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 […]
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Donald Trump
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 […]
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 once characterized it as enabling what he called the “alt right,” by which he meant a slightly more presentable version of the skinheads, […]
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 […]
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 to have been astonished when the governor of Minnesota branded the bombing of a mosque “terrorism.” We have more evidence today to make […]
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 been caught in the crosshairs. Trump made a phone call to the governor of Guam, Eddie Calvo, on Friday, assuring him that nuclear […]
‘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 and Yemen (and maybe Somalia and Libya), the Trump administration talks as though it is on the brink of opening new fronts in […]
Trump’s ‘Election Integrity’ Commission Hearkens Back to Jim Crow
By Diallo Brooks | (Otherwords.org) | – – Politicians have stolen our right to vote before. They’ll do it again if they get the chance. Joseph Cox watched his friends and neighbors go to the polls for the first time. The fight to get to that moment had been long, bloody, and vicious. But as […]
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