Notices tagged with nationalism

A Win for MAGA's Nationalist Wing

#PoliticalAppointments #DarrenBeattie #RightWing #Nationalism #Conservatism

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/darren-beattie-state-department/681582/

#USPS Reverses Decision to Halt Parcel Service From #China

The Postal Service will continue to accept parcels from #HongKong & China despite a new #ExecutiveOrder from #Trump.

#economy #geopolitics #USpolitics #isolationism #Nationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/business/usps-china-de-minimis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Mehdi Hasan talks with Peter Beinart, author of the just-published Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.

"In the book, Beinart calls on the Jewish community to abandon a long-held narrative of persecution and victimhood in the wake of Oct. 7 and Israel’s war on Gaza. He urges Jews to tell a new story, one that recognizes victims can also be victimizers."

#Israel #Jews #Palestine #Gaza #antisemitism #Islamophobia #victimhood #nationalism #Zionism
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https://zeteo.com/p/peter-beinart-on-being-jewish-after

"Beinart hopes that the Jewish community can 'challenge the moral catastrophe that has happened' while also acknowledging how 'Judaism was swallowed by ethno-nationalism.'

'If you worship states, terrible things happen,' Beinart said."

#Israel #Jews #Palestine #Gaza #antisemitism #Islamophobia #victimhood #nationalism #Zionism
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Trump’s order to halt most #ForeignAid has intensified #humanitarian crises & raised questions about the #UnitedStates’ reliability as a global leader.

In #famine-stricken #Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a #WarZone have shut down.

In #Thailand, #war #refugees w/life-threatening #diseases have been turned away by hospitals & carted off on makeshift stretchers.

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Nationalism #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/world/asia/trump-usaid-freeze.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU4.jBI0.oogbZ7uNmnh2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The directive is part of a broader freeze on #ForeignAid initiated last week. It includes the President’s Emergency Plan for #AIDS Relief, the global #health program started by George W. Bush that is credited w/saving >25M lives worldwide.

The #Trump admin had already moved to stop #PEPFAR funding from moving to #clinics, #hospitals & other organizations in low-income countries.

#USpol #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #nationalism #ForeignPolicy

#Trump Halts #HIV Drug Distribution in Poor Countries

#PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as #Republican critics had hoped.

The Trump admin has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV #medications purchased w/ US aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained & are sitting in local clinics.

#ForeignAid #AIDS #health #USpol #nationalism #ForeignPolicy #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/health/pepfar-trump-freeze.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Appointments are being canceled, & patients are being turned away from clinics, acc/to people w/knowledge of the situation who feared #retribution if they spoke publicly. Many people w/ #HIV are facing abrupt interruptions to their treatment.

But most federal ofcls are also under strict orders not to communicate w/external partners, leading to confusion & anxiety, acc/to several people with knowledge of the situation.

#USpol #health #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #nationalism #ForeignPolicy

#US ofcls have also been told to stop providing technical assistance to national ministries of #health.

“The partners we collaborate with are in shock, & they do not know what to do because their lifesaving mission & commitment has been breached,” said Asia Russell, executive director of the advocacy group Health Gap.

#USpol #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #nationalism #ForeignPolicy #PEPFAR #HIV #AIDS

Interrupted #HIV treatment may also lead to the emergence of resistant strains that can spread across the world.

One study estimated that if #PEPFAR were to end, as many as 600,000 lives would be lost over the next decade in #SouthAfrica alone. And that nation relies on PEPFAR for only 20% of its HIV budget. Some poorer countries are almost entirely dependent on the program.

#USpol #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #nationalism #ForeignPolicy #AIDS

Some #Republican senators have campaigned against #PEPFAR’s reauthorization for 5 yrs, alleging that the program promoted abortions. In March, the program was renewed for 1 yr.

Without treatment, virus levels in people w/ #HIV will quickly spike, hobbling the immune systems of the infected people & increasing the odds that they will spread the virus to others.

About 1 in 3 untreated pregnant women may pass the virus onto their babies.

#USpol #Trump #nationalism #ForeignPolicy

CrashCourse: *A World Without Governments? #Anarchism Explained*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Ibq-9wulQ

I must admit (as an anarchist) that this is pretty good. Remember that #CrashCourse is part of #PBS, the US public broadcaster. Therefore I'm worried about their future under the Trump-regime.

But yes I have some criticism and that's about their attempt to have some criticism. At the end they give some bad examples of anarchism, as part of the criticism that because of a lack of central control, everyone against the government can call themselves anarchist. Yes of course everyone can, but that doesn't mean that they are.

Let me explain. Anarchism is not only about anti-government or anti-state. Anarchism is about no authority, therefore no hierarchies and against authoritarianism. As a result anarchists are against every form of #oppression, including economic oppression like #capitalism, gender oppression like #sexism and the #patriarchy, #racism, #fascism, #LGBTIQIA-hate, oppression against #nature and #animals (#ecocide), and yes also against nation #states (and their oppressing tools like the #police, the #military and #nationalism) and of course their governments.

Some call this #intersectional, some call it total liberation/struggle. Our tools are mutual aid, direct action and #prefiguration.

Trump fans in border states support 'America First' -- even at the expense of their northern neighbours

#ForeignPolicy #AmericaFirst #Nationalism #TrumpSupporters #BorderStates

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/trump-border-states-america-first-1.7439925?cmp=rss

Yukio Mishima's lifelong death wish

#Aesthetics #MishimaYukio #Nationalism #FarRight #DeathWish

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/01/yukio-mishimas-lifelong-death-wish

Dispatch from the Front Line: "Canada" is a question of what we can get

#CanadaIdentity #CulturalSovereignty #Nationalism #CanadianValues #ThoughtExperiment

https://www.readtheline.ca/p/dispatch-from-the-front-line-canada-0ff

The Line Podcast: Can what's left of Canadian identity resist Trump?

#GlobalPolitics #Nationalism #CanadianIdentity #MediaAnalysis #InternationalRelations

https://www.readtheline.ca/p/the-line-podcast-can-whats-left-of

'Canada is not yours,' Canadians are offended by Kevin O'Leary's support to make Canada the 51st state of the U.S.

#Canada #OffendedCanadians #USPolitics #Nationalism #KevinOLeary

https://nowtoronto.com/news/canadians-are-offended-by-kevin-olearys-support-to-make-canada-the-51st-state-of-the-u-s/

Trump promotes "America First" nationalism to head off potential second strike on US East Coast docks

#PotentialConflict #AmericaFirst #TrumpAdministration #Nationalism #ImmigrationPolicy

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/14/dock-d14.html

"Spreading fear and silencing
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"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
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"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”.

"By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.

"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority

#coloniality #landGrab #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #freeSpeech #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism

Koyo Kouoh appointed curator of 2026 Venice Biennale

#Curator #VeniceBiennale #BiennaleArte2026 #Nationalism #MeloniGovernment

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/03/koyo-kouoh-appointed-as-curator-of-2026-venice-biennale