Today, the terror threat from far-right white supremacists is the terror threat that dare not speak its name. Leading conservatives, and even some liberals, are keen to downplay the danger that they pose and to divert and deflect attention away from homegrown white extremists and toward what President Trump likes to call “radical Islamic terrorism.”
Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; “extraordinary” stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion...
We must be vigilant about not allowing ourselves to accept new norms of violence and harm.
We must be vigilant about not allowing ourselves to accept new norms of violence and harm.
New articles from WAMM about current issues.
New articles from WAMM about current issues.
Giroux discusses torture, militarisation, surveillance, racism, education and austerity ... and draws the links to the military-industrial-academic complex.
The purpose of your visit will be educational in nature and focused on learning about Arab-Islamic culture...
Roots of our current situation are austerity, deindustrialization, and the impoverishment of half the nation
— brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers ...
Politico (9/20/16) frames the terrorism issue as “who has the upper hand.”
It cannot be known with any degree of certainty what percentage of FBI “stings” consist of targeted individuals who were induced or “entrapped” to agree to commit crimes and who would not have otherwise committed such crimes, but in my opinion it’s a large majority.
