By George Michael | (The Conversation) | – – Over the past year, far-right activists – which some have labeled the “alt-right” – have gone from being an obscure, largely online subculture to a player at the very center of American politics. On August 12, an amalgamation of far-right activist groups, ranging from Vanguard America […]
Neo-Nazi Website forced on to ‘Dark Web’ as no ISP Wants Them
TeleSur | – – Web hosting firms, Sendgrid, SaaS and Zoho as well as tech firm Discord are the latest providers to dump The Daily Stormer. Citing terms of service violations, more companies have followed Go Daddy and Google’s lead by severing their business ties with The Daily Stormer. The Neo-Nazi website which helped to organize the violent gathering […]
Is it time for Trump Administration to stop Declaring War on every Problem?
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 […]
Call it what it is: Domestic White Nationalist Terrorism on the Rise
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 […]
Federal Agencies Warned of White Supremacist Threat in May
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 […]
Under Saudi Bombs, Yemen hit by 500,000 Cholera Cases
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 […]
A New Generation of White Supremacists Emerges in Charlottesville
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 […]
Iran’s Parliament defies new Trump/GOP Sanctions, Increases Missile Funds
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 […]
‘Don’t Be a Sucker’ [White Supremacist/ Nazi] : War Department 1943 Video
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. […]