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  • Fascism is a popular term in political discourse today. For the Turkish journalist and writer Ece Temelkuran, that’s a good thing — except that it comes too late. So how can we recognize a country's descent from democracy into fascism and what does resistance look like?

    Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes

    Credits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Producer), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial assistant), Samuel Raffnell-Williams (Sound design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design), Thomas Barlow, Impress (Media consultant)

    Guest: Ece Temelkuran

    Further reading from this episode:

    #NI551 Political Parties

    How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism by Ece Temelkuran

    Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World by Ece Temelkuran

    Women who Blow on Knots by Ece Temelkuran (or if you’re in London, go see the stage production at the Arcola Theatre)

    Independents’ Day (Conrad Landin in New Internationalist)

    Radicalism Jettisoned (Coll McCail in New Internationalist)

    How do we continue building international solidarity for Palestine?

    #NI552 Disinformation

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  • There's a lot of money to be made in the internet. People with good intentions and bad intentions are being driven by profit. So how does this shape our information ecosystem and where does the scope for action lie?

    Read #NI552: Disinformation

    Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes

    Credits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Producer), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial assistant), Samuel Raffnell-Williams (Sound design), Thomas Barlow, Impress (Media consultant)

    Guest: Nanjala Nyabola

    Further reading from this episode:

    Strange and Difficult Times: Notes on a Global Pandemic by Nanjala Nyabola

    Entering the Matrix of Misinformation

    Red Letter Day (Conrad Landin in New Internationalist. Subscribe to read)

    The Philippines Disinformation Machine (Don Kevin Hapal in New Internationalist. Subscribe to read)

    Fact-checkers to the rescue? (Samira Sawlani in New Internationalist. Subscribe to read)

    How Kiswahili tech terms are pushing for digital rights in East Africa (Maxine Betteridge-Moes in Quartz Africa)

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