By Arnold R. Isaacs | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – When you see an immigrant or a foreign visitor, especially from a Muslim country, should your first thought be that you might be looking at a possible terrorist? Clearly, that’s how the Trump administration wants Americans to react. It was the message in the president’s […]
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White Supremacists
Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right
By Harry Blain | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes about the ascent of the far right in the country. Much of the “alt-right” literature in the United States is exactly what you would expect. Images of George Soros using […]
Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes
TeleSur | – – Facebook seems to have deleted the racist, sexist group’s page while the popular movie-ranking site announced its plan as hate speech. An alt-right group is trying to tank the ratings for “Black Panther” movie on Rotten Tomatoes website as the movie continues to receive glowing reviews from critics after its premier […]
Trump’s Criminalization of Muslims goes beyond Travel Ban
Basima Sisemore | (The Conversation) | – – On Jan. 19, a year after President Donald Trump’s first travel ban was issued, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments against the latest third version signed by Trump on Sept. 24, 2017. This version remains in full effect. Under the ban, nationals from eight countries are […]
Plummeting Tourism to US, costing $10 bn., blamed on Trump Slump
TeleSur | – – Some in the travel industry attribute the decline to something they call the “Trump slump.” Travel to the United States has declined. While some in the [$244 bn.] tourist industry are asking why, others are pointing their fingers squarely at U.S. President Donald Trump. The U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office […]
The worst thing about Year One of Trump: Fascistization of Cable News
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – American mass media journalism is broken. There are some simple elements of US journalistic practice that have proved easy for special interests to hack, and the editors at least have allowed themselves to be used by sinister forces. (I am speaking primarily of television news here, […]
Radical White Terrorists committed Most 2017 Killings in US
TeleSur | – – A report by the Anti-Defamation League shows that in 2017 the majority of murders in the U.S. were committed by right-wing, white supremacists. According to a report published by the Center on Extremism of the Anti-Defamation League, ADL, Tuesday, last year witnessed a marked reduction in domestic-extremism related murders and a […]
Neo-Nazi Game of Thrones: Bannon forced out at Breitbart
TeleSur | – – Steve Bannon resigned as chief executive of Breitbart News, the right-leaning website said on Tuesday The resignation occurred after the former White House ex-strategist was attacked by President Donald Trump for criticizing his eldest son. Bannon, who was fired from the White House in August, was quoted in the book “Fire […]
White Nat’list Trump Adviser Miller Bounced from CNN after Sit-in
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Senior policy advisor for the Trump White House and notorious white supremacist Stephen Miller appeared on Jake Tapper’s Sunday show to defend Trump from the allegations in Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury.” Miller declined to leave after the train wreck of an interview, in which he […]
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