By Arie Perliger | (The Conversation) | – – The attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a man named James Alex Fields Jr. used his Dodge Challenger as a weapon against a crowd of protesters, underscores the growing violence of America’s far-right wing. According to reports, Fields was a active member of an online far-right […]
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Archives for 2017
Federal Agencies Warned of White Supremacist Threat in May
By Julia Conley, staff writer. | Commondreams.org | – – A memo by the FBI and DHS said white supremacist groups pose a bigger threat to the U.S. than other extremist organizations. White supremacist groups have been responsible for more homicides than any other domestic extremist movement in the past 17 years, according to a […]
Under Saudi Bombs, Yemen hit by 500,000 Cholera Cases
TeleSur | – – Each day there are more than 5,000 new cases of the waterborne disease. More than half a million people in Yemen have been infected with cholera since the epidemic began four months ago and 1,975 people have died, the World Health Organization, WHO, announced Monday. Each day there are more than […]
Bannon must go, but after that, Protesters should listen to Bernie
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Steve Bannon ran, and is still likely pulling the strings at, Breitbart, the “Stormfront” in a business suit with a skinny tie. Bannon once characterized it as enabling what he called the “alt right,” by which he meant a slightly more presentable version of the skinheads, […]
A New Generation of White Supremacists Emerges in Charlottesville
By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Karim Hajj, special to ProPublica | ( ProPublica) | – – The white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation of the white supremacy movement. Old-guard groups like the Ku Klux […]
Iran’s Parliament defies new Trump/GOP Sanctions, Increases Missile Funds
TeleSur | – – The bill would allocate over US$260 million each to Iran’s ballistic missile program and the Quds Force. Iran’s parliament has approved the first step of a bill to boost Tehran’s missile program spending on the heels of new U.S. sanctions against the country. Lawmakers gave the go ahead for the crafting […]
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‘Don’t Be a Sucker’ [White Supremacist/ Nazi] : War Department 1943 Video
United States War Department |. (1943 Educational Video) | – – Wikipedia: “Don’t Be a Sucker! is a short film produced by the US War Department in 1943 and re-released in 1947. It has anti-racist and anti-fascist themes. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces. […]
Top 5 Ways White Terrorism means never having to Say you’re Sorry
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I’ve argued for some time that US media treats white terrorists differently than others. And, I noted recently that the US press seems to have been astonished when the governor of Minnesota branded the bombing of a mosque “terrorism.” We have more evidence today to make […]
Iraq after ISIL needs Security, Anti-Corruption & Jobs, not Identity Politics
By Andrea Teti, Pamela Abbott, and Munqith Dagher | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Ignoring priorities that have popular support in Iraq risks undermining post-ISIS attempts to build a stable country, with knock-on effects at a regional level. As the defeat of ISIS/Daesh looms large both in Syria and in Iraq, attention turns to […]
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