ADDED 11/30/2018
FROM 11/28/2018 | Atlanta Daily News
BY Dr. Lenore Daniels
He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves” perhaps the day would come when, […]
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ADDED 11/26/2018
FROM | BuzzFeed
BY Ryan Broderick
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — From the balcony of BuzzFeed’s São Paulo office right now, you can hear screams of “Ele Não” echoing through the city’s winding avenues. It’s the same phrase I’ve seen graffitied all over the city this month. The same one I heard chanted from restaurants and bars all afternoon. It means “not […]
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ADDED 11/26/2018
FROM 11/04/2018 | The Guardian
BY Rebecca Solnit
His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run. In the 158th year of the American civil war, also known as 2018, the Confederacy continues its recent resurgence. Its victims include black people, of course, but also immigrants, Jews, Muslims, Latinos, trans people, gay […]
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ADDED 11/18/2018
FROM 11/14/2018 | Truthout
BY Kelly Hayes & Maya Schenwar
“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act.” — George Jackson Twenty-two months into the Trump administration, the United States is a country […]
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FROM 11/06/2018 | Truthdig
BY Jeffrey Bowers
What does United States of America stand for nowadays if political division is at an all time high? Is it still the land of the free if America has the highest rate of incarceration in the world? Are we still the home of the brave if we refuse to stand up to injustice, because it […]
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ADDED 11/13/2018
FROM 11/12/2018 | City Journal
BY Andy Ngo
“A.C.A.B.,” shouted a protest leader on a bullhorn in front of Portland city hall on Election Day. “All cops are bastards!” responded the crowd of about 60 demonstrators. A coalition of far-left activist groups were demanding the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but they also used the occasion to rail against Oregon’s Measure 105, […]
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ADDED 11/13/2018
FROM 11/13/2018 | Brasil Wire
BY GABRIEL DESLANDES
Massive corruption in Rio de Janeiro’s disastrous Public/Private transportation partnerships brought an end to decades of MDB party hegemony, but the power vacuum that it opened was filled by neofascists. When the June, 2013 protests against bus fare hikes and lack of quality public transportation rocked Brazil, protesters in Rio de Janeiro had a clear […]
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ADDED 11/13/2018
FROM 11/12/2018 | Mondo Weiss
BY Jonathan Ofir
A week ago, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told Likud officials that “occupation is nonsense”. This is a continuation of a right-wing spinning of history that says that Israel is not an occupying power. Then Netanyahu went further, to speak with clear fascist eliminationist undertones: “Occupation is nonsense. Empires have conquered and replaced entire populations and no one […]
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ADDED 11/12/2018
FROM 11/07/2018 | Intercepted
BY Jeremy Scahill
POLITICIANS LOVE TO tell us every election is the “most important of our lifetime.” With Donald Trump in power, it rings true for many voters. This week on Intercepted: Journalist Chris Hedges has spent the past 15 years trying to ring the alarm about the dangers of the U.S. political system and the impact of a […]
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ADDED 11/12/2018
FROM 11/11/2018 | The Guardian
BY Christian Davies
More than 200,000 people are estimated to have taken part in a controversial independence-day march through central Warsaw on Sunday, after a last-minute agreement was struck between senior politicians and the event’s far-right organisers. The March of Independence, organised by nationalist and far-right groups and held annually in the Polish capital on 11 November to […]
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ADDED 11/12/2018
FROM 1/01/2018 | Jacobin
BY BRANKO MARCETIC
The line between the far right and “mainstream” conservatism is rapidly crumbling. But the two were never very far apart in the first place. If you go by most of what you see in the media, you would think politics is governed by some strange version of Newtonian physics. “Both sides” are perennially to blame, […]
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ADDED 11/02/2018
FROM 11/01/2018 | BrasilWire
BY Bryan Pitts
The United States has spent over a century meddling in Latin America. Recent crusades against corruption in Latin America are only the latest chapter. Today Brazil is on the front lines of the US battle to re-establish its hegemony in the region. When you study Latin American history, as I have for well over a […]
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