HeyJaredPatrick Smyth
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âDe-demonisationâ of Europeâs far right clears ground for resurgence of fascist ideas (opens the original)
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The likely election of Ulrich Siegmund of far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) next weekend in the Saxony-Anhalt länder or state has much of democratic Germany deeply fearful. Currently polling at around 43 per cent, like the AfD in neighbouring former East German states of Thuringia and Saxony, his victory will be the first time a far-right premier rules one of the countryâs länder since the Federal Republicâs 1949 founding. But not, many fear, the last. The partyâs rise, German
âIt has already begunâ: Finland prepares for the unthinkable from Russia (opens the original)
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Flanking the four-metre-high fence, laced with surveillance cameras, sensors and coils of barbed wire, are matching fibreglass marker posts: blue and white on the Finnish side, green and red on the Russian. Only the bears enjoy freedom of movement, slipping through specially installed animal gates. The fence stretches through the forests and lakelands of most of this 1,300km Finnish borderland, the most easterly point of continental European Union and the longest line of defence between the unio
Patrick Smyth: Netanyahuâs career may be in its final stages, but what follows wonât be much better (opens the original)
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These are some of the issues not occupying the Israeli electorate in advance of voting on October 27th: the plight of Palestinians, the continued occupation of Gaza and persecution of its people, the conduct of the war against Iran and Lebanon, the continued expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank, apparently with the connivance of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the damage to Israelâs international standing. Instead, Binyamin âBibiâ Netanyahu â and the prospect of a final
Opinion: For Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage, the electorate is the only court that counts (opens the original)
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Much of the success of global populist movements, from Donald Trump to Viktor Orban, has arisen from their ability to present themselves as genuine, uncontaminated, âapoliticalâ voices of the âpeopleâ. They convince voters they are the silent majority â those dispossessed and alienated from a democratic system subverted by elites, technocrats and experts. When exposed as just as corrupt as the elites they claim to oppose, it becomes critically important to throw themselves on the mercy
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