Authoritarianism

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates Machinery Of Authoritarianism

October 4, 2026 Henry Giroux, Counter Punch. Educate! Authoritarianism, International Law, Nuremberg Trials, War crimes

The legacy of Nuremberg is with us once again, less as a reminder of the power of the legal system to punish those who enabled and enacted the horrors of Nazi Germany than as a warning that the spirit of Nuremberg must be reclaimed as a moral and political imperative. That spirit matters at a time when the Supreme Court is increasingly turning the law into an instrument of reactionary concentrated power, desecrating morality, crippling the foundations of democracy, and reproducing the worst dimensions of gangster capitalism. Nuremberg made clear that judges and other officials cannot use the authority of law to cover up and legitimate actions that are morally depraved and politically destructive.

Fairford And A ‘Free Press’

October 2, 2026 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. Educate! Authoritarianism, Media, Military Industrial Complex, United Kingdom (UK)

It’s easy to forget that the Western media — the so-called “free press” — likes to distinguish itself from media in authoritarian regimes on the basis that, unlike them, it asks critical questions of the powerful, reports facts objectively and formulates its analyses dispassionately. They do propaganda, we do news — or so the Western media argues. The feverish coverage since five men were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning close to RAF Fairford in the U.K. is blowing a very big hole in that claim. Here are the known facts so far. Three white vans, bearing the logo of a genuine fuel transit company, were spotted by a local farmer on the road outside her property as she returned from a party.

The Methods Of America’s New Concentration Camps

August 16, 2026 Olaitan Mos-Shogbamimu, The Canary. Educate! Authoritarianism, Deaths, Detention Centers, Health Care, ICE

The suspected killing of the 39 year old Salvadorian father Edwin Lopez Corenjo by America’s ICE, reflects the ways the removal of medical access works as a tool of oppression, revealing the authoritarian tactics of the USA’s immigration police force. Edwin Lopez Corenjo a 39-year-old — with no criminal record — working in a packaging company was taken by ICE and detained in Delaney Hall, under suspicion of being undocumented. His family, including his mother and 12-year-old daughter, were repeatedly denied visits despite their numerous attempts. Then on Saturday the 1st of August he died in detainment.

Interconnected Technologies Of Racialized Fascist Domination

July 24, 2026 Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Authoritarianism, Fascism, Systemic Racism, Technology

GEO Group, the private prison company operating the immigrant detention center known as Delaney Hall, represents the merging of state responsibilities and private capital that is the hallmark of the fascist governing logic of crisis-ridden, late-stage capitalism. This stage of monopoly capital, confronting the irreconcilable contradictions embedded in its own structure, requires that all pretense of a commitment to the values and practices of liberal democracy—championed by elements of the Enlightenment bourgeoisie, or middle class, at the height of its ascendancy in Europe—be jettisoned as a burden to the continued hegemony of capitalist rule.

When Dissent Becomes ‘Terror’

July 20, 2026 Henry Giroux, Counter Punch. Strategize! Authoritarianism, Democracy, Dissent, State Repression

Every democracy worthy of the name recognizes a simple but indispensable truth: dissent is not its enemy but its lifeblood. The freedom to criticize those in power, expose injustice, challenge entrenched authority, organize collectively, and imagine a more just future is the foundation upon which a meaningful democratic society rests. Without the right to dissent, citizenship becomes obedience, violence is normalized, politics collapses into spectacle, corrupt power is legitimated, reason disappears into an abyss of lies, and freedom is reduced to little more than an empty slogan.

Many Call Authoritarianism ‘Un-American’: History Shows Otherwise

July 19, 2026 Petala Ironcloud, Truthout. Educate! American Revolution, Authoritarianism, History, Native Americans

The United States turned 250 this year, and the document officiating its birth, the Declaration of Independence, is famous for its opening lines proclaiming the nation’s freedom from England and the rights of men. But Rebecca Nagle, a journalist and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, frames the document differently, describing it as a list of grievances growing in ascending order, where Native people, smeared as “merciless Indian savages,” are the founders’ biggest “problem.” This characterization rendered Native Americans as less than human and as part of the natural world, over which settlers believed they had God-given dominion, justifying genocide and land theft.

