Far Right

TeleSur | – – Although the so-called “moderate” right wishes to distance itself from the far right, the list of speakers at the CPAC conference shows they have more in common than not. Some far right big names were excluded from the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, with Milo Yiannopoulos disinvited and Richard Spencer kicked […]

Children

Should Bannon Resign? He and Milo Fake-Newsed Hillary as Pedophile

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The interview that emerged on the internet of practicing Catholic Milo Yiannopoulos expressing approval of some instances of priest pedophilia with boys has perhaps ended his career as the most flamboyant voice of the neo-KKK in suits. But those remarks are hardly the most objectionable things […]

Donald Trump

CPAC, OK with alt-NeoNazism, drops Milo over Teen Sex Comments

contributors

TeleSur | – – Milo Yiannopoulos will not be allowed to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference following the discovery of his comments supporting pedophilia. Breitbart editor and self-described “occasional fellow traveler with the alt-right,” Milo Yiannopoulos, has for some time now been notorious for his sexist, transphobic, racist and far-right views. But it’s […]

Donald Trump

How Trumpist White Supremacy Builds On Earlier Far-Right Upsurges

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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?

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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

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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 […]