Extremism

Long Ago, When Politicians Put Governance First

Jim DiPeso | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Charlie Mahtesian, Edmund Muskie, George Romney, Howard Baker, Clean Air Act, Extremism, Politics News
Jim DiPeso

Yet every time voters throw the bums out -- firing Republicans in 2006, firing Democrats in 2010 -- the dynamic remains the same. Congress watchers fear matters will only get worse, regardless of who wields the gavels when the 113th Congress convenes next January.

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Learning From Bin Laden's Death

Arie Kruglanski | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Al-Qaeda, Radicalization, Al Qaida, War on Terror, Terrorism, Bin Laden, Al-Qaida, Deradicalization, Extremism, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Arie Kruglanski

Are we safer now than we were before the launch of our massive counterterrorism effort?

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Extremism on Immigration: Another Page From the New Republican Playbook

Marshall Fitz | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Immigration Reform, Immigration, DREAM Act, Extremism, Senator Marco Rubio, Republicans Immigration, Politics News
Marshall Fitz

Romney and his surrogates defend "self-deportation" as necessary to restore the rule of law. But states and municipalities that have tried to adopt similarly harsh enforcement measures show that the exact opposite is true.

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In Colorado's Close Races, the Hispanic Vote is Key

Maribel Hastings | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Immigration, Latino Voters, Colorado Primary, Extremism, Gop Primary 2012, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News
Maribel Hastings

They may be undocumented, naturalized, or first- second- or third-generation citizens, but if one thing unites many Hispanics in Colorado it's their discontent with the anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of the Republican primary.

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The Incredible Shrinking Rep. Lamar Smith

Frank Sharry | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Immigration Reform, Latino Voters, Lamar Smith, Kris Kobach, Mitt Romney, Immigration, Pete Wilson, Sopa, Extremism, Politics News
Frank Sharry

Does anyone (besides Mitt Romney) listen to the chair of the House Judiciary Committee anymore? This week, Rep. Lamar Smith is looking especially desperate.

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Confronting Neo-Nazi And Skinhead Fanaticism In Northern Europe?

Kemal Argon | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Islam, Interreligious Understanding, Anti-Terrorism, Radicalization, Fanaticism, Neo-Nazis, Interfaith Relations, Radical Islam, Skinheads, Interfaith Dialogue, Interreligious Dialogue, Extremism, Lone-Wolf Terror, Right-Wing Extremism, Judaism, Christianity, Brevik, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Interfaith, Religion News
Kemal Argon

This kind of interfaith work might be compared to throwing a small stone into a pond: there is usually not a big splash but the ripples slowly proceed everywhere, bringing their important message.

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White House Holding Summit On Crucial Issue

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Violent Extremism, Video, Terrorism, Janet Napolitano, Police Chiefs, John Brennan, Obama Administration, Fbi, Obama Police Chiefs, Eric Holder, Obama Terrorism, Extremism, Politics News

WASHINGTON — State and local law enforcement officials convened at the White House on Wednesday for a daylong discussion about how police can ma...

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Thank God for Ron Paul

Bradley Burston | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: 2012 Election, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Barry Goldwater, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tea Party, Republican Party, Republicans, Likud, Extremism, Israel Politics, World News
Bradley Burston

What the Paul phenomenon can teach Israelis about themselves -- in particular Benjamin Netanyahu's Republican-allied Likud -- is what Republicans themselves have discovered to their horror in recent weeks and months.

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All-American Bigotry

John Feffer | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, All American Muslim, Sharia, Extremism, All American Muslim Lowes, Religious Tolerance, Islam in America, TV Canada, Religion News
John Feffer

If All-American Muslim can prove to mainstream America that Muslims are as boring, community-minded, socially conservative, occasionally wacky and celebrity-obsessed as the rest of us, then it deserves a place on TV.

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Satirical Song Challenges Extremism In Pakistan

New York Times | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Beygairat Brigade, Pakistan, Extremism, World News

A satirical song that takes a tongue-in-cheek swipe at religious extremism, militancy and contradictions in Pakistani society has become an instant hi...

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Populist Backlash Crushes Art Pope's Forces in North Carolina

Michael Carmichael | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Cultural Diversity, Chapel Hill, Lloyd Scher, Kevin Hill, Occupy Wall Street, Heather Losurdo, Ray Margiotta, Winston-Salem, Wake-County-School-Board, Christine Kushner, Wake-County-School-Board-Protests, Wake County School Board Protests, Resegregation, Fayetteville, Creationism, Durham, Greensboro, Charlotte, Right-Wing Extremism, North Carolina, Reactionary, New Yorker's Jane Mayer, Democratic National Convention, Susan Evans, Asheville, Keith Sutton, Wake County, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board, Jane Mayer, Segregation, Wake County School Board, Homophobia, Racial Diversity, Jim Martin, Diversity, Art Pope, Extremism, Tea Party, Koch Brothers, New Yorker, Koch, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

North Carolina's right-wing political boss, Art Pope, is having a bad week. One week after a searing profile appeared in the New Yorker, Pope's ultra-conservative ticket fell under the crushing weight of a populist uprising.

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Frank Rick: Who Needs Bipartisanship?

New York Magazine | Frank Rich | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Biparistanship, Politics, Frank Rick, Gop, Bama, Democrats, Extremism, Republicans, New York Magazine, Politics News

What good did bipartisanship ever do anybody?...

