ADDED 08/31/2018
FROM 08/31/2018 | European Council on Foreign Relations
BY Pawel Zerka
The Sweden Democrats are set to lose the election – but win the power of kingmaker. On 9 September Swedes will go to the polls in a general election that politicians across Europe ought to pay attention to – there is certainly no doubt that xenophobic populists everywhere will be hoping for their Swedish counterparts […]
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ADDED 08/24/2018
FROM 08/24/2018 | The Hill
BY REP. CHRIS SMITH (R-N.J.)
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently began a multi-country tour of sub-Saharan Africa looking to expand his country’s influence on the continent. The trip came amidst increasing concerns about shoddy construction of infrastructure, rapidly rising levels of debt of African countries, and corrupt autocrats benefitting from foreign investment. These seemingly separated developments are in fact interrelated, […]
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ADDED 08/22/2018
FROM 08/22/2018 | Venezuelanalysis
BY Fernando Bossi and Cira Pascual Marquina
Political analyst and advisor to President Chavez, Fernando Bossi, looks at the striking parallels between the reactionary offensives in two Latin American countries. Argentinian internationalist Fernando Bossi has a lifelong commitment to Latin American unification that has expressed itself in diverse educational and political projects. Among these were the People’s Amphictyonic Congresses that took place […]
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ADDED 08/22/2018
FROM 08/21/2018 | Noisey
BY Kim Kelly
A chat with the mastermind behind a Nazi-punching new black metal album that’s burning up the Bandcamp metal charts. I never thought I’d be typing these words, but, it’s been a big year for anti-fascist black metal. British anarchists Dawn Ray’d led the initial charge with their 2017 opus, The Unlawful Assembly, which found a new home and a […]
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ADDED 08/11/2018
FROM 08/10/2018 | National Review
BY RYAN KHURANA
Chinese AI technology provides a blueprint for autocracies around the world. Chinese artificial-intelligence startup CloudWalk Technology signed a deal in March with the Zimbabwean government, providing the authoritarian regime an advanced facial-recognition system that it can use to identify, track, and monitor citizens. In exchange, CloudWalk gains access to the facial data of the demographically […]
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FROM 08/04/2018 | Raw Story
BY TOM BOGGIONI
Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, authoritarian expert Sarah Kendzior expressed worry about the upcoming midterm elections, casting doubt of election security at the polls as the Russians continue their hacking attempts. Speaking with AM Joy host Joy Reid, Kenzior explained hacking is “still directly focused on Democrats.” “People are not worried enough,” she explained. […]
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ADDED 07/30/2018
FROM 07/30/2018 | Rantt Media
BY Chris Allen
Just as neo-Nazis in America have tried to rebrand themselves, the same is happening with the Generation Identity (GI) white supremacist movement in Britain. In a recent article in the Sunday Times, journalist Andrew Gilligan claimed the Generation Identity (GI) movement in Britain was looking to ‘rebrand’ the radical right and thereby ‘normalize’ its extremist ideology and […]
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ADDED 07/29/2018
FROM 07/28/2018 | Winnipeg Free Press
BY Matt Henderson
The horrific authoritarian and fascist regimes of the 20th century might seem like a distant memory to some, as are the prophetic works by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. But, according to famed educational philosopher and pedagogue Henry Giroux, neo-fascism in the form of Trumpism has reared its ugly head in 2018. In American Nightmare: Facing […]
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ADDED 07/29/2018
FROM 07/27/2018 | UCA News
BY Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario
A prominent rights watchdog has accused Bangladesh’s ruling government of human rights abuses and for diminishing basic freedoms in the South Asian nation. “Bangladesh’s human rights situation has alarmingly deteriorated over the past years, and it tends to get worse,” Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) said in a statement on July 26. AHRC put the […]
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ADDED 07/21/2018
FROM 07/21/2018 | RedFlag
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“Fascists like things to run smoothly, they like their trains to run on time. Well, tonight, we made sure that things did not run smoothly for them.” – A Melbourne anti-fascist activist last night. Far right activist Lauren Southern did not expect to host the Melbourne leg of her Australian speaking tour in a reception […]
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ADDED 07/21/2018
FROM 07/21/2018 | Boing Boing
BY CORY DOCTOROW
A new report from the Institute For the Future on “state-sponsored trolling” documents the rise and rise of government-backed troll armies who terrorize journalists and opposition figures with seemingly endless waves of individuals who bombard their targets with vile vitriol, from racial slurs to rape threats. The report traces the origin of the phenomenon to a series […]
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ADDED 07/20/2018
FROM 07/20/2018 | Daily Beast
BY CLIVE IRVING
Spain’s prime minister wants to exorcise the spirit of Franco. But the spirit of the dictators is not that easy to eradicate. Take a look at Germany and, more worryingly, Italy. There’s enough of the whiff of fascism in the air without having to worry about the ghosts of its principal twentieth century practitioners. Or […]
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