On AlterNet: authoritarianism

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Is America on the Verge of Theocracy? 4 Fundamentalist Ideologies Threatening U.S. Liberty

Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut.org. March 7, 2012.

Extremists shape American politics to unabashedly pursue legislative policies that favor the rich and punish the poor.

Crackdown at Occupy New Orleans: Mayor Landrieu’s Peaceful Authoritarianism

Matt Reichel, AlterNet. December 19, 2011.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu's actions in breaking up the camp illustrate creeping authoritarianism and lack of concern for democratic process.

The Authoritarian Agenda Behind Attacks on Contraception

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. April 25, 2011.

As the right's crusade against abortion becomes a war on contraception, its viciously misogynistic agenda becomes ever more clear.

Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tried to Thwart All Social Progress

Arun Gupta, TruthOut.org. May 23, 2010.

You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, women's rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights.

It Is Now Absolutely Crystal Clear That Republican Rule Is Dangerous and Authoritarian

John Dean, FindLaw.com. November 1, 2008.

Republicans rule, rather than govern, when they are in power by imposing their authoritarian conservative philosophy on everyone.

China Adopted Our Capitalist Model -- Will We Adopt Their Despotism?

Slavoj Zizek, In These Times. December 15, 2007.

Does the "free market" system doom all of us to authoritarianism?

Anti-authoritarian Cities

Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. September 5, 2007.

Archaeologists have discovered that Brak, a Syrian city and one of the oldest urban areas in the world, was built in a way that completely defies conventional wisdom about how cities grow.