leadership together with belligerent nationalism in one nine hundred thirty eight italy's benito mussolini brought fascism to the world fact he invented the phrase by dissolving parliament the italian parliament and replacing it with a committee to see the ele sione for your great tell you the chamber in english the chamber of the fascist corporations it was a system of government in which the corporate leaders from all across italy were chosen to represent their communities in the government it was not a government to paraphrase lincoln of by and for we the people instead it was a government of by and for the most powerful corporate interests in the nation that's fascism what was going on in italy at the time so freaked out franklin roosevelt's vice president and he was the vice president wallace wrote an article in the new york times in one nine hundred forty four warning that fascism could one day come to america wallace wrote if we define an american fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human bein's and there are undoubtedly several million fascists in t

mussolini demonstrated for his friends how easy it was. germany invaded poland, george marshall, then a brigadier general, made the extraordinary jump from one to four stars to become the army chief of staff. for secretary of war stimpson, the task of mobilization lay ahead. the resources of a mighty nation had to be tapped to produce the props for the great drama about to unfold. marshall had waited in the wings for 20 years for the role he was about to play. the country's manpower resources, the great citizen army in which marshall believed so deeply, had to be activated, trained and equipped to fight if necessary. and with each passing month in 1940 and '41, it appeared increasingly probable that the united states would be drawn into the war. the army numbered less than 200,000 men when marshall took over as chief of staff. it would swell to more than 8 million before the axis defeat. the accumulated experience from the early days in the philippines, continuing in the meuse-argonne and tinseng, china, from ft. benning to the national gu

working-class people a hard time from employers to form intimate to world figures like many the mussolinid adolf hitler. and because he owned his own company as he was both producer, here, right here, start, composer for the score and eventually distribute or come he could do anything he wanted to do. no studio hatchet on what he could or couldn't do. so he put his politics directly on the screen. by the 1930s he began to get much more overtly political and by the 1940s when he made the great tater, which was the first really the first american feature film other than confession of the spy which came out a year earlier to really deal with during mussolini and fascism. >> umax calls into a discussion about the political impacts of hollywood on our society. our guys, stephen ross making the case that hollywood is not really solve the criticism we hear in fact have influence on the right as well. before you move into called come ec at the end we were actually at the dawn of a new age because of social media and also because the video. hollywood and movies have such a central role in communic

he described his grandpa coming from mussolini's italy to something that resembled futilism. and then he went along and said barack obama and the democrats want to destroy the freedom of this great american system that created this wealth and prosperity to my family. i was the only person who noticed this. i don't want to toot my own horn, but a historical claim was made. it exposed a profound fallacy at the heart of what rick santorum was saying about freedom and liberty. ideally a democratic politician would point this out. when you have things like debt slavery and things like the inability to move without getting jailed because you owe your soul to the company store, that the government can step in and actually establish liberty. and that untethered property often violates liberty. no democrat did it, no journalist did it. so we have a crisis of historical representation. >> jackson. >> i think that's an excellent example and i want to rise to a slightly more aerial view here on the question of journalist versus historians and the accounts they give of the past and the pr

. >>> in 1945, mussolini was executed, when defeat was certain, he tried to flee to switzerland, he was caught and shot trying to cross the border. >>> thanks for starting your morning with us, we have much more ahead on cnn saturday morning which starts right now. from cnn center, this is cnn saturday morning. >>> ahead this hour, police say he murdered his wife and daughter, then tried to burn down his house, but that didn't work. now, a seattle swat team is staking out this underground bunker where police think the suspect is hiding out. >> this isn't a hole in the ground, this is a large built-up structure but hidden. took time to find it. >>> also ahead the future of our food, wait until you see how some americans are shaking up their eating habits in a big way. are you on the bandwagon yet? >>> on a mission for money, the newest frontier in mining one of the most precious and pricey metals on earth. >>> good morning everyone i'm randi kaye, 7:00 on the east coast, 4:00 on the west. a lot to tell you about, let's get to it. >>> start with the standoff near seattle, a man accused of

it had stared us in the face with mussolini and ethiopia.iopia's emperor made his protest to the league of nations. but nothing was done. we'd also seen the auschwitz in austria and nothing was done. then in 1950, aggression was again unleashed. this time across the 38th parallel in korea. free men had begun to learn the lesson and something was done. the lesson had been learned, and president johnson had phrased its meaning well.

