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Why are veterans trying to tear down the country they once swore to protect? ILLUSTRATION BY JUSTIN FRANCAVILLA Two months before armed insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, the first major operation to “Stop the Steal” went down in Philadelphia. On November 5, Joshua Macias, a former Navy petty officer, and his partner, Antonio LaMotta, a self-described “private security company CEO” and “artist” who’d served in the Army, drove a silver Hummer adorned with QAnon stickers from the...

Azza Karam is the Secretary General of Religions for Peace, and Professor of Religion and Development at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. A mother holds her child in the Al Dhalee Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp in Yemen. The war in Yemen continues to ravage the country and its people, senior UN-appointed rights investigators said, in a call for an international probe into suspected war crimes, and sanctions against the perpetrators. Credit: YPN for UNOCHA NEW YORK, Feb 2 2021 (I...

(AP Photo/Harvey Georges) The use of government agents and informants to instigate criminal acts to create the pretense for a crackdown is hardly new, and it is not exclusively the province of overtly totalitarian regimes. On the night of March 21, 1965, 40-year-old Freedom Rider Viola Liuzzo and a 19-year-old Black volunteer with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (LeRoy Moton) were driving back to Selma, AL, from assisting some 3,000 civil rights marchers under the leadership of the...

On Friday, former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith got a “slap on the wrist,” Debra Heine reports, for falsifying an email in the quest to gain a FISA warrant to spy on an American citizen, Carter Page. Clinesmith was facing a maximum five years in prison and a fine of $250,000, so twelve months probation, a $100 fine and 400 hours of community service, is indeed a slap on the wrist. Even so, it still falls short. Carter Page might expect the judge to lecture Clinesmith about the lawyer ...

Extremists in the military - and how to define and identify them - a challenge for commanders FacebookTwitterEmail Members of the National Guard outside the U.S. Capitol at sunrise on Jan. 19.Matt McClain /The Washington Post The National Guard’s deployment of thousands of troops to protect the inauguration of President Joe Biden was prompted by the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by right-wing radicals. But its removal of 12 of its own soldiers from that duty underscored a rising concern: ...

From Oklahoma City to the Capitol, right-wing extremist violence is a part of Americas political landscape January 30, 2021 5:00PM (UTC) Oklahoma City police officers salute 19 April during a moment of silence at a memorial service held on the first anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building as they face the fence surrounding the bomb site. In the background are buildings destroyed in the blast that killed 168 adults and children. (CHRIS WILKINS/AFP via Getty Images) ...

April 19, 1995 started as a normal spring day.

Right-wing extremists stage ‘meme war’ to compete for Trump supporters [Los Angeles Times :: BC-RIGHTWING-EXTREMISTS:LA] HOUSTON — Far-right leaders across the nation — disillusioned by former President Donald Trump’s defeat and banished from mainstream social media — have launched recruitment drives in new radicalization efforts that have turned into a “meme war” among groups such as the Boogaloo Bois, the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters. In the days following the Capitol r...

Group 4 Free, RSVP required Journalists Bill Morlin and Leah Sottile join Crosscut’s Managing Editor, Mark Baumgarten, to discuss a range of topics, including the uprising by groups motivated by a white, nationalist agenda, why the Pacific Northwest is attractive to individuals with these views, the presence of military and law enforcement within these extremist groups, the Liberty State movement in Washington, and what individuals can do to prevent hatred and discourage these growing ideolog...

A Parallel Justice System JAN 28, 2021 ‘’During the formative eon of my academic personality, I had the penchant to accept every information read as spotless and an unchallengeable truth, until I read from another scientific journal on psychology that no research actually proves a hypothesis, and that everything we read and hear are figments of the writers mental exercises intended to gratify their own idiosyncrasies and ignorance or at best auto-biologyically articulate their being. Now, ...