As human rights experts warn of an ongoing genocide in Gaza, any opposition to Zionism is being egregiously labelled as extremism, Dr Martin Hirst writes.
Source: Amidst genocide and war, anti-Zionism protesters are demonised as ‘extremists’
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What does a Liberal vote mean if the ultraconservatives take over the party’s mechanisms?
Source: The insurgency within the Liberal Party – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The Labor victory in NSW this weekend has put the Liberal Party on notice. While many local issues were in play, the increasing radicalisation of the party at federal and state levels is making it unelectable. The usual drongos’ voices cry, “Liberals must go further right to win,” but Australia’s superior electoral system will make it hard for a radical right Liberal Party to win government.
Source: Infiltrated by extremists, what will the real Liberals do now? – Pearls and Irritations
Currently, the LNP in Australia is importing their ideas from the US Republicans who have given up on the great experiment of Democracy. We have seen their Australian clones adopt a carbon copy of the culture wars from U.S. From rumblings that the election is being “rigged” to multiculturalism being the scourge that’s dividing this nation from a mythical and heroic one they claim once united us. The increasing drift to the right is taking us away from from a representative Democracy and driving us towards Mussolini’s dream of a Corporate State and in the long term to the death of the Liberal-National Coalition as a political party. Their current short-term agendas carries with them the long-term consequences of the board taking over the company..
“Overall, Greene’s position within the Republican party seems secure. That’s partly because the Republican leadership is surely aware that most of the energy and activism in conservatism is in the far-right wing that stands behind Greene. In fact, Greene is the poster child of a rising group of rightwing radicals: in Congress, she likes to present herself and like-minded allies such as representatives Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz as the future of the Republican party, and they aren’t shy about their intention to purge whatever vestiges of “moderate” conservatism might still exist within the Republican party.”
Source: Historian Explains Why Far-right Extremists Are the Future of the GOP | The Smirking Chimp
As our recent investigation detailed, law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol testified to Congress that they believed the mob of Trump extremists was far more heavily armed with guns than is definitively known. Internal communications from January 6 among US Park Police and other agencies that have since been made public support that view. The lack of certainty, the officers told lawmakers, was a result of their limited capacity to make arrests that day amid the sheer number of people, compounded by fears that taking more aggressive action could set off perilous violence. A document obtained recently by a government transparency watchdog, Property of the People, contains indications that the FBI had specific intelligence, prior to January 6, about armed people headed for the nation’s capital. According to emails circulated among FBI agents in the bureau’s Seattle field office on January 5, intelligence analysts with the Washington State Fusion Center had specifically noted social media comments suggesting that some residents of the state were “planning to travel armed to Washington D.C. for tomorrow’s protests there.”
Source: Evidence of Armed Trump Extremists Continues to Emerge in January 6 Cases – Mother Jones
Right-wing extremist groups are drawing in new members from wellness and anti-vaxxer communities online, using the COVID pandemic and outrage over state border closures as a “recruiting tool” to swell their ranks.
COVID is boosting right-wing extremism: Police
They all come back to the idea that white identity is under threat and one of the ways it can be saved is through rolling back of democracy and the leadership of an authoritarian, preferably a white man,” Dr Droogan said.
‘Peddlers of hate’: Australian right-wing extremists celebrate Capitol riots
Focusing on national counterterrorism efforts against both Islamist extremism and far-right extremism acknowledges that there are differences between these two violent movements. Focusing solely on one, while ignoring the other, will increase the risk of domestic terrorism and future acts of violence.
19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism
In 2012, tens of thousands of artefacts from the golden age of Timbuktu were at risk in Mali’s civil war. This exclusive extract describes the race to save them from the flames – and how lethal attacks could still threaten the town’s treasures
31 year-old Phillip Michael Galea, who was arrested in counter-terrorism raids in central Victoria in August, was planning deadly bombing attacks on left-wing targets. Vision courtesy Seven News Melbourne.
Source: Reclaim Australia affiliate planned bomb attacks: police
By David Alpher | (The Conversation) | – – Take America back from those who have stolen it. Protect America …
Source: US domestic extremists a bigger risk than foreign terrorism, but guess who Trump & GOP Coddle?
If a video of religious youth stabbing a photo of a murdered Palestinian infant isn’t enough to convince mainstream Israel that there is a problem, what will? Celebrants at a Jerusalem wedding for a couple…
Source: Israel’s extremists aren’t as fringe as you think | +972 Magazine
In Australia there’s been a surge in support for right-wing extremist groups like the United Patriots Front and Reclaim Australia. Christine El-Khoury asks how far their hate will go.
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