American democracy is in peril, teetering between democracy and authoritarianism and under siege by Donald Trump, the Republican Party and the larger white right. To call them “conservative” is an insult to language.
Source: Donald Trump has learned how to manipulate white rage — that’s very dangerous | Salon.com
We have found that 47 million American adults – nearly 1 in 5 – agree with the statement that “the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump and Joe Biden is an illegitimate president.” Of those, 21 million also agree that “use of force is justified to restore Donald J. Trump to the presidency.” Our survey found that many of these 21 million people with insurrectionist sentiments have the capacity for violent mobilization. At least 7 million of them already own a gun, and at least 3 million have served in the U.S. military and so have lethal skills. Of those 21 million, 6 million said they supported right-wing militias and extremist groups, and 1 million said they are themselves or personally know a member of such a group, including the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. Only a small percentage of people who hold extremist views ever actually commit acts of violence, but our findings reveal how many Americans hold views that could turn them toward insurrection.
When Lt. Michael Byrd and the other Black and brown police officers battled Trump’s attack force on Jan. 6, they committed an unpardonable sin against white racial authoritarianism and its believers and followers. Revenge and retaliation are inevitable. Lt. Michael Byrd’s peril will continue into the foreseeable future. He is now more than a man. He is a symbol for the white right and other American fascists, who are likely to perceive him as an ultimate trophy, as well as a way of avenging the killing of Ashli Babbitt. The threats of violence will not be limited to him. For the white right and the American neofascist movement, all Black people are now, to varying degrees, Michael Byrd.
Source: Black cop shoots white woman: The saga of Michael Byrd and Ashli Babbitt | Salon.com
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is facing backlash for his latest attempt to use the Nazi-inspired “replacement theory” to accuse Democratic lawmakers of importing violent criminals into the country for political gain. On Wednesday, August 11, Carlson appeared on “Fox & Friends” where he spoke with the panel of hosts and shared details about the so-called “scandal involving the border.” Carlson chimed in saying, “I mean, you know what this tells you honestly? What’s happening at the border is not a crisis. A crisis is a flood in Bangladesh, it’s an act of God. This is an intentional act.” “This is the administration bringing felons, violent criminals into our country on purpose,” Carlson claimed. “Why would you do something like that? Only to destroy it. I mean, there’s no other explanation for this. It’s not an act of compassion. It’s an act of hostility against the United States in order to change it forever. I think this is the greatest scandal of my lifetime, what’s happening on the border right now.” Carlson went on to claim that Democrats have a “strategy” that includes importing “violent criminals” to increase their voter roll.
Source: ‘Nazi Propaganda’: Tucker Carlson Leans on Anti-immigrant ‘Replacement Theory’ | The Smirking Chimp
The mainstream media is giving racial extremists such as Tom Sewell a platform to spread his message of hatred to potential recruits, writes Tom Tanuki.
Source: Uncovering the plans of Australian white supremacists
What are U.S. extremist groups doing since the Jan. 6 riot? Local chapters of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Groypers and others are breaking away from their groups’ national figureheads. For instance, some local Proud Boys chapters have been explicitly cutting ties with national leader Enrique Tarrio, the group’s chairman.
After the insurrection, America’s far-right groups get more extreme
Which is why we’d better root out this homegrown terror with at least as much urgency and a lot more sanity than we did when we spent billions attacking the wrong enemy, getting ourselves mired after destabilizing the Middle East, all while enriching war profiteers and giving the American troglodytes of the right a big boost in their power to do us all harm.
Terrorized Yet? If You Speak Out, You Probably Have Been. Or Will Be. | The Smirking Chimp
Last week’s right-wing riot at the Capitol was egged on by politicians and organizations that have received substantial dark-money funding from corporate interests. It’s past time to enact reforms to end the era of dark money — and find out who exactly is bankrolling the anti-democratic far right.
We Should Know Exactly Who Funded Last Week’s Right-Wing Riot
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former Republican governor of California and Hollywood action star has issued a heartfelt and stinging criticism of outgoing US President Donald Trump, while comparing last week’s Capitol riots to Kristallnacht, the night the Nazi attacked the Jewish population in Germany in 1938.
US Capitol riots: Arnold Schwarzenegger compares Capitol riots to Kristallnacht, says ‘it all started with lies’
The events in Washington DC reveal much about how power works in the United States – and for whom
Look at the Capitol Hill rioters. Now imagine if they had been black | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Thousands of members of Proud Bois, Boogaloo, QAnon (who believe that Democrats are Satan incarnate) and other dangerous militia-like groups gathered at the capitol, and at 2:30 pm, as Ted Cruz (R-TX) was trying to overthrow the government by talking it to death, the leaner, meaner versions of Cruz climbed walls, broke windows and invaded the Capitol for the first time since the Redcoats occupied and burned it in 1814.
Terrorism and invading the Legislature, in the Middle East and America
It appears that the white nationalist shooter may have killed a female relative at home before heading to the mosque. Such nice people.
The massacre by a white nationalist terrorist of mostly Mexican-Americans at El Paso was also accompanied by an online rant citing the New Zealand monster.
Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric and tweets are part of this stochastic white terrorism phenomenon.
All terrorist acts in the United States in 2018 were carried out by white nationalists. All.
So what would happen if we took Trump’s bigoted and unfair statements on Muslims and just plugged in white nationalist instead? Those of us who are privileged in various ways might get a sense of how invidious and discriminatory Trump really has been.
