ADDED 07/13/2018
FROM | The News Minute
BY Hamid Ansari
Former Vice President M. Hamid Ansari has said that India is feared to be turned into an illiberal, majoritarian democracy where religious minorities would not be equal citizens but “on sufferance” and underlined that democratic institutions have been “eroded very seriously” in the country. “The basic concept that I have used is what is a […]
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ADDED 07/11/2018
FROM 07/11/2018 | Letters and Politics - KPFA
BY Mitch Jeserich
Today, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Thomas Frank on US History and Politics. Guest: Thomas Frank is a historian and columnist and the author of such books as What’s the Matter with Kansas and Listen Liberal. His latest book is a collection of essays called Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society.
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ADDED 07/10/2018
FROM | TruthDig
BY Chris Hedges
Our “corporate coup d’état in slow motion,” as the writer John Ralston Saul calls it, has opened a Pandora’s box of evils that is transforming America into a failed state. The “unholy trinity of corruption, impunity and violence,” he said, can no longer be checked. The ruling elites abjectly serve corporate power to exploit and impoverish the […]
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ADDED 07/09/2018
FROM 07/08/2018 | Brasil Wire
BY Brian Mier
Today, on July 8th, 2018, Brazil’s 4th Regional Federal Court Chief Judge Rogerio Favreto ordered ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s immediate release from prison, ruling on a motion filed by Workers’ Party Congressmen Paulo Pimenta and Wadir Damous Filho. Judge Sergio Moro, a lower court judge and hero to the Brazilian far right who has been working […]
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ADDED 07/07/2018
FROM 07/06/2018 | Niddei Asian Review
BY ATSUSHI TOMIYAMA
HANOI — A crowded field of 20 political parties will compete in Cambodia’s general election later this month, but Prime Minister Hun Sen is on course to retain his grip on power after eliminating the one that posed a real threat to his three-decade rule. Most Cambodians have watched in silence as the authoritarian government has […]
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ADDED 07/07/2018
FROM 07/06/2018 | The Conversation
BY Brian Porter-Szücs
Since the elections of 2015, Poland has been ruled by the Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or PiS), a far-right nationalist group that has transformed the country beyond recognition. Poland had once been lauded as the great post-communist success story, with solid democratic institutions and a booming economy. Now, under PiS rule, Poland is steadily […]
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ADDED 07/06/2018
FROM 07/06/2018 | Boston Globe
BY Rachelle Krygier and Anthony Faiola
CARACAS — By running stories of official brutality and corruption, this nation’s largest independent newspaper — El Nacional — threatened Venezuela’s mighty and defended its meek. Now the paper has found itself covering perhaps its most crucial story — its own fight to stay alive. A judicial case against the 75-year-old outlet — lodged by […]
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FROM 07/01/2018 | The New Yorker
BY Sarah Stillman
Sarah Stillman reports on people who fled their home countries fearing for their lives, and the tragic consequences when they were sent back.
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FROM 06/27/2018 | BarakalypseNow
BY Barak Bullock
If you’ve ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the series for you. Neoliberalism is an economic ideology that exists within the framework of capitalism. Over four decades ago, neoliberalism become the dominant economic paradigm of global society. In this video series, we’ll trace the history of neoliberalism, starting with a survey of […]
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ADDED 06/26/2018
FROM 06/26/2018 | Peacock Panache
BY Tim Peacock
As pundits and conservatives scold the left and those happy that White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was refused service for her personal participation in the Trump administration and their ongoing morally bankrupt actions, the concepts of tone policing and “civility” become critical. Anyone calling for “civility” from those expressing outrage over the nation’s […]
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ADDED 06/23/2018
FROM 06/21/2018 | Think Progress
BY Casey Michel
As Donald Trump basked in his presidential election victory in 2016, white supremacist Richard Spencer unleashed a round of Nazi-inspired praise for Trump’s victory — sentiments echoed by Alexander Dugin, a Russian neo-fascist whose writings reached a broader English-speaking audience thanks to Spencer and his wife, Nina Kouprianova. These three, writes University of Toronto political science professor Ronald Beiner, […]
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ADDED 06/23/2018
FROM 06/21/2018 | Red Flag
BY BEN HILLIER, DANIEL TAYLOR
Far right politics is making a comeback. And with it comes political anti-Semitism. In the English-speaking world, quasi-fascist “alt-right” milieus increasingly consider the “JQ” (“Jewish question”) an important component of their political war against immigration, liberalism, socialism and “Islamisation”. In Europe, the far right attempts to deflect economic and social anxieties into hatred towards immigrants, […]
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