ADDED 09/14/2018
FROM 09/13/2018 | The Guardian
BY Yanis Varoufakis
Our era will be remembered for the triumphant march of a globally unifying rightwing – a Nationalist International – that sprang out of the cesspool of financialised capitalism. Whether it will also be remembered for a successful humanist challenge to this menace depends on the willingness of progressives in the United States, the European Union, […]
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ADDED 09/13/2018
FROM 09/13/2018 | Vox
BY Zach Beauchamp
The Hungary-Serbia border runs through a wilderness, tall grass flatlands ringed by imposing clusters of trees and thickets. When I visited a stretch of the Serbian side on a sunny day in June, the landscape would have been lovely — had it not been for the gigantic barbed-wire fence running straight through the middle of […]
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ADDED 09/12/2018
FROM 09/12/2018 | Gulf News
BY Fawaz Turki
The cruelty took place in the distant past. Tour the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American history in Washington (this columnist’s hometown for the last 45 years) and there you will stumble upon a slave narrative from 1848 that is part of the Weeping Time exhibit, documenting the tragic history of enslaved children being separated from their enslaved […]
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ADDED 09/12/2018
FROM 09/12/2018 | Noisey
BY Jonathan Rimmer |
It’s a typically grey Saturday evening in Glasgow’s south side, where punters are beginning to drift towards the many local boozers. McNeill’s sports bar, with its shabby exterior and tinted windows, would ordinarily look like the most unremarkable of all, but for the incongruous banner pinned to the top of the stairs – black and […]
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ADDED 09/12/2018
FROM 09/12/2018 | South China Morning Post
BY Rohit Chopra
The recent World Hindu Congress in Chicago, an attempt to endow the intolerant majoritarian philosophy of Hindutva with international legitimacy, couldn’t have chosen a better time to bring the party to the US. Socialism, the saying goes, subjects art to politics, while fascism is guilty of the opposite. The goal of the extreme aestheticisation of […]
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ADDED 09/11/2018
FROM 09/11/2018 | New York Times
BY Patrick Kingsley
BRUSSELS — As Prime Minister Viktor Orban steadily established an “illiberal state” in Hungary, dismantling the country’s checks and balances, stacking its constitutional court with loyalists and creating a template for other far-right leaders, a powerful group of European politicians took note. And said little. Mr. Orban is now seen as a threat to Europe’s mainstream leadership, […]
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ADDED 09/11/2018
FROM 09/11/2018 | The Guardian
BY Karim Zidan
Far-right groups across Europe and North America are using mixed martial arts to swell their numbers, spread their ideology and fight their enemies. “You will not replace us.” This was one of the slogans chanted during a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on the night of 11 August 2017. Approximately 100 young white men – most of […]
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FROM 09/05/2018 | Rising Up with Sonali
BY Sonali Kolhatkar
Pulitzer prize winning reporter and veteran foreign correspondent Chris Hedges has just released his newest book America, the Farewell Tour. Hedges is the author of numerous best-selling books including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Empire of Illusion, Death of the Liberal Class, and Days of Destruction Days of Revolt which he co-wrote […]
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ADDED 09/07/2018
FROM 08/24/2018 | Boston Review
BY ERROL MORRIS, DEBORAH CHASMAN
Errol Morris’s career as an Oscar-winning documentarian has been shaped by his fascination with crime, from the false murder conviction at the center of The Thin Blue Line (1988) to the war crimes of Robert S. McNamara (The Fog of War, 2003) and Donald Rumsfeld (The Unknown Known, 2013). His new film, American Dharma, profiles Donald Trump’s former […]
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ADDED 09/06/2018
FROM | Hollywood Reporter
BY Gregg Kilday
He’s America’s most successful documentarian and one of the few on the left who predicted the 2016 election upset. Now, as Moore readies his anticipated polemic ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ for its Toronto film festival debut, he takes aim at Trump (and Nancy Pelosi … and Harvey Weinstein …) and those actually responsible for the president’s rapid […]
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ADDED 09/06/2018
FROM 09/05/2018 | Truthout
BY Henry Giroux
Donald Trump’s increasingly dangerous, incendiary attacks on the media, his willingness to separate children from their parents at the southern border, his efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized citizens and deport US citizens on the groundless claim that they have fraudulent birth certificates, and his relentless attempts to pressure Attorney General Jeff Sessions and others to obstruct the rule of […]
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FROM 09/06/2018 | EuroNews
BY John Paul Ging
An estimated ten thousand people turned out in Hamburg for an anti-fascist rally last night. The gathering was to counter a Far Right demonstration in the city – which was overwhelmingly outnumbered. One anti-fascist protester, Dr. Martin Buchwald said: “Fascism is getting a grip on this country and the civil society needs to act now […]
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