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They’re not really protesting – they’re hoping to find an opportunity to spark violence and trigger a war between black and white Americans.
My assessment is that there are about 150 to 300 core right-wing activists in New Zealand. This might sound modest – but proportionate to population, it’s similar to extremist numbers in Germany.
Australia is under increasing threat from right-wing terrorism, and to properly combat it we need to understand it and offer better alternatives for those drawn to it.
Trump will survive the impeachment process in 2020, no matter what malfeasance comes to light. The Republicans will protect their man at all costs.
Groups promoting right wing extremism, like the Antipodean Resistance and the Lads Society, have recently dominated headlines, but they are far from the sum of the extreme right in Australia.
The recent massacre at a New Zealand mosque is a traceable, direct outgrowth of an American white nationalist movement that insists immigrants and people of color are a threat to ‘white civilization.’
Globally, Muslims have been by far the most victimised group by terrorism in the post-9/11 era.
Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing congressman and former army captain, is Brazil’s next president, with 56 percent of votes. Critics see a threat to democracy in his scathing attacks on Brazilian society.
Britain is experiencing a moment of great cultural tension. The US president isn’t helping.
A life sentence for the neo-Nazi who murdered ten people. But questions remain about how she evaded authorities for more than a decade.
More than 70-years after World War II, is Auschwitz still relevant to children today?
As Canadians, we shouldn’t blame U.S. President Donald Trump for the rise of hatred here. He may have emboldened the so-called alt-right in Canada, but it was flourishing long before his election.
It’s not just the US which is seeing a rise in support for neo-Nazi organisations and right-wing politics. In Scandinavia it’s infiltrating the mainstream.
The United States is seeing an uptick in far-right extremist violence. It’s time to pay more attention to this scourge and its causes.
As France heads to the polls ton April 23, citizens seem more confused than ever about just what is “left” and what is “right”.
For the first time, parliament plans to ban a right-wing extremist group, called National Action.
A professor takes us back more than 20 years, to when struggling white working-class voters in Oregon were convinced that a conservative social agenda would help bring back timber jobs.
Since the future is so uncertain, South Africa’s best response to Trump’s election is to learn the lessons of its causes.
The arrest on terrorism charges of a white ‘nationalist extremist’ from an avowedly right-wing organisation should alert Australians to the dangers of violence from that direction.
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