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"If you're interested, & I'll fund it somehow, I think you're the perfect guy, what we'd like to do is help knit together a populist nationalist movement throughout the world."
Bannon talking to @Nigel_Farage re alliance with Orban, Sisi, Modi & Duterte.
Bannon talking to @Nigel_Farage re alliance with Orban, Sisi, Modi & Duterte.
“Paradoxically, this generation of populist nationalists leads the way on international political cooperation.”
@Elif_Safak adds more to #Bannon’s list: Erdoğan in Turkey, Abascal in Spain, Salvini in Italy & far right parties in Poland, France & Austria. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/06/spain-turkey-far-right-vox-culture-war
@Elif_Safak adds more to #Bannon’s list: Erdoğan in Turkey, Abascal in Spain, Salvini in Italy & far right parties in Poland, France & Austria. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/06/spain-turkey-far-right-vox-culture-war
Farage wins in the UK.
Salvini wins in Italy.
Le Pen wins in France.
Orbán wins in Hungary.
“If you’re surprised by the rise of the right, then you weren’t paying attention.” @garyyounge
#EuropeanElections2019 #EuElection2019 #EuropeanElectionResults https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/24/country-racist-elections-liberals-anti-racism-movement
Salvini wins in Italy.
Le Pen wins in France.
Orbán wins in Hungary.
“If you’re surprised by the rise of the right, then you weren’t paying attention.” @garyyounge
#EuropeanElections2019 #EuElection2019 #EuropeanElectionResults https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/24/country-racist-elections-liberals-anti-racism-movement
“Polish society is very, very deeply divided,” former President Kwaśniewski.
#Poland's ruling populist right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS), led by Jarosław Kaczyński, has extended its parliamentary majority in yesterday’s general election. #polandvotes #polandelection #polsk
#Poland's ruling populist right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS), led by Jarosław Kaczyński, has extended its parliamentary majority in yesterday’s general election. #polandvotes #polandelection #polsk
In his new book, ‘Mindf*ck’, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower @chrisinsilico describes how he built a “psychological warfare tool” for Steve Bannon, designed to use big data & social media to drive open cracks in societies & hollow out democracies.
In the UK, the Vote Leave #Brexit campaign, run by Dominic Cummings with @BorisJohnson as it’s figurehead & @michaelgove as its chair, funnelled money to AIQ in Canada, an offshoot of #CambridgeAnalytica whose VP is Steve Bannon & founder is Robert Mercer.
In 2017, Steve Bannon invited @Nigel_Farage to join a "convening authority" of populists: "Guys in Egypt are coming to me, Modi’s guys in India, Duterte & we get Orbán."
Today, #Modi won by a landslide & far-right parties are buoyant ahead of #EUElections https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/22/nigel-farage-discussed-fronting-far-right-group-led-by-steve-bannon
Today, #Modi won by a landslide & far-right parties are buoyant ahead of #EUElections https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/22/nigel-farage-discussed-fronting-far-right-group-led-by-steve-bannon
Today, the Indian ambassador to the United States - @harshvshringla - tweeted this picture of himself with Steve Bannon who he described as “the legendary ideologue and Dharma warrior, an avid follower of the Bhagavad Gita.”
He later deleted the tweet.
https://thediplomat.com/2017/02/steve-bannon-dharma-warrior-hindu-scriptures-and-the-worldview-of-trumps-chief-ideologue/
He later deleted the tweet.
https://thediplomat.com/2017/02/steve-bannon-dharma-warrior-hindu-scriptures-and-the-worldview-of-trumps-chief-ideologue/
How to beat online neo-Nazis?
We need an ideologically agnostic int'l definition of terrorism that includes loose far-right networks. Govts need to look beyond big tech platforms & tackle the migration of extremists to smaller alt-tech sites. @julie_renbe https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/07/8chan-far-right-sites-white-supremacists-governments
We need an ideologically agnostic int'l definition of terrorism that includes loose far-right networks. Govts need to look beyond big tech platforms & tackle the migration of extremists to smaller alt-tech sites. @julie_renbe https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/07/8chan-far-right-sites-white-supremacists-governments
News that Farage is leaving @LBC "with immediate effect" raises the question of what he'll do next.
Hopefully he'll go to the US, but in his Telegraph column recently, he said the govt needed "a no nonsense outsider to sort out the #coronavirus crisis". https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1271070525994008578
Hopefully he'll go to the US, but in his Telegraph column recently, he said the govt needed "a no nonsense outsider to sort out the #coronavirus crisis". https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1271070525994008578
Carole Cadwalla describes the Brexit Party as “the latest host body for Farage - the tapeworm of British politics.”
But it is important to remember populist nationalist leaders are not merely parasites.
They also act as host bodies for the contagion of fascism & extremism.
But it is important to remember populist nationalist leaders are not merely parasites.
They also act as host bodies for the contagion of fascism & extremism.
