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'Neofascist' foreign leader reported to be 'secretly flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump'

A foreign leader who has been dubbed a "neofascist" is on a secret mission to meet Donald Trump, according to a report. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who announced in 2023 she was separating from her partner, with whom she has a daughter, after he was recorded making sleazy comments, is reportedly "flying to the US Saturday to meet President-elect …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Why Kamala Harris lost: Around the world, incumbents are in trouble

Salon

The aftermath of Kamala Harris' electoral defeat has followed a predictable pattern: First the political pundits and then the representatives of different factions within the Democratic coalition have all claimed that the result confirms their prior assumptions and beliefs. So this represents a long-standing problem — a profound deficit in the deliberative dimension of our democracy — which was exacerbated …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump's rebranding of American diversity is gaining traction

Salon

The color line runs straight through every aspect of American society. The most recent and very bold move in Trump and his campaign’s white supremacist political campaign against Kamala Harris and the Democrats is the conspiratorial lie that Black Haitian immigrants are killing and eating white people’s dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. New polling research from CBS News/YouGov further …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

The week Fox News finally faces its reckoning

Raw Story

This week may well see a court decide the fate and future of Fox “News” and thus the Republican Party, at least in its current hard-right neofascist form. Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called Rupert Murdoch “the greatest cancer on the Australian democracy” in the pages of The Sydney Morning Herald, the New York Times of Australia. But now …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Day two of Donald Trump's dictatorship

Salon

This is the mission statement for authoritarians and autocrats such as aspiring dictator Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. Donald Trump and his agents’ and allies’ revolutionary plans to end American democracy are not secret: they have been publicly announced and are detailed in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, on Trump’s own campaign website as Agenda 47, and throughout the …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Trump is now trying to downplay Project 2025

Salon

Project 2025 are a plan by right-wing extremists and other authoritarians to end America’s multiracial democracy and to replace it with a White Christian nationalist plutocracy. Pressed by Politico about Project 2025's extreme attacks on contraceptives, the Trump campaign was forced to issue a statement this week distancing the former president from the plan hatched by his former staffers: Asked …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Lost in the malignant normality of the Trumpocene

Salon

The Trumpocene is not normal. On this, Arendt famously warned, “the ideal subject of a totalitarian state is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” If Donald Trump had actually been put on trial, and properly punished for the crimes of …

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1 year ago

Religion scholar on the "civil war" within Christianity — and the urgency of stopping Trump

Salon

In this age of intense political and religious division, Christian nationalists have convinced themselves that they have a special claim on America. In light of the manifest surrender of so many Christians to Trump and to authoritarian reactionary Christianity, being a Christian means resistance to this surrender, participation in this internal struggle for the soul of Christianity in the United …

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1 year ago

Congress' "Christian fascist" caucus: Mike Johnson brings MAGA fully into the House

Salon

Christian nationalists are key, if not indispensable, members of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement and the larger neofascist coalition. As Gorski and Perry argue, White Christian nationalists reserve the right to use violence in order to put the social order back in place. "Mike Johnson's political vision is representative of many white Christian nationalists in the country." And the elevation of …

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1 year, 10 months ago

DOJ star witness reveals Proud Boys' fury on Jan. 6 after cops retook the Capitol

Raw Story

The desperation among the Proud Boys was a shared emotion as they realized their Jan. 6 preferred ending would not come true, a member of the organization testified on Wednesday. "Everyone felt very desperate," Bertino said as part of his testimony in the seditious conspiracy trial of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. During the trial, prosecutors displayed text messages showing …

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2 years ago

'We are at a precipice as a nation': Cornel West and Christina Greer on Jan. 6 insurrection and more

Raw Story

We speak with Fordham University political science professor Christina Greer and theologian Cornel West about the January 6 committee’s recommendation that former President Donald Trump and his allies be criminally charged for their role in the insurrection and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. To talk more about the House Judiciary January 6th committee, we are joined by two guests: …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Deplorable: How Kanye West went from beloved generational rapper to far-right Hitler apologist

LA Times

In late November, Kanye West, the 45-year-old rapper now known as Ye, dined at Mar-a-Lago with former President Trump and a neofascist. West made some of his finest music in the next years, including 2010’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” and 2013’s “Yeezus,” and in 2014 married Kardashian in a fame-merging event for the ages. Just hours later, after police …

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2 years, 3 months ago

How will Italy’s new far-right government change the country?

Al Jazeera

On Wednesday, October 5 at 19:30 GMT: Giorgia Meloni has not only become Italy’s first female prime minister, but also the head of the country’s most right-wing government since the era of fascist leader Benito Mussolini. The political gains of Brothers of Italy and the two other parties in the right-wing coalition – Matteo Salvini’s Lega party and Silvio Berlusconi’s …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Who is Giorgia Meloni: the star of the Italian far right?

