When we speak of concepts like “totalitarianism” and “corporatism,” it is often assumed that fascism stands very far from the liberal market society that went before it, and which we are still experiencing today. But if we pay closer attention to Italian fascism’s economic policies, especially during the 1920s, we can see how some combinations typical of both the last century and our own were experienced already in the first years of Benito Mussolini’s rule. A case in point is the association between austerity and technocracy. By “technocracy,” I refer to the phenomenon whereby certain policies that are common today (such as cuts in social spending, regressive taxation, monetary deflation, privatizations, and wage repressions) are decided by economic experts who advise governments or even directly take over the reins themselves, as in several recent cases in Italy.
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High Stakes as Uncle Sam’s Days of Impunity Are Finally Over
The edifice of American imperial power has never been challenged at its foundation. It is now.
High Stakes as Uncle Sam’s Days of Impunity Are Finally Over
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No One Seems to Want to Investigate the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage Except Russia
Despite the UN’s apparent disinterest in pursuing a broader inquiry, Russia claimed this week that it would continue to pursue an international effort. “We will do everything in our power to continue to insist and to initiate such an international investigation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a conference call.
The Tragic Reality of Rachel Corrie’s Death
Twenty years ago on March 16, the world got a tragic glimpse into what the state of Israel was going to become. Given the green light in the Oval Office by President George W. Bush, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon – “a man of peace,” Bush said at the time – started the now-inevitable march to apartheid and the murderous treatment of the Palestinians against whom the main battle would be waged.
The Tragic Reality of Rachel Corrie’s Death
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The Bipartisanship Racket: Fellow Centrists Warn No Labels 2024 Bid Would Just Hurt Biden
JEEZ, can’t we all just get along? Can’t we be civilized? Can’t we reach across the aisle, find common ground and get things done? Can’t we have a new Morning in America as clubby and chipper as MSNBC’s daily gabfest, “Morning Joe”?
The Bipartisanship Racket
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Fellow Centrists Warn No Labels 2024 Bid Would Just Hurt Biden
Yay! Another party to support the “bipartisan consensus” on Ukraine and China! /sarcasm (the yellow is for piss)
Ukrainian army bombs ambulance in Donetsk, then releases video proving its war crime – 18+
On 23 February 2023, the Ukrainian army shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, killing four paramedics and injuring 10 rescue workers who had come to the scene after an initial shelling of the area. Two days later, a Tik Tok channel, obviously owned by a Ukrainian soldier, published the video from a drone showing the scene “live”, clearly indicating that this shelling of an ambulance and several teams of paramedics by the Ukrainian army was totally deliberate, and even worse, that this soldier is so proud of having done it that he is publishing the evidence of this war crime!
Ukrainian army bombs ambulance in Donetsk, then releases video proving its war crime – Donbass Insider
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US hands lit torch to Israeli arsonists
The US is paving the way for horrific violence against Palestinians by allowing Israel to go into settler-colony and apartheid overdrive.
US hands lit torch to Israeli arsonists
Another Durham review in need of investigation: torture
Is it time for an investigation of an investigation of an investigation? The original investigation led by Robert Mueller into Donald Trump and Russia led to an investigation of that investigation led by special counsel John Durham. Now reporting reveals that Durham’s inquiry was mired with ethical disputes and potential misconduct, and lawmakers are accordingly demanding another layer of investigation, this time into the Durham review itself.
Another Durham review in need of investigation: torture
The Russian Foreign Ministry reminded the Americans about the “Powell test tube”
The Russian Foreign Ministry mentioned to the United States about the «Powell test tube» and forecasts that it is not expected that that staging at the UN will be forgotten.
The Russian Foreign Ministry reminded the Americans about the “Powell test tube”
Uyghur Forced Labor Camps are the New WMDs in Iraq
In November 2022 The Breakthrough Institute (BTI), drawing from Academia, NGOs, and the UN, released a report, which others digested, on the supposed inextricable link between the solar industry’s supply chains and Uyghur slave prison labor in China. China denies such claims. The report praises initial moves by the US and the EU to counter these allegedly ongoing human rights violations and extols countries and the solar industry to move the various parts of its manufacturing process out of China. As the fight for nuclear and responsible renewable energy development intensifies in the US, this narrative is gaining traction as another tool to counter the 100% renewable extremists. However, the US also has a prison slave labor problem, one that it does not even deny. We are also in a time of ratcheting tensions between the US and China, in which these narratives would be useful in stoking anti-China sentiments. However, bringing up these facts in a simplistic argument leads to the inevitable accusation of whataboutism and little else. As such, it is worth making a more longform argument which clearly lays out the current conditions of slave labor in both countries. Once it is shown that China has progressed further along in the abolition of slavery than the US, it will be clear how this narrative is just another in a long list of anti-Chinese propaganda.
Uyghur Forced Labor Camps are the New WMDs in Iraq
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