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The scenes in Chemnitz have rightly horrified not just activists and antifascists in Germany, but people around the world appalled at the appearance of right-wing hooligans flooding the streets of Germany, making the Hitler salute and using the death of an individual to stoke an openly fascist world outlook. However, while few doubt the seriousness of the situation, press coverage has been subpar in Germany and simply abominable in the English-speaking world. Since the beginning of the "refugee crisis" and Chancellor Angela Merkel's (CDU) decision to adopt a public face ( though hardly a policy ) of welcoming migrants, the media has promoted the concept that Germans "left behind" by economic and social change or otherwise upset with the move have been on one end of a "sharp divide" and a "backlash." While it is undeniable that many in Germany have been detrimentally impacted by neoliberal economic policies , the media, especially in t...

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CORBYN, NETANYAHU SPAR ON TWITTER Galloway: Media Drowning In Its Own Mendacity Over Wreath Scandal...... Details Emerge Of Plot To Oust Corbyn Or Split UK Labour Party..... Israeli Journalist Says Corbyn Should Be PM And That Israeli Lobby Working To Smear Him Boris Johnson Courts Far Right, Insults Journalists With Column And Bizarre Tea Stunt What's With The UK Media's Double Standards On Racism? Brazil: Minister Of Public Security Confirms That “State Agents” Were Involved In The Assassination Of Marielle Franco Lula De Silva: There Is A Right-Wing Coup Underway In Brazil Repression Intensifies In Argentina After Macri Unleashes The Military For IMF Rule Think Tank EUDisinfo Blames Interest In Benalla Affair On "Russian Trolls," Smears Melenchon And Leftists As Part Of Information War Campaign #DisinfoEUGate: Flawed Data And Shoddy Methodology Mark Atlanticist Report Amid "Benalla Affair," French Police Working With Pr...

While the “Benalla Affair” has dominated French public discussion since July, the country’s police force’s mingling with private militias has not stopped there, as border police have supported ultra-right gangs in violent actions against refugees, according to information gathered from solidarity networks in the area. Although Emmanuel Macron was elected primarily due to a desire to defeat Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front, under his rule the police have stepped up cooperation with extra-legal “thugs.” MediaPart, a French socialist website, noted that “because the police are happy to have reinforcement…..they know how to find allies.” These allies can be both ideological or purely practical. In the case of the Benalla Affair, the official police and private militias effectively merged. In a parliamentary session, the Interior Minister, Gérard Collomb, essentially admitted that there had been cooperation due to the alleged threat posed by the Black Bloc and ot...

  #AllOutPDX: White Nationalists Run Wild In Portland, Antifa Counter-Protestors Attacked By Cops   "You Killed Heather Heyer!" Residents Manifest Against Alt-Right   Neo-Nazis Provided With Private Metro Cars, Perks By State..... Police Use Stun Grenades, Pepperspray, Teargas Against Anti-Racists.....   Masked Extreme-Right Mob Attacks Bookmarks Bookshop, Tear Up Books On Anti-Semitism Everything Wrong Is The Fault Of '68: The Far-Right's Avenue Towards Regaining Cultural Hegemony By Trashing The Left  Socialism Has Spend 40 Years Answering For Its "Crimes." Time To Put Capitalism In The Dock. Brazil's Coming Election Is The Epitome Of The World's Ongoing Political Crisis   Brazil: Subfascist Bolsonaro Picks Coup-Mongering General For Running Mate The Worst-Case Scenario: A Successful Coup Against Corbyn Would Lead To A Truly Anti-Semitic Labour Party     Tom Watson Flails After He Draws Huge Public Rebuke For His ...

Continuing The Fight Against ICE After Eviction Of Protest Camps Against Racist Policies   #AllOutAugust: Why It's Important That Month Long Tour Of Racist Alt Right Rallies Flops     Facebook, No Unite The Right 2 DC, And McCarthyite "Bad Actors" Smear  A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused In An Immigrant-Detention Center   Reunited With Their Kids, Immigrant Mothers Find Themselves In A Strange, Unforgiving Land Migrants' Return To Libya By Italian Boat Could Breach International Law – UN   Migrant Rescue Ship Aquarius Returns To Sea After Italy-Malta Dispute     Italian Government Roiled By Internal Dispute Over Racist Salvini Rhetoric   Never Lose Sight Of Humanity: Dare To Dream Of A World Without Borders First Asylum-Seeker "Controlled Detention" Center Opens in Germany   Protest In Munich Against Attacks On Refugees, Poverty And War     Australian Governments Illegally Sailed Re...

Activist outrage has exploded following the decision of Facebook, run by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, to remove pages and events related to the "No Unite the Right 2- DC," on the grounds that a page related to the protests may have been created by adversarial and inauthentic "bad actors," a term increasingly used to designate anyone online who promotes ideas outside the political consensus in the US and Europe. No real explanation is given at all for the removal of the pages, other than fear-mongering statements that a dastardly plot was supposedly unleashed to get people to attend a protest against white supremacists and alt-right frontmen who have been known to attack and even kill anti-racists like Heather Heyer. Promises to "release more data later," were foreshadowed by assessments that those involved in making them used VPNs and other tools, making them "more sophisticated" than previous alleged efforts by Russia to sw...

Swedish Woman Shows Quiet Power Of Civil Disobedience As She Blocks A Deportation Swedish Plane Protester Elin Ersson: ‘I Knew I Couldn't Back Down – I Had To Do What I Could' VIDEO: Watch The Direct Action Against Deportation Attacks On Kurds In A Greek Camp Shows Conflict In Syria Has Followed Refugees Abroad Germany’s Bloody Secret: Politicians & Arms Producers Cozy Up, Sell Weapons To Anyone The New Balkan Route: Refugees Flee Frontex Authorities With Solidarity Aid Left-Wing Groups Help Pick Up Pieces Of Athens Climate Disaster - Death Toll Rises Greece: Gang Of 20 Nazi Goons Attack Refugees With Poles - Two Hospitalised The Realities Of The Mental Health Crisis For Refugees On Greece’s Samos Island #AffaireBenalla: Channelling Trump, Macron Says Media ‘No Longer Seeks Truth’ Macron Aide: French Police Raid Disgraced Benalla's Office Emmanuel Macron Blurts Out: Alexandre Benalla Is Not My Lover." Uh? How to Get Involved with...