Tag Archives: fascism

Freya’sday Five Elements … I caught up with Reich’s Substack Commentary by Robert Reich on Homeless on the Desert. June 16, 2023 in g’da said New to the blogroll lineup, from Robert Reich’s Substack and the Smirking Chimp The Washington Post calls Trump’s vision for a second term “authoritarian.” That vision includes mandatory stop-and-frisk. Deploying the military to fight street crime, break up gangs, and deport immigrants. Purging the...

Fascist Traditionalism And Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine  About a half-century ago I was urged by my oldest friend to read a book by Fritjof Schuon (1907-1998) written in 1953, The Transcendental Unity of Religions. The book’s title basically tells its message: that while each religion has its own exoteric forms that differ from those of each other, there is a core to all of them that is the same, a transcendental unity of cosmic truth and...

“We said that this gathering [the summit] should be seen as a threat to global humanity. It’s quite clear from its history - that is NATO’s history - that it is a structure that is used to maintain and advance Western global capitalist interest, and for that it should be seen as a threat. Most of the interventions by NATO have been beyond the pale of legality,” [Ajamu] Baraka, [national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace,] told hosts Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon. “The very fact...

The diplomat then proceeded to tell me who was and who was NOT Latin American, and pointing to the photo of a needy child which graced every table, he said: “For instance, that child there is not Latin American”. Astonished I asked how can you say that? She is Peruvian! “No, she is Indian. Latin Americans are those of us who stem from Spain and Portugal.” He was not kidding nor making some sort of epistemological statement on the origin of Latin languages. He was unashamedly, sneeringly ,...

Longish and detailed, with lots of documentation. It's an excellent reference tool.Concerning in itself but also because of US support that turns a blind eye to it. "Never again" is happening again.The NationNeo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine Lev Golinkin

I would be skeptical of this if I had not witnessed it in France and the United States in the past. In fact sort of behavior has a name in law enforcement and criminal justice. It's called "punitive" enforcement. On the one hand, it is mindset of some that join law enforcement, and it is also a result of a punitive culture in some departments that is at least condoned by superiors and supervisors. So, there are two factors operative. One is sadistic disposition, and the other is...

Sure sounds like incipient fascism to me. But, hey, it couldn't happen here, could it?The DuranThe EU and the warning signs of Fascism Kit Knightly | co-editor of OffGuardian (UK)

As David Weiner says, "important." The problem is that people prioritize security, good order and liberty in a descending order. When social dysfunction increases domestically in a liberal society, or an external threat is perceived as existential, then liberty cedes to order and, in extremis, to security. The question is whether "the free world" is facing such an issue, as some argue, and tending in this direction — vide the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, and the...

Short book review, with some useful links.  "Fascism" is claimed to be a rising phenomenon. The question is, what is it anyway?  Does "fascism" denote a well-bounded set, or is fascism like pornography, hard to define but easy to identify when encountered, to paraphrase US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart?Open CultureYale Professor Jason Stanley Identifies Three Essential Features of Fascism: Invoking a Mythic Past, Sowing Division & Attacking Truth Josh Jones

Paul Robinson calls it an attack on academic freedom. I call it incipient fascism. America is slipping down the slippery slope."The road to serfdom is not the by way of socialism but rather fascism and it is increasingly upon us since 9/11 and the suspension of constitutional liberties and the militarization of domestic security, and the rise of the surveillance state.The striking parallels with history are clear.IrrussianalityNo history, no culture, pleasePaul Robinson | Professor,...