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‘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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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.

Orwell was right: free speech is important but it is not enough | David Dwan

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Freedom of expression is a dangerous licence when severed from any commitment to truth, as cyber-thugs reveal daily

It’s been an eventful week for what we used to call truth. The Saudi government has finally admitted that Jamal Khashoggi has been killed, although its account of how this happened is as implausible as the various denials it supplants. That we rely on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the world’s most enthusiastic jailer of journalists, to help establish the facts is one of the ironies of a post-truth world.

Talk about the demise of truth is always liable to sound histrionic and naive. After all, we have long been told that the prince must be “a great feigner and dissembler” (this is Machiavelli, not the House of Saud), and “realists” ever since have stressed the usefulness of illusions and the necessity of lies. Indeed, recent research by Ezra Zuckerman Sivan indicates that a large constituency of voters expect their political heroes to lie on their behalf.

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Trump administration trying to define transgender out of existence – report

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  • New York Times cites government memo
  • Gender would be defined at birth as only male or female

The Trump administration is attempting to strip transgender people of official recognition by creating a narrow definition of gender as being only male or female and unchangeable once determined at birth, the New York Times reported.

Related: ‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is a poisonous lie used to discredit trans people

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