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Zivilrecht könnte Modi die Rechte von religiösen Minderheiten beschneiden", sagt Christian Wagner von der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). Die Hindutva-Ideologie des Premiers, die eine autoritäre und nationalistische Ausrichtung auf einen politisch-kulturell verstandenen Hinduismus vorsieht, treffe vor allem die rund 200 Millionen Muslime im Land. Hass gegen Muslime wird geschürt Die...
zudem ihr eigenes Land und dessen Ansehen ramponiert hat. Realistisch ist ein Szenario, bei dem Russland nach einem Ende der Kämpfe aus dem Krieg geschwächt herauskommt: politisch instabiler und autoritärer, sozial und regional tiefer gespalten, militärisch enger umstellt, mit weniger internationalem Einfluss. Die Bevölkerung, die Familien bezahlen diesen Krieg mit dem Leben der Soldaten. Wie...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
[...] The hard core of habitually right-wing extremists, which in East Germany has already been augmented by the older GDR cohorts - functionaries, sympathizers and followers of Stalinism who cannot live in a society that is authoritarian enough - is now receiving new supplies from a center that has become uninhabitable for citizens who no longer behave like stupid students...
Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good
However, this was not the case, but rather a dictatorial system under strong Soviet influence. An all-powerful party, the “Socialist Unity Party of Germany” (SED), ruled there in an authoritarian manner. Her tool for securing power was a secret service subordinate to her, the Stasi. This is the colloquial abbreviation for the “Ministry for State Security”, abbreviated “MfS”, which is...
Freedom of the press threatened: for or against power? Wikileaks, FragDenStaat, Correctiv: The state is closing in on freedom. But those who are supposed to defend them often encourage the authoritarian turn. This week the bad news about fundamental rights in liberal democracy, freedom of the press and freedom of expression is piling up again. [...] That's why the shortsightedness of many...
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
The court found that the aim was to eliminate them. The party aims to replace the existing constitutional order with an authoritarian state oriented towards the ethnic “national community”. Their political concept disregards the human dignity of everyone who does not belong to this "national community" and is incompatible with the principle of democracy... * NATO | Defense industry...
made. According to the US Constitution, he no longer meets the requirements for the office. The decision follows a similar ruling by the Supreme Court in the state of Colorado. Trump's authoritarian aspirations are real, and he showed his true colors during the storming of the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. But the decision from Maine raises questions: A legally binding...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
is increasingly falling out of use in political science. According to Jürgen Hartmann, the term autocracy competes with terms with the same meaning as dictatorship and authoritarian system (or authoritarian regime), so these terms are also used synonymously in the literature. Referred to as autocrats (ancient Greek αυτοκράτης autokrátes 'self-ruler')...
end up back in the niche... * AfD | Radical | Right-wing extremist sociologist on the radicalism of the AfD: “Something has shifted” Wilhelm Heitmeyer has studied authoritarian attitudes and right-wing extremism for decades. How does he explain Germany's shift to the right? taz: Mr. Heitmeyer, many have long seen the right-wing extremist AfD as a problem in the East. Now she also has...
150 years... * Party conference of the Greens | Traffic Light Coalition | Neoliberalism The Green Party: Two Years of Hypocrisy in Government Across Europe, Green government parties are becoming supporters of authoritarian liberalism. Strongest in Germany. Why is that? A guest comment. The federal party conference of the Greens is currently taking place in Karlsruhe. After almost two years of the traffic light coalition, it's time...
Leaders who, in turn, are prioritizing migration over climate policy are becoming more vocal. People would rather build walls than wind turbines. Global warming is fueling a form of authoritarian populism, which could also be observed in this country in the debate about the heating law, where the AfD used aggressive election posters such as “Let’s heat up the traffic lights” or “Stop the heating hammer”...
Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism
USA, France, Italy, Austria and even the Scandinavian countries – a clear deficit in the conceptual tools. “Right-wing”, “right-wing populist”, “right-wing extremist”, “national-authoritarian” – all of these titles and their variations, especially in the word family around “populism”, are used again and again to describe very heterogeneous, but essentially structurally related, political phenomena ...
are becoming more and more widespread in society, according to a current study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. While a few years ago 2 to 3 percent of the population were affected by authoritarian and ethno-nationalist views, today the figure is around 8 percent. And 20 percent are assigned to a gray area that represents at least parts of the worldview of the “hard right”...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
could and should be further investigated... * Democracy | Europe A majority of Europeans do not believe they live in a democracy The results of a new study are alarming. Authoritarian attitudes have become entrenched. About democratic mistrust and undemocratic politics. In Germany, but also in many other European countries, there is currently a lot of controversy...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
with fascism: Besides reason How to deal with political paranoia? Because this disease not only has symptoms, it also has causes. Almost everywhere in Europe the same picture: authoritarian, populist, anti-democratic, right-wing extremist, neo-fascist movements and parties are gaining popularity, gaining influence and coming to power here and there. You can lie that the...
Democracy" by Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary has left the European Union in unrest, as have Poland's ruling Law and Justice party and other organizations that share its deeply authoritarian tendencies. Recently, Orban hosted a conference of Europe's far-right movements, some of which have neo-fascist roots .The US National...
Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine
Resilience | Authority “Those who cry with wolves” Obedience and resilience A neuropsychiatrist explains why only independent thinking and critical questioning can help to develop resilience against authoritarian structures. A review [...] Why do some people become followers and accomplices, while others do not? This is the question addressed by the French neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik (born...
The debate about the concerts of Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters can hardly be surpassed in terms of bizarreness. One could dismiss it with a weary shrug of the shoulders - if it didn't reveal a tendency that was both authoritarian and revisionist. After all, the police in Berlin, the former imperial capital and now the federal capital, are now investigating the 79-year-old Brit. There is initial suspicion...
Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS
and their land is being taken away from them,” she says. For this reason, many experts, activists and associations denounce the “green colonialism” that the EU would pursue through bilateral agreements with authoritarian developing countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt... * Iran | Nuclear agreement | IAEA nuclear agreement a long way off An Iranian nuclear bomb would be a threat to...
could be enforced... * Corruption | EU Parliament | Social Democrats | Morocco EU corruption case Eva Kaili: How "Qatargate" becomes "Moroccogate" According to investigators, the secret service and ambassadors of the authoritarian kingdom play a central role in the scandal. The EU corruption scandal surrounding Eva Kaili, now often called "Qatargate", is becoming more and more...