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Billionaire Bishop Charged With Bilking Brazil's Pentacostals, Sending Money to US

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Catholics, Racketeering, Major League Baseball, Rico, Flight Capital, Billy Sunday, Rede Record, Rick Perry, Televangelists, Evangelical, Pentacostal, Brazil, Edir Macedo, Barack Obama, Anti-Semitism, Fundamentalism, Extremism, World News
Eric Ehrmann

After a long investigation by the federal police Brazil's attorney general is finally litigating the big fraud and racketeering case against the self-anointed Pentecostal Bishop Edir Macedo.

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Lone wolves and home-grown terrorists: Experts warn of a growing threat from unusual sources

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Iwatch News, Extremism, World News, World News
The Center for Public Integrity

By Malik Siraj Akbar, iWatch NewsAs the United States commemorated the 10 th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, terrorism experts stepped up warnings ...

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Waging The Jihad Of The Pen

Dr. Faheem Younus | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Violence, Islam, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Extremism, 9/11, Prophet Muhammad, Terrorism, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, New York, Jihad, Ahmadiyya, Jihad of the Pen, Religion News
Dr. Faheem Younus

Ahmad joined a group of "Jihadis" who emphatically rejected the notion of violence in the name of Islam. Instead they were waging a Jihad of the pen, not sword. They were letter writers, not sword fighters.

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Democracy With No Center Is a Zero

Peter Samuelson | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Third Party, Polarization, Tea Party, Compromise, Democracy, Democratic Party, Centrist Politics, Republican Party, Extremism, Politics News
Peter Samuelson

Democracy is a rare and precious flower and it has allowed more progress for more people than any other system ever invented. But it is fragile. You can't yell too much. You can't demonize those who disagree with you.

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Reporter Discovers Sickening Neo-Nazi Holocaust BBQ Grill

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: National Democratic Party, Jamel, Fascism, Video, Far Right, Holocaust, Nazis, Germany, Neo-Nazis, Europe, Elecions, Extremism, World News, World News

Despite the horrifying slaughter of millions of innocent people that resulted from Germany's previous experience with Naziism, it appears that some co...

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The Psychology of Extremism

Ian I. Mitroff | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Psychoanalysis, Spltting of Aggressive Impulses From Moderating Influences, Extremism, Tea Party Extremists, Republican Extremism, Political Extremism, Politics News
Ian I. Mitroff

It is not possible to understand fully why moderates are no longer welcome within the Republican Party -- indeed why for all practical purposes the Party has been completely taken over by extremists -- in conventional terms alone.

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Creative Ways to Counter Right-Wing Extremism: Trojan T-Shirts

Jalees Rehman, M.D. | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Germany, Neo-Nazis, Right-Wing Extremism, Extremism, Trojan T-Shirts, Right-Wing Extremists, Exit Deutschland, World News
Jalees Rehman, M.D.

The fact that some right-wing extremists were impressed by the humor in "Operation Trojan T-Shirt" illustrates the need to develop creative approaches to interact with them.

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Friday Talking Points -- More Tea, Anyone?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Debt, Tea Party, Populism, Faa, Mcconnell, Mitch McConnell, President Obama, John Boehner, Middle Class, Compromise, Extremist, Obama, Democratic, Tax the Rich, Big Banks, Tea Partier, Republican, Deficit, Giffords, Populist, Midotw, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Brinksmanship, Reid, Mainstream, Taxes, American People, House, Terrorist, Democrat, Congress, Extremist Party, Joe Biden, Democrats, Barack Obama, Biden, Debt Ceiling, Wall Street, Mddotw, Chris Weigant, Tax, Crisis, Harry Reid, Gabrielle Giffords, Kitchen Table, Teachers, Friday Talking Points, Class Warfare, Boehner, Senate, Gabby Giffords, Extremism, Politics News
Chris Weigant

With the conclusion of the debt ceiling "crisis," the media pivoted swiftly to their standard larger questions (to them, at any rate) about any politi...

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Islamist Terrorism and the Prevent Strategy

Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Islamism, Prevent, Islamic Radicalism, Extremism, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, World News
Azeem Ibrahim

Despite the recent assassination of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda inspired terrorism remain the biggest threat to the UK's national security.

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Norway -- And the Fate of the Human Species

Peter Clothier | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Fear, Overpopulation, Terrorism, Population Shift, Norway, Immigration, Prejudice, Right-Wing Extremism, Extremism, World News
Peter Clothier

It's past time for us to look our fear in the face and acknowledge that it is capable of bringing about our imminent destruction.

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On Paul Wellstone's Birthday

Roger Wolfson | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Senate, Minnesota, Activism, Liberals, Plane Crash, Democrats, Paul Wellstone, Extremism, Death, Politics News
Roger Wolfson

Today would have been the great liberal Senator Paul Wellstone's sixty-seventh birthday. Over the years since his death, most of us have only missed him more. And the gaping hole his loss created in our political system has only widened.

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Can Google Help Stop Violent Extremism?

The Washington Post | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Google, Dublin, Violent Extremism, Google Ideas, Neo-Nazi, Muslim Extremists, Gang, Think Tank, Extremism, Technology News

Technology giant Google, having conquered the Internet and the world around it, is taking on a new challenge: violent extremism....

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Sharing Three Cups of Tea With the Tea Party

Jalees Rehman, M.D. | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Religion, Right-Wing, Comedy, Islam, Muslim, Tea Party, Satire, Tea, Extremism, Taliban, Humor, Afghanistan, Diplomacy, Conservatives, Comedy News
Jalees Rehman, M.D.

Tea Party members and the Taliban will likely find some common ground and perhaps even consider initiating joint political ventures.

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