'Israel' is shooting at journalists in West Bank after invading it. It was never about Hamas.
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Harris Will Continue to Ignore U.S. Law and Arm Israel, If Elected
In her first major TV interview during her campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris signaled no change from Biden on Israel policy.
Another Chance for AOC to Step Up on Palestine
AOC let down the Palestine movement at the Democratic National Convention. But it’s not too late to make up for it.
Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious
The former president violated one of America’s most sacred places.
Trump vs Harris & TarriffsTrump’s Arlington Photoshoot Shows That Fascism is Here | Noah Berlatsky
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Woke, Antifa & Manufactured "Culture Wars"
All the Evidence Against Transgender Social Contagion
Plus Thoughts on Why People Continue to Embrace This Zombie Theory
Gender & LGBTQ+
"A Generational Fight": Political Organizers on Kamala Harris, Defeating Authoritarianism & More
Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytVice President Kamala Harris made history Thursday as the first Black woman and the first person ...
What Does ‘Unified Reich’ Mean? - The Good Men Project
What comes next for America according to Donald Trump.
Democratic Party Unites Under Banner of Silence on Gaza Genocide
At the DNC, progressives and moderates came together to support Kamala Harris by largely ignoring the most pressing moral issue of our time.
Muslim Women for Harris disbands and withdraws support for candidate | US elections 2024 | The Guardian
Group says Harris campaign denying a Palestinian speaker at the Democratic convention is a ‘terrible message’
Guess Who’s Being Weird to Tim Walz’s Son – Mother Jones
The right's gleeful cruelty to 17-year-old Gus Walz says it all.
'I beg to differ': Vivek Ramaswamy left momentarily speechless after CNN host's fact check
MAGA loyalist Vivek Ramaswamy was swiftly fact-checked after claiming that Kamala Harris had slurred Republican voters as "weird." The failed GOP presidential candidate appeared Thursday morning on CNN to discuss the Democratic National Convention and urge fellow Republicans to remain focused on attacking Harris on the issues rather than insulting ...
Free Speech & Hypocrisy
When globally famous gay penguin Sphen died in Sydney, his partner began to sing | Marine life | The Guardian
Zoo staff brought Magic to Sphen’s side to process the loss, and the penguin colony joined in his mournful call
Breaking Down the Far Right: Strategies for Resistance - ZNetwork
The far-right riots last week in the UK were batted aside by many liberal commentators as an inconvenience. A spontaneous, misinformed outburst of social
Fascism 101 (aka Right Wing Disinformation not Left)
The “Dangerous” California Bill Inspired by Pro-Palestine Campus Protest Is Still Alive
The ACLU is ringing the alarm bell over S.B. 1287, which the group alleges will chill school speech on Israel.
The Right’s Push to Whitewash History Is a Precursor to Fascism | Truthout
As a new school year begins, we must resist turning schools into right-wing indoctrination centers.
Death Count in Gaza Surpasses 40,000 — With True Death Toll Likely Higher | Truthout
The official toll represents roughly 2 percent of Gaza’s population killed by Israel.
Genocide, Apartheid &... Evil
How Elon Musk Stoked the Fire of the UK’s Far Right Anti-Immigrant Riots | Truthout
How will the UK government respond to this assault by the world’s wealthiest and most powerful online troll?
In 2024 Platform, Democrats Lurch Right on Policing and Immigration | Truthout
DNC delegates will vote on a platform that pledges to crack down on asylum and fund the police.
Sean O’Brien Walked Right Into It - The Atlantic
The Teamsters’ leader should never have lent his credibility to Trump’s project.
Eat the Rich: Billionaires Should Not ExistIran: Key to World Peace | Dissident Voice
From what is read and what is said, Iran is the major sponsor of international terrorism — creating turmoil, preventing peace, and wanting to dominate the Middle East. One problem with the accepted scenario is that the facts do not coincide with the assumptions. Except for revenging terrorist attacks by Iranian dissidents and Israeli intelligence
Iran & Middle East
the press can fuck straight off, let us count the ways
the media continues to make excuses for Donny’s incoherence
How Project 2025 Backfired - The Atlantic
Democrats have managed to make detailed policy ideas into one of Trump’s greatest liabilities.
