Putin s claim that fascists have taken control in Kyiv is fundamentally bogus, while Russia s despicable actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine are all too real. Russia does retain some support among Russophone Ukrainians of all ethnicities, including some Jews.

A well known Dutch novelist voiced a rather typical response, saying that he didn t care much what happened to Morsi s supporters, for they were all Islamo fascists anyway. And foreign governments, including that of the United States, are averting their eyes.

Furthermore, the inauguration of monuments to Nazis and declaration of the days of liberation from Nazism as days of mourning as well as the arrest of anti Fascists for the sake of Nazi parades made the need for the draft resolution all the more urgent.

If we look at Islamists, if we look at the phenomenon of far right fascists, one thing they've been very good at, one thing that they've actually been exceeding in, is communicating across borders, using technologies to organize themselves, to propagate their message and to create truly global phenomena.

In both the hostile and the celebratory use of the word, totalitarianism was intended to describe a movement that embraced all aspects of life in what purported to be a coherent philosophy of politics, economics, and society. Fascists liked to think of themselves as imbued with total knowledge and total power.

If so, their barbarism demands scrutiny in relation to both historical precedent and to our modernity rather than merely being labeled monstrous (though it certainly is that). The new religious militants, fighting in the name of their particular and peculiar God, seem as fanaticized as the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists of earlier decades.

LONDON Headlines about migration can seem unbearably stark attacks on foreigners by neo fascists in Greece, dozens of domestic workers on death row in the Gulf, a crass and callous campaign by the British government to drive out migrants. Yet, despite persistent and even rising anti immigrant sentiment in much of the world, promising signs of a more enlightened approach to migration are emerging.