Dozens of US lawmakers urge Biden to raise rights issues with Modi, letter shows
Dozens of U.S. President Joe Biden's fellow Democrats urged him on Tuesday to raise human rights issues with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Washington this week, according to a letter sent to Biden.
The U.S. lawmakers said they were concerned about religious intolerance, press freedoms, internet access and the targeting of civil society groups.
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⬆「Haldenwang said there were “astonishing parallels” between the present and the 1920s and 1930s that should prompt concern.
“For too long there was too little opposition to the rise of extremism and authoritarianism,” he told a conference of security experts Monday. “Ninety years ago an elected extremist party gained power that first led Germany into a dictatorship and finally toward total ruin.”
While the current conditions are different than a century ago, Haldenwang said Russia’s attack on Ukraine last year has been seized upon by “intellectual arsonists on the new right, demagogues and extremist ideologues, conspiracy theorists and influencers for foreign powers” who have helped stoke anxiety and polarization in some parts of society.
Germany and other European countries have expelled a considerable number of suspected Russian spies since the outbreak of war and sought to curb its state-backed media. China is also increasingly being seen as a threat in the theater of “hybrid warfare,” though Beijing’s efforts to undermine democracy in Germany and elsewhere are considered more subtle but potentially more dangerous.」
"IN DONALD TRUMP’S FOUR YEARS as president, the Republican party became increasingly authoritarian through a simple formula: Each time Trump crossed a line—firing people who investigated him, usurping the power to appropriate money, extorting a foreign government to help him win re-election—his apologists claimed that whatever he had done was within his rights.
That pattern has continued since Trump left office."
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Look at the engagements for these made up stories."
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None of the investors in Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of Jack's mal- & spyware medium is a supporter of democracy.
The birdsite is thus officially a dictatorial/totalitarian/authoritarian messaging platform adversely opposed to the norms, values, rules & laws of the United States, the European Union & the whole free world.
If this offends you, you're welcome. If we were less reluctant to speak ill of the dead, perhaps the living would take greater care to avoid giving those they leave behind cause to condemn their memory.
If #authoritarianism won almost everywhere and yet another world #war was unleashed, it is not because I occasionally donated money to an aid group for the benefit of people in #Ukraine.
It is because unconstrained #capitalism and its #fascist extreme have exactly this consequence. Every. Single. Time.
Why do some people across the political spectrum do all they can to defend authoritarianism?
Surely everyone can see from history that no political group or philosophy is immune to ruthless people rising to the top?
Why do some people go out of their way to defend the most awful things that leaders can do? Have they tied their identity so closely to a particular leader or party that they are unable to be critical towards them?
#FreeSpeech is not about whether you can use the n-word on Twitter: it’s about your right to criticise your rulers without retribution. The #metpolice are arresting people because they “might spoil some people’s enjoyment” if they protest later. This is #authoritarianism to protect an unelected billionaire.
Once more for emphasis: it is legal in the #UK now to arrest people if the cops think you might spoil the mood by disliking the king.
So the polls only closed less than half-an-hour ago and already a partial Govt, U-Turn on #voterID looks on the cards as there are widespread concerns that it has severely depressed the turnout...
I mean its not like the idiots weren't warned!
Voter suppression needs to be a little less obvious to work.
...become president and #PutinsPuppet, as I used to call #TFG in certain circumstances (e. g. #Ukraine), and if #Dems had not re-taken the #Senate--SMALL if's--the tipping point would have already been passed.
*The #PRC, like other authoritarian states, sees itself as a democracy.
The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer (m.youtube.com)
I would encourage everyone, regardless of leanings, to listen to the first chapter, to the end, including notes. That’s as far as I got between tcb, random pop-in guests, and conversing with my parent....