By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Gen. John Kelly’s ramping up of deportation measures against undocumented residents of the US, in accordance with Donald Trump’s campaign promises, contains many hidden dangers. The rational way to deal with long-term unauthorized immigrants would be to offer them a path to citizenship, not waste taxpayers’ […]
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White Supremacists
How Trumpist White Supremacy Builds On Earlier Far-Right Upsurges
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 […]
Feature, not Bug: Trump’s Chaos Theory of Government
Jacek Rostowski | (Project Syndicate) | – – WARSAW – In the weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, it has become clear that he intends to roll back the progressive-egalitarian agenda that is commonly associated with “political correctness” to the starting block – not just in the United States, but […]
Yes, Trump, Some Americans also murder: Some are Your White Supremacists
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 […]
Trump Counter-Terrorism Program to drop White Supremacists, focus on Islam
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 […]
Demonizing Muslims: White Quebec Terrorists kill 6 in attack on Mosque
TeleSur | – – Incidents of Islamophobia have increased in Quebec in recent years amid a political debate over banning the niqab. At least two people have been arrested in the aftermath of the deadly shooting of a Quebec City mosque that has left five people dead in the eastern Canadian province, according to reports. […]
Trump’s Visa Ban is about anti-Muslim Bigotry, not Security
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters is reporting that on Wednesday, Trump will announce a halt to the issuing of visas to citizens of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. If this report is correct, Trump will represent this step as being about security, but it is not. Of […]
Welcome to Psychopathocracy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – We are now on the brink of a new form of government, undreamed of by Aristotle, who spoke of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy. We are headed to a psychopathocracy, which has something in common with the degraded form of classical regime types that Aristotle warned against (he thought monarchy can […]
Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial
TeleSur | – – Roof allegedly shot and massacred nine African-American churchgoers. Dylann Roof, the white supremacist charged with shooting up a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine parishioners, was granted Monday the ability to represent himself in his upcoming trial. Facing 33 charges of hate crime murder, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel […]