Tag: thinking about fascism

Iran’s Khamenei admits to holding “Tens of Thousands” of Prisoners of Conscience

It was the first time that the Iranian authorities have admitted to holding tens of thousands of political prisoners. Some 500 persons were shot dead by government security forces in the course of last fall’s demonstrations, and most of those detained were simply protesting peacefully, which should not have been the basis for an arrest… Read More Iran’s Khamenei admits to holding “Tens of Thousands” of Prisoners of Conscience

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‘They used our hijabs to gag us’: Iran protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police

More than four months after the death of Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish woman who died in custody after being arrested for incorrectly wearing her hijab, the Iranian authorities’ attempts to crush nationwide protests have seen more than 500 people killed by security forces, including 70 children. Four protesters have so far been executed by the state, with… Read More ‘They used our hijabs to gag us’: Iran protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police

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Gopalkrishna Gandhi: How the Indian cricket team reacted to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

First posted November 1, 2013 NB: On the 70th anniversary of his assassination, the Mahatma still haunts us, almost as if in answer to Sarojini Naidu’s broadcast of February 1, 1948: My Father, Do Not Rest. Given that the politics of his assassins grips a section of our ruling class and that malicious propaganda against him continues unabated, we would be doing ourselves a… Read More Gopalkrishna Gandhi: How the Indian cricket team reacted to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

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Judge who told Pence not to overturn election predicts ‘beginning of end of Trump’

 “What Trump has done is quite arguably the worst crime against the United States that a president could commit.” Martin Pengelly in New York The conservative judge who convinced Mike Pence he could not overturn the 2020 election has predicted “the beginning of the end of Donald Trump” – the former president who incited the January 6 insurrection… Read More Judge who told Pence not to overturn election predicts ‘beginning of end of Trump’

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The Broken Middle

First posted November 01, 2014 The violent events of 1984 signify the breakdown of consensual politics and the ideal of composite Indian nationhood. When communal animosity spreads across society, it corrodes the social conscience and (directly or subliminally) produces a genocidal consensus. In the aftermath of 1984 we also witnessed the decay of a reliable… Read More The Broken Middle

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The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism

First posted February 01, 2019 The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism: by Mark Edmundson Reviewed by  Jonathan Derbyshire What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books. Sigmund Freud, on the burning of his books by the… Read More The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism

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