Saying What Needs to be Said, a Loving Letter to Republicans
Embed from Getty Images I’ve often joked that I should receive 100 “likes” a day for what I don’t post on Facebook. I have done my absolute best to stay out of the fray of political commentary (for...
View ArticleThis is What Fascism Looks Like
Embed from Getty Images “The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is deeply alarmed at the hateful rhetoric at a conference of white nationalists held on November 19 [2016] at the Ronald Reagan...
View ArticleNormalizing Fascists
Embed from Getty Images By John Broich How to report on a fascist? How to cover the rise of a political leader who’s left a paper trail of anti-constitutionalism, racism and the encouragement of...
View ArticleHitler, Hatred, and Historical Myopia
Embed from Getty Images There’s a very weird thing I hear sometimes from people talking about fascism, and specifically about the Nazis. It’s this implicit assumption that the bad thing about Hitler’s...
View ArticleFrom Defeating Communism to Embracing Totalitarianism
Embed from Getty Images — In the 1980’s conservatives had their champion. The man that would lead them to glory, after years of feeling ignored. After the perceived weakness of President Carter over...
View Article‘Is Truth Overrated?’ What the Experts Say
Embed from Getty Images — Daniel Klyn, University of Michigan; Christopher Beem, Pennsylvania State University; Maryanne Reed, West Virginia University, and Troy Campbell, University of Oregon The...
View ArticleTHE CAPTAIN: A Film By Robert Schwentke
THE CAPTAIN A Film By Robert Schwentke 118 MINUTES | GERMANY, FRANCE, POLAND | 2018 | NOT RATED IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES “Darkly evocative…relentless…arresting”, Todd McCarthy – THE HOLLYWOOD...
View ArticleFascist Now the U.S. Ruling Party
On the right-wing side of the dictatorial strongmen’s political spectrum, we find the philosophy and practice of “fascism.” While also deployed as an epithet by some, fascism developed as a form of...
View ArticleBooks: A Threat to Fascists
Two American classics, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird, are again under assault. People have been calling for bans on these books since they were first printed....
View ArticleCowardice: The Main Quality of a Fascist
Embed from Getty Images — “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police … yet in their hearts, there is unspoken fear....
View ArticleWhat Happens When We Refuse to Let Fear Rule Our Lives
Embed from Getty Images Recently, I have been obsessed with images from the Civil Rights Movement. I want to be reminded of how vile human beings can be and about the possibility of change. I want to...
View ArticleFascism Will Fail in the U.S. Because of ‘We the People’
Embed from Getty Images We have long since past the point where it is merely hyperbole to compare the rise and control of the Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s to the rise and possible total take-over of...
View ArticleTrumpism = White Nationalism = Fascism
I see a bad moon a-rising I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightnin’ I see bad times today… From “Bad Moon Rising” by John Fogerty Ever since he descended the gold escalator in Trump...
View Article‘Freedom’ Is the New Tyranny of Neo-Fascists
In yet another jaw-droppingly up-is-down and down-is-up Alice-in-Wonderlandesk attempt at manipulating the English language, this time continuing its denial and cover-up of the primary role of fossil...
View ArticleTragedies and Silver Linings of Crises
Necessity is the mother of invention. So wrote ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Stated another way, human creativity is often sparked into action to meet challenges in times of individual need and...
View ArticleWhite Twitter Privilege President
Jack owns a crowded movie theater. For years, Jack let Donald run up and down the aisles of that theater, each and every day, yelling “Fire!” at the top of his lungs. You and I wouldn’t be allowed to...
View ArticleDonald ‘Wags the Dog’
If any logic can be found in Donald Trump’s words, actions, and reasons, then we must center our investigation on the fourth letter of the alphabet: the letter “D.” Not only does this president’s first...
View Article‘Contested Commemoration’: Trieste’s Memorials of Fascism, Nazism and World...
By Janet Ashton Janet Ashton, West European Cataloguing Team Manager *** On 13 July 2020 the city of Trieste marked the centenary of the arson attack on the Slovene National Hall by returning it to...
View ArticleFossil-Fueled Fascism
By Basav Sen, The year 2020 will be remembered in history for a deadly pandemic and a deep economic crisis that touched almost every country on earth. Hopes for a brighter 2021 were one of the few...
View Article“Basic Income Would Allow Us to Gain a Social Base That Is Essential to...
By Daniel Raventós Laure Vega conducted this interview for Catarsi magazine. We begin, as always, with a brief explanation of what Basic Income is and its defence from a republican perspective: Basic...
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