2021 started as a banner year for LGBTQ rights. In January, newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden signed a pair of executive orders to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and reverse a ban on transgender individuals serving in the military that was instituted by his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. The same month,…
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Article: On Fascism: Its Definition in its Historical Context, for 2023, Parts 1 & 2 - In this column, I publish in sequence the two consecutive and related columns on the subject of fascism and its definition(s), drawn from the European/Asian experience of the 20th century. The threat in the U.S. is real, supported strongly by that sector of the capitalist ruling class that believes that in order to maintain control of state power, they will need to turn from parliamentary democracy to fascism. This is no drill
Article: On Fascism: Its Definition in its Historical Context, for 2023, Part 1 - This is one of my periodic columns on fascism, its definition(s) and history. (You find links for some of the previous ones in the body of the text. As some of you know, I published my first, and very extensive, text on the subject, The 15% solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022, in 1996. The 3rd Version was published in 2013. It is available on Amazon (as advertised on OpEdNews.
Article: On Fascism: Its Definition in its Historical Context, for 2023, Part 1 - This is one of my periodic columns on fascism, its definition(s) and history. (You find links for some of the previous ones in the body of the text. As some of you know, I published my first, and very extensive, text on the subject, The 15% solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022, in 1996. The 3rd Version was published in 2013. It is available on Amazon (as advertised on OpEdNews.