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Introducing #InstaFacism

3 weeks ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

Thank you for this. There's no way we can understand how a fascist dictator takes control unless we look at Germany in the late 30's. Those who say it can't happen here need to wake up. It not only is happening, it has happened. Trump has cemented his power. The concrete is just curing. Soon it will be as strong as Hoover Dam. There have only been a few potholes in Trump's road to absolute control. There have been some court cases he lost, but the worst so far has been Signalgate.
Introducing #InstaFacism

3 weeks ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

This post has been sitting in my draft for three weeks now. I’m sorry for the radio silence and thank you for your patience. I’ll include some of what I wrote previously below but a bit of an explanation, first. I think I’ve been suffering a bit of news whiplash. The news in general, and my own corner of it.
'The United States is Your Enemy'

1 month ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

We in Aotearoa-NZ stand with our Australian cousins but as colonial settler states like USA and Canada, we look within at he unfinished business of conciliation with peoples whose very language is part of the land. "The last shall be first" as that anti-imperialist born in Bethlehem a while ago was reported as teaching. We know that whatever lessons for "liberté, egalité and sobriety" define this (thanks Carol) post Mafia-cosplay moment, world view will be central.
'The United States is Your Enemy'

1 month ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

The world owes another debt of thanks to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Not only has Ukraine been fighting to hold back Russia’s aggression on behalf of us all, the spectacle of Donald Trump and JD Vance acting like mafia mob bosses has done what previously seemed impossible. The seismic shockwaves that have been pulsing through the international order, felt but ignored by world leaders and nation states, have now finally caused the first real earthquake.
How to Survive the Broligarchy

1 month ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

Have listened to the new podcast, read everything you've posted here about it, and want to say a huge thanks to you, Carole, plus Claire Wardle, Mark Little, and Roger McNamee. Yes, the newness of what you are doing comes across, and I sense a feeling of liberation - almost euphoria as you dive straight into new, thrilling unknowns, with unending sets of possibilities. Scary, sure, but you get to do this your way.
How to Survive the Broligarchy

2 months ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

Just after Trump’s re-election in November 2024, I wrote a column headlined ‘How to Survive the Broligarchy’ (reproduced below) and in the three months since, pretty much everything it predicted how now come to pass. This is technoauthoritarianism. It’s tyranny + surveillance tools. It’s the merger of Silicon Valley companies with state power. It’s the ‘broligarchy’, a concept I coined in July last year though I’ve been contemplating it for a lot longer.
US Coup Gains Speed

2 months ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

After belatedly getting up to speed on the Guardian’s new partnership deal a few weeks ago. I cancelled my subscription to the Guardian. And wrote to the editor explaining why I was cancelling my subscription. Oddly for the first time ever in writing to the Guardian I didn’t receive an auto response acknowledging my email. Needles to say neither have I heard from the Editor.
US Coup Gains Speed

2 months ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

A short note here on what I’m covering and why. The political changes we’re seeing across the world are underpinned by technological ones that are now accelerating. For more than a decade, I’ve been investigating and exposing these forces. From 2016 that included following a thread that led from Brexit to Trump via a shady data company called Cambridge Analytica and the revelation of a profound threat surface at the heart of our democracies.
Comments - IT IS A COUP - by Carole Cadwalladr - The Power

2 months ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

Last week I watched 2073 (DVD) and want to again soon, but although of course I thought it was brilliant and was moved -- and quite shattered -- by it, it left me with a feeling of political paralysis. This band of quite sociopathic criminals, the multibillionaire class now running much of the world, I mean, where do you even start when they've bought the judges, the mainstream media and much (if not most) of the political class?
IT IS A COUP

2 months ago | broligarchy.substack.com | Carole Cadwalladr

A short note here on what I’m covering and why. The political changes we’re seeing across the world are underpinned by technological ones that are now accelerating. For more than a decade, I’ve been trying to investigate and expose these forces. Since 2016 that’s included following a thread that led from Brexit to Trump via a shady data company called Cambridge Analytica and the revelation of a profound threat exploit at the heart of our democracies.