Tag: authoritarianism
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In Kyrgyzstan, authorities are no longer just reacting to stories — they are trying to stop them before they are told, dismantling entire newsrooms and effectively criminalizing journalism. https://www.occrp.org/en/project/uncensored-the-kyrgyzstan-project/inside-the-crackdown-kyrgyzstans-preemptive-assault-on-investigative-journalism?utm_source=social&utm_medium=bluesky more ›
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Giving the US access to El Salvador’s expanded prison system as an offshore gulag has made Nayib Bukele a darling of… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/tom-stevenson/the-mask-is-off?utm_campaign=3750239_20250903NewIssue&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,28DPB,3GWB87,46O6R,1 more ›
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Are we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/daniel-trilling/is-this-fascism more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/sEQnkmN First he came for the gangs; then, for his critics. Now Nayib Bukele has come for El Salvador’s constitution, and there is little to stop him staying in… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/nK4xVLq This event is part of our Age of the Strongman series. Click here to see the other events in the series. President Xi Jinping has ruled China for more than a decade.… more ›
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Paddy O’Connell speaks to so-called ‘rock star’ philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, who argues the case for a more “authoritarian” left-leaning leader on the global stage. Newsnight is the… more ›
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American investor Peter Thiel is involved in several of the intellectual currents I cover – transhumanism and the new eugenics, psychedelics and the FDA, and the rise of the Tech… more ›
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Even those who expected the worst from his reelection (I among them) expected more rationality. Today, it is clear that what has happened since January 20 is not just a… more ›
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It’s no wonder so many people are confused about how to make sense of Trump’s second term. On January 20, 2025, Americans experienced far more than a shift in the… more ›
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Prior to the 2024 election, there was a debate about whether Donald Trump was a fascist. I thought that was the wrong moniker because fascism has specific associations with genocide… more ›