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  • Hurt's magnificently verbose, quasi-fascist ranting and his fondness for loyalty tests, public shaming and show trials "Do you plead guilty or very guilty?" soar aloft on language that's part-Beckett, part "free love" advocate Wilhelm Reich, with more than a hint of the Beatles' beloved Goons.

    Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie 2011

  • Unlike, say, the Tories, whom nobody confuses with the quasi-fascist British National Party, the BJP appears unable to draw a line between assertive political Hindus and flaming bigots.

    India's Conservative Vacuum Sadanand Dhume 2011

  • East Timor was invaded by Suharto's Indonesia in late 1975 following the collapse of Europe's last maritime empire, that of Portugal's quasi-fascist Estado Novo regime.

    Derek Flood: Territorial Triumph and Geopolitical Pitfalls in South Sudan Derek Flood 2011

  • Unlike, say, the Tories, whom nobody confuses with the quasi-fascist British National Party, the BJP appears unable to draw a line between assertive political Hindus and flaming bigots.

    India's Conservative Vacuum Sadanand Dhume 2011

  • Unlike, say, the Tories, whom nobody confuses with the quasi-fascist British National Party, the BJP appears unable to draw a line between assertive political Hindus and flaming bigots.

    India's Conservative Vacuum Sadanand Dhume 2011

  • They took a demoralized activist base beaten down by 8 years of quasi-fascist rule and lifted us up with three simple words and one simple concept - "Respect, empower, and include" and "CHANGE".

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • East Timor was invaded by Suharto's Indonesia in late 1975 following the collapse of Europe's last maritime empire, that of Portugal's quasi-fascist Estado Novo regime.

    Derek Flood: Territorial Triumph and Geopolitical Pitfalls in South Sudan Derek Flood 2011

  • Unlike, say, the Tories, whom nobody confuses with the quasi-fascist British National Party, the BJP appears unable to draw a line between assertive political Hindus and flaming bigots.

    India's Conservative Vacuum Sadanand Dhume 2011

  • But Argentina, while able to ignore Justicialism — the kinder, gentler quasi-fascist political movement of Juan and Evita Perón — has had more trouble dissociating itself from the brutal National Reorganization Process government.

    Lapham's Quarterly: Why Fascist Countries Are Historically Better at Soccer 2010

  • Please, someone make a change in the government and let's attempt to get this weird quasi-fascist attitude back out of the country.

    Another Step Closer To 1984 petalla 2008

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