ADDED 04/21/2019
FROM 04/18/2019 | Sp!ked
BY Andrew Doyle
The rise of the far right is something that must concern any civilised society. Even before the horrific terrorist atrocity in Christchurch, there have been signs that racist extremists are becoming more active. In the UK, four of the 18 terror attacks prevented by the intelligence agencies since March 2017 have come from the far right. Although, […]
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ADDED 04/01/2019
FROM 03/17/2019 | Vox
BY Sean Illing
What’s the best way to fight racism and extremism? The impulse to dismiss extremists as unreachable fanatics is strong and at times justifiable. But perhaps it’s not always the most effective means of combating them. Deeyah Khan, a journalist and filmmaker, has decided to engage them directly as human beings. In two documentary films, White Right: […]
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ADDED 04/01/2019
FROM 03/31/2019 | Think Progress
BY Casey Michel
Jared Taylor, one of the most prominent white supremacists in the U.S., claimed on his website on Friday that he’d been “banned from Europe” until 2021. The ban came as Taylor attempted to transfer in Switzerland for a flight to Finland. According to Taylor, Swiss police informed him that Polish authorities had barred Taylor from […]
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ADDED 03/30/2019
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
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
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
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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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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ADDED 02/22/2019
FROM | The Nation
BY Lev Golinkin
ive years ago, Ukraine’s Maidan uprising ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, to the cheers and support of the West. Politicians and analysts in the United States and Europe not only celebrated the uprising as a triumph of democracy, but denied reports of Maidan’s ultranationalism, smearing those who warned about the dark side of the uprising as Moscow puppets […]
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ADDED 02/22/2019
FROM 11/19/2018 | Mint Press News
BY Max Blumenthal
Not only are white supremacists from across the West flocking to Ukraine to learn from the combat experience of their fascist brothers-in-arms, they are doing so openly, under the nose of a shrugging law enforcement — chronicling their experiences on social media before they bring their lessons back home. Last month, an unsealed FBI indictment of four […]
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ADDED 02/21/2019
FROM 02/21/2019 | HAARETZ
BY Etan Nechin
Netanyahu lost his moral compass years ago, but his electoral deal with Israel’s most extreme racists is a moment of crisis, and a test, for American Jews. Don’t fail it. Benjamin Netanyahu faced media criticism this week for hosting the right-wing prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary who have been accused of being anti-immigrant […]
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ADDED 02/21/2019
FROM 02/19/2019 | The New Yorker
BY Colin Moynihan
The world is on fire,” Ben Hutcherson told an audience in Brooklyn, last month, before a set by his band, Glacial Tomb. He added, “At least we can all burn together.” Over the next thirty minutes, the band, which Hutcherson describes as playing “blackened, sludgy death metal,” roared through a half-dozen songs, replete with thundering drums […]
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