John McEvoy and Daniel Hunt Exclusive. Recently declassified documents reveal Britain’s enthusiastic support for Brazil’s 1964-85 dictatorship. Racist and colonial in tone, the files expose a secret propaganda unit infiltrating opposition media, and further evidence of covert training in torture. The ‘assiduous cultivation’ of Samuel Wainer In a 1969 file entitled ‘Information Research Department: operations in Brazil’,…
Category: FASCISM
Beware of Right Deviations That Have Emerged from the Three-Headed Crisis of US Imperialism
Danny Haiphong Libertarianism, like all capitalist ideologies, is bound with white supremacy. “Mass characterization of the partial ‘lockdowns’ in cities across the U.S. as ‘medical martial law’ deflected from the very real dangers of the U.S.-response to COVID-19.” Black Agenda Report places much of its attention on the Democratic Party, and for good reason. The…
The Bloody Horrors of Pinochet Showed How Capitalism Will Respond When It’s Threatened
Rainer Shea The reason why Pinochet’s regime tortured and killed tens of thousands of people, and why Pinochet’s far-right modern admirers glorify his actions, has to do with the psychology of power. Namely, the desire of the powerful to assert their power over the dominated group. When it’s in the context of the powerful stamping…
The Far-Right Oligarchs Working to Topple Mexico’s Progressive President AMLO
José Guadalupe Argüello III A Trump-like Mexican oligarch, Gilberto Lozano, is leading a coalition of corporate leaders and far-right fanatics called FRENA to try to overthrow President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s victory in Mexico’s 2018 presidential election marked a historic feat, promising a respite from a roughly 40-year period of continuous…
Mass-Tracking COVI-PASS Immunity Passports Slated to Roll Out in 15 Countries
Raul Diego Through the magic of Internet meme culture, most Millennials will be familiar with the famous opening scene of the 1942 film, “Casablanca,” where two policemen stop a civilian in the “old Moorish section” of Nazi-occupied French Morocco and ask him for his “papers.” The subject is taken away at once after failing to produce…
Speight of Black Men Found Hanged Sparks Fears of Wave of Racist Terror
Alan Macleod Amid nationwide demonstrations that have brought racist violence to public attention, at least five black people have been found hanged in suspicious circumstances, sparking fears that the incidents mark a wave of lynchings, not seen for decades. Suspicious Deaths Just two days after images showing Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd…
Socialism and Dignity: We Don’t Need Their Cops
Stephen Millies When the Pilgrims invaded the Wampanoag nation in the 1620s, they didn’t find any police or jails. Such cruelty wasn’t necessary. That’s because there were no rich or poor in Wampanoag society. A community of equals doesn’t need armed thugs with badges. Billionaires and banksters didn’t require protection since these parasites didn’t exist….
“I Can’t Breathe, Please, Please!”: The Martyrdom of George Floyd
Carla Stea Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or…
Azov International and the Global “Intermarium Revival”
Dave Emory The Azov flag (center) flanked by NATO (left) and Nazi (right) flags In numerous programs, we have noted international networking between the Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion and elements around the world: Azov is part of the “Intermarium Revival” that is seen as using Nazification of the Ukraine “pivot point” as a springboard for…
Arundhati Roy: “Indian Racism Towards Black People is Almost Worse than White Peoples’ Racism”
Dalit Camera DC: How do we support the movement in the U.S. and how does one show solidarity with people protesting in India? I’m assuming that you mean the massive protests that have erupted over the cold-blooded killing of George Floyd—the latest in a series of killings of African Americans by white American police. I…
Trump’s Antifa Conspiracy Theory Attempts to Erase Powerful Black-Led Organizing
Spencer Sunshine The George Floyd protests have swept the country in a spontaneous explosion of rage. Their scope and intensity have equaled the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, which inspired nationwide actions. But some widespread theories on the right are circulating about the protests that are attempting to undermine the work of Black-led organizing efforts. The…
The Anti-Black and Anti-Semitic History of “Outside Agitators”
IGD Interviews Spencer Sunshine With everyone from Trump, to media pundits, to fake “ANTIFA” accounts run by the far-Right, to state Governors repeating conspiracy theories and false information about “who is behind” the recent rebellion in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, we thought it would be a good time to discuss…
