Tag: thinking about fascism

2023: the year governments looked at the climate crisis, and decided to persecute the activists

Owen Jones Injustice is easy to oppose after it has receded into the past, and there is no cost to imagining yourself as a hero long after the event. Everyone celebrates the suffragettes now, but at the time they were vilified as hateful spinsters and terrorists. McCarthyism is a pejorative political label on right and… Read More 2023: the year governments looked at the climate crisis, and decided to persecute the activists

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What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies

The dark-money junktanks, and the Atlas Network, are a highly effective means of disguising and aggregating power. They are the channel through which billionaires and corporations influence politics without showing their hands, learn the most effective policies and tactics for overcoming resistance to their agenda, and then spread these around the world. This is how democracies become new… Read More What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies

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More than 10 children losing legs in Gaza every day as dire health crisis grows

NB: Approximately 90 thousand Palestinians killed, wounded or missing, including nearly ten thousand children. Wounded children with no relatives; children being amputated without anaesthesia. Vast neighbourhoods levelled to the ground. Is this enough for Netanyahu and Biden? Has any part of human cruelty toward subject populations changed for twenty five centuries since thousands of slaves… Read More More than 10 children losing legs in Gaza every day as dire health crisis grows

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Israel killed thousands of children in Gaza. How can so many Israelis remain indifferent? / In Israel, 20,000 Gazans are responsible for their own deaths. I’ve never been so ashamed

Amira Hass: For decades we’ve been brought up believing that only military force can ensure the state’s survival, while denying rights to the Palestinians. That’s just one of many sad answers to the question GAZA casualties live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem Children walk along a street… Read More Israel killed thousands of children in Gaza. How can so many Israelis remain indifferent? / In Israel, 20,000 Gazans are responsible for their own deaths. I’ve never been so ashamed

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Dear President Biden: About your Record on Guns, Arms, and Belligerence

H. PATRICIA HYNES President Joe Biden “Missile Theft,” by Juan Cole, Digital, Dream/ Dreamland v. 3/ IbisPaint, 2023 Dear Joe, I would wish you a Happy New Year; but it seems trite and banal, given all the challenges and troubles you and our country face in 2024 – some inherited from previous administrations, others of… Read More Dear President Biden: About your Record on Guns, Arms, and Belligerence

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Can Masha Gessen get an Apology now that Israel’s Cabinet Minister Smotrich called Gaza a ‘Ghetto’ that Should be Depopulated?

GAZA casualties live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem JUAN COLE Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The chief characteristic of the current Israeli government of PM Binyamin Netanyahu is the inclusion in it of elements that were shunned in Israeli politics until recently — the Kahanaists, who are… Read More Can Masha Gessen get an Apology now that Israel’s Cabinet Minister Smotrich called Gaza a ‘Ghetto’ that Should be Depopulated?

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The Legitimization of Evil Will Remain With Israelis Long After the War in Gaza Ends

NB: Gideon Levy’s voice reassures us that reason and compassion live in all of us, regardless of religion, nationality, time or place. He has always spoken against injustice, and for the rights of suffering humanity, especially those closest to him, in Palestine. Here he talks about the phenomenon of evil, of whose existence, every now… Read More The Legitimization of Evil Will Remain With Israelis Long After the War in Gaza Ends

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War Resisters International: Combating Militarism / Stopping the War Business

First posted July 21, 2015 GAZA casualties live statistics Summary: http://www.wri-irg.org/node/22197 Thank you for joining War Resisters International and the New Tactics community for an online conversation on tactics for combating the militarisation of education, public spaces, vulnerable communities, entertainment and culture, from June 10 to 14, 2013. Governments and other military actors around the world target… Read More War Resisters International: Combating Militarism / Stopping the War Business

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Israel bombs refugee camps; UN warns of famine risk; skirmishes on Lebanon border intensify

NB: 21,600 people have been killed in Gaza, the majority women and children, and thousands more buried under the rubble, if this is not state terrorism and genocide, what is? How much more butchery do Messrs Netanyahu and Biden need to satiate their blood lust? DS Israeli planes bombed refugee camps in Gaza on Saturday… Read More Israel bombs refugee camps; UN warns of famine risk; skirmishes on Lebanon border intensify

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Israeli army destroyed more than 200 archaeological sites in Gaza: Report

Live statistics The Israeli army has destroyed more than 200 archaeological and ancient sites out of 325 that were registered across the Gaza Strip in the course of its devastating onslaught since Oct. 7, authorities in the enclave said Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. The Gaza Media Office said the sites include ancient churches, mosques, schools and museums and… Read More Israeli army destroyed more than 200 archaeological sites in Gaza: Report

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