arabia where there is no democracy and when that happens the saudi regime will end up like benito mussolini in a driveway upside down from a book ok well let's look at where we are in bahrain at the moment people are still on the streets despite the country's leaders saying played into the broad major reforms they don't seem to be going down very well these reforms what scale of these reforms being the. well certainly not the scale of the united syria where you had more people show up for referendum under gunfire who showed up in the two thousand and eight us presidential election and eighty nine percent of them validated the new constitution that was offered by your side as before you go see any referendum taking place in bahrain at all. activists and journalists who are activists and journalists for your thoughts there on the line from new york much appreciated thank you. coming up on this program the britons risking everything on the roll of the dice we look at how the u.k.'s gambling industry is becoming russian roulette for countless addicts unable to fight the lure of easy money. and

slippery slope away from joe stall on a slippery slope to extreme rightism and you are over there with mussolini >> people don't do that. and if they do do that, there would be an uproar for asking people -- if hillary said something like that, that mitt romney is a fascist, then she would be in hotter water. but you're right about the slippery slope idea. because mitt romney doesn't talk this way. but what does he say? he says barack obama doesn't understand america. he apologizes for america. he doesn't really believe in america. >> he is not the home team. >> not the home team. >> don't think that this is going away between now and november. >> no. >> i think on the -- on the road to a very rough campaign. i'm not saying that democrats are above doing some rough stuff. but along the road to november, we will hear this alienation number on obama. maybe that he is not a birther -- >> we have been hearing it for four years. we will hear it intensify until november. >> he is a secret muslim. he wasn't born here and he doesn't get america. he is not one of us. even after being president for four y

i was in high school, and we learned there were three villains in the 20th century, hitler, mussolini and senator mccarthy. stalin, no. the chinese guy, jolly. but mccarthy -- then i group and read about mccarthy and then i heard he was a guy who liked to have a few drinks and call each other communist. it sounds like my dad. >> it is everybody's grandfather. the problem is he created the anti-communist. you can now go after anti-communists because they are lined with mccarthys. sandra, always a pleasure to see you. did wes make a joke, but a joke too close to home? >> yes, i do. and i would never defend his use of calling this particular person a communist. what i would defend is his for lack of a better word, for a situation that is anti-business, anti-free market and anti-lefty strong prosper and be proud of it, there is that current environment right now and there is not a word for that. he used a wrong word, but i am trying to defend him in some way . >> i think what west is getting at ironically his name is west because he was commenting on an attack on the west, on western valu

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and the first to raise alarms about hitler and mussolini which i didn't know about. it was one last mark in his favor on the score sheet you keep as a biographer. basically clarence darrow started out giving a speeches on manifest destiny when he was 20 years old and made this long progression to a deeply cynical viewpoint against the robber barons in the 1890s but by the turn of the century was big government using classic libertarian when he finally settled into an identifiable ideology. he basically -- i call him jefferson's air. he thought american liberty had been destroyed by the industrial age and with the coming of massive government power to the state, prohibition and the death penalty in the early 20th century we were questioning -- the phrase he used was liberty had given us these blessings and prosperity was now strangling liberty in its cradle. >> it occurs to me what is a line in all three books we're talking about immediately, there is the presence of communism, socialism, if you will, and certainly in clarence darrow's life, i am wondering how that fi

i have never really seen him as the mussolini tight. casual comparison. because when we read the facts of history and to find somebody written like, no, decide that. and to be quite honest with you my fear is the american republic today, run very deep. it runs deep because you know, they didn't -- they never figured out that their leaders in italy or bad. they rose up against them. it was quite clear. your american confidence today, with this massive flow of money from very wealthy people in to our electoral process, we will have much more dangerous. we have decided democracy where we believe in our republic remains. yet so much money flowing in, our elections in a political processes can be worked to favor the interests of an elite 1% rather than a great amount of americans. that scares the window me. one of the things that i've read about in this book is the argument that the way, i don't believe that it is possible to counter the money that the koch brothers and other wealthy people by amassing some sort of liberal super pak, some aggressive super pac.

mussolini used to be respected 1934. fast forward 2001. if he repeated that 100 times you cannot blow up the world trade center with one guy. you go to 100 smedley butler. we have a fictitious oligarch bleak -- oligopoly. who would not run? they run somewhere. or open the twitter account to keep this under wraps is preposterous which is why i am skeptical. why does this matter? why did you write a book? let the people have their fun. i now think it is just internet stuff. i think at democracy is ungovernable. not just opinions. but in the alternative world by the board in kenya a muslim look been to put to sharia on the united states or 9/11 was an inside job, it is impossible to have consensus. how could we have a consensus or argument about obamacare of people think he is a secret agent? this is about the political future of america so they can agree on the events in american history. with that i conclude by presentation. thank you. [applause] >> webster tarpley will speak with the video presentation that is what we're not sitting on the

don't know who she was trying to insult calling people latter day fascists -- >> probably the muse mussolinilimbaugh attacks a private citizen for testifying as a prostitute and a slut and then they have to go one time on a stage somewhere bill mar said this. >> and you realize every person on fox news defended rush limbaugh. >> yeah. it's always the constant equivalent, so and so said this and a commoner on daily coast said this. an anchor on fox news is the equivalent of someone anonymously posting on a blog. >> right. and bill marr not a democrat. >> obama has lost them. the old reagan blue collar reagan democrats, not going to worry about them. it is obvious this obama campaign is aimed at the welfare state and what we are affection nately calling the stupid. >> you heard them white people, obama doesn't all y'alls anymore. >> what does he mean by the welfare state? >> yeah. who subtle. >> if anybody wants to know why he sees race in everything, they should ask him. >> exactly. karl frisch delightful week two on the big tv show. >> have a good one. >> all right honey talk to you soon. >>