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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Pope Francis says populism leads to Hitler

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Pope Francis has told young people that populism starts by sowing hate. He noted Hitler and Nazi Germany rose to power through the use of populism.

Postwar Spain: America’s shameful rapprochement to the Franco dictatorship | In English | EL PAÍS

Intelligence cables to which EL PAÍS has had access show that the United States asked Madrid for discretion regarding plans to quietly normalize relations between both countries

Source: Postwar Spain: America’s shameful rapprochement to the Franco dictatorship | In English | EL PAÍS

‘This is evil at work’: how should a small town react to neo-Nazis?

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Many progressives disagree on how best to fight the far right. This is how one rural Oregon community resisted

Laura Rose might go to prison for an anti-fascist action which has exacerbated a deep debate in a small Oregon town, but they say it wasn’t premeditated.

“I didn’t make a plan. I missed the bus,” Rose says, raising their eyebrows under a battered cowboy hat.

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Justin Trudeau says he is unlikely to cancel Saudi armored vehicles sale

How much does it take to buy Canadian morals? Not as much as US morals?

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Prime minister said the 2014 agreement had been written in such a way that taxpayers would have to pay a large amount to end it

Canada’s prime minister has said he is unlikely to cancel the sale of armored personnel carriers to Saudi Arabia, despite growing pressure to hold Riyadh accountable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Justin Trudeau said the 2014 agreement for light armored vehicles, signed by Canada’s previous Conservative government and a Canadian unit of US weapons maker General Dynamics Corp, had been written in such a way that taxpayers would have to pay a large amount of money to end it.

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The usual contradictions of fascist rhetoric. We’re superior, but victims. We’re in charge, but our opposition is to blame for everything. We’re winning, but be afraid all the time. https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1054351529539325953 …

The usual contradictions of fascist rhetoric. We’re superior, but victims. We’re in charge, but our opposition is to blame for everything. We’re winning, but be afraid all the time. https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1054351529539325953 …

Prominent Iraqi women in danger

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In just one month, Iraq has been rocked by the deaths of four women in what appear to be targeted attacks against outspoken and successful females. Two of those killed owned beauty parlours, a third was a human rights activist and a fourth was a model. Many Iraqis fear the deaths are part of a concerted effort to silence women who are challenging the country’s conservative norms. Our correspondent reports.