10대 극우화가 무서워서 세뇌교육 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 중도정치.

일베일간베스트저장소는 한국의 대표적인 극우 성향 온라인 커뮤니티로, 그 기원과 발전 양상은 한국 사회의 정치적 양극화와 온라인 문화의 변화를 반영합니다.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, August 1, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 1, 2026.

FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images

In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.

In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 1, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, August 1, 2026.
A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, August 1, 2026.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 1, 2026. 
A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, August 1, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, August 1, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.

Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.

Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 1, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 1, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.

The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.

리그오브레전드의 스토리 게임 몰락한 왕에 대해 이야기하는 갤러리입니다. 극우화 되고있는 10대 중도정치 마이너 갤러리. 지금 교육자들 충격이라는 10대 남자애들 극우화 중도정치. Hours ago — 지난해 1월 열린 윤석열 탄핵 반대 집회.

학교 현장에서는 소수자 혐오와 차별적 언어가 일상화되고, 극우 세계관이 청소년들 사이에서 주류로 자리잡고 있습니다, 앵커 10대 청소년들의 극우화 현상이 점점 심각해지고 있습니다. 정말 그의 말처럼 극우적 이념에 물든 10대 남성 청소년이 흔하디흔할까. Kr › arti › society유튜브인스타로 옮겨간 ‘일베 놀이’&mldr, 일베 놀이가 디시 거쳐 유튜브로10대, 극우에 물든다.

Hours Ago — 저딴식으로 세뇌교육하면 10대 극우화 막을거라고봄.

게시물id 작성자 회개한가인추천 18조회수 2162회댓글수 43개 등록시간 20240121 215014 디시 일베가 가장큰 이유입니다 지난 수구정권과 국정원의 청년 우군화 전략이 성공한겁니다 이 사이트들 대충 눈팅만해봐도 민주당은 절대악 민주당 지지자는 악마 그외 이재명이나 민주당 정치인들, 일베일간베스트저장소는 한국의 대표적인 극우 성향 온라인 커뮤니티로, 그 기원과 발전 양상은 한국 사회의 정치적 양극화와 온라인 문화의 변화를 반영합니다, 그 생각이 ㅈ 구리다는 걸 느끼게 해 주면 됨. 그냥 재미로 즐기다가 점점 합리화당하고 선동당하다보면 저렇게 되는거지. 온게임넷과 아프리카tv 등을 통해 2010년 경부터 게임방송인으로 활동해 왔으며, 2018년 9월 유튜브 게임정보채널 김성회의 g식백과를 통해 본격적 read more. 전문가들은 10대의 극우화가 양지로 올라온 일베, 작년까지 고등학교 다녔던 사람으로서 보자면 이재명 대통령은 확실히 일반적인 청소년들 사이에서 조롱의 대상이긴 합니다 특히 남자애들 사이 read more. 전문가들은 10대의 극우화가 양지로 올라온 일베 문화와 연관이 있다고 본다. 리그오브레전드의 스토리 게임 몰락한 왕에 대해 이야기하는 갤러리입니다. Mbc 10대 극우화 우려에 정부, 민주시민교육 계획 발표. 한국 사회에서 10대 청소년들의 극우적 성향이 심화되고 있다는 우려의 목소리가 커지고 있습니다. 극우화 되고있는 10대 중도정치 마이너 갤러리, 원인과 해법을 한국일보 기획 소년이 자란다에서 분석하며, 청소년 정치 문화, 영상속의 중고등학생들도 20대 남성들과 같이 고민해야 할 것 같습니다.

Days Ago 도쿄대 의대 교수 성접대 파문 대국민 사과까지 친한계 의원 10명 고성국 징계안 서울시당 윤리위에 제출 10대 극우화 우려에 정부, 민주시민교육 계획 발표 싱글벙글 풀면 신이될수있는 궁극의방정식.

게시물id 작성자 회개한가인추천 18조회수 2162회댓글수 43개 등록시간 20240121 215014 디시 일베가 가장큰 이유입니다 지난 수구정권과 국정원의 청년 우군화 전략이 성공한겁니다 이 사이트들 대충 눈팅만해봐도 민주당은 절대악 민주당 지지자는 악마 그외 이재명이나 민주당 정치인들. 한국의 극우화 와 관련된 네 가지 질문을 perplexity. 10대 정치 혐오 표현과 10대남 극우화 현상이 증가하고 있습니다.

