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Steven Spielberg says antisemitism today is ‘standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler’

The director, whose Oscar-nominated film The Fabelmans depicts the racial abuse he faced in the 60s, said he was very surprised by its current resurgence

The Guardian - UK

Giorgia Meloni – Europe’s unlikely new political superstar

If not for the stench of coming out of a post-fascist movement, the new Italian prime minister would now probably be fêted internationally as a new-style, young, female leader, argues Oliver Hartwich

Newsroom.co.nz

Florida is now a laboratory for fascism

There is a very specific reason why Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted African-American history for erasure

Salon

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Dante was the founder of Italy’s right wing, claims culture minister – an expert explains why he’s wrong

“Dante was the founder of right-wing thinking in our country,” proclaimed Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, at an electoral meeting of the prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s party, Fratelli d’Italia, in January.

The Conversation

Guillermo del Toro and the 'joyous melancholy' of the 'Pinocchio' song 'Ciao Papa'

In the animated "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," the titular wooden boy decides he must leave home — and his beloved father, Geppetto — with a ragged traveling circus in the hopes of earning needed funds for the family. He's shown onstage (voiced and sung by young Gregory Mann) performing a…

Los Angeles Times

How Guillermo del Toro’s 'Pinocchio' became the darkest musical of the year

Co-screenwriter Patrick McHale talks about writing songs with del Toro, why they chose to include Benito Mussolini, and more.

Inverse

Iran leader's niece slams her uncle's 'child-killing regime' amid mass protests

Farideh Moradkhani said people in Iran are fighting the regime’s "Satanic forces of evil" with remarkable courage and called on the world to support Iran’s "lions and lionesses"

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review – a superbly strange stop-motion animation

The director of the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water has turned the timeless fable into a magical Mussolini-era parable

The Guardian - UK

Pinocchio review – Guillermo del Toro’s dark, sombre riff on the Disney-sweet fairytale

The wooden puppet-boy turns fascist in a Mussolini-era, fantasy-horror rework of the classic tale

The Guardian - UK

Is the perfect World Cup achievable or an impossible dream for football?

Past tournaments have had great settings and matches for the ages … but terrible formats. Will the stars ever align?

The Guardian - UK

Discipline the poor, protect the rich – it’s the same old Tories, same old class war

Brexit didn’t change the party: austerity was as heartless under Cameron and Osborne as it is under Sunak, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Italy's right-wing government slammed for anti-rave decree

Italy’s new interior minister has defended the government from criticism that a decree banning rave parties could be used to clamp down on sit-ins and other forms of protest

The Independent UK

Mark Z. Barabak: Is Arizona paving 'the road to authoritarianism' with its slate of GOP election deniers?

On a recent weekday morning, Steve Arechiga swung by the library to pick up a book he'd reserved. It was a history of authoritarian strongmen, starting with Mussolini. The topic seemed unnervingly immediate.

Los Angeles Times

GOP: No longer a legit political party

Republicans' only unifying agenda is hate, fear and groveling to billionaires. They want to rule, but not govern

Salon

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Dublin Live

Dublin woman who shot Mussolini 'brought home' to Merrion Square

Violet Gibson, who had a privileged upbringing as daughter of a Lord Chancellor of Ireland, shot 'Il Duce' as he walked among a crowd in Rome in 1926

Financial Times

The cracks in the Cult of the Dead Leader

What worshipping Margaret Thatcher can’t do for UK Conservatives

Crikey

Shout ‘fascist’ long enough and a tired shrug of surrender may be the inevitable response

Giorgia Meloni becoming the new prime minister of Italy has people the world over concerned about the resurgence of fascism. Maybe a re-examination of the term and its history is in order.

Evening Standard

“Not surprise, but disgust” - Italians react to the triumph of Giorgia Meloni

Ben Munster reports from Rome on the reaction on the streets and in the press to Meloni victory - and why her “post-fascism” has stolen into a deeply flawed electoral system.

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The Guardian - UK

Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw review – follow the leader… for good or ill

The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

The Guardian - UK

Italy’s drift to the far right began long before the rise of Giorgia Meloni

A normalisation of far-right parties dating back to Berlusconi has paved the way, says the author David Broder

The Conversation

What will its first far-right leader since WWII mean for Italy?

“Una vittoria storica” – a historic victory. That’s how the website of one of Italy’s major newspapers, the Corriere della Sera, reacted to the exit polls released after voting closed in Italy’s general election on Sunday night.

Salon

Trump's QAnon rally: Chaos reigns

Yes, it really was that bad. Mussolini-style rants, revenge fantasies and now murderous cult symbols. With music!

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Italy’s resistance anthem: sing it loud, sing it proud

Editorial: Attempts by Italy’s radical right to ghettoise Bella Ciao are part of an attempt to airbrush history

The Guardian - UK

Tough, determined, fascinated by Mussolini: Rome neighbours recall Giorgia Meloni

Residents in traditionally leftwing Garbatella district not surprised by rise of woman poised to be Italy’s next PM

The Guardian - UK

Orlando Figes: ‘Gorbachev was a very sharp and likable person’

The award-winning historian on Putin’s cult of personality, why he loves Turgenev, and giving up on books after 20 pages

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