sars important role in defeating fascism in europe that's russia's authorities suggest that introducing criminal liability for those who deny us a saul's of role in the victory the russian public opinion research center asks citizens if they approve of the initiative according to the poll sixty percent of the respondents support they while another twenty five percent are against it with the passage of time today one might think more about the lessons taught by history . lawrence of anger to you now. most of his name was brought up in earlier in the program and a lot of people will say that when we when people are brought to the international criminal court and other courts on an international level that it's really a western powers they they're the ones that put people on trial that they don't like we have the sudanese president they want to put him on trial a lot of people would say that ariel sharon should have been put on trial for events that in lebanon in one thousand nine hundred two my point is that it's very very mix

going to see you know brown shirts and nazis stepping in the streets but we have elements of proto fascism in the unit in american culture today whether you look at the vague nature of the politics of the tea party where you know vagueness political vagueness and a lack of ideological specificity is a trait of extreme right wing politics the cultural back basis of so many americans particularly in the middle of the country and in the south is centered around extreme forms of right wing christian fundamentalism and that religious force is is very nativist racist bigoted zina phobic and anti-feminist anti-gay it's a very it's very narrow minded all of these attributes not to mention the major attribute of being so militaristic is are elements that we saw in traditional fascism in germany and italy where there are civilian rule. that military is this is not worshiped you know we don't have all this rhetoric about the heroes have fallen another fallen hero this is not to say that we should disrespect the military but americans have especially since nine eleven have come to fetish eyes the mili

that we saw in traditional fascism in germany and italy where there's civilian rule the military is to is not worshiped you know we don't have all this rhetoric about the heroes have fallen another fallen hero this is not to say that we should disrespect the military but americans have especially since nine eleven have come to fetish eyes the military now i want to ask you one of the latest articles of yours is called obama was bad from the start realistically which his promises has he kept in the in these last two years has he kept well that's well that's to be a short short answer well he did promise to escalate the war against afghanistan and he has he did try for health care sort of but health care reform turned out to be really creating a system that even worse than what we have now he hasn't kept many promises i mean he promised he would close guantanamo that he would end torture that he would end extraordinary renditions that he would ramp down and pull out of iraq all he did was rename the troops who were in iraq from combat troops to something else assistance force as he is he

editor of proud to be right. >> you write that fascism is a religion of the state.hat do you mean? >> guest: nice to be here. what i mean by that is that it is -- i did much of my thinking from the philosopher who believes that all of the progressive totalitarianisms of the 20th century, progressivism, fascism, socialism, fabianism, go down the list, they are all, in effect, stand-ins for what he called the political religion, this idea that politics should really be religion by other means, in effect. ..

he ignored segregation or rush to assist the victims of fascism or admit them to american shores. he coup cavalier about the protection of civil liberties in wartime, but there's absolutely no ed he was come in the pearl harbor. as in 1933, he was restoring the nation's confidence. under fdr's hands on direction, they were the arsenal of democracy. britain was saved from defeat. soviet yet union was provided the material they required, and by 1943, american armed forces had taken the offensive. roosevelt's wartime diplomacy paveed the way for the axes of powers and an establishment of order based on the rule of law. his relations with churchhill and stalin suggests statesmenship at its finist. on the other hand, his streement of charles was interesting and continues relations, and it would be fair to say that fdr did not fully comprehend the difficulties that would arise with communism or aware of the sea change that was at work in china. the united states was a third-rate military power when the war began. it was the most powerful nation in the world when world war ii ended. roos

protests have shaken london's turn the founder and demonstrate against thousand clients of the fund to fascism and triple teaches in the best part of spending cuts the problem is that the biggest improvement from these cuts right now is to time called the country's massive debt. and the un human rights council accuses america of apiece. prisons racial discrimination in terminal but is has to go on something like tell. me now. find out why the president of the world bank is leading economies to we had talked and modified the global gold standard is that the chinese for a new international reserve currency to overtake the dollar they spend a lot of more in the kind of report after next. year and this is the guys report i'm max foster this is stacy herbert what about the gold.

became the symbol of victory of so few people over fascism. in one thousand nine hundred five of. was an anti-tank gun platoon commander she still keeps him outfit he got before assaulting berlin if the river could do this is a map they gave out before the donkey at them when they were supposed to attack the outskirts of girl in the dawn or back and before that they gave me a map. in late january nine hundred forty five the success of the offensive had gained soviet troops a foot deep in german territory. they had covered nearly five hundred kilometers in twenty days. longer offered any serious resistance. just a stone's throw away from berlin the ultimate objective of the offensive. by measure the distance with a ruler sixty one kilometers to the outskirts of berlin only sixty one kilometers and when the allies bombed the flashes of anti-aircraft shells let the sky like stars. to the plane short. of the advancing soviet troops with almost no ammunition and few. two months to prepare for the assault. meanwhile the germans also took advantage of the delay. yeah reserves around brou

woodrow wilson, communist and fascism and the president. this is typically when you have somebody on the far right or left wingers bringing in the nazi references. what do the fascists and communists have in common? they are both from the progressives. they traced the progressive movement as being the author of all of our ills. he sees woodrow wilson, but came to the progressive movement. to the genocide of the holocaust and continue the line, to barack obama. he has something called the tree of revolution and wilder was -- would rules and is fertilizing the tree of revolution. he is under the trunk and they have sort of given birth to barack obama. they have various branches coming off of the tree. >> host: i want to get to audience questions. before i get to a question, is glen beck dangerous for america? >> i believe he is. i try to be careful whenever i make that accusation because he takes things up to a point and never gets on his show and says now is the time to start shooting people but we have had multiple instances where people fe

if we can take this to extreme, actually call this tech no fascism because the american people, especially the people in the county of san francisco, cannot rebuff or challenge the 1996 telecommunications act which basically has been written by the corporation, for the corporations. they could care less about public health, radiation, microwaving to illuminate us to the health implications. this is happening throughout the city so i put this before you, the commonwealth club will be having a discussion. i appreciate the opportunity to support my friends in bernal heights and other areas. it doesn't matter what difference what company it is, they're going to take on every building, every church, every synagogue, every mosque where they can put up their antenna. christ did not die on a cross. you would think he died on an antenna. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> i'll try to keep out the religious comments, here. i'm working with the appellant on this case. i spent time on bernal heights and i'm familiar with the location. i actually went up there at site and was talking with peop

who missed their victorious shot of vodka about those who died liberating cities and countries from fascism about those who couldn't hear the mighty gail singing in the spring of nine hundred forty five who couldn't watch the line it's full on the tanks will see those who kissed the liberating soldiers. hundreds of songs in many languages have been dedicated to these war heroes they didn't live to see the piece of their memory lives on in. this. big.