Escaping the Trap of Far-Right Rhetoric
Rhetorical manipulation remains a commanding tool for the far-right. For that, the far-right likes to invent an enemy. This illusive enemy, in turn, is never clearly defined. Instead, it remains…
Neo-Nazis
How to Fight German Right-Wing Extremists
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli Screenshot: German Public TV https://www.dw.com/en/german-authorities-to-expand-crackdown-on-right-wing-extremists/a-50833344 Right-wing extremism is on the march almost everywhere in Europe. As Lenin once said: Fascism is capitalism in decay.…
Germany’s Youth Moves to the Right
Germany’s youth is moving to the right. It is becoming more conservative, if not reactionary. According to a recent study – Jugend in Deutschland – Germany’s neofascist political party, the…
Does Europe Want A New Führer?
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli A recent study revealed that there is an increasing desire for an authoritarian leader in Europe. As if Europe’s far-right, adjacent Neo-Nazis, and Europe’…
Protest and Elections – Germany’s Anti-Far-Right Rallies
Germany has been in the grip of mass anti-far-right rallies ever since the first demonstration took place in Berlin on 14 January 2024. Today there have been well over 3.5…
Is the economy stupid? A plea for criticising the system
Hamburg. Sunday lunchtime, 1 pm. Once again, tens of thousands of people gather in the north with a sea of colourful flags and self-painted posters to demonstrate against fascism and…
Germany’s Newest Far-Right Party
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli Surrounded by menacing and bullish looking security guards, the former boss of the domestic intelligence agency BfV [a kind of west-German Stasi] and outspoken…
Anti-Far-Right Rallies in Germany
It appears as if Germany’s somewhat sleepy and largely depoliticized middle-class has woken up. Mass rallies against the far-right suddenly broke out as a secret meeting was uncovered; and, the…
Mobilizing Against Germany’s Far-Right – Three Key Insights
Since the Wannsee 2.0 scandal broke in Germany in early 2024, roughly 1½ million people have been rallying against the far-right, right-wing extremists, and the neo-fascist AfD. At the recent…
Thousands Protest In Germany Against The Country’s Far-right
More than 100,000 people marched in cities across Germany on Saturday to protest the rise of the country's leading far-right party. Anger toward the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party began brewing…
German Neo-Nazis Plan A New Master Race
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli In late November 2023, an unsavory group of people – members of the Germany’s far right AfD and Neo-Nazis – entered the brightly lit…
Three Recent Strategies of Germany’s Right-Wing Extremists
Germany’s right-wing extremists, in general, and the more violent Neo-Nazis had yet another successful year in 2023 – on election booths and otherwise. Take for example, the month of June…
Germany’s Esoteric Neo-Nazis
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli Germany’s right-wing extremists have increased to about 38,000 people in recent years. It is an old threat with a new face, which now also…
Germany’s Reichs-Nazis
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli Among the various Neo-Nazi groups in Germany, one of the more peculiar, eerie, and weird – but also very brutal (also known for killing…
Human Rights and new Tensions in European Society
The hybrid format international conference, held on November 08th under the auspices of an independent expert platform Our Days News (ODN), brought together experts from Italy, Estonia, France, Finland and…
Fruitless Gestures: Victoria Bans the Nazi Salute
It took place with hardly any debate, though it interested some parliamentary members at the committee stage. The Australian state of Victoria now faces laws that will lock a person…
Why does the U.S. Government support nazis all around the world?
On November 7th, I headlined “U.S. and Allies Vote For Nazism at U.N.”, and opened: Annually, each year, since 2005, the U.S. Government has been one of only from 1…
U.S. and Allies Vote For Nazism at U.N.
Annually, each year, since 2005, the U.S. Government has been one of only from 1 to 3 Governments to vote in the U.N. General Assembly against an annual statement by…
Zionist IHRA & US Alliance rejected UNGA Anti-Nazi Resolution
Nazi is as neo-Nazi does, and 51 countries by abstention (49) and No vote (2) refused to support the UNGA’s 2021 Anti-Nazi Resolution for “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and…
How the U.S. Has Empowered and Armed Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies Russian President Putin has claimed that he ordered the invasion of Ukraine to “denazify” its government, while Western officials, such as former U.S.…
U.S. And Ukraine, Only Two Countries Vote Against UN Resolution Condemning Nazism
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution condemning Nazism, neo-Nazism and all forms of racism, and the U.S. and Ukraine voted against it, while a few countries, mainly US…
Time to Really Reawaken America!!
This past weekend former US Army General and Trump ally Michael Flynn spoke at a Reawaken America rally in Texas. Flynn, a right wing conspiracy theorist, was ' front and…
Germany’s Neo-Nazi Death Squad: NSU and NSU 2.0
by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young Ten years ago, one of Germany’s most violent post-war Neo-Nazi killing squad, the so-called National-Socialist Underground or NSU-network came to light when their caravan exploded and their Neo-Nazi hideout was set…
Germany’s New Neo-Nazis: The Reichsbürger
by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young Only a few weeks ago, a Reichsbürger in Germany shot a police officer with a crossbow during a house’s search in a remote town called Linden, in…
The Donald’s Bastard Children
The most recent bastard child one of our presidents fathered was when Junior Bush, with whispers from his ' Handler' Cheney, ordered the pre-emptive attack on Iraq on March 19th,…
Banality of Evil in Neo-fascist Times
We live in dangerous times. Neo-fascism is on the rise in many parts of the world, combining the savagery of the market with authoritarian forms of xenophobia. The combinatorial power…
Interpreting Neo-Fascism And Religio-Fanaticism
With the rise of various sorts of neo-fascisms all over the world, a moralistically framed liberal response to the former’s religio-fanaticism has become common. Based on the traditional foundations of…
Anti-Semitism in Saxony – Three Times per Week
Written by Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms Antisemitic* incidents are increasing in the far eastern German state of Saxony known to be stronghold of contemporary German Neo-Nazism., says the Berlin-based…
Right-Wing Resentment in Germany
The rise of AfD right-wing extremism may well threaten Germany’s democratic society. It applies even more since the AfD mutated into Björn Höcke’s national-revolutionary movement party while also moving [its…
Western Silence As 20,000 Neo-Nazis March in Ukraine
In one of the largest, if not the largest, Neo-Nazi demonstration in Europe since WW2, 20,000 facists marched through the streets of Ukraine’s capital Kiev last weekend under the silent…
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