A Spanish priest is facing up to three years in prison on "hate crime" charges for his heated words about Islam. "There is no longer any true right to free speech in Spain," he said.
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The German Government's growing clampdown on the insurgent Right-wing opposition is certainly illiberal and authoritarian, says Eugyppius, but it's not helpful to label it 'fascist'.
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Many on the 'new Right' propose that we should be 'Left on the economy and Right on culture'. This is not really possible, argues Dr David McGrogan: a state addicted to intervening in the economy will intervene everywhere.
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These are difficult, perilous, and frustrating times. Many cherished beliefs are coming unraveled. Many once-shared values are no longer shared. And distrust of unshakeable institutions is widespread. Yet it was only a little more than three decades ago that North America and European intellectuals joined in acknowledging the triumph of the Western world’s “gift” to […]
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For Comrade N. Sankaraiah (1922–2023) One of the curiosities of our time is that the far right is quite comfortable with the established institutions of liberal democracy. There are instances here and there of disgruntled political leaders who refuse to accept their defeat at the ballot box (such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro) and […]
The Munk debate on the 'crisis of liberalism' missed the plot, says Bruce Pardy. "No one mentioned Covid restrictions. No one mentioned the weaponisation of the legal system. No one mentioned government censorship."
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To think that tiny little Gaza is the spark that has refocused the energies of the whole region is a political miracle that many political scientists will find difficult to understand, let alone explain.
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The British people have had enough of their seemingly endless 'obligations' to impoverish themselves for the sake of others, and belatedly politicians are waking up to this, says J Sorel.
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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Back in the 1970s, the only big difference between liberals and progressives was that, whereas liberals, such as Hubert Humphrey, supported the military-industrial complex, progressives, such as George McGovern, opposed it. But, now, that difference has become expanded into a vast chasm, in which, whereas liberals support intensification of the […]
