Canadian Anti-racism Education and Research Society

"Military-style solutions don’t solve humanitarian problems. They simply create more profit for the smugglers, and more suffering for the migrants. The history of the securitisation of the English Channel is a history of death. So why do we allow the government to keep on along the same path? Perhaps it is time to demand a radical new approach, which does not depend on criminalisation and securitisation." https://irr.org.uk/article/deadly-crossings/

Talia Levin: "Despite his youth, inexperience, and a campaign plagued by scandal after scandal, Cawthorn trounced his Democratic opponent by 12 points. He’s part of a young, insurgent generation of GOP politicos forged in the heat of MAGA and the slimy crucible of its culture wars. Like any number of college Young Republicans roiling their campuses nationwide with increasingly radicalized rhetoric, Cawthorn is a young man who’s demonstrated racist views and been accused of mi...sogynist behavior and hasn’t let either stop him in his quest for power. Add in a photogenic set of cheekbones and a marked tendency to pose with girth-y rifles, and you arrive at the message the GOP has imprinted on its rising stars: one of instinctual cruelty and little else. It’s hard not to arrive at the conclusion that this is the future of the Republican Party, and the main of what it has to offer." See more

PBS NewsHour, 18 November 2020: "German prosecutors today asked for life imprisonment for a right-wing extremist charged with killing two people last year outside a synagogue in Germany's east. That comes as calls grow to investigate the extent of neo-Nazi infiltration of the country's security services; 1,400 cases of far right extremism among soldiers, police officers and intelligence agents have been documented over the past three years, a frightening echo of Germany's past."

"By the end of the 90s corporate journalists were feverishly dehumanizing young blacks ... The superpredator language began a process of allowing us to suspend our feelings of empathy towards young people of color. ... From the moment the term was born, 25 years ago this month, superpredator had a game-changing potency, derived in part from the avalanche of media coverage that began almost immediately." Black Agenda Report reviews the history of a term first popularized by a criminology professor, which then rapidly informed Democratic and Republican law-and-order policies and corporate media distortions about crime.

"What I learned led me to conclude that a toxic culture prevails in the RCMP. This culture encourages, or at least tolerates, misogynistic, racist, and homophobic attitudes among many members of the RCMP," wrote [former Supreme Court justice] Michel Bastarache in his final report released Thursday... "The problem is systemic in nature and cannot be corrected solely by punishing a few 'bad apples.'" Canadians have paid settlements for RCMP wrongdoing in amounts that are jaw-dropping.

This report by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and the Montana Human Rights Network explores the breadth and depth of the network of white supremacists, paramilitary groups, anti-maskers, conspiracists, preppers, anti-vaxxers, and others organized by Ammon Bundy. What started in late March with a few dozen supporters in a rural Idaho warehouse has swiftly expanded to a membership base of over twenty thousand across the country. https://www.irehr.org/reports/peoples-rights-report/

"Poilievre isn’t just any Conservative. The MP for Carleton was a minister in the Harper government and now serves as Opposition critic for finance. He’d be a big noise, possibly finance minister, in an Erin O’Toole government. He’s loud and abrasive, and smart as well. When Poilievre pumps up the Great Reset theory in the way he does, he knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s not just reaching out to mainstream Conservatives who have a reasonable disagreement with Trudeau’s preference for vaguely progressive policies. He’s sending a message to those way over on the far right who traffic in hateful, baseless theories about global conspiracies."

"Marking the 50th anniversary of Salvador Allende’s inauguration, the National Security Archive today [November 3, 2020] posted a collection of documents that provide a detailed record of how and why President Nixon and his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, established and pursued a policy of destabilization in Chileoperations that 'created the conditions as best as possible,' as Kissinger later put it, for the September 11, 1973, military coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power. The detailed deliberations and decisions they contain clarify the misrepresentations by former policy actors over the years, Kissinger among them, of the true intent of the Nixon administration posture toward the Allende government."

Historians Gerald Horne (University of Houston), author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century and Nikki Taylor (Howard University), author, most recently, of Driven Towards Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and the Tragedy on the Ohio, appeared last week on the first 36 minutes of The Real New Network’s new Marc Steiner Show. They talked about the history of and resistance to fascist violence against Indigenous and Black communities in the US.