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"Experts have told the
Guardian the same anti-fascist groups the US state
department recently named as foreign terrorist organizations and accused of
“conspiring to undermine foundations of western civilization” barely qualify as
groups, let alone terrorist organizations, and pose no active threat to
Americans.
“The whole thing is a bit ridiculous,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which tracks extremist movements
worldwide, “because the groups designated by the administration barely exist
and certainly aren’t terrorists.”
In a release put out earlier this month, the Trump administration, which has
made no secret of its hatred for leftists in the US and abroad, named Antifa
Ost in Germany, the Italy-based International Revolutionary Front, and two
organisations in Greece – Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class
Self Defense – to its long list of designated terrorist organizations.
The four European groups, mostly protest collectives and streetfighters, find
themselves in the company of the Islamic State and al-Qaida, the masterminds
behind the 9/11 attacks, among others, as officially proscribed terrorist
groups.
“[They] pose absolutely no threat to the US,” said Beirich. “But this isn’t
really about fighting terrorism. It’s about scaring the left and shifting the
discussion away from far-right terrorism, which is where most real attacks are
coming from in recent years.”
Tom Lord, a terrorism researcher, co-founder of the
Militant-Wire, and an
expert on European extremist groups, said he was very “surprised” to see most
of the groups named.
“Especially given that I had just talked to the state department about three of
those organizations being rather defunct,” said Lord, “just 24 hours prior to
the FTO designation announcement.”"
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
