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Kasparov and Gessen – Experiences in Autocracy

February 4, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From November 16, 2016, Masha Gessen writes in NYRDaily: Autocracy, Rules for Survival: Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. Rule #2: Do not be taken in by small signs of normality. Rule #3: Institutions will not save you. “The national press is likely to be among the first institutional victims of Trumpism. There is no law … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Politics, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: autocrat, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Corbyn, Dissenters, Donald Trump, Fascism, Franco, Garry Kasparov, Green New Deals, Hitler, Khodorkovsky, Masha Gessen, Medicare for All, Mussolini, Nazis, politician, Putin, Russia, Soviet Union, Trump, Trumpism

Trump’s War on Knowledge

October 13, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In a great article capturing the current efforts to make stupid “right”, Ariel Dorfman pulls together the stings in “Trump’s War on Knowledge.” From the NY Review of Books NYR Daily column, Oct 12, 2017.

Posted in: Politics, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: ¡Abajo la inteligencia! ¡Viva la muerte!, Chile, Donald Trump, Falangist, Federico García Lorca, General Francisco Franco, General José Millán Astray, Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Salvador Allende, Trump, Viktor Orbán

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