Far Right

By Matthew N. Lyons | (TeleSur) | – – The “alt-right” network has brought together multiple currents, from neo-Nazis to men’s rights activists, right-wing anarchists to neo-reactionaries. The day after Donald Trump’s upset electoral victory over Hillary Clinton, "alt-right" founder Richard Spencer declared that his movement was "the new Trumpian vanguard" — offering ideological direction […]

Donald Trump

Is Steven Bannon marching America toward Messianic Apocalypse?

contributors

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – What does it mean for international relations when the most powerful country in the world becomes a pariah state? [In] Der Spiegel’s instantly infamous Donald Trump cover Donald Trump is holding up the severed head of the Statue of Liberty. It’s a striking image […]

Far Right

Yes, Trump, Some Americans also murder: Some are Your White Supremacists

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In an interview with Bill O’Reilly airing Sunday afternoon, O’Reilly observes of Russian President Vladimir Putin: “He’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer.” TRUMP: “There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent?” As The […]

Counter-Terrorism

Trump Counter-Terrorism Program to drop White Supremacists, focus on Islam

contributors

TeleSur | – – He could rename the “Countering Violent Extremism” program to “Countering Islamic Extremism,” according to Reuters sources. The Trump administration wants to revamp a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies into one that gives a pass to white supremacists and focuses solely on Islamist extremism. The program, “Countering Violent […]

Arab Americans

German Ambassador 1933: “Hostility to Jews Aimed Mainly at ‘Immigrants'”

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Here are two newspaper articles from spring, 1933. They concern the issue of early Nazi policy toward Germany’s Jews. In the first, the German ambassador to the UK maintains that the issue isn’t Jews but Immigrants. In the second, it is clear that only a few […]

Authoritarianism

Meryl Streep calls out Trump: Having Bully-in-Chief Coarsens whole Culture

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Occasionally entertainment and politics intersect, often hitting a false note. You never want your screenplay to be, as they say in Hollywood, “on the nose.” You have to step sideways away from ordinary news and address some dimension of the human condition to make art. But […]

Donald Trump

Liberal Berlin Fights Fake Nazi anti-Muslim News by Bannon’s Breitbart

contributors

TeleSur | – – The “news” story portrayed a deliberate attack on a Dortmund church by a “mob” of Muslims. Far-right white nationalist website Breitbart has been criticized by German authorities and media for falsifying a story of a new year’s eve where a church was supposedly set on fire by a group of Muslims […]

Authoritarianism

Some Animals are Better: An American Version of the One-Party State

contributors

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Know thyself. It was what came to mind in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory and my own puzzling reaction to it. And while that familiar phrase just popped into my head, I had no idea it was so ancient, or Greek, or for that […]

Authoritarianism

Preparing for the Normalization of a Neofascist White House

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It is 2017, and shortly the White House will be inhabited by an unscrupulous, corrupt narcissist who has shamelessly mobilized the Neo-Nazi fringe of the Republican Party to get into power. Despite all the cries of ‘no’ to normalization on the left, Trump will be normalized […]