Showing posts with label fascism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fascism. Show all posts

Monday, January 29, 2024

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Will America Turn Into a Nation of Donald Trumps?

Jan 10, 2024 | Fascism trickles down from fascist leadership, it’s what Trump’s cult members are dreaming of, too. And if you are not careful, they can turn you into another Trump...

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

David Rothkopf on the Danger of Trump Returning to the White House | The Warning Podcast

Dec 26, 2023 | David Rothkopf on the danger of Trump returning to the White House David Rothkopf, the CEO of The DSR Network and host of Deep State Radio, joins Steve to discuss Donald Trump's political strength heading into 2024, what the political strategy should be for running against him, and the reality of what could happen to our democracy if he wins.


No intelligent American, no true Christian American could possibly vote for Donald Trump. Trump is a chump. Anyone who does vote for him, doesn’t use his/her brain cells and cares not a jot for Christian principles. Period! – © Mark Alexander

Thursday, December 07, 2023

Cassidy Hutchinson: Voting for Trump a Vote for ‘Fascist Government’

Dec 7, 2023 | Fmr. Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the “extreme threat” Trump poses to democracy if elected to a second term and shares her thoughts about Liz Cheney’s “profound” book that she says is an “indictment of the Republican Party” and urges Americans to heed its warning.

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Michael Lambert: Failing Home Secretary Demonises Migrants

Sep 30, 2023 | Suella Braverman as Home Secretary presides over a Home Office which is in disarray. 1000 Met police officers are under investigation, only 5% of crime is solved and the borders are in chaos.

Immigration is a constant problem which Rishi Sunak has pledged to solve. Given the weakness of Rishi Sunak, she is the most powerful woman in the country. Braverman invokes memories of Germany in the 1930's! In recent years the rights of UK citizens have been much reduced, whereby the UK is now a police state. It is even an offence punishable by imprisonment to hold a sign which may offend the authorities.

Last week Braverman went to Washington to deliver a speech to the right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute. It was a speech just a few days before the Tory party conference designed to boost her claim to be the successor to Sunak.

The speech and subsequent interviews were racist and dishonest. She presented dogwhistle arguments about the threat of migration and how it is the biggest threat that the world currently faces.

Her Rwanda policy involves swapping asylum seekers in the UK for 'vulnerable' deportees from Rwanda, another terrible deal which has cost the British taxpayer £140 million.

Braverman, by removing and restricting rights and by imposing restrictions, is turning the UK into a fascist state.


Tuesday, July 04, 2023

Italy, Spain, France: The Rise of Far-right across Europe | ARTE Europe Weekly

Jul 2, 2023 | Across Europe, the firewall between the mainstream and the far right is starting to crack. From Germany’s AfD to Italy’s Fratelli d'Italia, parties that were once deemed outcasts are slowly gaining respect - after a surge in popularity. This week’s show breaks down the reasons for the shift.


Dieser Bericht ist hier auf Deutsch verfügbar.

Sunday, June 18, 2023

Italy's Right-wing Government Targets Another Enemy | Focus on Europe

Jun 18, 2023 | Italy is arguing over what constitutes a family. Its right-wing government is putting pressure on gay couples with children.


It doesn’t seem to me that Giorgia Meloni is in any position to tell others what a family is or is not. Please read this Wikipedia entry on her. Is this woman really a paragon of virtue herself? Is this fascist really in a position to be able to deny gays the right to their own happiness? These hypocritical politicians really are something else! – © Mark Alexander

Friday, May 05, 2023

"The Undertow": Author Jeff Sharlet on Trump, the Far Right & the Growing Threat of Fascism in US

Apr 6, 2023 | We speak with award-winning journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, who has spent the last decade reporting on the growing threat of fascism across the United States. In his new book, _The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War_, Sharlet says the language of "civil war" has become central to right-wing rhetoric, mainstreamed by former President Donald Trump, Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans.

Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Fascism Is Rising Where Media Fails - Economic Update with Richard Wolff

Nov 1, 2022 | Ana Kasparian joins Economic Update to discuss how media fails the country by focusing on cultural issues that divide and purposely misinforming Americans on economic issues that affect us all. …

Sunday, October 16, 2022

How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism

Clara Mattei discusses her new book "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism"

Monday, September 26, 2022

Fascism Returns in Italy: Giorgia Meloni Claims Victory, Allied with Right-wing Parties

Italy's first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini, Giorgia Meloni, has declared victory. Her Brothers of Italy party is allied with Spain's far-right Vox party, Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice party and the Sweden Democrats party, which emerged out of its neo-Nazi movement. We look at "the return of fascism in Italy" with professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," who says that Meloni, a self-declared conservative, "really sees her party as carrying the heritage of fascism into today." Ben-Ghiat also describes why Meloni is part of a "transnational design" to create a far-right political culture across Europe.

