In A Time Of Monsters, The Worst Heroes
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Peter Magyar defeated Victor Orban in Hungary’s election earlier this week, leading to an outpouring of joy from the liberal media and political establishment. Many…
The United States Is On The Path To Fascism; How To Change Course
Posted by Joshua Scheer As the United States hurtles deeper into political, economic, and imperial crisis, the word “fascism” is no longer rhetorical—it’s descriptive. On this week’s Clearing the FOG,…
The Hardest Part of Fighting Fascism Comes After the Fascists Have Fallen
By Joel Westheimer for Truthout lived in Argentina in the mid-1980s, just after the fall of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983. The country was taking…
Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship Seeks to Further Codify White Supremacy
ByCamilo Pérez-Bustillo for Truthout the Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing early next year regarding historic challenges to the Trump administration’s attempt to undermine the Fourteenth Amendment’s longstanding guarantee of…
Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier
By Michelle Lynn Kahn for The Conversation Neo-Nazis, like these in Orlando, Fla., organize on social media today but were early adopters of precursors to the internet in the 1980s.…
‘Pretty Explicit White Nationalism’: Trump National Security Strategy Document Leaves Critics Aghast
By: Brad Reed for Common Dreams The Trump administration on Thursday released its official National Security Strategy, and many critics noted that it was loaded with rhetoric frequently used by…
Michael Brenner: Signposts to Perdition
Is Fascism the natural default setting for failed Constitutional democracies? ‘Natural’ in the sense that there is a connection between these societies’ characteristic features – especially ones figuring prominently in…