The Hindu

Published : Sep 26, 2022 16:06 IST In Rome’s Via Della Scrofa, not far from the seat of parliament in the historic centre, a stone tablet and a dried-up wreath commemorate Alberto Marchesi, an anti-fascist resistance fighter executed by the German SS in the Ardeatine Caves in 1944. I don’t think that’s right.” ‘Preparing to become prime minister for years’ …

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2 years, 3 months ago

How a party with neofascist roots won big in Italy

LA Times

The leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni, addresses a rally in Ancona, Italy, on Aug. 23. The Brothers of Italy party, which won the most votes in Italy’s national election, has its roots in the post-World War II neofascist Italian Social Movement. The European Parliament election in 2019 brought Brothers of Italy 6.4% — a figure …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Led by Giorgia Meloni, fascists set to take power in Italy for first time since Mussolini

Salon

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the fascist Brothers of Italy party, is set to become the country's prime minister after her far-right coalition emerged victorious in Sunday's snap election, defeating a fragmented center-left and setting the stage for a viciously xenophobic and anti-democratic Italian government. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history and Italian studies …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Exclusive: Rally organizers issued a call for a bogus grand jury to indict Congress before Jan. 6

Raw Story

Days before the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, an ad hoc group known as the #1LoudVoice Coalition issued a call for a common-law grand jury to convene on the steps of the Capitol and issue an indictment, as Congress was meeting to certify the electoral vote of the 2020 presidential election. “Acting within our constitutional rights as We the People’s Grand …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Parts of the Buffalo shooter's alleged screed were copied from other sources

NPR

Parts of the Buffalo shooter's alleged screed were copied from other sources Enlarge this image toggle caption Matt Rourke/AP Matt Rourke/AP Following the mass shooting at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y., investigators say they are looking into a document published online filled with rants about race and the "replacement" theory. "It's not uncommon, especially …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Black cop shoots white woman: The saga of Michael Byrd and Ashli Babbitt

Salon

Like other forms of fascism, Donald Trump's cult demands human sacrifice. As a white woman, Babbitt made a particularly compelling figure to the right-wing imagination, defined by her race and gender through the white racial frame as automatically being "innocent" and "vulnerable." Byrd's decision to shoot Babbitt — a Black police officer shooting an unarmed white woman — has taken …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Trump's coup came so close to working — do the American people even care?

Salon

More "revelations" about the Trump regime's crimes against democracy and the American people continue. CNN reports that Trump pressured then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to make a false declaration "in an attempt to help Republican members of Congress try to overturn the election result, according to notes of a December 2020 call Trump held with Rosen and acting deputy attorney …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Donald Trump's military coup didn't (quite) happen — but it was much closer than we knew

Salon

Ever more damning revelations about Donald Trump's regime began first as a trickle, then became a persistent leak, eventually a torrent and are now seemingly a tsunami. On Wednesday, CNN published excerpts from "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year," the forthcoming book by Washington Post reporters Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker. CNN's explosive report …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Do we even want the truth? The Capitol riot is fading into the memory hole

Salon

America's collective memory hole is becoming a bottomless abyss. On Jan. 6, Donald Trump's followers launched an attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of a larger effort to nullify the results of the 2020 presidential election — and, in effect, overthrow American democracy. As part of that lie, the right-wing propaganda machine has also crafted a narrative in which …

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3 years, 8 months ago

White nationalists go wild for Tucker Carlson's "great replacement" theory

Salon

White nationalists, members of the far right and the guru of the neofascist "Groyper" movement are delighted with Tucker Carlson's racially charged "great replacement" remarks made on his primetime Fox News program. Since then, white nationalists and other denizens of the far right have offered the Fox News host praise for his "great replacement" commentary. Media Matters for America reporter …

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3 years, 11 months ago

House demands FBI investigation into Parler’s role as ‘potential facilitator’ of deadly pro-Trump mob violence

The Independent

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'Neofascist' foreign leader reported to be 'secretly flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump'

Why Kamala Harris lost: Around the world, incumbents are in trouble

Donald Trump's rebranding of American diversity is gaining traction

The week Fox News finally faces its reckoning

Day two of Donald Trump's dictatorship

Trump is now trying to downplay Project 2025

Lost in the malignant normality of the Trumpocene

Religion scholar on the "civil war" within Christianity — and the urgency of stopping Trump

Congress' "Christian fascist" caucus: Mike Johnson brings MAGA fully into the House

DOJ star witness reveals Proud Boys' fury on Jan. 6 after cops retook the Capitol

'We are at a precipice as a nation': Cornel West and Christina Greer on Jan. 6 insurrection and more

Deplorable: How Kanye West went from beloved generational rapper to far-right Hitler apologist

How will Italy’s new far-right government change the country?

Who is Giorgia Meloni: the star of the Italian far right?

How a party with neofascist roots won big in Italy

Led by Giorgia Meloni, fascists set to take power in Italy for first time since Mussolini

Exclusive: Rally organizers issued a call for a bogus grand jury to indict Congress before Jan. 6

Parts of the Buffalo shooter's alleged screed were copied from other sources

Black cop shoots white woman: The saga of Michael Byrd and Ashli Babbitt

Trump's coup came so close to working — do the American people even care?

Donald Trump's military coup didn't (quite) happen — but it was much closer than we knew

Do we even want the truth? The Capitol riot is fading into the memory hole

White nationalists go wild for Tucker Carlson's "great replacement" theory

House demands FBI investigation into Parler’s role as ‘potential facilitator’ of deadly pro-Trump mob violence