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Donald Trump is not an aberration but a blueprint.

The Alphabet Workers Union said YouTube’s response to the insurrection was “lackluster” and inadequate. In a statement, the group said Google was not enforcing its own policies, while the platform was being used to “spread hatred and extremism.”

Ruth Ben-Ghiat delivers a superb examination of how close the US came to fascism – and how it has propped it up before.

Fascism, fascization, and antifascism 2021. Reports and analyses, with urgent words from Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad and Alain Badiou.

Many workers are turning to unions as they say say employers and government systems that are meant to protect them have failed.

There is another group of enablers who should be called to account: Corporate America.

As Covid-19 grew ever worse while 2020 ended, the stock market reached heights that hadn’t been seen before. Ever.

“One organising principle lies at the base of a wide array of Israeli policies: advancing and perpetuating the supremacy of one group – Jews – over another – Palestinians,” said B’Tselem, an organisation that documents human rights violations.

The Pentagon has done little to address the growing threat.

All the dirt on the media before, during and after the Capitol putsch, and other news