Tag: far-right
60 years later, France pressured to recognise the 1961 Paris massacre of Algerians as a ‘state crime’
[Al Jazeera] “Sixty years ago, Algerians in Paris were arrested, killed, and drowned in the Seine by French police [and…
Long history of Israeli support for Colombia’s right wing government, connections to death squads and massacres
[MintPress News] “The murder of Milcíades Contento [, a member of the newly-formed Patriotic Union (UP),] marked the beginning of…
US-funded Belarusian regime-change activist taken from diverted plane is linked to Ukrainian neo-Nazis, fought in Donbas
[The Grayzone] “A high-profile Belarusian regime-change activist whose detention on a forcibly grounded airplane caused an international scandal has […] extensive…
Austria flies Israeli flag amid ongoing conflict, designates Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation, Iran’s foreign minister cancels visit
[POLITICO] “Iran’s foreign minister canceled his visit to Austria at the last minute after the Austrian government flew Israeli flags…
How the US has enabled Israeli extremism and anti-Palestinian violence
[Foreign Policy] “Two weeks ago, Jerusalem was rocked by violence as bands of Jewish Israeli extremists rampaged through Palestinian neighborhoods of East…
Annual neo-Nazi parade celebrating SS soldiers now, for first time, also held in Ukraine’s capital
[The Times of Israel] “For first time ever, parade celebrating 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of SS, made up of ethnic…
Jewish extremists march in Jerusalem chanting ‘Death to Arabs’, Palestinians riot, police clash with both
[Mondoweiss, CNN] “Palestinians in Jerusalem are reeling from a night of racist, anti-Arab violence that left over a hundred Palestinians wounded…
‘It is a Nakba’: about the forced evictions in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem
[Mondoweiss] “In a matter of just two weeks, six Palestinian families, numbering 27 people, will be thrown out of their…
Danmark declares Syria safe, far-right poster campaign tells refugees to ‘go home to sunny Syria’
[The Telegraph] “Danish anti-immigration activists are being sharply criticised after they put up mock travel adverts in Copenhagen telling Syrian…
Second EU member opens mission in Jerusalem: Growing alliance between Israel and Central Europe
[The Spectator] “In 2018, the Czech President Miloš Zeman promised in a speech on the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel to…
Proud Boys leader was FBI informer, reported on plans, arrested 2 days before Capitol Hill riot
[REUTERS] “Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and…
Rioter found zip-ties in Capitol, did NOT plan to take hostages in advance, prosecutors say
[Insider] “Eric Munchel, a pro-Trump rioter who stormed the Capitol building while holding plastic handcuffs, took the restraints from a…
Colombia’s US-backed government is accused of 90 separate massacres, resulting in 375 deaths, in the year 2020
[MintPress News] “It is the festive season in Colombia, but not everyone is celebrating. Sunday brought news of the ninetieth massacre of…
The UK’s covert activities in Latin America in the 1960s revealed
[BBC] “British intelligence engaged in a far more active programme of covert activity in Latin America in the 1960s than…
Far-left radical who killed far-right radical tells Vice he acted in self-defence but it’s a lie; he died little later in apparent ‘suicide by cop’
[Vice] “Ever since a member of the right-wing “Patriot Prayer” group was shot and killed during a violent rally in downtown Portland…
The Jewish Press praises ‘most pro-Israel president’ Donald Trump, makes long list of ‘fake Jews’, the enemies within
[The Jewish Press] “It is an unpleasant task to sound the alert that there are Jews who seek to destroy…
Ukrainian court ruling: You can’t call neo-Nazi group C14 “neo-Nazi”
[bellingcat] “This week, a Ukrainian court ruled it’s not OK to call a neo-Nazi group a neo-Nazi group.” “In May…
Ukrainian State Funds Far-Right Extremists to Teach “Patriotism”
[bellingcat] “Ukraine’s government continues to provide funds to notorious far-right extremist groups and their affiliates — including two organizations led…
The Billionaires Behind the Far-Right
[CounterPunch] “Today, a handful of billionaires fund far-right, anti-Islamic, anti-immigrant, and/or ultra-nationalist political figures, movements, and alternative media personalities.” “Robert…
Trump-linked US Christian ‘fundamentalists’ pour millions of ‘dark money’ into boosting Europe’s far right
[openDemocracy] “US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among a dozen American groups that…
Hungary is first EU state to open diplomatic mission in Jerusalem
[The Times of Israel] “Hungary’s foreign minister opened a trade office in Jerusalem that will have official “diplomatic status,” during…
Netanyahu’s ‘hug-a-fascist club’: Duterte, Orban, Salvini, and now Bolsonaro
[Haaretz] “Until very recently, Jair Bolsonaro was a big player in domestic Brazilian politics. For years he’d been projectile-vomiting baleful rhetoric at…
Israel cosies up to the World’s far right
[The Washington Post] “Under Netanyahu’s watch, Israel has amassed a conspicuous crop of illiberal allies. Some, like Salvini and Hungarian Prime…
Ukrainian Far-Right Fighters Trained by Major EU Security Firm in Poland
[bellingcat] “Since 2016, the European Security Academy (ESA) an EU-based company that offers advanced training programs for security, law enforcement and military…
Police Brutality: New allegations of secret tattooed deputy gangs within L.A. County Sheriff’s Department
[Los Angeles Times] “For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has struggled to combat secretive cliques of deputies who bonded over…
The Federalist admits gerrymandering, cronyism and undemocratic illiberalism in Hungary, claims Left’s hypocrisy creates leaders like Orbán
[The Federalist] “If you get your news from the mainstream media, you might think that Hungary just suffered a fascist coup….
The Sarah Palin of Israel, Miri Regev: “I am happy to be a fascist”
[The Daily Beast] “Left-bashing, race-baiting, flag-waving Miri Regev has leapt to the top of the ruling Likud party. She just…
Israel’s strange bedfellow, the far-right Austrian Freedom Party
[Financial Times] “Israel has long refused any contact with the Freedom party, which was partly founded by former Nazis in…
The bizarre life of Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, Evo Morales’ would-be assassin killed by police in Bolivia
[TIME] “Journalist-turned-Croatian independence fighter Eduardo Rosza-Flores […] was killed early last Thursday morning in a hotel room in the eastern…