Gilded Cage Articles

The Gilded Cage articles investigate how the Dalai Lama’s government in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), exhibits all ‘Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism.’  In the spring of 2003, ex-corporate executive and political scientist Lawrence W. Britt published an essay in Free Inquiry magazine entitled “Fascism Anyone?” In his work, Britt examined the traits of the two governments that formed the original historical model for fascism, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, and five other protofascist regimes that imitated that model, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. He identified 14 characteristics that were common to all of them. (1) These traits have since been widely accepted as the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.