Don’t fall for authoritarian hype. It can be stopped
#Populist #nationalist surge exposes new, unavoidable truth we ignore at our peril: #authoritarian #ethnic nationalism
It's replaced neoliberalism as dominant ideology, giving a world of firsts:
- America 1st
- India 1st
- China first
- Russia 1st
- My tribe 1st
Nationalism explains why world now has 91 #autocracies & only 88 #democracies
It's force behind almost every 1 of world’s 59 border conflicts & civil wars
Trump doesn’t have a desire to take over #Greenland, Silicon Valley has.
This is part 1 of the Silicon Valley billionaires’ plan to take over the whole world.
This is about the #NetworkState. The plan to build pure corporate #autocracies, as the next superpower of the world.
They see the end of nation states and #democracy, and yearn for a world where #corporations rule supreme.
#RepublicOfGeorgia: First year of #Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how #autocracies are replicating #Russian model − and speeding up the time frame
Published: March 28, 2025 6:25am EDT
"#Autocracy is on the move worldwide and becoming more resilient.
"One of the driving forces behind this phenomenon is something scholars call '#AuthoritarianLearning,' a process by which autocratic leaders study each other and adapt tactics based on what appears to work, and how to proceed when they encounter #resistance.
"Take Georgia. The ruling Georgian Dream party has steered the Caucasus nation from a path toward democracy back to autocracy – and it has done so by learning from Russia. In particular, it adopted a '#ForeignAgent' law in May 2024 – legislation that came straight from #VladimirPutin’s playbook.
"Sold to the public as increasing #transparency, the legislation has been utilized to persecute Georgia’s #opposition and arrest #dissidents with impunity.
"As researchers examining the structure and effects of autocratic regimes, we view Georgia’s first year of its foreign agent law as an example of how politicians are not only learning the tactics of Russian authoritarianism but improving on them in a shorter time frame."
#RightToProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GeorgianLaws #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #HumanRights #RepublicOfGeorgia #GeorgianDream #ProtestSponsors #ExpandedPolicePowers #PoliceState #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Autocracy
Trump is testing waters on Ukraine to see how far he can go elsewhere
A ‘win’ in #Ukraine may lead Trump to act in #Gaza, #Canada or #Greenland
Globally #Trump’s focus is cooperating with world’s leading #autocracies & #oligarchies to get #US get richer at the expense of just about everyone else.
In part, this is because the Trump administration is testing the waters to see just how far and how rapidly it can go.
"A month ago, #JoeBiden was #PresidentoftheUnited States, and for all of his sclerotic tendencies and faults, while he held that office no-one was in any doubt where the #President stood: that he believed in the #Westernalliance, favoured #democracies, abhorred #autocracies, and would defend #Europe."
(2) We're waking up to a new US/Russia axis - by Lewis Goodall
https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/were-waking-up-to-a-new-usrussia?utm_medium=ios
→ Zuckerberg's free speech pivot will abet Southeast Asia's authoritarians
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Zuckerberg-s-free-speech-pivot-will-abet-Southeast-Asia-s-authoritarians
“Autocracies worldwide are not just learning from one another but actively collaborating to tighten their grip on the #digital sphere. #Meta's double standard -- resisting regulation in #democracies while bowing to #authoritarian demands to protect its #market dominance -- risks becoming the blueprint for a darker, more repressive digital #future.”
Playbook of #autocracies explained in new #book
#Autocratic regimes like #Russia are increasingly bold in efforts to undermine norms defining democratic #WorldOrder after WWII
A month after #RussiaInvadedUkraine, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said “this is not about Ukraine at all, but world order”
“The current war is fateful, epoch-making moment in modern history,” he continued. “It reflects battle over what world order will be.”
Autocratic regimes like Russia are becoming increasingly bold in their efforts to undermine the principles and norms that came to define the democratic world order in the aftermath of World War II. A month after the start of the full-scale war against Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov even declared “this is not about Ukraine at all, but the world order.” “The current (war) is a fateful, epoch-making moment in modern history,” he continued. “It reflects the battle over what the wor
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