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I found this at Chip Berlet's PRA:
http://www.publiceye.org/fascist/third_position.html#black-nationalism
Some of you liked PRA's sectors of the American Right.
http://www.publiceye.org/research/chart_of_sectors.html
An excerpt from:
Racial Nationalism, the Third Position, and Ethnoviolence
Including a Discussion of Possible Connections Between Militant Islamic Fundamentalists and the U.S. Extreme Right
There is no hard evidence linking domestic U.S. right-wing groups to either the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01; the mailing of real anthrax letters, or other acts of domestic terrorism. For example, the list of potential suspects in the real anthrax mailing cases is long, and the evidence is missing. Claims about a connection between the Oklahoma City bombing and Middle East terrorists are based on dubious speculation. Some U.S. Extreme Right groups praised the 9/11 attacks along with some militant Islamic fundamentalists. Most Muslims around the world denounced the attacks.
In considering potential suspects for terrorism, however, possible connections between the U.S. extreme right and certain elements of militant Islamic fundamentalism cannot be dismissed. There is also a possible connection between these sectors and some Black Nationalists, the Third Position, and Antisemitism. Racial nationalism is a core building block of fascism. Most Black nationalists do not ascribe to the Third Position tendency. The matter of mental illness also needs to be considered.
If right-wing domestic groups are shown to be involved in the live anthrax letters, it may well be rank opportunism based on one of the first two ideological affinities with the terrorists. The intriguing ideological link of Third Position ethnonationalism deserves special scrutiny because it explains one reason why U.S. and European Extreme Right White supremacist activists have already forged an alliance with Islamic supremacists or Arab supremacists that goes back over two decades.
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U.S. White Supremacist Groups and Militant Islamic Fundamentalists
11.15.01 NPR senior correspondent Howard Berkes:
Some investigators and researchers believe Osama bin Laden might still be getting help from within the United States. They suggest that help might not be coming solely from people with extreme views about Islam. It could also be coming from white supremacy groups." Hear the story using Real Player -- from Thursday's All Things Considered.
According to an article in the Washington Post:
A remote possibility is a collaborative effort. U.S. monitoring groups cite increased contacts between Middle Eastern radicals and some Americans on the far right. Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center protested a planned meeting this year in Beirut between neo-Nazis and members of militant Islamic organizations. The gathering was shifted to Jordan, he said, and later canceled.
"It's a long, long way from rubbing elbows and giving hateful speeches to acting out or inspiring others to act out," Cooper said. "But those connections are there."1
In a Financial Times online article "Far-right has ties with Islamic extreme," by Hugh Williamson and Philipp Jaklin, Berlin, November 8 2001:
Ahmed Huber, a 74-year-old Swiss businessman and former journalist who converted to Islam in the 1960s, is a board member of Nada Management, a financial services and consultancy company which is part of the international Al Taqwa group. The US says this group has long acted as financial advisers to al-Qaeda.Mr Huber, who is based in Bern, is known in Switzerland and Germany as an Islamic fundamentalist who attempts to forge links to far-right and neo-Nazi movements.
A spokesman for Germany's office for the protection of the constitution, the internal intelligence agency, said on Thursday that Mr Huber "sees himself as a mediator between Islam and right-wing groups". He also belongs to the revisionist movement, which believes the Holocaust did not take place, the spokesman said.
Klaus Beier, spokesman for the NPD, one of Germany's main far-right political parties, said Mr Huber has often addressed NPD events...
And isn't it interesting how some of the people who nowadays claim to be defending Western Civilization--using "near-dictatorial" methods--seem to know so little about it?
Goldfarb is trying to equate dictatorial powers during war time with emergency declarations of martial law. A better modern comparison to what Hamilton reffered to would be what we call "martial law". These people want a permanent state of martial law declared if an illegal alien tries to sneak across the border. Can you imagine the absurdity of declaring martial law here because we sent troops to Haiti (to depose a regime and declared martial law there) in the 90s. That's what they want because some Americans might have other ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law#United_States_of_America
Those were at least successful ventures.
You idiots give fascists a bad name. You can't even start the train, much less drive it anywhere on time.
Try Bosnia
http://www.bhtourism.ba/eng/
Or you a great package deal in Messopotamia
www.goarmy.com
Glenn has posted on those topics extensively at his old blog, Unclaimed Territory. You are a new reader since he moved to Salon, perhaps? Good, and welcome.
I'm sure he will refer to them from time to time, and post on them occasionally, but you may like to go through the archives there. I hope he keeps them available for a long time.
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/
Brian Williams says get out of the bathrobe and leave the apartment and get off hiis back, now!
Andrew Sullivan links to Dean Barnett's find at Hugh Hewitt's:
How Self-Important Is Brian Williams?11 Apr 2007 01:06 pm
Gob-smackingly so, of late. Pious doesn't quite capture the guy's preening vacuousness. Dean Barnett has just dug up the latest gem by Williams about the blogosphere:
"You're going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I'm up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn't left the efficiency apartment in two years."
You looking at me? You looking at me? I wouldn't mess with Vinny, would you?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/04/how_selfimporta.html
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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