By Brian Martin | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | – – The Trump administration’s policies have already triggered public outrage and massive opposition. To understand the techniques that make opposition effective, it is useful to look at regular patterns of injustice and outrage. When powerful groups do things that might trigger resistance, they regularly use […]
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Far Right
We ignore the Violence of Radical White Populist Extremism at our Peril
By Sindre Bangstad | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – We ignore the terrorist threat from right-wing extremism at our peril. But the main threat to democracy in our time is even more insidious. On 29 January 2017, a gunman opened fire in a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six Muslim worshippers and wounding 19 […]
The Trauma of “Dreamers” under Trump’s Deportation Threats
By Annamarya Scaccia | (Yes! Magazine) | – – After Daniela Vargas’ recent arrest, the future for DACA’s more than 750,000 recipients is more uncertain than ever. They need political support, but also safe spaces to process their anxiety. The migraines came out of nowhere. Nanci Palacios, who lives in Tampa, Florida, had headaches before […]
Oppression in the Land of the Free: A Muslim Leader Speaks Out
By Edu Montesanti | TeleSur | – – An interview with Hatem Abudayyeh, head of Chicago’s Arab American Action Network, on the rising criminalization of Arab and Muslim life in the US. In September of 2010, American federal agents in Chicago unjustifiably raided the Jefferson Park residence of Hatem Abudayyeh, Executive Director of Arab American […]
Still not Nice: Trump’s Nazi-inspired Demonization of Immigrants
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – New government agency blasted as ‘a blatant attempt to humiliate and scare immigrants’ Groans and boos greeted President Donald Trump’s announcement of an Orwellian new government agency—”VOICE (Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement)”—during his address to Congress Tuesday night. “I have ordered the Department of Homeland […]
Further Wave of Bomb Threats against Jewish Centers: Rise of US Far Right
TeleSur | – – Some Jewish groups see the vandalism and threats as a sign that anti-Semitic groups have been emboldened by Trump’s election. Jewish community centers and schools in at least 13 U.S. states reported receiving bomb threats on Monday, the fifth wave of such threats this year that have stoked fears of a […]
Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump did an interview with “Fox and Friends” for this morning in which he alleged that former president Barack Obama is behind the leaks that have bedeviled Trump’s White House. The Fox agent provocateur asked Trump a leading question as to whether Obama is also behind […]
I Cover Hate. I Didn’t Expect It at My Family’s Jewish Cemetery
by Ariana Tobin | ProPublica | – – When it comes to death, my family honors all of the Ashkenazi Jewish traditions: We name our children after dead relatives, we sit shiva for a week, we gather around trays of fruit and lox and cream cheese, we cover the mirrors, we say the Kaddish prayer, […]
“Get out of my Country!” White Terrorist Shoots Asian-American Engineers in Wake of Trump Visa Ban
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It is alleged that Adam W. Purinton, a regular at a bar and grill, went up to two Indian-American patrons on Wednesday night in Olathe, Kansas and screamed racial slurs at them. He was asked to leave by the bartender, but 15 minutes later came back, […]