Trump’s Travel Ban: The View from One Permanently on U.S. Immigration’s Watch List

Trump’s immigration policy, security policy, and economic policy are all intertwined, and the lynchpin of the package is fear of the Other — that is, fear of those who are non-white and non-Christian. He’s both a creator and a creature of the new nativist movement that draws deep from the wellsprings of American prejudices about Latinos, Asians, Blacks, and Muslims.

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Europe’s Big Banks Are Fueling the Continent’s Far-Right Fascists

Source: Foreign Policy in Focus

Greece’s left-wing government stood up to their creditors, only to be politically executed. Is the far right set to pick up the mantle?

a moment this summer, it appeared that Greece had cornered its creditors. In a hotly contested vote in which their European neighbors openly intervened, Greeks overwhelmingly voted to reject more austerity.

In a controversial turnaround, however, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras then submitted to the demands of eurozone leaders for more austerity measures in return for a bailout loan of 86 billion euros. Tsipras lamented that he’d had no choice — resistance would have meant a forcible exit from the eurozone. read more