US Republican in SS uniform

Rich Iott in SS uniform

11 October 2010.

An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one: Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio’s 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments.

See also here. And The Waffen SS in Ohio, here. And here.

House candidate who dressed as Nazi faces new accusations: here.

Slavoj Zizek on far-right politics in Europe, the Tea Party, and “Living in the End Times”: here.

Slavoj Zizek on the collapse of society & the failure of capitalism: here.

The Tea Parties: Deluded and Propelled by Billionaires: here.

Whether anti-Muslim crusaders are warning America or spreading hate, they make millions of dollars in the process: here.

18 December 2011, Britain: Aidan Burley, a Conservative MP who attended a stag party where guests dressed as Nazis, has been sacked as a Commons aide for ”offensive” behaviour and placed under investigation by David Cameron: here.