The Fourth Reich is a product of the Third

Not exactly a new one, coming as it does from back in 2003, but this article from the always-excellent Counterpunch gives some background and insight into some of the connections between key figures in today's GOP and Germany's Nazi regime of 1933-45.

Don't say us lefties didn't warn you. Now if we could find the goods on a Tony Blair - Benito Mussolini connection (well, aside from the philosophical ones on authoritarianism and the corporate state), the circle would well and truly be complete.