The World Reacts To President Trump’s Defense Of Neo-Nazis

President Donald Trump’s defense of last weekend’s violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was met with shock across the country and around the world.

Julia Conley
By Julia Conley
President's Trump's Defense Of Neo-Nazis Stuns The World

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) charged President Donald Trump with "embarrassing" his own country during a press conference on Tuesday—and the overnight evidence suggests he's exactly right. President Donald Trump's defense of last weekend's violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was met with shock across the country and around the

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Right Wing Extremists Condemned In Charlottesville, Funded And Armed In Ukraine And Syria

Having backed a right-wing coup in the Ukraine and right-wing terror groups disguised as “moderate rebels” in Syria, U.S. leaders now confront rising right-wing terror at home. They duly condemn it, but seem blind both to their own hypocrisy and to the domestic reverberations of their cynical foreign policies.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Right Wing Extremists Condemned in Charlottesville, Funded and Armed in Ukraine and Syria

Though rising tensions between the Trump administration and North Korea had dominated headlines for much of the past week, the chaotic events in Charlottesville swiftly replaced concerns about imminent nuclear war with concerns about the white nationalist movement and other associated groups. On Saturday, white nationalists and

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Chris Hedges On Trump, Fascism And The Christian Right

Abby Martin, host of teleSUR’s “The Empire Files”, sat down with Chris Hedges to discuss Trump’s connections to right-wing Christian extremists.

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By teleSUR
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Abby Martin, host of teleSUR's "The Empire Files," sat down with Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist and author Chris Hedges to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump and how his presidency fuels and is fueled by Christian fascism. "The Christian right will fill Trump's ideological vacuum, because he doesn't really have an ideology, and that will be

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Dear Outraged Liberals: Trump’s Just Taking Over Where Obama Left Off

As an unprecedented wave of outrage swells against the Trump administration, Mnar Muhawesh, host of ‘Behind the Headline,’ wonders why people weren’t more outraged with Obama’s policies on mass surveillance, whistleblowers, and war.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
President Barack Obama speaks with President-elect Donald Trump during the presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan 20, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AP)

MINNEAPOLIS --- Remember our former commander in chief -- Barack Obama? Well he’s on vacation. After eight years in the Oval Office, he’s decided to unwind with billionaire Richard Branson. His recent kitesurfing adventure seems to be the only news item competing with President Trump’s “Muslim ban” and the opposition to it and the contentious

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Steve Bannon: Israel First, America Second

In painting chief White House strategist and head of the National Security Council as an anti-Semitic white supremacist and fascist, the mainstream media ignores the real danger posed by Steve Bannon, who is poised to further expand the power of the executive branch.

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By MintPress News Desk
Steve Bannon, chief strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump, and head of the National Security Council, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 7, 2017. (Photo: Andrew Harrer/CNP/MediaPunch/IPX)

WASHINGTON --- (Analysis) Though President Donald Trump, his inner circle, and new political appointees have been no strangers to controversy in recent years, perhaps no figure has been more contentious than Trump’s chief strategist and former campaign chairman. Steve Bannon has figured prominently in numerous recent headlines, in part due to

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Would America’s First Populists Even Recognize Trump’s Brand Of Populism?

Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump frequently appealed to ‘the people’ and vowed to help them take back their power. But how has populism moved so far from its roots in the left as to be useful as a strategy for today’s ultra-right wing?

Caleb T. Maupin
By Caleb T. Maupin
Izzy Berdan, of Boston, center, wears an American flags as he chants slogans with other demonstrators during a rally against President Donald Trump's order that restricts travel to the U.S., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Boston. (AP/Steven Senne)

WASHINGTON --- (Analysis) Donald Trump’s ascendency to the White House involved endless appeals to “the people” and denunciations of the elite. During an October rally, for example, Trump said: “It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth

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