What would happen if we ask why so few of the 53 GOP senators have come out to denounce white nationalism? What about prominent white nationalist media figures? Did Tucker Carlson denounce the El Paso massacre? Why is he denying that white nationalism even exists? Why don’t we hear from the white leaders when a white nationalist stages an attack such as Oslo?
The real danger of the white supremacist fanatics to the Muslim community, stimulated by this exploitation of fear, has not yet been recognised by the authorities.
The New York Times reported that:
There were five white extremist attacks in Australia from 2011 through 2017, all of which were attacks on mosques and Islamic centers.
Experts say the same broad motives are at play whether the target is a mosque in Perth or an asylum seekers’ shelter in Dresden or a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Attackers who identify as white, Christian and culturally European see an attack on their privileged position in the West by immigrants, Muslims and other religious and racial minorities.
via This Election saw the revival of white supremacy, nationalism and exclusion
Leaked chat logs revealed active military servicemen with ties to the extremist group Identity Evropa.
White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied again this week that the Austin bombings were terrorism, and Austin Chief of Police Brian Manley asked “That’s been the question all along: Is this terrorism? Is this hate-related?”
It is well known by now that “terrorism” is often used by American officials as a dog whistle to refer to acts of political violence carried out by Muslims or by minorities, and that typically white violence of a terroristic sort is characterized by other adjectives (the poor things often seem to be off their meds or at most involved in “hate crimes.”)
This linguistic hypocrisy has got to stop. If the character of the legislation is the problem, let’s change it. We know who some of the victims are, and that tells us a great deal.
via Increasingly Ludicrous WH denial that Austin bombings are “terrorism”
A new report from the Anti-Defamation League found a 258 percent increase in white supremacist propaganda on college campuses between 2016 and 2017.
via White Supremacists Are Targeting College Students ‘Like Never Before’ | HuffPost
Bess Kalb, a writer for “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” especially took issue with Fausset’s insistence that Hovater is polite. For example, in the same sentence that Fausset describes Hovater as a Nazi sympathizer, he immediately calls him “polite and low-key.” When writing of Hovater as a self-described “social media villain” who occasionally appears on alt-right podcasts, Fausset adds that “his Midwestern manners would please anyone’s mother.”
NYT Accused Of Normalising White Nationalism In ‘Nazi Sympathizer’ Profile
Both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a report in May that warned about the likelihood of far right groups carrying out future attacks, according to a report by Foreign Policy. The same report detailing this also pointed out that white supremacist groups had carried out more attacks over the past 16 years than any other domestic extremist group and “likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”
Source: A right-wing terrorist tried to blow up a government building: report – Salon.com
An Oklahoma man was arrested and accused of trying to blow up a van loaded with 1000lb of fake explosives in downtown Oklahoma City, the Justice Department said. The man was said to be upset with the government, according to court documents.
Source: FBI arrest a man for bomb plot in Oklahoma City — RT America
Pictures from earlier on day of clashes show James Fields with white supremacist group Vanguard America
Source: Charlottesville: man charged with murder was pictured at neo-Nazi rally | US news | The Guardian
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I’ve argued for some time that US media treats white terrorists …
Source: Top 5 Ways White Terrorism means never having to Say you’re Sorry
TeleSur | – – According to one witness, the suspect was heard saying “get off the bus, and get out …
Source: Trumpism: White Terrorist Murders 2 after harassing Muslim-American | Informed Comment
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It is alleged that Adam W. Purinton, a regular at a …
Source: “Get out of my Country!” White Terrorist Shoots Asian-American Engineers in Wake of Trump Visa Ban
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump staffer Stephen Miller, an arch-conservative, defended Trump’s Muslim ban on …
Trump spokesman Sean Spicer actually cited the mosque shooting as though it had been carried out by a Muslim Canadian and gave it as a reason for which Trump’s Muslim ban had been justified!
Source: Trump’s Alt-Reality: White Terrorism against Mosque justifies Muslim Ban
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Imagine if they had been Muslims. What if a Muslim publication …
Source: Trump Strategist Bannon’s Breitbart Conspiracy Site gets Pizzeria Shot up
Galea, who has been linked to far-right groups, allegedly carried out reconnaissance of a target and met with an associate to discuss plans to attack two locations
A maternity hospital supported by Save the Children has been bombed in an air raid in Syria’s northwest Idlib province.
(ANTIWAR) The US-backed offensive in and around Manbij has been going on for two months, with only a part of the city and surrounding area ever captured. The failing offensive on the ground is being overshadowed however, by the US air campaign. That’s because US airstrikes …
Source: Tax Dollars at Work: US “Accidentally” Killing Entire Families in Northern Syria AnonHQ
If you want to envision what Trump’s America would look like, here it is.
Source: Trump’s America Arrives — Three Muslims Shot Execution-Style in Indiana
Nearly every part of the Bundy family’s business is funded by government welfare programs.
Source: 5 Government Handouts the Bundys Businesses Depend On
Oregon is about guns, right-wing media and state violence as well as race. But it shows our racial inequity clearly
What the ongoing Oregon standoff has taught us is that it’s never been more apparent that the U.S. government values white lives above all others.
Source: If Bundy’s Gang Were Black, They’d Be Bombed Like MOVE
The men include at least two sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and have said they’ll stay for “years.”
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and “about 150” militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ to protest the pending imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, arguing the federal government has no authority in local cases.
Black Lives Matter activists say five protesters were shot by white supremacists who had previously threatened them
Source: Five people shot at Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis: Police – Salon.com
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