Terrorism

Vandals attacked a building hosting a pro-life group and the campaign offices of Republican Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan early Wednesday morning, according to a press release. “My office and Jackson @Right_to_Life were the latest to fall victim to the disgusting domestic terrorism targeting pregnancy centers and pro-life groups across the country,” Walberg posted on Twitter Wednesday. “We won’t be intimidated or stray from our principles. This only strengthens our resolve.” (RELATED: Fox News Guest Says Biden Administration Encouraged ‘Illegal Activity’ Against Supreme Court) My office and Jackson @Right_to_Life were the latest to fall victim to the disgusting domestic terrorism targeting pregnancy centers and pro-life groups across the country. We won’t be intimidated or stray from our principles. This only strengthens our resolve. pic.twitter.com/s5jaXEro9C — Walberg for Congress (@TimWalberg) June 22, 2022 One of the photos Walberg posted on social media … [Read more...] about ‘Disgusting Domestic Terrorism’: Congressman’s Campaign Office, Pro-Life Group’s Building Vandalized

Amid reports of staffing shortages , rising homicides and “officers leaving in droves,” the City of Oakland wants to support police officers by giving another $11 million to Oakland’s police department, potentially upping its budget to $335 million (18% of the total proposed annual budget, by far the most for any single department). But new data from the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) suggests that further padding Oakland PD’s budget alone isn’t likely to alleviate the concerns of cops or meaningfully reduce crime. In a contentious public meeting on Tuesday, frustrated residents once again begged the city to instead reallocate funds to other departments that could alleviate public safety concerns. In May 2022, KRON4 said that upwards of 2,000 calls for service are flooding OPD daily. Department personnel has publicly complained that some calls are going unanswered and dispatchers are "overburdened," severely hindering day-to-day operations. “The … [Read more...] about Oakland police say they’re overwhelmed. Do they want help?

Bypolls to three Lok Sabha seats — Azamgarh and Rampur in Uttar Pradesh and Sangrur in Punjab — were held on Thursday. It is a crucial test for both the Samajwadi Party and the Aam Aadmi Party. The results, which will be declared on Sunday, will reveal if the Samajwadi Party, in spite of its defeat in the Assembly elections, can hold on to its bastions. For the AAP, the elections, coming on the heels of the murder of Sidhu Moosewala which drew allegations of law and order breakdown in the State, will test whether the popularity of the Bhagwant Mann government can withstand the outrage. Bypolls in Uttar Pradesh were necessitated by the resignation of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and senior leader Azam Khan after both chose to retain the Assembly seats they won in the recent elections. The BJP is particularly hopeful of winning the Rampur seat, considering it has equal number of both Hindu and Muslim voters. It has fielded Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi who recently joined the party. Asim Raja, … [Read more...] about Lok Sabha bypolls a crucial test for AAP, SP

In a major step towards re-establishing its presence in Afghanistan, India sent a “technical team” of officials to be based in Kabul, reopening its Embassy on Thursday. India also sent its first consignment of earthquake relief assistance to Afghanistan, where more than 1,000 Afghans have been killed in an earthquake outside the city of Khost. The MEA said the assistance was handed over by the Indian team that travelled aboard an Indian Air Force Ilyushin-76 aircraft, in the first such military, non-commercial transportation since last year. The move to reopen the embassy, that comes more than ten months after the government shut down the Indian embassy, and pulled out all Indian personnel after the Ghani government fell, marks a reversal of the government’s policy on engaging the Taliban, and comes a few weeks after a team headed by senior MEA official J.P. Singh travelled to Kabul to meet with the Taliban-appointed acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mottaqi and acting Interior … [Read more...] about India reopens Embassy in Kabul

O ne evening about seven years ago in St. Andrews, Scotland, I was walking home from a long day of doctoral research. Most people out that night were not concluding studies. A scattered few exited the ancient city’s meager collection of pubs and restaurants. That ordinary night shifted when a drunken man stumbled out of one of those bars and spotted my Black body. He presented no manifesto. I have no access to the soul-distorting experiences that led him to look upon me with contempt, but seconds after he saw me, he blurted out that most famous of anti-Black racial slurs. I had never been verbally accosted in a British accent and didn’t know that word was international. I performed the assessment that Black folks have performed for centuries. How much danger am I in? Then I remembered I was in Scotland, and therefore the person probably did not have a gun. So I gave him my best cold stare, ready to defend myself if needed. He apparently performed a similar assessment, thought … [Read more...] about America Isn’t Ready to Truly Understand the Buffalo Shooting

