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This wasn't a simple protest vote, even if bruised centrist politicians were quick to dismiss the results. Over the years, far-right fortunes have surged, only to ebb as the parties have shot themselves in the jackboot with internal feuds and rickety organization. Now outfits such as the BNP are learning from past mistakes: they're slicker, and combine old-fashioned grassroots activism with Internet campaign techniques borrowed from the Obama playbook. They're also well placed to exploit the disillusionment with traditional politics that has seen voter turnouts in European and national elections plummet, and membership...
...documentary on the roots of the Isreali-Palestinian conflict, is the highlight of these showings.According to Chomsky, the choice of that film reflects the interests of students.“There is a special interest for American students in this case, because whether they know it or not, their jackboot is on the necks of Palestinians, and has been for a long time,” he writes.FUTURE UNCERTAINThe rest of the festival grapples with the difficulty of portraying Palestinian life in a somewhat more “entertaining and educational” way, as Sawhney puts it. A struggling...
...could compare her to Austin Powers' Frau Fraubissina, although you might get a jackboot to the stomach. The creator of Stereolab's cold-hearted sound storm appeared in hardcore military-chic: high collar, olive-drab frock, tight mug. But somehow, when she and Hansen stepped up to their microphones, it was all okay: Sadier's harshness and Hansen's softness mixed together as well as Stereolab's other songwriter (and founder) Ti Gane can mix Muzak and German post-punk, the listless vocals carried along like a beauty queen in a homecoming parade of sound clips, acid jazz and dippy...
Murray Kempton said the task of editorial writers is to come down out of the hills after the battle is over to shoot the wounded. Is it the job of jackboot reporters in this country to conduct house-to-house searches, ransacking private lives for every disreputable little secret, driving quarry to such humiliation that their only refuge is self-destruction? Shame on my profession! To hell with its venal careerism, its hypocrisy, its prurience, its pietistic ruthlessness...
...sense, nostalgic moralists are almost always right, as Rome eventually proved. The problem is that nostalgic moralism may turn itself into a political program -- which produces jackboot simplism, the fascism that feels like a breath of fresh air as it approaches, and like an apocalypse in its aftermath...