ADDED 03/30/2019

Hindutva And Fascist White Nationalism: A Match Made in Hell

FROM 03/19/2019 | Eurasia Future

BY Adam Garrie

In 2011, the fascist Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb in central Oslo before travelling to Utøya island where he opened fire on children on a camping holiday. Overall, Breivik murdered 77 people whilst he injured over 300. While Breivik has been behind bars since committing the atrocities of 2011, his name has […]

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ADDED 03/30/2019

Revealed: dozens of European politicians linked to US ‘incubator for extremism’

FROM 03/27/2019 | Open Democracy

BY Claire Provost, Nandini Archer

A controversial network of ultra-conservatives that has been called an anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ in the US has forged increasing links with senior European politicians including heads of state, cabinet ministers and MPs, openDemocracy can reveal. The World Congress of Families (WCF) – a global network of US, Russian and other ultra-conservative activists – is next […]

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ADDED 03/30/2019

A Real-Life Game of Risk: Why Civilizationism Is Biggest Threat to Human Rights in the 21st Century

FROM 03/27/2019 | MInt Press

BY Dr. James M. Dorsey

Many have framed the battle lines in the geopolitics of the emerging new world order as the 21st century’s Great Game. It’s a game that aims to shape the creation of a new Eurasia-centred world, built on the likely fusion of Europe and Asia into what former Portuguese Europe minister Bruno Macaes calls a “supercontinent.” […]

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ADDED 03/23/2019

The road to global debt supremacy: How finance swallowed democracy.

FROM 03/16/2019 | This is Hell

BY Chuck Mertz, Jerome Roos

Debt repayment is a crucial lever in the process of empowering technocrats at finance ministries and central banks, giving them more authority to act as a ‘responsible debtor.’ In the process, we see that lack of democratic responsiveness, that growing power of technocrats and marginalization of those who seek to respond to more popular demands […]

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ADDED 03/23/2019

“Lords of Chaos” Brings a White Nationalist’s Book to the Big Screen

FROM 03/19/2019 | Truthout

BY JONAS ÅCKLERLUND

In ancient, pre-Christian Nordic myths, the Oskorei is a collection of souls that jets through the night sky above the living, often with the god Odin leading the horde. On certain occasions, the Oskorei may swoop down to grapple with the living, faces adorned in white with black rims. Over the course of the 20th […]

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ADDED 03/23/2019

7 U.S. Military Members Identified As Part Of White Nationalist Group

FROM 03/17/2019 | HuffPost

BY Christopher Mathias

Leaked chat logs have connected seven current members of the U.S. armed forces to a white nationalist group, according to a HuffPost investigation. Two Marines, two Army ROTC cadets, an Army physician, a member of the Texas National Guard and one member of the Air Force all belong to an organization called Identity Evropa, which […]

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ADDED 03/23/2019

Macron’s plan to use troops in Paris protests sparks anger

FROM 03/22/2019 | Financial Times

BY Victor Mallet

French president Emmanuel Macron’s decision to use anti-terrorist troops to help police control any violent demonstrations in Paris this weekend has triggered fierce criticism from both sides of the political divide as well as security analysts. Mr Macron decided to deploy soldiers of the Sentinelle unit to relieve the police of some of their guard […]

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ADDED 03/09/2019

Russell Brand, Henry Giroux and Brad Evans on Fighting Fascism

FROM 03/03/2019 | Truthdig

BY Russell Brand

In this interview between actor, activist and comedian Russell Brand and Henry Giroux and Brad Evans, there is a wide-ranging and robust discussion about the meaning and the rise of fascism in the United States, the necessity of the left to address it, what it takes to move from a demonstration to a movement, whether […]

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