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Archives: Far Right
What’s Stopping Media From Calling Las Vegas Killer a “Terrorist”? His Whiteness
Zenobia Jeffries | ( Yes! Magazine) | - - Like other mass shooters before him, Stephen Paddock has the benefit of White privilege even in the most vicious of circumstances. Just when…
Buzzfeed Exposes Breitbart’s Neo-Nazi Roots (TYT Video)
Brett Erlich, Nando Vila and Hannah Cranston | (The Young Turks Video) | - - Steve Bannon insists that there's "no room" for neo-nazi's and white supremacists in the alt-right movement, Buzzfeed…
Fake News: Fascist Media try to blame Las Vegas Shooting on Left
TeleSUR | - - The Las Vegas strip that comes under the jurisdiction of Clark County has declared a state of emergency in the area. Several right-wing media outlets have spread rumors…
Trump tries to Camouflage Muslim Ban with a Few Venezuelans and N. Koreans
TeleSur | - - The addition of North Korea and Venezuela broadens the restrictions from the original, mostly Muslim-majority list. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Venezuela and North Korea will…
“Those People:” Trump plays to White nat’lism from N. Korea to NFL
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's dreary tweetstorm on Saturday was intended to gain him popularity with white supremacists and the covert racists on the right of the…
Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’
By Julia Angwin, Madeleine Varner and Ariana Tobin | ( ProPublica) | - - After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring. Want to…
Book-Burning, Trump’s Torchbearers & Reading Donald Duck
By Ariel Dorfman | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The organizers of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville last month knew just what they were doing when they decided to carry torches…
Chinese Americans came at Same Time as Bannon’s Irish
AJ+ | (Video Report) "There are now more than 4 million Chinese people living in the United States. Surprisingly, most of these immigrants came in the last few decades, starting in the…
Rush Limbaugh flees Irma after calling Hurricane & Climate Change Fake News
New York Daily News | (Video News Clip) | - - Rush Limbaugh lambasted stories about Irma as deadly Category 5 hurricane as "fake news" intended to bolster a "climate change agenda"…
Bannon & Trump lost Long ago: White Christians not a Majority in US
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In 1976,when Jimmy Carter was elected, a big majority (81%) of Americans identified as both white and Christian, with 4 in 10 of…
Do Muslim Americans need a Civil Rights Movement?
By Emily Cury | (The Conversation) | - - The past year has been a difficult one for American Muslims. According to a July 2017 Pew survey, 48 percent of Muslims report…
Politics Above Law: How Trump channels Far Right icon Carl Schmitt without Knowing It
By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump’s various public statements have made clear that he is not an avid reader. He has remarked that he does not have…
How Trump’s pardon of Arpaio changed America
By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson | (Otherwords.org) | - - The president called a man who freely violated people's constitutional rights a "patriot." What does that make his victims? During a speech to a…
Beyond Charlottesville: Can we End Structural Violence against People of Color?
By Gregory Alonso Pirio | (Informed Comment) | - - The importance of opposing the resurgence of emboldened KKK, Neo-Nazis and other hate-filled white supremacists that were on display in Charlottesville cannot…
The Racism Heard Round the World: Even Fascists Denounce Nazis more than Trump
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - When the neo-fascist National Front is more willing to condemn neo-Nazis than Trump, we have a problem. On race relations,…
Where Do “Alt-Right” Groups Get Their Money?
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | - - "As white nationalists protest across the country, we wanted to know who's financially funding their hate. And there's more money in it than you…
White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before Charlottesville
By George Joseph | ProPublica | - - Nearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, white supremacists planning the…
Was Hate’s Reach into US Public Extended by Internet?
James E. Hawdon | (The Conversation) | - - Extremism has always been with us, but the internet has allowed ideas that advocate hate and violence to reach more and more people.…