Zelensky and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan have travelled to Damascus where they have been received by Syrian Foreign Minister As'ad Hassan al-Shibani for an official visit to the country.

In recent weeks, the Ukrainian president has travelled to numerous (Persian) Gulf countries where he has signed defence collaboration agreements to take advantage of Kiev's experience in the fight against drones and ballistic missiles.

Lovely brotherhood. All the CIA buddies uniting against Iran.
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"It is little wonder that the war against empathy has escalated at the same time as the war against books. One of the many ways we learn empathy is through reading. People who hate books are not readers, or, more likely, they are poor readers."

~ Jacqueline Allen Trimble

#fascists #storytellers #culture #historians #art #music #literature #imagination #empathy #books
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https://www.salvationsouth.com/whole-armor-poetry-jacqueline-allen-trimble/

The Whole Armor of Poetry

Alabama Poet Laureate Jacqueline Allen Trimble shows how poetry builds empathy and how reading can resist today’s wave of book bans.

Salvation South

"It’s a story of Übermenschen and heroes who once were great until the 'invasion' of the undesirables, who are often people of color, immigrants, uppity women, and LGBTQ+ folks."

#fascists #storytellers #culture #historians #art #music #literature #imagination #race #gender #LGBTQ
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"There’s a reason why fascists have always silenced and censored the storytellers, historians, and cultural workers first. They need to replace our collective memory with a single, mythical story written and perpetuated by the regime."

~ Rebecca Solnit quoted by Wajahat Ali

#fascists #storytellers #culture #historians #art #music #literature #imagination
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/hope-and-imagination-as-the-antidotes

Hope and Imagination as the Antidotes to Fascism and Despair with Rebecca Solnit

Author and activist Rebecca Solnit makes the case for memory, hope, imagination and action as the necessary ingredients to defeat fascists and cynics who believe positive change is an impossibility.

The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali
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"Why Fascists Hate Sociology

The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.

Fascists hate sociology, and not without cause: Some of the discipline’s most basic lessons can impede the authoritarian control fascists aim to exert over the state, the economy and society as a whole. The extent to which the architects of fascism consciously grasp sociology’s threat isn’t clear, nor is it clear how much it matters. Even if Florida’s (to take the most egregious example) anti-sociology politicians are acting on instinct, the results are the same. In their bones they know sociology is the enemy and must be neutralized.

Fascist efforts to control a populace employ a familiar set of strategies: Establish the purity of a people—white Christians, in the case of the U.S.—as under threat by outsiders; undermine empathy for outsiders by dehumanizing them; create a mythical past of national greatness; deny that injustice can be perpetuated by the routine workings of societal institutions; define present social arrangements as naturally or divinely ordained; and undermine, as much as possible, growth of the kind of self-knowledge that exposes the moral corruption of fascism.

The ultimate goal of fascism—anyone still squeamish about applying this term to the contemporary U.S. hasn’t been paying attention—is to align economic power with state power, in the interest of profits and wealth accumulation. To make this possible, a populace must be led to subordinate reason to emotion. At root, that’s how fascist control works: Offer relief from feelings of insignificance and powerlessness in exchange for obedience. Sociology is about nurturing, on the contrary, capacities for critical self-reflection and rational self-government. Which is, of course, a danger to oligarchs and their hangers-on."

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/04/02/why-fascists-hate-sociology-opinion

Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)

The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
“the historical #fascists actually did believe in struggle, which he does not. #Trump believes in saying words and then having things handed to him on a silver platter.”

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