David Renton is a barrister, historian and anti-fascist activist. He is the author of Fascism Theory and Practice. His new book is The New Authoritarians: Convergence on The Right What are the characteristics of authoritarians and authoritarianism? Are there authoritarians on both the left and right? What kind of person becomes an authoritarian What is the nature of today’s authoritarian movements?

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David Renton is a barrister, historian and anti-fascist activist. He is the author of Fascism Theory and Practice.

His new book is The New Authoritarians: Convergence on The Right

What are the characteristics of authoritarians and authoritarianism?

Are there authoritarians on both the left and right?

What kind of person becomes an authoritarian

What is the nature of today's authoritarian movements?

What is the nature of today's authoritarian groups?

How is the media treating today's authoritarians?

How is new far right different from past far right

You say that new kinds of authoritarianism are emerging.

Who are the leaders of today's authoritarianism?

What are the most effective strategies for the left to use against today's right?

What are the liabilities of the left today?

How is today's left different from early iterations of the left?

Willingness to inflict crueltyviolence, walls, exclusion

Economics: was neoliberalnewwelfare for chosen not the excludedimmigrants

Fascists of 1920s and 30s

How is the far right in the UK different from the far right in the US?

How are the goals of authoritarians of today different?

How are the responses to authoritarians different?

Can you give a snapshot of the anthropology and history of the development authoritarianism?

Is there authoritarianism on the left?

Talk about Trump and how he fits in to your take on authoritarianism

How are Trump supporting authoritarians the same and different?

Who are the most egregious authoritarians in the world today?

Fascist vs non-fascist right

How did 911 change things

You write about the internationalism of the right.

How the left wins:

Challenge racism and discrimination

Offer alternatives

Do better at challenging all forms of oppression

Attack obscene disparities of wealth

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

Rob Kall Wikipedia Page

Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel

Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel

Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..

To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.

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