I'm sure that many of you are aware of the brilliant investigative journalism of Larisa Alexandrovna, (bio) the Managing Investigative News Editor of The Raw Story. She has covered an extensive amount of "below-the-radar" crimes of the Bush Administration, the persecution of Don Siegelman, and the build-up of war against Iran, among many other subjects. A list of her major articles and stories is here.
Tonight she reacted with understandable outrage over the speech George Bush gave to the Knesset today in Israel, and she exposed Bush's Nazi connections.
Plenty of us are aware of the fact that George's grandfather and former Senator, Prescott Bush, had business dealings with the Nazis, but many may not be aware that Prescott Bush was involved in an attempted coup against President Roosevelt in 1933 in an attempt to bring Fascism to this country. Larisa exposes this, as well as Bush's Anti-Semitism, in a brilliant -- and scathing -- open letter to the President.
When I listened to Bush today, I was revolted to hear the Knesset applaud his attack on Barack Obama, and I remembered that if anyone has ties to the Hitler regime in this country, it would be the person addressing them on the 60th anniversary of their own country's existence.
Larisa nails it completely when she writes:
The All-American Nazi
Your family's fortune is built on the bones of the very people butchered by the Nazis, my family and the families of those in the Knesset who applauded you today:
WASHINGTON -- President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show.
Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp. (search), a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Fritz Thyssen was an early financial supporter of Hitler, whose Nazi party Thyssen believed was preferable to communism.
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Both Harrimans and Bush were partners in the New York investment firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co., which handled the financial transactions of the bank as well as other financial dealings with several other companies linked to Bank voor Handel that were confiscated by the U.S. government during World War II.
Union Banking was seized by the government in October 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
You can read the rest here . I think it would be good to let her know that we have her back. We also need to ask Keith to please have her on his show both to get more exposure to these aspects of the Bush family's connections to the Nazi regime, and to offer her more protection by having more exposure. So Keith, if you see this, please read her letter to Bush, and have her on your show.
Thank You, Larisa for being such a great example of what an investigative journalist SHOULD be. If only all of our reporters were as brave as you.
UPDATE: Some people have questioned whether there really was a planned coup or not, and LNK (thanks LNK!) below provided some more links.
But really, all you need to do is google it yourself. :)