Democratizing Training For Nonviolent Resistance

July 13, 2026 Jamila Raqib and Alia Braley, Waging Nonviolence. Create! Authoritarianism, Democracy, Nonviolence, popular power, Social Movements

At a time when democratic institutions are under attack, authoritarianism is resurgent, and communities around the world are confronting severe and overlapping crises, there is at least one reason for hope: people are organizing. They are organizing in neighborhoods, workplaces and places of worship, experimenting with alternative ways of meeting their communities’ basic needs, mobilizing in demonstrations, and, in many cases, refusing to cooperate with oppressive systems. The challenge people face today is not a lack of courage, creativity or commitment to the causes they care about.

How Washington Is Building A Surveillance State Without Calling It One

June 3, 2026 Jeffrey Wernick, Scheer Post. Educate! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Authoritarianism, Mass Surveillance, State Repression

The most effective systems of control rarely arrive wearing jackboots. They arrive wrapped in reassuring language about innovation, security, and public safety. In a blistering critique of the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence executive order, economist and commentator Jeffrey Wernick argues that Washington is quietly constructing something far more consequential than a technology policy: a framework for government-managed access to the most powerful AI systems ever created. Not through outright bans or formal licensing requirements, but through classified thresholds, privileged partnerships, and incentives that make resistance increasingly irrational.

A Nation Of Suspects

May 31, 2026 Andrew P. Napolitano, Consortium News. Educate! Authoritarianism, Fourth Amendment, ICE, Mass Surveillance

Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion and without warrants. The spying seems to fall into several categories. The National Security Agency, which is in the Department of Defense, employs about 60,000 domestic spies.

Ecuador: A Quasi-Dictatorship Aligned With The ‘Donroe’ Doctrine

April 14, 2026 Pilar Troya Fernandez, People's Dispatch. Educate! Authoritarianism, Daniel Noboa, Donroe Doctrine, Ecuador

After losing the November 16, 2025 referendum – when the Ecuadorian people rejected the government’s four questions, including the one that opened the door to foreign military bases – Daniel Noboa’s regime accelerated its assault on democracy. In the weeks that followed, it launched a multi-pronged operation that, taken together, constitutes a semi-dictatorship that has surrendered the country’s sovereignty to the US geostrategic project, while judicially eliminating its main political adversary and preparing elections without real competition.

Millions Defeat Meloni’s Judiciary Reform Plans

March 25, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Authoritarianism, Direct Democracy, Far Right Politics, Giorgia Meloni, Italy

More than 15 million people defeated Giorgia Meloni’s intention to reform the judiciary and erode the separation of powers by voting “NO” at a referendum on March 22-23. With almost 60% of eligible voters participating, the outcome has sent waves across the political landscape – and marked an enormous victory for social movements, trade unions, and youth associations that have built resistance to Meloni’s repressive agenda over the past years. The far-right administration wanted to introduce constitutional changes that would increase government control over the judiciary, under the pretext of an inefficient magistrature slowing down legal processes. The entire state apparatus, including Italy’s biggest media houses, was mobilized to ensure the reform would pass – and failed.

Trump Is Destroying US Democracy At Unprecedented Rate

March 18, 2026 Sharon Zhang, Truthout. Educate! Authoritarianism, Democracy, Trump Administration, United States

President Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. democracy at an “unprecedented” rate, downgrading the U.S.’s democratic rating on a global scale and plunging the country toward autocracy at a faster rate than autocratic leaders of other countries in the 21st century, the latest report by an international democracy watchdog finds. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Sweden’s Gothenburg University finds in its annual report that Trump’s second term has been characterized by a swift concentration of power in the executive branch that ignores the rule of law, suppresses dissent, and targets civil rights.

Chris Hedges: The Machinery Of Terror

January 12, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Strategize! Authoritarianism, Chris Hedges, Fascism, ICE, Terror

I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. I saw them during the “Dirty War” in Argentina, where 30,000 men, women and children were “disappeared” by the military junta. Victims were held in secret prisons, savagely tortured and murdered. To this day, many families do not know the fate of their loved ones. I saw them in El Salvador, when death squads were killing 800 people a month. I saw them in Guatemala under the dictatorship of José Efraín Ríos Montt. I saw them in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile and in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. I saw them in Iran under the rule of the ayatollahs where I was arrested and jailed twice and once deported in handcuffs.

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