Updated at 10:54 a.m. ET on May 19, 2022. Three years ago, when a white-supremacist fanatic killed dozens of people in El Paso, Texas, the reaction from the right was unreserved condemnation . When another white-supremacist fanatic killed 10 people at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, last week, the reaction from some figures on the right was to acknowledge that the guy had a point about this whole “replacement” thing. Large sections of the manifesto attributed to the Buffalo shooter were plagiarized from the writings of the perpetrator of another racist massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand . Both share the premise that violence against nonwhite people is justified to prevent “white genocide” or the “replacement” of white Americans by nonwhite immigrants. As the alleged Buffalo shooter put it, he carried out the attack because “all black people are replacers just by existing in White countries.” I would offer to explain how Black people got to … [Read more...] about Conservatives Are Defending a Sanitized Version of ‘The Great Replacement’

The alleged teenage mass shooter in Buffalo, New York, wrote and posted a 180-page manifesto. I read the whole thing, and the only part that surprised me was the banality of his stated intention to eat “corn beef hash” for breakfast, followed by lunch at McDonald’s, before killing as many Black people as possible. He expects to go to prison and either die there or someday be freed as a hero, after white people fight back en masse against the attempt to “replace” them in the lands where they live. Committing what he calls “an act of terrorism” is his method of warning all non-white people to “leave [white territory] while you still can, as long as the White man lives you will never be safe here.” My friends in the terrorism-analysis community engaged in preemptive scolding as news of the manifesto came out. “Don’t post the fuckin manifesto anywhere,” tweeted Amarnath Amarasingam, a professor at Queen’s University in Canada. “Folks in our field: You should read the manifesto,” Seamus … [Read more...] about Why Tucker Carlson Should Want the Buffalo Manifesto Made Public

The mass shooting of Black grocery shoppers in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday follows a string of similar attacks. Gunmen have targeted worshippers at synagogues and mosques and temples and Bible study; they have opened fire on summer camps and people at festivals. We know the names of these places: Charleston; El Paso; Poway; Pittsburgh; Oak Creek; Christchurch, New Zealand. We know the names of the shooters, too, although I won’t list them here, because adding to their notoriety deepens the problem. Some of us also know by now that although we might think these are attacks on specific victim groups—and they are attacks on Black, Jewish, Islamic, Sikh, Latino, and immigrant populations—the aforementioned examples have all been part of one movement. In each event, a white-power activist was the perpetrator. Several of the assailants wrote extensively about their motivations in manifestos that outlined a coherent political ideology. And in the United States, they have been backed … [Read more...] about White Power, White Violence

Wolves are not a particularly special species. They are not as menacing nor as powerful as mountain lions. They are not as big as many other predators, nor as strong, nor terribly wise, nor do they have sophisticated tools or genetic dispositions that make them individually dangerous in the animal kingdom. Their ability to capture prey worthier than themselves results from collaboration—from the pack. Once prey is targeted, the pack first disperses, then surrounds the victim—some wolves from the front, others from the back. The wolf pack’s defining feared feature is that it does not work alone. The lone wolf, in the animal kingdom, is not powerful; it is weak. The wolf, acting alone, is not something to fear. Lone wolves do not massacre, because they can’t. Eighteen-year-old Payton S. Gendron allegedly went hunting yesterday at a supermarket after traveling more than 200 miles from his home. Police say he was heavily armed, wearing protective military-style gear, and proceeded … [Read more...] about A ‘Lone-Wolf’ Shooter Has an Online Pack

In two extraordinary decisions, the Narendra Modi government has given charge of the Intelligence Bureau to Tapan Deka, a 1988-batch Himachal Pradesh-cadre IPS officer, and a second extension as R&AW chief to Samant Goel, a 1984-batch IPS officer from the Punjab cadre. Deka has superseded seven officers from the 1987 and 88 batches, and this is being seen as a revolutionary step by the Modi government. With his appointment, the IB is going to lose seven officers of special director-level who are much senior to many of the state director generals of police. Deka joined the IB earlier as assistant director, has wide expertise, and has dealt with challenges in the Northeast, said sources. He was even posted in the region. He has been associated with anti-terror operations for more than a decade and a half. Deka was involved in counterterror operations in Kashmir as well and is known as a trusted man of union home minister Amit Shah. He was also incharge of the … [Read more...] about What The Appointment of Tapan Deka as IB Chief And Samant Goel’s Extension as R&AW Head Signal