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New York Daily News | (Video News Clip) | – – Rush Limbaugh lambasted stories about Irma as deadly Category 5 hurricane as “fake news” intended to bolster a “climate change agenda” by spreading fear. On Friday Limbaugh ran in terror as Irma closed in on his Florida studio, announcing his show had been cancelled […]

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Bannon & Trump lost Long ago: White Christians not a Majority in US

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In 1976,when Jimmy Carter was elected, a big majority (81%) of Americans identified as both white and Christian, with 4 in 10 of those being white Catholics. The country even had a majority (55%) of white Protestants! Carter, an Southern evangelical, benefited from the Christian vote […]

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Do Muslim Americans need a Civil Rights Movement?

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By Emily Cury | (The Conversation) | – – The past year has been a difficult one for American Muslims. According to a July 2017 Pew survey, 48 percent of Muslims report experiencing at least one incident of discrimination in the past 12 months. The Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim advocacy organizations found […]

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Politics Above Law: How Trump channels Far Right icon Carl Schmitt without Knowing It

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By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s various public statements have made clear that he is not an avid reader. He has remarked that he does not have time to read, stating, “I never have. I’m always busy doing a lot. Now I’m more busy, I guess, than ever before.” […]

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How Trump’s pardon of Arpaio changed America

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By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson | (Otherwords.org) | – – The president called a man who freely violated people’s constitutional rights a “patriot.” What does that make his victims? During a speech to a group of police officers in July, President Trump returned to one of his favorite themes of the campaign season: violence. “Please don’t be […]

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Beyond Charlottesville: Can we End Structural Violence against People of Color?

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By Gregory Alonso Pirio | (Informed Comment) | – – The importance of opposing the resurgence of emboldened KKK, Neo-Nazis and other hate-filled white supremacists that were on display in Charlottesville cannot be easily underestimated. Equally, if not more urgent, however, is the need to take advantage of the national disgust of hate groups by […]

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The Racism Heard Round the World: Even Fascists Denounce Nazis more than Trump

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By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – When the neo-fascist National Front is more willing to condemn neo-Nazis than Trump, we have a problem. On race relations, the United States has slipped into the same category as Burundi and Iraq. After the violence in Charlottesville earlier this month — and […]

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Where Do “Alt-Right” Groups Get Their Money?

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AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “As white nationalists protest across the country, we wanted to know who’s financially funding their hate. And there’s more money in it than you realize.” AJ+ “Where Do “Alt-Right” Groups Get Their Money?”

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White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before Charlottesville

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By George Joseph | ProPublica | – – Nearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, white supremacists planning the “Unite the Right” rally joked about using vehicles to run over their opponents. That message and thousands of other conversations among white supremacists […]