When senior Western officials met in Ottawa last month to discuss potential terrorism threats in light of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, a top State Department counterterrorism official delivered an unexpected message.
The United States was as concerned as always about Islamist terrorism, said the official, Monica A. Jacobsen, according to a copy of her prepared remarks reviewed by The New York Times and three officials briefed on the meeting. But, she told her counterparts from Europe, Canada and Australia, the Trump administration also wanted more attention on what it believed was an insidious, underestimated threat: the far left.
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In September, days after signing his executive order on antifa, Mr. Trump issued a national security memo that called on the government to counter violence fueled by ideological beliefs, including anticapitalism, anti-Christianity and hostility toward “American views on family, religion and morality.”
It always makes me incredulous when I hear some talking head on Sky News, or Trump ranting and raving about “the radical left”
I’m like, do you know what the left even is or the meaning of the word radical?
And the point they are talking about is mildly centrist.
Last Christmas, a friend of the family said “Every journalist in Australia is a communist.”
hostility toward “American views on family, religion and morality.”
oh bub. You fucked.
Where is that “we’re all domestic terrorists” pic from the RNC?
Great. As an Australian disappointed in the nutlessness of our PM, I can see Albanese bending over eagerly to embrace anything the US tells him is what Australia needs. So long as Penny Wong can be ‘gravely concerned’ about it, anyway.
Finally identified the real villains — people who want public healthcare.
That would be the majority of US citizens. Pity the dumb fucks don’t bother voting.
Ohhh, of course terrorism™ as defined by the State is tailored to only mean those that oppose the commercialism, oppression, and actual terrorism that said State approves as on-brand, “patriotic”. Yay, go Team Democracy©! 😅🤮
“It is important to recognize their actions as political terrorism rather than mere protest or criminality,"
The silver lining is, we know they’re terrified.
If “they” could spontaneously and en masse just hurry up and die of fright, I’d not even pause in sipping my Kermit tea. 🤷🏽♂️
Is there even a ‘far left’ in America? I’d hardly call the Democratic Party that.
a ‘far left’
Electorally? None with any real hope, in my view. Possibly some local council members? (I don’t consider DSA social-democracy to be far-left)
There are certainly people with communist and anarchist ideas, organising with like-minded people and engaging in antifascism. I don’t know to what degree they’re organised, and there are efforts from the government to chill them, but they exist as organisations.
I figured there were such groups around, but too small and politically ineffectual to be a threat to the elite, and probably not what they’re talking about here. My eyes roll out of my head whenever I hear Trump call the Democratic Party the ‘radical left’.
its the conservative party propaganda for decades, its to keep thier own voters from having alternatives to vote for, thats why they come up with all these boogeyman scenarios for liberals, progressive and “communists”. GOp would not have won anything down south with out cubans, and other latinos.
nope, center right is what the DNC is and most of the party. most voters are slightly left of that, but still have alot of center right elements. SIDE RANT, and i have heard people that move from east to west coast have more "conservative views, because they dint like thier family members living near them or the “locals”. its usually the transplants that bring thier beliefs over(from other states) that live in blue areas, aka reverse white flight and gentrifying.
The Democratic Socialists has had many socialist and anti-capitalist activists and groups in it since Bernie’s run for president. There are also still activists and groups doing their own thing independent of the democratic party. The Greens are still around, have adopted an ecosocialist platform and have a considerable number of registered voters. That being said I think their members’ political leaning and activity varies wildly from place to place and the momentum is with the Democratic Socialists these days.
