8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

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How US Activists Are Infiltrating Israeli Events Selling Palestinian Land - PopularResistance.Org
How US Activists Are Infiltrating Israeli Events Selling Palestinian Land - PopularResistance.Org
Outside of a synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey, a hundred people with PAL-Awda NY/NJ, a local Palestinian rights organization, gathered to protest an Israeli real estate event taking place there on Nov. 13. The protesters accused the realtors from My Israel Home, an Israeli real estate company based outside of Jerusalem, of marketing Palestinian land. They also said that the company was discriminating against event attendees by religion, effectively excluding everyone except especially religious Jews. According to PAL-Awda, the protesters were attacked by counter-protesters, including an organizer of the event, armed with pepper-spray and tactical flashlights wielded as bludgeons.
·popularresistance.org·
How US Activists Are Infiltrating Israeli Events Selling Palestinian Land - PopularResistance.Org
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Me_IRLGBT
14K votes, 196 comments. 361K subscribers in the me_irlgbt community. be gay do crime
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Me_IRLGBT
Fascism shattered Europe a century ago — and historians hear echoes today in the U.S. - Berkeley News
Fascism shattered Europe a century ago — and historians hear echoes today in the U.S. - Berkeley News
After the mass death and destruction of World War I, with their economies shredded by inflation and unemployment, Italy and Germany turned from democracy to dictatorships. UC Berkeley scholars see troubling parallels in contemporary American democracy.
·news.berkeley.edu·
Fascism shattered Europe a century ago — and historians hear echoes today in the U.S. - Berkeley News
The Rise of the Meritocratic Elite
The Rise of the Meritocratic Elite
Unlike in previous eras, elite reproduction today is now hidden under the veil of meritocracy — creating a need among the rich to present themselves as if they were just like us.
·jacobin.com·
The Rise of the Meritocratic Elite
New tracker spotlights corporate criminals Trump could let off the hook - Alternet.org
New tracker spotlights corporate criminals Trump could let off the hook - Alternet.org
The progressive advocacy group Public Citizen on Tuesday launched a new project aimed at tracking the incoming Trump administration's approach to corporate crime, an effort the watchdog said is particularly urgent given that many of the companies currently under federal investigation have connection...
·alternet.org·
New tracker spotlights corporate criminals Trump could let off the hook - Alternet.org
Historian reveals how Hitler 'dismantled' democracy in less than two months
Historian reveals how Hitler 'dismantled' democracy in less than two months
After Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, he promptly packed the government full of loyalists and used Weimar Germany's constitution to turn himself into an absolute dictator.In a Wednesday essay for the Atlantic, historian Timothy W. Ryback, who is the director of the Insti...
·alternet.org·
Historian reveals how Hitler 'dismantled' democracy in less than two months
Pro-Israel passenger harasses American Airlines flight attendants for wearing a watermelon pin. The passenger claimed he was being discriminated against, while unironically equating a watermelon with terrorism.
Pro-Israel passenger harasses American Airlines flight attendants for wearing a watermelon pin. The passenger claimed he was being discriminated against, while unironically equating a watermelon with terrorism.
4.3K votes, 271 comments. 833K subscribers in the LateStageCapitalism community. A One-Stop-Shop for Evidence of our Social, Moral and Ideological…
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Pro-Israel passenger harasses American Airlines flight attendants for wearing a watermelon pin. The passenger claimed he was being discriminated against, while unironically equating a watermelon with terrorism.