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Politics
Israel: Key Far-Right Faction to be Headed by even Farther-Right anti-Palestinian Ideologue
That night, scores of Israeli settler youth went to Route 60 to throw stones at passing Palestinian vehicles
The Antisemitic Turn of the Rising Far Right ‘Alternative for Germany’ Party
The AfD wants to use Israel to exploit the false notion that whoever is pro-Israel could not be antisemitic
Can Sanders’ House Progressives go International to Block Bannon’s Far Right?
It takes climate change and renewable energy seriously
CNN’s Zucker Slams Trump’s attacks on Media, Rivals after Pipe Bombs
by Jennie MATTHEW, with Saul Loeb in Mosinee New York (AFP) – Pipe bombs were sent Wednesday to Barack Obama, top Democrats and CNN, hate figures for Donald Trump supporters, while the US president tempered calls for unity by attacking the media for its “endless hostility.” Democrat and Trump foe Hillary Clinton was one of […]
“I am a Nationalist” – Donald Trump apes Mussolini in Drive to destroy America
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump proudly says he is a “nationalist.” He is, of course, saying this to shore up support among white nationalists. The Nazi sites on the web were all having wet dreams in the aftermath. From the 1990s, polling has found that about 10% of Americans support far right militias. These […]
Bomb Found at NY Home of Entrepreneur Soros after Trump attacked Him
New York (AFP) – The FBI on Tuesday was investigating an explosive device found in the mailbox at the New York home of US billionaire and liberal donor George Soros, a target of right-wing groups, officials confirmed. An employee of the residence in Bedford, north of Manhattan, found the suspicious package in the mailbox on […]
“Untrump the World”: Hundreds of Thousands March in Berlin against Far Right
“We are indivisible”
Bannon Promises ‘War Rooms’ to install Far Right in European Elections
By Franck IOVENE Rome (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday said he would set up “war rooms” across Europe to help form a pan-continental right-wing movement ahead of European Parliament elections in 2019. Speaking at the congress of the Italian far-right Fratelli d’Italia party, Bannon called for people across […]