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The Tocsin 8/14

#Seebrücke Documents & Texts: Causes Of Fleeing - A Global Perspective On Climate & Migration More Letters From Eco Activist In German Jail For Protecting Forest From RWE Germany: SPD Crumbling As Repressive Pro-Detention Camp "Left Caucus Of CDU" Donald Trump Cuddles Up To Far-Right Antisemite Viktor Orban The NSA’s Role In A Climate-Changed World: Spying On Nonprofits, North Pole The Disappearance Of The Aral Sea Is An Ecological Tragedy – So Why Is Tourism Booming? Monsanto's Fraudulent Attempt To Overturn Cancer Ruling Won't Succeed - Experts The Hope Of Alterglobalist Ecosocialism: "A Crisis Not Of Nature But Of Society" Labour Prepares For Sellout On IHRA Code With Few Caviets Corbyn Wreath Attack Narrative Collapsing Even As Labour Gains In Polls McDonnell: Forget The Smears, Fight For No. 10 - The Poor Are Getting Poorer. How The Thatcherites Sold BP - And How An Arab State Almost Got Control PODCAST: Setting...

The Tocsin 8/13

CORBYN, NETANYAHU SPAR ON TWITTER Galloway: Media Drowning In Its Own Mendacity Over Wreath Scandal...... Details Emerge Of Plot To Oust Corbyn Or Split UK Labour Party..... Israeli Journalist Says Corbyn Should Be PM And That Israeli Lobby Working To Smear Him Boris Johnson Courts Far Right, Insults Journalists With Column And Bizarre Tea Stunt What's With The UK Media's Double Standards On Racism? Brazil: Minister Of Public Security Confirms That “State Agents” Were Involved In The Assassination Of Marielle Franco Lula De Silva: There Is A Right-Wing Coup Underway In Brazil Repression Intensifies In Argentina After Macri Unleashes The Military For IMF Rule Think Tank EUDisinfo Blames Interest In Benalla Affair On "Russian Trolls," Smears Melenchon And Leftists As Part Of Information War Campaign #DisinfoEUGate: Flawed Data And Shoddy Methodology Mark Atlanticist Report Amid "Benalla Affair," French Police Working With Pr...

The Tocsin 8/2-8/3

IMMIGRANT CHILDREN TORTURED IN AMERICAN FACILITIES -NYTIMES ICE Minion Charged With Sexually Molesting Eight Children at Immigrant Shelter REPORT: Major Violations Of Freedom Of Expression And Activist Protest By Trudeau At G7 Quebec Summit Globalisation Is Unravelling: Preparing For A New Economic Order CORBYN: I Will Root Antisemites Out Of Labour – They Do Not Speak For Me Corbyn’s Capitulation: Lessons For The Left From UK Labour’s “Anti-Semitism Crisis" Standing With Corbyn And Weathering The Storm Of Lies And Slander RussiaGate Think Tank Funded By Neoliberals Claims #WeAreCorbyn Boosted By Bots EXPOSED: Influential Tory Peer Has Board Membership On Islamophobic, Anti-Refugee Think Tank Run By John Bolton Chomsky: US Trump-Connected Far-Right Marketing Firm Meddled In 2017 German Election, Helped AfD Owen Jones: The Far Right Is At Its Strongest Since The 1930s, And The Media Is Helping #FreedomFlotilla: Israeli Forces Hijack Second Civilian...

The Tocsin 7/9

#Seebruecke – Thousands Take the Streets Across Germany: Europe, Frontex and Police – Stop Killing Refugees! Germany #NoPolGNRW: 20,000 People Take To The Streets Against New Police Law Eco Activism, Anti-Corporatism And The New German Police Regime #TrumpNotWelcome: Cop Forces To Mobilise In Force Not Seen Since 2011 Riots CIA Mercenaries’ Secret Prison For Immigrant Children Salzburg-NoS20! Against The Summit Of Authority, Militarized Borders And Social Control! Borders = Global Apartheid Stop The Violence And Not The Refugees! Declaration Of The International Meeting Against Foreign Military Bases  #NoBorders: Number Of Refugees Trapped On Greek Islands Reaches New High The Orwellian Linguistics Of The New Anti-Refugee Fascism: "Anchor Centres" To "Master Plans" The Refugee Crisis and the Mediterranean Sea – The Largest Graveyard in Modern History #NoToNATO: "Make Peace Great Again!" Tens Of Thousands Manifest Against Mil...

Subfascist Right Rises in Brazil as Temer Government Assaults Media, Anarchists, and Social Movements to the Benefit of Multinationals

As right-wing authoritarians inch towards power in countries like Italy and Germany, Brazil, already in the clutches of a reactionary government dominated by American multinationals, may be at risk of seeing its democratic political system wiped out entirely, as an ex-general known for his admiration of military dictatorship prepares to seize the reigns of a state increasingly repressive of left-wing and anarchist movements. Jair Bolsonaro , ahead in the polls by over 6%, ticks all the boxes of a totalitarian-in-waiting. He is violently misogynistic, making threats of rape in parliament to left-wing feminist politicians. He is homophobic, with his supporters taking to the streets last autumn to oppose queer theorist Judith Butler, branding her a “witch." And most disturbingly, he has suggested that the military should have murdered his political opponents when they were in power during the military dictatorship of the 60s and 70s, a regime so infamous that "Brazilian...