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Italian Voters Appear Ready to Turn a Page for Europe

THE NEW YORK TIMES: With the hard-right candidate Giorgia Meloni ahead before Sunday’s election, Italy could get its first leader whose party traces its roots to the wreckage of Fascism.

Supporters of Giorgia Meloni at a joint rally on Thursday for the Brothers of Italy, League and Forza Italia parties in Rome. | Andreas Solaro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

ROME — Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s hard-right leader, resents having to talk about Fascism. She has publicly, and in multiple languages, said that the Italian right has “handed Fascism over to history for decades now.” She argued that “the problem with Fascism in Italy always begins with the electoral campaign,” when the Italian left, she said, wheels out “the black wave” to smear its opponents.

But none of that matters now, she insisted in an interview this month, because Italians do not care. “Italians don’t believe anymore in this garbage,” she said with a shrug.

Ms. Meloni may be proved right on Sunday, when she is expected to be the top vote-getter in Italian elections, a breakthrough far-right parties in Europe have anticipated for decades.

More than 70 years after Nazis and Fascists nearly destroyed Europe, formerly taboo parties with Nazi or Fascist heritages that were long marginalized have elbowed their way into the mainstream. Some are even winning. A page of European history seems to be turning.

Last week, a hard-right group founded by neo-Nazis and skinheads became the largest party in Sweden’s likely governing coalition. The far-right leader Marine Le Pen — for a second consecutive time — reached the final round of French presidential elections this year.

But it is Italy, the birthplace of Fascism, that looks likely to be led not only by its first female prime minister in Ms. Meloni but the first Italian leader whose party can trace its roots back to the wreckage of Italian Fascism. » | Jason Horowitz | Saturday, September 24, 2022

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Friday, July 15, 2022

The REAL Reason Putin's Gone Fascist

Mar 22, 2022 As Putin's brutal Ukraine invasion goes on, this video explores Putin's recent fascist turn. What does it mean for Russia, for Ukraine, and for the entire world? What kind of fascist has Putin become? And, what is a good explanation of fascism?


Why Russians CHOOSE to Deny Reality »

Why Russians CHOOSE to Deny Reality

May 8, 2022 As Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine continues, we look at the role and predicament of the Russian people.

What happens to the Russian people affects not just Russia and Ukraine, but the world. Putin's war is part of a bigger pattern of escalation, and this includes escalation of global nuclear risk. Specifically, in this video I analyse why the Russian people don't value liberty, or freedom as a political value.



Related:

Why I Left Russia and Can't Go Back »

Saturday, June 18, 2022

How the Great Depression Helped Drive the World Towards Fascism | Impossible Peace | Timeline

Jul 23, 2020 • A look at the international upset and devastation caused by the global depression; unemployment, hyperinflation, despair are everywhere as people try to survive.


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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Fascism: A Warning | The Late Madeleine Albright | Talks at Google

Jun 27, 2018 • In Fascism: A Warning, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright draws on her experiences as a child in war-torn Europe and her distinguished career as a diplomat to provide a personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world. A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, “is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have.”

Fascism, as she shows, not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. The momentum toward democracy that swept the world when the Berlin Wall fell has gone into reverse. In many countries, economic, technological, and cultural factors are weakening the political center and empowering the extremes of right and left. Contemporary leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are employing many of the tactics used by Fascists in the 1920s and 30s.

Fascism: A Warning is a book for our times that is relevant to all times. Written by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past.
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Sunday, May 22, 2022

Steve Schmidt Sounds the Alarm!

May 22, 2022 • The former GOP Operative & Lincoln Project founder warns of coming fascism

Thursday, May 19, 2022

We Should Say It. Russia Is Fascist.

Illustration by The New York Times; Photography by Clive Rose, Alexander Nemenov, and Kirill Kudryavtsev, via Getty Images

OPINION : GUEST ESSAY

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Fascism was never defeated as an idea. As a cult of irrationality and violence, it could not be vanquished as an argument: So long as Nazi Germany seemed strong, Europeans and others were tempted. It was only on the battlefields of World War II that fascism was defeated. Now it’s back — and this time, the country fighting a fascist war of destruction is Russia. Should Russia win, fascists around the world will be comforted.

We err in limiting our fears of fascism to a certain image of Hitler and the Holocaust. Fascism was Italian in origin, popular in Romania — where fascists were Orthodox Christians who dreamed of cleansing violence — and had adherents throughout Europe (and America). In all its varieties, it was about the triumph of will over reason.

Because of that, it’s impossible to define satisfactorily. People disagree, often vehemently, over what constitutes fascism. But today’s Russia meets most of the criteria that scholars tend to apply. It has a cult around a single leader, Vladimir Putin. It has a cult of the dead, organized around World War II. It has a myth of a past golden age of imperial greatness, to be restored by a war of healing violence — the murderous war on Ukraine. » | Timothy Snyder * | Thursday, May 19, 2022

* Dr. Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of many books on fascism, totalitarianism and European history.