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Archives: Domestic Terrorism
Dear Generation Z: So sorry for bequeathing to you terrorism hysteria and all those Wars
By Peter Van Buren | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - I recently sent my last kid off for her senior year of college. There are rituals to such moments, and because dad-confessions…
Trump and Extreme Vetting of Muslims
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In an attempt at a foreign policy speech in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday, Donald Trump attempted to get back to his fearmongering roots…After Orlando: Twitter Recoils from Islamophobia, Takes Aim at Gun Laws
By Saif Shahin | ( Foreign Policy in Focus/ Lobelog) | - - An analysis of the Twitter conversation over 12 hours on the day of the shooting reveals deep animosity against…
Omar Mateen and Rightwing Homophobia: Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - US law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando shootings as "domestic terrorism." I don't think it probably was terrorism in…
Why the National Security State Relishes our being Trolled by Muslim Radicals
By Tom Engelhardt | Tomdispatch.com) | - - Honestly, I don’t know whether to rant or weep, neither of which are usual impulses for me. In the wake of the slaughter in…
America’s Dumb Bigots: Sikh Man Beaten Before Anniversary Of 9/11
Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, John Iadarola, and Wes Clark Jr. | (The Young Turks Video Report) | - - "One tragic aspect of our post-9/11 legacy is Americans terrorizing, beating, and murdering…
American Heroes on French Train show Courage, not Billions, needed to Face down Terrorism
Deutsche Welle | (Video News Report) | - - "Three Americans are being hailed as heroes, after overpowering a gunman aboard a European high-speed train. Reports say the suspect was armed with…
America’s Mass Killings and our National Security State
By Karen J. Greenberg - Tomdispatch.com Imagine that you’re in the FBI and you receive a tip -- or more likely, pick up information through the kind of mass surveillance in which…
Is the Confederate flag unconstitutional?
By Alfred L Brophy | (The Conversation) | - The tragedy in Charleston has revived the movement to take the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. On Monday June…
Our Jihadis and Theirs: The Real (Armed) Dangers of American Life
By Tom Engeldhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Consider this paragraph a holding action on the subject of getting blown away in America. While I write this dispatch, I’m waiting patiently for…
Rhodesian Flag, Confederate Flag: Roof & the Legacies of Racial Hate
Benjamin Foldy | (Informed Comment) | - - When the perpetrator in the horrific massacre at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston was first publicly identified as Dylann Storm Roof, a near-instantaneous…
Since 2002, Right-wing White Terrorists have Killed More Americans Than Muslim Extremists
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "When we have certain kinds of attacks in this country, there is terrorism world-wide, it’s a global conspiracy and they are coming…
ISIS Vs Climate Change – Which Kills More? Russell Brand The Trews
Russell Brand | (The Trewes) - "Reaction to the news that President Obama has said the media “absolutely” overstates the threat of terrorism in comparison to the threat of climate change. Head…