Canada is the No. 1 Country in the World, According to the 2021 Best Countries Report - News
The sixth annual Best Countries report reveals the importance of social justice as a global ambition, the unexpected societal byproduct of the COVID-19 crisis and the influence of conspiracy theories. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 13, 2021—For the first time, Canada takes the top spot overall in the 2021 Best Countries Report,…Read More
101's, History, Economy etcPolitical Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History - Katherine Fierlbeck - Google Books
What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of political ideas in Canada, we can better understand why Canada takes the shape that it does. In this book, Katherine Fierlbeck looks at the legacy of ideas taken from (or shaped in reaction to) the nations that have been most influential to Canada's development: the United Kingdom and the United States. The first section looks specifically at the nature of toryism, constitutional liberalism, and market liberalism. Then she examines the evolution of social justice in Canada. Does the country have, as J.S. Woodsworth hoped, a definitive "third way." The final section focuses upon debates over cultural identity and minority rights. Contemporary political discussions in Canada are very much based upon the expressions of French-Canadian nationalism that have existed as long as, and perhaps even longer than, the country itself. How have these ideas influenced current thinking about culture and accommodation?The experiences characterized by Canadian political thought also provide insight and ideas for nations around the world as their citizens struggle with similar questions. The political dynamics of the present are a product of how Canadians have viewed their country, or a vision of their country, in the past. These ideas of Canada, in history and in myth, provide a way of thinking about politics that may provoke and inspire Canadians and others to reflect upon their future.
A Moment for Canada’s Far Right, Still Struggling for Support - The New York Times
The country’s political system has made it hard for fringe groups to gain influence. But a new cause, and fund-raising across borders, could begin to fuel Canadian populists.
B.J. Dichter, who was listed on the convoy’s official fund-raiser alongside Ms. Lich, has said that “political Islam” is “rotting away at our society like syphilis.”
The organizers are mostly fringe activists, rather than truck drivers, an overwhelming majority of whom are vaccinated.
Pat King, who is listed as an official contact for a regional group involved in the protest and has been a prominent champion of the protests online, has called Covid a “man-made bioweapon” and claimed that international financiers seek to “depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race.” He has said of lockdowns, “The only way that this is going to be solved is with bullets.”
“You did have far-right populism — historically it was there — but it was isolated,” said Jeffrey S. Kopstein, a Canadian political scientist at the University of California, Irvine.
Canada’s populist right has lagged, Dr. Kopstein said, in part because the typical drivers of such movements — cultural polarization and white racial resentment — are less prevalent in the country than in other Western nations.
The country’s large and politically well-organized immigrant populations mean that both major parties see greater gain in courting immigrants than in cultivating white backlash.
As a result, Canada’s Conservative leaders have neither embraced nor been co-opted by the more extreme elements in their base to the same degree as some other right-wing parties.
Romana Didulo, a Canadian QAnon activist who has called for military executions of doctors who vaccinate children.
Canada’s populist right, though homegrown, is also heavily influenced by its far more numerous and better-resourced American counterparts. This helps provide the movement with energy and direction, though often in ways that hinder its influence in Canada, where Donald J. Trump is deeply unpopular.
But in years since, populist movements across the Western world have continued to rise and to coordinate across borders, helping to aid their Canadian counterparts’ slow but steady growth.
In a demonstration of this effect in action, a number of American political and media figures, including Mr. Trump, have forcefully endorsed or promoted the trucker protests. Americans are thought to have provided much of the $8 million raised online for the convoy.
And there is another change: Canada’s Conservative Party, after a difficult year, may be rethinking its longstanding practice of isolating conservative fringes.
Party officials recently ousted Erin O’Toole, the party leader, in part, they said, for insufficiently embracing the truck protests.
The new interim leader attracted controversy last year when a photo surfaced showing her wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Several Conservative lawmakers have since visited the protests in support. One was photographed alongside Mr. King, the white nationalist and conspiracy theorist, though later issued a statement condemning “any violent rhetoric.”
In some ways, support for the protests seems to reflect public opinion oscillations related more to the pandemic than to the far right.
The "Convoy"
Canada’s Secret to Resisting the West’s Populist Wave - The New York Times
Minority voters have a large political voice, immigration is seen as positive and multicultural identities are encouraged.
Outsiders might assume this is because Canada is simply more liberal, but they would be wrong. Rather, Canada has resisted the populist wave through a set of strategic decisions, powerful institutional incentives, strong minority coalitions and idiosyncratic circumstances.
