The F-Word, CanWest, and Harper: Knowledge Driven Revolution

“Fascism” is the new buzzword being thrown around by Team Bush and parroted by the sycophantic scum-suckers in the right-wing media. Of course, they’re not referring to themselves, but to their Middle Eastern enemies and critics at home.

As Andrew Bosworth wrote in his article “Welcome to Neo-Fascism 101“,

Middle Eastern powers include pan-Arab socialist dictatorships (Syria), monarchies (Saudi Arabia), constitutional theocracies (Iran), and assorted fundamentalist movements. None are “fascist.” For three decades of political scientists, “fascism” is a phenomenon of industrialized societies and exhibits features alien to the Middle East.

And as Keith Olbermann and many others have recently noted, the real fascists are right here at home in the Western World, in charge of our corporations and government. After all, the father of fascism himself, Benito Mussolini, is quoted as saying “fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

An article published today by the Inter Press Service highlights some of the right-wing media’s usage of the word fascism in relation to the US’s Middle Eastern foes. Using Nexis, a database of the American and Canadian press, IPS found that

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.

The article also mentions Canadian coverage, and surprise!, CanWest Global ranks right up there with its American counterparts.

Nexis, which also surveys the Canadian press, found that newspapers owned by CanWest Global Communications, a group that owns the country’s Global Television Network, as well as the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Montreal Gazette and several other regional newspapers, were also among the most consistent propagators of the “fascism” paradigm and ranked far ahead of other Canadian outlets in the frequency with which they used key words, such as “appeasement” and “fascist” in connection with Iraq and Iran.

CanWest, Canada’s largest publisher of daily newspapers, was recently caught lying about Iran, claiming the county was planning “separate dress codes for religious minorities, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, who will have to adopt distinct colour schemes to make them identifiable in public.”

Just like his hero George, Stephen Harper has been alluding to the F-word to whip up support for his foreign wars, claiming that Iran is capable of Nazi-type practices.

As Olbermann said in his commentary the other night,

This country faces a new type of fascism - indeed.

It’s right here at home.

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