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DESCRIPTION:Almost a quarter of a way into the 21st century, a new kind of right wing 
 has emerged with leaders like Trump in the US, Erdogan in Turkey, Orban in 
 Hungary, and Modi in India exerting dominance in the arenas of culture, 
 society, ideology, and economy. This right wing is not necessarily 
 concerned with overthrowing the norms of liberal democracy, nor does 
 liberalism provide a shield against this new far right. Fascism is no 
 longer a sufficient term, since it denies the intimacy between liberal and 
 far right forces that we witness today. \n\nAt the same time, through 
 provocations and threats, and the arming of Ukraine against the military 
 incursion of Russia, the US has found the excuses it needed to expand NATO 
 and subordinate almost all of Europe in the Global North, and in the Global 
 South, banking on the provocations towards China in the South Seas and 
 Taiwan, to expand NATO and its own military might in countries ranging from 
 the Philippines to Australia to Argentina.  In the Middle East, the United 
 States also is coming near to completing its plans of hegemony with the 
 arming of Israel in its campaign of genocide against Gaza/Palestine and 
 threat of regional war throughout the Middle East.  \n\nAs Vijay Prashad 
 writes, it is a qualitative change within the imperialist system.  The US 
 is now approaching completion of its economic, political, and military 
 consolidation into an integrated and militarily focused imperialist bloc. 
 It aims to maintain a grip on the Global South as a whole and has turned 
 its attention to dominating Eurasia, the last area of the world that has 
 escaped its control.\n\nVijay Prashad, executive director of the 
 Tricontinental Institute, is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the 
 author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the 
 Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, 
 The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and The 
 Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power, 
 written with Noam Chomsky. He is the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, 
 and the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi).\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/08/23/18868894.php
SUMMARY:Webinar: The Rise of Authoritarianism and Hyper-Imperialism
LOCATION:Online\nhttps://masspeaceaction.org/event/authoritarianism-hyper-imperialism/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/08/23/18868894.php
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