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Data leak reveals how China ‘brainwashes’ Uighurs in prison camps
By BBC Staff, BBC News, November 2019
The Chinese government has consistently claimed the camps in the far...
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What does it look like when citizens don’t trust elections?
by Thomas Pepinsky, TomPepinsky.com, August 2016
Perhaps more than anything that he has said through his campaign, Donald Trump’s charge that the upcoming presidential elections will be...
Students celebrated Mexican heritage at a La Quinta library. They were told to next...
Mandating homogenous cultural parameters is classic authoritarian behavior.
There’s a reason Trump keeps lying about voter fraud
Making up charges against those who disagree with the government is classic authoritarian behavior.
Trump directs Justice Department to investigate ‘criminal leaks’
The use of governmental power to target individual citizens for retribution is classic authoritarian behavior.
Trump says in interview he is the sole arbiter of truth
by Jonathan Chait, Intelligencer - NY Magazine, November 2018
The conservative movement has long dismissed the value of neutral expertise — environmental scientists, arms control analysts,...
Sanders says Trump calling media ‘enemy of the people’ is not blaming the media
Turning media into an enemy of the people is classic authoritarian behavior.
Former FBI lawyer is dropping big hints about Trump obstructing justice
by Jonathan Chait, Intelligencer - NY Magazine, November 2018
Most of the public fascination surrounding the legal ordeal of President Trump has attached itself to whether...
Trump administration seeks criminal crackdown on pipeline protests
by Ben Lefebvre and Anthony Adragna, Politico, June 2019
The Trump administration is joining calls to treat some pipeline protests as a federal crime, mirroring...
Intimidation
Brazilian president’s son suggests using dictatorship-era tactics on leftist foes
By Tom Phillips, The Guardian, November 2019
Voices from across Brazil’s political spectrum have condemned the son of the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, after he suggested hardline dictatorship-era tactics might be needed to...
Trump campaign boasts president is ‘no Mr Nice Guy’ in new ad
By David Smith, The Guardian, November 2019
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is well under way with a dark advert featuring dramatic music and a brutally simple message: “He’s No Mr Nice Guy.”
The commercial...
Students burn Latina author’s book after she discusses white privilege
By Lois Beckett, The Guardian, October 2019
When a Latina author discussed white privilege at a public university in Georgia, a group of white students burned copies of her book.
A video of the...
Fearmongering
Francophobia is donning new populist clothes in Canada
by Stephanie Chouinard/Serge MiVille, The Globe and Mail, November 2018
In the next few weeks in New Brunswick, Blaine Higgs’ Progressive Conservative Party will form the...