Domestic Terrorism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando shootings as “domestic terrorism.” I don’t think it probably was terrorism in any useful sense of the term. I used to know what domestic terrorism was, before the term became politicized in the past decade. […]

Bill of Rights

Why the National Security State Relishes our being Trolled by Muslim Radicals

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By Tom Engelhardt | Tomdispatch.com) | – – Honestly, I don’t know whether to rant or weep, neither of which are usual impulses for me. In the wake of the slaughter in Paris, I have the urge to write one of two sentences here: Paris changed everything; Paris changes nothing. Each is, in its own […]

Arab Americans

America’s Dumb Bigots: Sikh Man Beaten Before Anniversary Of 9/11

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Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, John Iadarola, and Wes Clark Jr. | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “One tragic aspect of our post-9/11 legacy is Americans terrorizing, beating, and murdering muslims (as well as people they mistake for Muslims). Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Wes Clark […]

Domestic Terrorism

American Heroes on French Train show Courage, not Billions, needed to Face down Terrorism

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Deutsche Welle | (Video News Report) | – – “Three Americans are being hailed as heroes, after overpowering a gunman aboard a European high-speed train. Reports say the suspect was armed with an assault rifle and a knife.” Men who subdued train attacker talk to media | DW News

Domestic Terrorism

America’s Mass Killings and our National Security State

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By Karen J. Greenberg – Tomdispatch.com Imagine that you’re in the FBI and you receive a tip — or more likely, pick up information through the kind of mass surveillance in which the national security state now specializes. In a series of tweets, a young man has expressed sympathy for the Islamic State (ISIS), al-Qaeda, […]

African-Americans

Is the Confederate flag unconstitutional?

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By Alfred L Brophy | (The Conversation) | – The tragedy in Charleston has revived the movement to take the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. On Monday June 22 – five days after the shooting in the AME Emanuel Church – South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called a press conference to […]

Domestic Terrorism

Our Jihadis and Theirs: The Real (Armed) Dangers of American Life

Tom Engelhardt

By Tom Engeldhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Consider this paragraph a holding action on the subject of getting blown away in America. While I write this dispatch, I’m waiting patiently for the next set of dispiriting killings in this country. And I have faith. Before I’m done, some angry — or simply mentally disturbed […]

African-Americans

Rhodesian Flag, Confederate Flag: Roof & the Legacies of Racial Hate

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Benjamin Foldy | (Informed Comment) | – – When the perpetrator in the horrific massacre at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston was first publicly identified as Dylann Storm Roof, a near-instantaneous Twitter trawl of his social media uncovered his Facebook profile picture. In the picture, Roof sports two flag patches on his left breast: […]

African-Americans

Since 2002, Right-wing White Terrorists have Killed More Americans Than Muslim Extremists

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “When we have certain kinds of attacks in this country, there is terrorism world-wide, it’s a global conspiracy and they are coming to get us. But when we have other kinds of terrorism in this country . . . don’t talk about it. Cenk Uygur […]