Thread by @Pamacious

"Noam Chomsky: We Must Confront the 'Ultranationalist, Reactionary' Movements Growing Across Globe"
democracynow.org/2019/4/12/noam…

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"We are facing the spread of what’s sometimes called the ultranationalist, reactionary international, trumpeted openly by its advocates, including Steve Bannon, the impresario of the movement."
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"The Netanyahu election in Israel solidified the reactionary alliance that’s being established, all of this under the U.S. aegis, run by the triumvirate, the Trump-Pompeo-Bolton triumvirate..."

ricochet.com/podcast/whiske…, thehumanist.com/magazine/july-…
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"The Middle East alliance consists of the extreme reactionary states of the region—Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt under the most brutal dictatorship of its history, Israel right at the center of it—confronting Iran."

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"Severe threats that we’re facing in Latin America. The election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil put in power the most extreme, most outrageous of the right-wing ultranationalists who are now plaguing the hemisphere."
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"Yesterday, Lenín Moreno of Ecuador took a strong step towards joining the far-right alliance by expelling Julian Assange from the embassy. He’s picked up quickly by the U.S., will face a very dangerous future unless there’s a significant popular protest."
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"Mexico is one of the rare exceptions in Latin America to these developments. This has happened—in Western Europe, the right-wing parties are growing, some of them very frightening in character."
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💭If Sanders submits his tax returns as promised, the following countermovement is a key reason why I'd consider him for president again: he's thinking globally at a level I haven't observed in the other candidates, and that's vital to shoring up our democracy.
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"Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece, a very significant, important individual, along with Bernie Sanders, have urged the formation of the Progressive International to counter the right-wing international that’s developing."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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"At the level of states, the balance looks overwhelmingly in the wrong direction. But states aren’t the only entities."

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"At the level of people, it’s quite different. And that could make the difference."
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"That means a need to protect the functioning democracies, to enhance them, to make use of the opportunities they provide, for the kinds of activism that have led to significant progress in the past could save us in the future."
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Read the article or watch the full show:

Noam Chomsky: We Must Confront the “Ultranationalist, Reactionary” Movements Growing Across Globe
democracynow.org/2019/4/12/noam…

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