Tag: Amazon fires
Right-wing populism’s Orwellian tactics
Right wing populism is quickly emerging as a new dominant political discourse. It is radically re-constituting the uneven field of politics on which ideological battles are fought. Right-wing demagogues use a diversified repertoire of rhetorical tools to not only temporarily acquire dominance but to disaggregate frozen beliefs and re-configure them. To analyse this process of re-constitution, this article uses the vocabulary provided by George Orwell in his seminal book “1984”.
Kicking out the fascist Bolsonaro regime is the only solution to stop Amazon forest fires
Jair Bolsonaro isn’t merely burning down the Amazon rainforest, the lungs of the world, to fulfil his masters’ greed, he is jeopardising everyone’s security