In other Western countries, right-wing populism has emerged as a politics of us-versus-them. It pits members of white majorities against immigrants and minorities, driven by a sense that cohesive national identities are under threat. In France, for instance, it is common to hear that immigration dilutes French identity, and that allowing minority groups to keep their own cultures erodes vital elements of Frenchness.
Identity works differently in Canada. Both whites and nonwhites see Canadian identity as something that not only can accommodate outsiders, but is enhanced by the inclusion of many different kinds of people.
Canada is a mosaic rather than a melting pot, several people told me — a place that celebrates different backgrounds rather than demanding assimilation.
Jason Kenney, then a Conservative member of Parliament, convinced Prime Minister Stephen Harper that the party should court immigrants, who — thanks to Mr. Trudeau’s efforts — had long backed the Liberal Party.
“I said the only way we’d ever build a governing coalition was with the support of new Canadians, given changing demography,” Mr. Kenney said.
The result is a broad political consensus around immigrants’ place in Canada’s national identity.
That creates a virtuous cycle. All parties rely on and compete for minority voters, so none has an incentive to cater to anti-immigrant backlash. That, in turn, keeps anti-immigrant sentiment from becoming a point of political conflict, which makes it less important to voters.
In Britain, among white voters who say they want less immigration, about 40 percent also say that limiting immigration is the most important issue to them. In the United States, that figure is about 20 percent. In Canada, according to a 2011 study, it was only 0.34 percent.
In Canada, because all parties compete for all ethnic blocs, minorities do not tend to polarize into just one party. That leaves little incentive for tribalism, even as minority groups feel empowered to champion their ethnic or religious identity.
But because Canadian politics accounts for diversity without polarizing across ethnic or religious lines, it is more resilient. Everyone, including whites, becomes less likely to see politics as a game of us versus them.
Rapid changes in demographics tend to spur anti-immigrant sentiment within the dominant group, experts say, bolstering far-right politicians who promise harsh tactics against outsiders.
But although Canada’s high immigration rates have transformed the country in just a few decades, the public has mostly been calm and accepting.
One reason may be Canada’s unusual immigration policies. A sponsorship system, in which Canadian families host newcomers, allows communities to feel they are a part of the country’s refugee resettlement program.
And a points system, which favors migrants who are thought to contribute economically, makes immigration feel like something that benefits everyone.
Fascism in Canada
The 'contradiction at the heart of the Republican Party' that gives Dems an advantage: columnist
When Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was asked by New York Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein "why House Democrats have held together more easily than House Republicans," the former California lawmaker replied: "It’s very hard to find leverage with people who don’t have really any beliefs or any agenda. It’s hard to negotiate with somebody who wants n...
Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America
The presidential election is three months away. What if the billionaire contests the result? What if he decides democracy is overrated?
If Musk chooses to “predict” a civil war in the States, what will that look like? If he chooses to contest an election result? If he decides that democracy is over-rated? This isn’t sci-fi. It’s literally three months away.
None of this is happening in a vacuum. For a brief minute after 2016, there was an attempt to understand how these tech platforms had been used to spread lies and falsehoods – or mis- and disinformation – as we came to know them and to try to prevent it. But that moment has passed. A years-long effort by Republican operatives to politicise the entire subject of “misinformation” has won. It barely even now exists in US tech circles. Anyone who suggests it does – researchers, academics, “trust and safety” teams – are now all part of the “censorship industrial complex”.
A US congressional committee headed by Republican Jim Jordan, convinced that big tech was silencing conservative voices, went on the warpath. It subpoenaed the email history of dozens of academics and has chilled an entire field of research. Whole university departments have collapsed, including the Stanford Internet Observatory whose election integrity unit provided rapid detection and analysis in 2020.
Even the FBI has been prevented from communicating with tech companies about what officials have warned is a coming onslaught of foreign disinformation and influence operations after a lawsuit brought by two attorneys general went all the way to the supreme court. The New York Times reported that it has only just now quietly resumed.
But what Musk – the new self-appointed Lord of Misrule – has done is to rip off the mask. He’s shown that you don’t even have to pretend to care. In Musk’s world, trust is mistrust and safety is censorship. His goal is chaos. And it’s coming.