Category Archives: Powerful Nationalism

Are national symbols around every corner on the street and all over the media? Is our national flag and or its representation becoming more visible in our daily lives? Are laws being passed to protect national symbols? Do these laws violate the Constitution? What other national symbols have you seen lately and is their appearance more frequent? When will we be required to carry a national ID? When will we be required to wear a national symbol or carry a bible to show our allegiance? How far is too far?

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.
Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

The Ultimate Neocon Noble Lie – The Left is The Far Right

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Andy Hailey

Another Neocon Noble Lie: As discussed throughout this blog, the philosophy of the neocons includes preemptive invasions to stop imaginary holocausts, manufacturing external threats (fear mongering about Iraq(?), North Korea(?), Iran(?) etc.) as needed and noble lies. All this to … Continue reading →

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Bad Deed for 7-4-2008: Confusing the Public About Patriotism

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Jim Vogas

This Independence Day, the right-wing is manipulating public discourse in order to confuse and conflate patriotism with rabid nationalism. This is not a new phenomenon of course. We have seen such careful linguistic choreography before, when past authoritarian ideologues have … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/07/obamas-real-pat.html" target="_blank"> Obama's real patriotism problem </a>
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Bad Deeds for 5-15-2008

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Jim Vogas

  Pentagon Propagandist General Calls for US to Sponsor Terrorism Against Iran – Last month on Fox News, Ret. Gen. Thomas McInerney, one of the Pentagon’s propaganda team of military analysts exposed by David Barstow in the NYT, openly called … Continue reading →

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Single-Party Systems – Common Goals For Authoritarians and Osama bin Laden

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Andy Hailey

The Republican Plan for Permanent Control of U.S. Karl Rove, the Authoritarian’s Architect, has already brought the authoritarian single-party state to Texas. He has also brought the national Republican Party and its authoritarian membership very close to the same goal. … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Audio Report: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/71907ThomHartmannInterviewsPaulCraigRoberts" target="_blank" title="Air America">Audio Interview of Dr. Paul Roberts on The Authoritarian's Architect's recovery plan</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/rams/document.ram" target="_blank" title="BBC Audio on an article published in November 1934 in the New York Times">Planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen</a>
  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=134" target="_blank" title="Did the 2006 election get their attention?">Don’t Let The Authoritarians Distract You - They Still Want a Single-Party State and all it’s trappings</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=90" target="_blank" title="How much more of this abuse can our system of government take?">Unitary Presidency, Dysfunctional Congress and Judicial Petitions - Is It to Late to Stop the Redacting of the Constitution?</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807" target="_blank" title="The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government.">Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/bin-ladens-new-weapon-of_b_153216.html" target="_blank" title="If bin Laden were smart, he'd disband his terrorist cells, and instead buy ad time on radio and TV stations.">Bin Laden's New Weapon of Mass Destruction</a>
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230 Years of Fascination with Liberty – Are We About to Lose Her?

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Andy Hailey

American’s have had a fascination with liberty for over 200 years and many of us have expressed how important it is to our way of life and warned us about protecting it: He that would make his own liberty secure … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article:: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=162" target="_blank" title="The Iraq Study Group Report For a New Approach Is Collecting Dust - But Bush Has His Answer from the Neocons">Bush Lends an Ear to the Neocons</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=143" target="_blank" title="The Right-wing Authoritarians (RWA) Need Leadership - Neocons Are Their Commanders">Neocons Use Evangelicals Who Need Protection of the Neocons</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=166" target="_blank" title="2006 Election - Evangelicals Still Strong Backers of Republican Party">Neocon Troops Still Strong</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=35" target="_blank" title="Corruption Requires Secrets, Secrets Need Protection, and Protection Requires Collusion and a Hobbled Media">Neocons are protecting us with secrets</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.world-peace-society.net/WPS/editorials/exposingtheneoconagenda.htm" target="_blank" title="Exposing the Neoconservative Agenda">Strauss philosophy - the foundation of the Neoconservative movement</a>
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The WAWG Index

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Andy Hailey

This index attempts to ‘measure’ the extent to which the list of 14 characteristics monitored by this blog apply to the United States over time.   The index will be determined monthly as a percent change from the previous month. … Continue reading →

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