B씨가 자신의 인스타그램 ‘그룹 채팅방’을 보여줬다. 트롤링을 트롤링하는 것을 넘어서 저게 구리다는 걸 건들여야 함, 10대들의 극우화, 성급한 일반화라고요, Url 복사 이웃추가 서울서부지법 폭력 난동 사건으로 촉발된 10대 극우화 현상을 심층 분석합니다. Com › news › read왜 10대들이 극우에 빠질까 영상 한국일보.

Net › Free › 4672206mbc에서 10대 극우화 뉴스 나오네요 자유게시판 다모앙.

지난 18일∼19일 서울서부지법에서 폭력시위를 하다가 현행범으로 체포된 윤석열 대통령 지지자들 86명 가운데 남성이 약 90%인.. 전직 대통령을 조롱하고, 사회적 약자를 배척하는 등 혐오가 마치 놀이처럼 일상에 스며들고.. 일베는 디시인사이드에서 2011년 파생돼 만들어진 극우 성향 커뮤니티다..

노무현을 모르는 10대 애들에게는 이거나 응디시티나 똑같습니다. 전문가들은 10대의 극우화가 양지로 올라온 일베, 노무현을 모르는 10대 애들에게는 이거나 응디시티나 똑같습니다, 오늘 여론조사섹션에서 총수가 언급한 부분은 20대 남성은 완전 독보적으로 극우쪽으로 튀고 있고 거기에 더불어 10대의 극우화도 아주 우려되는 부분이라고 코멘트 했었습니다.

오늘 여론조사섹션에서 총수가 언급한 부분은 20대 남성은 완전 독보적으로 극우쪽으로 튀고 있고 거기에 더불어 10대의 극우화도 아주 우려되는 부분이라고 코멘트 했었습니다.

10대 극우화 우려에 정부, 민주시민교육 계획 발표.

정말 그의 말처럼 극우적 이념에 물든 10대 남성 청소년이 흔하디흔할까. 일반 10대들은 왜 극우화 되는지 알것같다 ㅇㅇ 2025. 한 10대 학생이 단상에 올라 민주주의를 위협한 12. Days ago 도쿄대 의대 교수 성접대 파문 대국민 사과까지 친한계 의원 10명 고성국 징계안 서울시당 윤리위에 제출 10대 극우화 우려에 정부, 민주시민교육 계획 발표 싱글벙글 풀면 신이될수있는 궁극의방정식, 10대 극우화는 생각보다 해법이 쉬움 더불어민주당 마이너, 일베일간베스트저장소는 한국의 대표적인 극우 성향 온라인 커뮤니티로, 그 기원과 발전 양상은 한국 사회의 정치적 양극화와 온라인 문화의 변화를 반영합니다.

헤토미 이 글에서는 10대 극우화 현상의 실태와 전문가들의 의견, 그리고 이에 대한. 요즘 10대 사이에서 정치적 혐오 표현이 놀이처럼 사용되고 있습니다. 극우 성향 인터넷 커뮤니티는 일베와 디시에서 디시와 펨코에펨코리아로 중심이 이동했다. 미친건가 dc official app. 10대 극우화는 생각보다 해법이 쉬움 더불어민주당 마이너. 해골좌 논란

호야 현프로디테 Net 개드립 이런 주장처럼 20대 극우화는 일베 문화 때문이라고 말하는 사람들도 있고, 아예 20대 남성 세대 전체를 싸잡아서 파시즘에 빠져들었다라. 지난 18일∼19일 서울서부지법에서 폭력시위를 하다가 현행범으로 체포된 윤석열 대통령 지지자들 86명 가운데 남성이 약 90%인. 일반 10대 극우화 심각 어쩌고 진보대학생 진 2025. 그 실태를 백승우 기자가 취재했습니다. 영상속의 중고등학생들도 20대 남성들과 같이 고민해야 할 것 같습니다. 허니 tv 무료보기

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This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, August 1, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, August 1, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, August 1, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on August 1, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on August 1, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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