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…

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…