ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 04/17/2018 | NACLA.org
BY J. Patrice McSherry
How Sebastián Piñera’s right-wing government is undermining democratic institutions Sebastián Piñera, a conservative billionaire, assumed the presidency of Chile for the second time on March 11 after an election in which abstention was the biggest winner. In only a few weeks he and right-wing allies engineered changes to key reforms enacted by previous socialist president […]
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ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 03/05/2018 | Punjab Today
BY Kamjaat Singh
AT A TIME when Punjab is in the throes of a massive social upheaval and there is a complete disconnect between its farmers, farm labourers and those dependent on rural economy and others in towns and cities who are more cued into structures of political power, one would have thought that vast swathes of political […]
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ADDED 04/27/2018
FROM 04/27//2018 | The Guardian
BY Jon Swaine
The number of eviction orders obtained against tenants in a Georgia apartment complex owned by Sean Hannity has sharply increased since the property was bought by the Fox News host. County court records say that judgments approving the removal of 61 different residents of the Hampton Place apartments in Perry have been issued during the three years […]
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ADDED 04/12/2018
FROM 04/12/2018 | Brasilwire
BY Saad Filho
“It is scandalous to have the US government guiding policy and the judicial prosecution of Lula. It is scandalous to have the judicial process turned into a spectacle for TV. It is scandalous to invite the military back into politics.” Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was the most influential trade union leader in Brazil in […]
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ADDED 04/10/2018
FROM 04/10/2018 | THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA
BY David Sheen
The fortunes of the African refugee community targeted by the Israeli government for deportation have swung wildly in recent days. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first announced a United Nations-backed deal to resettle some of them in the West, but then quickly retracted the plan after right-wing Israelis complained that the deal was too generous to […]
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ADDED 04/06/2018
FROM 04/05/2018 | Salon
BY Chauncey Devega
Scholar Andrew Whitehead: Right-wing evangelicals think Trump can make “their vision of a Christian nation” real y the standards of any of the world’s major religions Donald Trump is an ungodly person, an enthusiastic and unrepentant sinner who revels in his misdeeds. Trump is a serial liar and apparent narcissist. He is a greedy, crude […]
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ADDED 04/06/2018
FROM 04/04/2018 | Salon
BY Chauncey Devega
Conservatives see the Parkland students as disrespectful and dangerous — and those feelings stem from primal fears The health of a society is measured in large part by how it treats its children. Republicans and other members of the right wing have reacted with a wide range of emotions to the survivors of the Parkland […]
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ADDED 04/03/2018
FROM 03/28/2018 | Letters and Politics - KPFA
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In Political Tribes, Chua argues that humans are tribal and that we need to belong to groups. In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter most – the ones that people will kill and die for – are ethnic, religious, sectarian, or clan-based. [responsivevoice_button] But because America tends to see the world […]
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ADDED 03/29/2018
FROM 03/28/2018 | Letters and Politics - KPFA
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Today we are in conversation with professor Christian Fuchs to examine the right-wing authoritarian use of social media and the capitalist models that allow growing such issues as the one concerning Cambridge Analitica. Christian Fuchs is a professor of social media at the University of Westminster, Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies & Communication and Media Research Institute, United Kingdom. […]
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ADDED 03/28/2018
FROM 03/26/2018 | Pacific Standard
BY Tom Jacobs
Can It Happen Here?, a new collection of essays that ask whether America is susceptible to creeping authoritarianism, includes a startling assertion by psychologists Karen Stenner and Jonathan Haidt. “Western liberal democracies,” they write, “have now exceeded many people’s capacity to tolerate them.” Their analysis of a survey conducted at the end of 2016 found “about a third of white responders across […]
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ADDED 03/28/2018
FROM 03/28/2018 | Slate
BY Slate
Anand Giridharadas on why many rich people do harm—even when they think they’re doing good. Yascha Mounk discusses the limits of philanthropy, how the hopey-changey narrative of the affluent cloaks the power they exercise, and how they can do better with author of the forthcoming book Winners Take All and former New York Times and current NBC […]
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ADDED 03/23/2018
FROM 03/22/2018 | American Prospect
BY Paul Starr
This article will appear in the Spring 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. “It is now clear that the most frightening threats to ordinary politics in the United States are empty or easily contained. … The sky is not falling and no lights are flashing red.” So wrote two distinguished historians, Samuel Moyn and David Priestland, in […]
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