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Trump on Barcelona: Recalls US War on Spain, Brutal Occupation of Filipino Muslims

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A vehicular terror attack in Barcelona that left over a dozen people dead and 100 injured has been claimed by ISIL. Another terrorist…

US Military in Syria to Stay, YPG Kurds Say

TeleSur | - - The United States has been funding and supporting the group for months, due to “strategic interests” in the region, a spokesperson revealed. U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria —…

No Longer “Indispensable?” The World is moving on from Trump’s America

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Let me try to get this straight: from the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently just about every politician and…

German Politicians think Trump is dangerously close to Neo-Nazis, and they Should know

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The nation of Germany gazed with helpless horror at Trump's disastrous Tuesday press conference, in which he tried to make a false equivalency…

Number of Hate Groups Spiking under Trump (Video)

The Atlantic | (Video News Report) | - - "According to research by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of hate groups has been increasing rapidly since 2000. Heidi Beirich, director…

The Historical Falsehoods That Feed White Supremacy

Peter J. Hammer | ( Yes! Magazine) | - - Behind the racist slogans are historical tropes that the broader White America clings to, not just those who showed up for the…

Fascism in Charlottesville: Why it had a monopoly on violence & Intimidation

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In his unhinged news conference on Tuesday, Trump equated what he called the "alt-Left" (which is not a thing) with the alt-Right. He…

Answering Trump’s Question: Who are the “Alt-Right” Among Us?

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…

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…

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;…

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

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…

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…

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.…

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

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…

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…

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…

‘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.…

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

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…

Trump to Guam: Nuclear Tensions Will Bring you Tourism

TeleSur | - - Amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats against North Korea, or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), as it prefers to be called, the U.S. colony of Guam has…

‘Locked & Loaded’ Trump’s 1960s Cowboyism re: N. Korea & Venezuela

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - If you were away from news on Friday, you might like to know that in addition to hot wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq…