Tag Archives: fascism

Fascism and America’s Ruling Elites – from the Archives

Posted on January 4, 2023 by toritto

Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle Awarded to Henry Ford by Adolph Hitler – 1938 So it’s the 1930s and Hitler and Mussolini, not to mention Franco have established nazism / fascism in Europe. Hitler has already … Continue reading →

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Dancing to Perfidia – Poem #15 – From the Archives

Posted on June 14, 2020 by toritto

The Hotel Torino – Massawa, Eritrea built by the Fascists when Eritrea was an Italian colony.  In 1960s it had a roof top bar; 20 year old Toritto  misspent a portion of his youth in Eritrea and had many a drink … Continue reading →

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Dancing to Perfidia

Posted on February 18, 2017 by toritto

The Hotel Torino – Massawa, Eritrea built by the Fascists when Eritrea was an Italian colony.  In 1960s it had a roof top bar; 20 year old Toritto  misspent a portion of his youth in Eritrea and had many a drink … Continue reading →

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Armed Resistance to Fascism – 1922

Posted on February 15, 2017 by toritto

Guido Picelli – Leader of the Resistance The workers of Parma were socialists to the core; among them a sprinkling of anarchists, syndacalists, communists and the left wing Catholic Workers Party. In 1922 Fascism was delivering the counter-revolution, after two … Continue reading →

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Former Israeli PM Says Country “Infected by the Seeds of Fascism”

Posted on May 23, 2016 by toritto

The quote below is from an article in Salon dated May 21 by writer Ben Norton “Israel’s ex-prime minister has warned that his country is “infected by the seeds of fascism.” Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister and defense … Continue reading →

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Pick a Color

Posted on March 18, 2016 by toritto

There has been a lot in the press about Tramp and the increasing violence of his followers. There  is little doubt the Donald, with his rabble rousing, nativist xenophobia inspires it while at the same time refusing to condemn it.  After all, … Continue reading →

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Laughing at Mussolini

Posted on February 19, 2016 by toritto

 A Re-Post from 2014    A young Benito Mussolini It’s easy to laugh at Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini today. We see him in those old black and whites. Kind of fat. Bald. Overly dramatic and theatrical.  Silly. Chin thrust out. … Continue reading →

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An Italian City in Africa

Posted on January 26, 2016 by toritto

There is a dreamscape city in Africa. A time warp city where you walk in 1930’s Italy, where the buildings are in the “modernist” future style befitting the capital of the new Fascist Italian Empire in Africa. It is still there … Continue reading →

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Fascism and America’s Ruling Elites

Posted on January 25, 2016 by toritto

  A Repost Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle Awarded to Henry Ford by Adolph Hitler – 1938 So it’s the 1930s and Hitler and Mussolini, not to mention Franco have established nazism / fascism in Europe. Hitler … Continue reading →

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The Jewish Fascist

Posted on October 24, 2015 by toritto

  Ettore Ovazza and Benito Mussolini Ettore Ovazza was one of three brothers born into a wealthy and influential  family in Turin. The Ovazza were one of Italy’s leading banking families with all the privilege and power that comes with … Continue reading →

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