After a few days of emotions running wild—some feeling like shattered glass and others bubbling with joy—the time has come to pull oneself together and look for sound analyses to understand what happened and why. The point is that there was really no need to search… The reasons for Trump’s victory are well known, especially […]
Fascism
How does Australian author David Ireland’s last novel, The World Repair Video Game read as a literary exploration of ecofascism and, perhaps, the most powerful we have in Australian (and world?) literature. This blog outlines the contours of my most recent article that traces that argument, just published in Environment and Planning E.
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“This is what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!” Despite the bitter...
“As far as I’m concerned, I’m done with this,” investigative reporter David Neiwert told us,...
In my recent article in Contemporary Political Theory, I demonstrate that the convergence of fascistic and neoliberal politics is not a novel contemporary phenomenon as is widely presumed, but rather has historical roots in the political context of the 1930s and 1940s. I examine a group of political actors and thinkers who were active in both neoliberal and fascist movements, and unpack the logics that led these figures to believe the fascist politics of the 1930s were compatible with the nascent neoliberal movement in which they all also participated.
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Drawing on Israel's own state archives, Jessica Buxbuam reveals how fears of anti-Semitism rising in Europe haven't stopped it from engaging with the continent's anti-semitic extremists — a policy of the state even before its inception.
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In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about...
Angus Dermody looks back at how the Jewish population of the Warsaw Ghetto staged a heroic uprising against the Nazi Holocaust—and the leading role of Jewish socialists in it
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By Paul Street / CounterPunch The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much beloved New Deal Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt, himself a wealthy member of the capitalist establishment, boasted that he had saved the US American profits system by overseeing […]
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By John McEvoy and Mark Curtis / Declassified UK The U.K. government has poured over £25 million into private “counter-disinformation” organisations since January 2018 and four of these are directed by people linked to the British or U.S. foreign policy establishment. Yet, while publishing information deriving from these groups, much of it on the Ukraine war, media […]
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