US politics

By Rebecca Gordon | (Via Todmispatch.com ) | – – Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been fighting a “war on terror.” Real soldiers have been deployed to distant lands; real cluster bombs and white phosphorus have been used; real cruise missiles have been launched; the first MOAB, the largest non-nuclear bomb in […]

Donald Trump

Why don’t People think Trump’s Denunciation sincere? B/c he Ran on Racism

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump finally came out, two days late, to denounce explicitly and by name the hate groups who organized an invasion, hundreds-strong, of little Charlottesville, VA (pop. 46,000) on Saturday. While the statement will take some of the political pressure off the president, it will be dismissed […]

Donald Trump

Call it what it is: Domestic White Nationalist Terrorism on the Rise

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By Arie Perliger | (The Conversation) | – – The attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a man named James Alex Fields Jr. used his Dodge Challenger as a weapon against a crowd of protesters, underscores the growing violence of America’s far-right wing. According to reports, Fields was a active member of an online far-right […]

Donald Trump

Federal Agencies Warned of White Supremacist Threat in May

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By Julia Conley, staff writer. | Commondreams.org | – – A memo by the FBI and DHS said white supremacist groups pose a bigger threat to the U.S. than other extremist organizations. White supremacist groups have been responsible for more homicides than any other domestic extremist movement in the past 17 years, according to a […]

Bernie Sanders

Bannon must go, but after that, Protesters should listen to Bernie

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Steve Bannon ran, and is still likely pulling the strings at, Breitbart, the “Stormfront” in a business suit with a skinny tie. Bannon once characterized it as enabling what he called the “alt right,” by which he meant a slightly more presentable version of the skinheads, […]

Donald Trump

A New Generation of White Supremacists Emerges in Charlottesville

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By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Karim Hajj, special to ProPublica | ( ProPublica) | – – The white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation of the white supremacy movement. Old-guard groups like the Ku Klux […]

Donald Trump

Iran’s Parliament defies new Trump/GOP Sanctions, Increases Missile Funds

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TeleSur | – – The bill would allocate over US$260 million each to Iran’s ballistic missile program and the Quds Force. Iran’s parliament has approved the first step of a bill to boost Tehran’s missile program spending on the heels of new U.S. sanctions against the country. Lawmakers gave the go ahead for the crafting […]

Far Right

‘Don’t Be a Sucker’ [White Supremacist/ Nazi] : War Department 1943 Video

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United States War Department |. (1943 Educational Video) | – – Wikipedia: “Don’t Be a Sucker! is a short film produced by the US War Department in 1943 and re-released in 1947. It has anti-racist and anti-fascist themes. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces. […]

Donald Trump

Top 5 Ways White Terrorism means never having to Say you’re Sorry

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I’ve argued for some time that US media treats white terrorists differently than others. And, I noted recently that the US press seems to have been astonished when the governor of Minnesota branded the bombing of a mosque “terrorism.” We have more evidence today to make […]