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Archives for August 2017

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

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

contributors

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

Federal Agencies Warned of White Supremacist Threat in May

contributors

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 […]

Epidemics
Under Saudi Bombs, Yemen hit by 500,000 Cholera Cases

Under Saudi Bombs, Yemen hit by 500,000 Cholera Cases

contributors

TeleSur | – – Each day there are more than 5,000 new cases of the waterborne disease. More than half a million people in Yemen have been infected with cholera since the epidemic began four months ago and 1,975 people have died, the World Health Organization, WHO, announced Monday. Each day there are more than […]

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

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

A New Generation of White Supremacists Emerges in Charlottesville

contributors

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

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

contributors

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

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

contributors

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

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 […]

Iraq
Iraq after ISIL needs Security, Anti-Corruption & Jobs, not Identity Politics

Iraq after ISIL needs Security, Anti-Corruption & Jobs, not Identity Politics

contributors

By Andrea Teti, Pamela Abbott, and Munqith Dagher | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Ignoring priorities that have popular support in Iraq risks undermining post-ISIS attempts to build a stable country, with knock-on effects at a regional level. As the defeat of ISIS/Daesh looms large both in Syria and in Iraq, attention turns to […]

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