(2024-07-11). Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized. dissidentvoice.org 
The U.S. government is working to re-shape the country in the image of a totalitarian state. This has remained true over the past 50-plus years no matter which political party held office. This will remain true no matter who wins the 2024 presidential election. In the midst of the partisan furor over Project 2025, a …
(2024-07-11). Coalition To March On The RNC Is Set To Protest In Milwaukee On July 15. popularresistance.org Milwaukee, WI — With the Republican National Convention just a week away, some are asking "Why march on the RNC?" However, the correct question should be: "Why not? Why not march on the Republican National convention? Why not march on those leading the attacks on women's and reproductive rights? Why not march on those leading attacks on trans, immigrants and human rights in general?" | The Republicans have left us no shortage of reasons to mobilize and amplify the people's agenda over their racist and reactionary agenda. | While the Republicans may not be in control of the executive branch of the U.S. gover…
(2024-07-11). Hungary opposes EU's levying tariffs on Chinese EVs. ecns.cn Hungary on Wednesday voiced its opposition against the EU's decision to impose extra tariffs on China-made electric vehicles (EVs), as European officials and businesspeople continued to express their dissatisfaction of the EU actions.
(2024-07-11). Mixed edible oil transport slammed. ecns.cn Tanker trucks in China transporting edible oils and chemicals without proper cleanings in between trips cross the bottom line of food safety management and reflect a lack of quality control among involved enterprises.
(2024-07-11). Fascism at the Gates. counterpunch.org 
"Now is the time of monsters." — Antonio Gramsci Two recent events have shattered complacency about the specter of a fascist takeover globally that a number of us have been warning about for some time now. In Europe, far-right parties scored impressive gains in the elections to the European Parliament in June. In Germany, the
(2024-07-11). Monday 7/15: Stop Using AI To Steal: At Sam Altman's $45 Million SF Mansion Stop Technofascism. indybay.org Billionaire Sam Altman's $45 Million Pacific Heights Mansion | 950 Lombard St, San Francisco…
(2024-07-11). Monday 7/15: Project 2025: How Christian Nationalism Threatens Our Democracy w/ Heather Cox Richardson. indybay.org Zoom: redwine-blue.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e-XCH1TZQyiBlWxT61gANg#/registration…
(2024-07-11). IBT SOB Don't Go to Republican Convention! Fascism, Labor & IBT SOB's Visit to Rep Convent. indybay.org Teamster president Sean O'Brien has said that he is going to the Republican national convention despite the union busting anti-labor racist record. General Vice President of the Teamster John Palmer is calling on SOB not to attend the convention and also urging Teamsters to call on the officers and SOB not to attend.
(2024-07-11). Javier Milei celebrated Argentine independence with lavish military parade. peoplesdispatch.org Several people have criticized the expensive parade in a country where, according to Milei himself, "there is no money". In addition, they have seen a certain relationship between the official acts with the past military dictatorship and the armed coup groups.
(2024-07-11). If money is speech, then speech isn't free. peoplesworld.org 
I was a student in the late 2000s when I had my first brush with "cancel culture." A campus group had invited Nick Griffin — a racist Holocaust denier and leader of a fascist British political party, among other charming things — to speak. Many shocked students, including me, called Griffin's views vile and warned …
(2024-07-11). Love among the artists: Leo and Gilda and Otto in 'Design for Living'. peoplesworld.org 
LOS ANGELES — Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is presenting a spicy adaptation of Noà´l Coward's salaciously audacious, eyebrow-raising ribald romp Design for Living. During the 1930s, as the Great Depression and rise of fascism devastated and threatened the world, a genre called "Proletarian Theater" entered Broadway, stage left. This pro-worker trend included Clifford Odets's landmark Waiting …
(2024-07-11). Finland, Sweden pretend to boycott EU meeting in Hungary. plenglish.com Helsinki, Jul 11 (Prensa Latina) Finland and Sweden are going to boycott the European Union (EU) ministerial meetings in Hungary, the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat informed, quoting sources.
(2024-07-11). Hungary warns about consequences of Ukraine's admission to NATO. plenglish.com Budapest, July 11 (Prensa Latina) The entry of Ukraine into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would weaken the unity and defensive capacity of the bloc, declared today the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó.
(2024-07-11). Karsai v Hungary: little new on assisted dying. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
Introduction The applicant in the ECtHR case of Karsai v Hungary, Mr Karsai, a 47-year-old human-rights lawyer who lives in Budapest, was diagnosed in 2022 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — a neurodegenerative disease that causes a progressive loss of motor neuron function leaving the patient completely paralysed, while preserving intellectual function. Mr Karsai maintains …
(2024-07-11). Grey Anderson: Imperium Uncloaked. newleftreview.org Grey Anderson on Tom Stevenson, Someone Else's Empire. Lucid anatomization of the American imperium, with a devastating assessment of the UK's equerry role.
(2024-07-11). Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Blood and Bombast. newleftreview.org Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Vinayak Chaturvedi, Hindutva and Violence and Janaki Bakhle, Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. Intellectual biographies of Hindu nationalism's Mazzini-inspired theoretician.
(2024-07-11). Russia court rejects appeal by jailed rights advocate Oleg Orlov. aljazeera.com Co-chair of Nobel Prize-winning Memorial group says he has 'no regrets', compares Russian justice with Nazi Germany.
(2024-07-11). Hungary's Orban will visit Trump in Florida after Nato summit in Washington. scmp.com Visit is likely to fan concerns among Nato allies that the Hungarian leader is working as an intermediary between Putin and Trump.
(2024-07-11). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.