“History shows when extremist movements coalesce around a charismatic leader who focuses their anger..a tipping point is reached where extreme rhetoric is turned into violent action..violence tends to escalate unless..leadership [is] defeated.”@AOL aol.com/attack-capitol…
“Extremist movements also aggressively recruit from law enforcement and military communities to develop their hard power, a tactic perfected by the Islamic State, whose close alliance with Baathist military officers enabled it to launch a military-style juggernaut in 2014.”-@AOL
“IN THE RUN-UP to Uganda's general election on January 14th, social-media platforms are struggling to combat propaganda and fake news.”-@TheEconomist
“This week Facebook announced that it had taken down a network of government-linked accounts that it alleges engaged in ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour’ aimed at boosting support for Yoweri Museveni, the country’s president, at the expense of his opponents.”-@TheEconomist
1/ Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s latest book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, details the precise moment in time when fascism was born.
2/ “World War One was this cataclysmic change,” she told Byline Times. “Multiple empires fell, including the Russian Empire, Hapsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire. It created death on a scale no one had seen before. It created wounds no one had seen before because of new weapons.”