ADDED 10/18/2018
FROM 10/18/2018 | BrasilWire
BY BrasilWire
A fifty year foreign battle to combat Catholic Liberation Theology in Brazil promises rich rewards for the vested interests which initiated it, at great human cost. “Brazil is at the vanguard of the global trend of the Pentecostalization of Christianity,” as well as “the epicenter of world Christianity, with the largest Pentecostal population” says Andrew […]
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FROM 10/18/2018 | Salon
BY Chauncey Devega
History can teach us many lessons about Donald Trump and his rise to power. As shown by his deeds, words and policies, Trump is an authoritarian and a demagogue who has, so far, been restrained by America’s weakened democratic institutions and norms. Trump has repeatedly shown contempt for America’s cosmopolitan, pluralistic multiracial democracy. He and […]
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ADDED 10/18/2018
FROM 10/18/2018 | Truthout
BY EMILY MOLLI
Shaky video footage of screaming “alt-right” members has become so familiar at this point that journalist Sandi Bachom’s video footage of a group of Proud Boys’ violent assault in New York City last week might easily have been ignored as it surfaced. Instead, it has gone viral in what has become another flashpoint in recent white […]
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ADDED 10/17/2018
FROM 10/17/2018 | Asia Times
BY SAWATHEY EK
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has been met recently with a wave of protests by Cambodia’s diaspora communities living abroad, urging the international community to condemn his government as fake and illegal. These relentless and coordinated protests, starting from Australia, the US, South Korea and Japan, followed the July national election that the US government […]
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ADDED 10/16/2018
FROM 10/12/2018 | The London Free Press
BY STUART DERDEYN
Fighting Nazis is the right thing to do. At least, that was the perceived and often-broadcast consensus across the Western World following the Second World War. Or was it? In this informative and fascinating graphic novel history of fascism and those who fought it, Kwakwaka’wakw writer, artist and activist author Gord Hill (The 500 Years […]
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ADDED 10/16/2018
FROM 10/16/2018 | Pacific Standard
BY Noah Berlatzky
Is it really wrong to have ties to a community based in a shared vision of God, justice, and hope, rather than in land and blood? As a child, I was expected to donate 20 cents to Hebrew school every week. The money, we knew, didn’t go to charity in our community, or to our […]
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ADDED 10/15/2018
FROM 10/15/2018 | KPFA
BY Mitch Jeserich
A conversation with Matthew D. Hockenos about the controversial German pastor Martin Niemöller’s evolution from a Nazi supporter to a determined opponent of Hitler. Niemöller is well remembered for his quotation: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and […]
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ADDED 10/15/2018
FROM 10/15/2018 | BuzzFeed
BY Julia Reinstein, Stephanie K. Baer
The far-right men’s organization “Proud Boys” violently beat two or three apparent protesters Friday night following a Republican event in Manhattan. About 30 members of the group — who describe themselves as “Western chauvinists” and have frequently aligned themselves with avowed neo-Nazis — participated in the beating, some screaming threats and slurs at the individuals, […]
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ADDED 10/15/2018
FROM 10/15/2018 | Broadly
BY Bex Wade
When a right-wing group decided to march through London, the Feminist Anti-Fascism Assembly were there to hold them back. When a British far-right group announced its plans to march in London on Saturday, women on the left knew they had to push back. Enter: Feminist Anti-Fascism Assembly (FAF), a new feminist antifascist bloc made up of […]
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FROM 10/15/2018 | New York Times
BY Jason Stanley
When fascism starts to feel normal, we’re all in trouble. While calling President Trump a fascist may seem like an exaggeration, it might not be that far from the truth. Should we be worried? Jason Stanley has spent the past decade studying fascism, from Mussolini to Duterte. In this video op-ed, he argues that yes, […]
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ADDED 10/14/2018
FROM 10/14/2018 | Newsweek
BY Tim Marcin
Iowa’s largest and most influential newspaper, The Des Moines Register, slammed Representative Steve King (Republican – Iowa) in a scathing editorial that went also after the GOP as a whole. The Register‘s editorial board on Saturday endorsed voting for Democrats down the line, arguing that Republicans had failed to get anything good done despite controlling both chambers […]
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ADDED 10/12/2018
FROM 10/12/2018 | Dissident Voice
BY James Petras
The decisive electoral victory of far-right Brazilian presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro startled politicians and analysts of the traditional parties of the left and right. The possible implications for the present and near future raises a number of fundamental questions whether it represents a ‘model’ for other countries or is the result of the specific circumstances […]
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