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These Should Be the End Times for American Patriotism

Exceptionalism has always been core to American patriotism, and American exceptionalism is no longer tenable.

May 14th, 2018

These Should Be the End Times for American Patriotism

Patriotism is the organising passion of modern political life in the United States yet its vitality defies obvious explanation. The country has no national education system. There’s neither compulsory military nor civil service. No government agency distributes the ubiquitous US flags, nor enforces observance of the rituals to country performed at

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Protests Sweep Japan to as Right-Wing Government Pushes for Further Militarization

Japan’s citizens are enraged by the nationalism gripping the former imperialist power. Inflammatory public displays by right-wing lawmakers along with a precipitous increase in the purchase of US weaponry have sparked massive protests.

May 05th, 2018

By Elliott Gabriel

Protests Sweep Japan to as Right-Wing Government Pushes for Further Militarization

TOKYO -- Massive protests took place across Japan on Thursday to mark 71st Constitution Memorial Day as tens of thousands of people rallied against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s continued attempts to scrap the pacifist aspects of the 1947 U.S.-penned Constitution. The protests drew up to 60,000 participants in Tokyo alone, where Japanese people of

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Elliott Gabriel

Elliott Gabriel is a former staff writer for teleSUR English and MintPress News based in Quito, Ecuador. He has taken extensive part in advocacy and organizing in the pro-labor, migrant justice and police accountability movements of Southern California and the state's Central Coast.

How Vladimir Putin’s and Donald Trump Exploit the Rise of Nationalist Christianity

Playing to a base that equates Christianity not with humble morality but with power and cultural purity, Trump performed Mephistophelean maneuvers to harden opposition to abortion and gun control.

April 13th, 2018

By Abby Day

How Vladimir Putin’s and Donald Trump Exploit the Rise of Nationalist Christianity

Russia has re-elected its self-styled leader and saviour, whatever his weaknesses – even his sins. The revelation that the Russian government may have ordered a former spy’s poisoning should provoke international outrage from Vladimir Putin’s fellow Christians, particularly as

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Abby Day

The Ideology That Unites Trump and the Authoritarians He Admires

For Trump and his majoritarian cronies, it’s about propping up “besieged majorities” in multiethnic countries.

February 24th, 2018

By John Feffer

The Ideology That Unites Trump and the Authoritarians He Admires

Washington and New Dehli are having a mutual lovefest these days. Donald Trump is popular in India — where

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John Feffer

John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands (Dispatch Books/Haymarket, 2016).

Conflict Over the Name “Macedonia” Part of Larger Struggle for the Future of Greece

Greek authorities and the media may choose to brand the protesters “fascists,” “nationalists,” “xenophobes” or any number of other epithets, in an attempt to delegitimize them and their concerns. But what is fascist about being leery of U.S. and NATO intentions in the Balkans or opposing the nationalist, expansionist ambitions of a neighboring state?

January 29th, 2018

By Dr. Michael Nevradakis @dialogosmedia

Conflict Over the Name “Macedonia” Part of Larger Struggle for the Future of Greece

THESSALONIKI, GREECE (Analysis) – While international media outlets focused on the women’s rallies of this past weekend, in Greece a population that for several years has not participated in any large-scale protests came out in force on Sunday. Greeks gathered to oppose a deal between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of

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Dr. Michael Nevradakis

Dr. Michael Nevradakis is an independent journalist presently based in Athens, Greece. Michael is the host of Dialogos Radio, a weekly radio program featuring interviews and coverage of current events in Greece, and is a member of the communication faculty at Deree - The American College of Greece. He was previously a Fulbright scholar and completed his Ph.D. in Media Studies from The University of Texas in 2018.

The Crack-Up: Donald Trump And The Fourth Great Shattering

A country that hasn’t had a civil war in more than 150 years, where secessionist movements have caused merriment not concern, now faces divisions so serious, and a civilian arsenal of weapons so huge, that the possibility of national disintegration has become part of mainstream conversation

October 24th, 2017

By John Feffer

The Crack-Up: Donald Trump And The Fourth Great Shattering

When the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published his bestseller The Disuniting of America in 1991, he didn’t seriously entertain the worst-case scenario suggested by the title. At the

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John Feffer

John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands (Dispatch Books/Haymarket, 2016).

The Rise of Ukraine’s Ultra-Nationalist Christian Church

In Ukraine, politics have taken over religion and nationalists are turning WWII Nazi criminals into religious icons.

These Should Be the End Times for American Patriotism