Germany’s Far Right AfD Exploits Passivity and Resentment to Enter the Mainstream

While the AfD party emerges as a leading voice of political opposition, the government downplays its danger and even co-opts its xenophobic messaging.

Denijal Jegić
By Denijal Jegić
Germany Far Right AFD Chemnitz

Grayzone Project -- German police rounded up a right-wing terror network this October 1, arresting its members ahead of an attack allegedly aimed at subverting the country. Called “Revolution Chemnitz,” the group “intended to launch violent and armed attacks against foreigners and people who have different political views,” a federal prosecutor

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“Covert Coup” Revealed in Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Is a Threat, Much Like Trump

“Trump may be a threat,” notes journalist Glenn Greenwald, “but so is this covert coup” that seeks to impose its “own ideology with zero democratic accountability, mandate or transparency.”

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
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What's more troubling: That the grotesque liar and right-wing narcissist Donald Trump was elected by the American people to be President of the United States in 2016? Or that there is now apparently a secret cabal of unelected right-wing officials inside his White House—at least according to a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday afternoon—that

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Protests Sweep Japan to as Right-Wing Government Pushes for Further Militarization

Japan’s citizens are enraged by the nationalism gripping the former imperialist power. Inflammatory public displays by right-wing lawmakers along with a precipitous increase in the purchase of US weaponry have sparked massive protests.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
An anti-war protest in Toyko, Japan. (Photo: Akinori Gomi)

TOKYO -- Massive protests took place across Japan on Thursday to mark 71st Constitution Memorial Day as tens of thousands of people rallied against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s continued attempts to scrap the pacifist aspects of the 1947 U.S.-penned Constitution. The protests drew up to 60,000 participants in Tokyo alone, where Japanese people of

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Is Ecuador’s Referendum Conciliation or Corporate-Backed Coup?

Within the first months of his administration, Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno was meeting predominantly with sector’s aligned with the popular opposition – including banking and big media

Valerie Carmel
By Valerie Carmel
Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno, sitting in a wheelchair, leaves a military ceremony marking Independence Day in Quito, Ecuador. (AP/Dolores Ochoa)

Lenin Moreno was narrowly elected president on Feb. 19, 2017 with a central campaign promise to further the Citizen's Revolution political program and changing what needed improvement through a process of open dialogue. Moreno, the former Vice President under President Rafael Correa's first (2007-2013), became known for his conciliatory tone and

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Republican Anti-Protest Bills Protect Drivers That Run Over Protesters

Bills immunizing drivers from liability if they hit protesters are part of a raft of anti-protesting legislation that Republicans have advanced in 2017.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
A vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

A number of state legislatures have considered bills that shield drivers from liability if they run over protesters, who are “obstructing” traffic. These anti-protest bills from Republican lawmakers reflect a political climate in which far-right activists increasingly find it permissible to mow down Black Lives Matter protesters and other

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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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