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VP Pence pulls NFL Political Stunt at Taxpayer Expense

TeleSur | - - "I left today's Colts game because I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem," Pence said. Members of the National…

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…

Trump’s national anthem outrage ignores decades of Supreme Court rulings

By Emma Long | (The Conversation) | - - When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick chose to remain seated during a pre-game national anthem in protest against racial injustice and police…

Germany: Will strong Neo-Fascist showing push Merkel to the Right?

By Patricia Hogwood | (The Conversation) | - - Angela Merkel will continue as chancellor of Germany. But following an election that saw the rise of smaller parties – most notably the…

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…

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…

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…

Arabs, Thomas Friedman and the “iron fist”

By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com) Writing about conflicts in the Middle East for the New York Times yesterday, columnist Thomas Friedman talked of "the power that is lost to a society…

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…

Trump Exploits Harvey Victims in Stealth Pardon of Arpaio

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Eminent climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State noticed not one but two horrible things about Friday evening. You never want to see…

It’s Time to Take the Nazi-Trump Comparisons Seriously

By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | - - The slide towards bleak historical periods can be difficult to recognize in the moment. But…

Will Trump’s Arpaio Pardon encourage more civil rights violations?

Steven Mulroy | (The Conversation) | - - President Donald Trump may pardon Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who illegally used racial profiling to enforce immigration laws. It’s true, Trump has…

Trump, the Magical WASP, Deepens Racial Divide again in Phoenix

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - After another Stockholm Syndrome performance, on Afghanistan, where he gave the speech National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster wrote for him, Trump on…

Number of Hate Groups Spiking under Trump (Video)

The Atlantic | (Video News Report) | - - "According to research by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of hate groups has been increasing rapidly since 2000. Heidi Beirich, director…

The Historical Falsehoods That Feed White Supremacy

Peter J. Hammer | ( Yes! Magazine) | - - Behind the racist slogans are historical tropes that the broader White America clings to, not just those who showed up for the…

Answering Trump’s Question: Who are the “Alt-Right” Among Us?

By George Michael | (The Conversation) | - - Over the past year, far-right activists – which some have labeled the “alt-right” – have gone from being an obscure, largely online subculture…

Why don’t People think Trump’s Denunciation sincere? B/c he Ran on Racism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump finally came out, two days late, to denounce explicitly and by name the hate groups who organized an invasion, hundreds-strong, of little…