(2019-08-05). Dayton shooter was apparently a self-professed 'leftist,' Warren & Sanders fan. rt.com 
Judging by his supposed activity on Twitter, the Dayton shooter appears to have held views opposite to those of the El Paso gunman from hours earlier. A now-suspended account, allegedly his own, implies he was a die-hard leftist.
(2019-08-05). The El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can't Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle. theintercept.com 
On Aug. 4, 2019, a man places an American flag on a makeshift memorial outside the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, where a mass shooting occurred the previous day. | The four-page manifesto believed to be written by suspected El Paso mass shooter Patrick Crusius abounds with Trumpian racist nationalism. "This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas," notes the text, published shortly before Saturday's massacre. The manifesto, which decries "race-mixing," states, "some people will blame the president or certain presidential candidates for the attack. This is not the case," noting that the autho…
(2019-08-05). Trump accuses internet & social media of providing 'dangerous avenues' to mass shooters. rt.com 
President Donald Trump accused social media and the internet of encouraging "disturbed minds" to carry out mass shootings and called for "quick" executions for their perpetrators. He also condemned 'white supremacy'.
(2019-08-05). White supremacist in the White House fueling a national emergency. peoplesworld.org 
Even after a speech today in which President Trump said hate has to end, calls to impeach him and statements identifying him as responsible for a mass shooting carried out by a white supremacist in El Paso, Texas, this weekend continued. The day after two mass shootings, the first in El Paso and the second …
(2019-08-05). White supremacy is coming for us all. peoplesworld.org 
If ever there was a moment of clarity for us, it's now. As we witness and grieve the carnage of two back-to-back mass shootings, we cannot afford to ignore the clear signs that the ascendance of white supremacy in our nation is all too real. 2018 saw a national increase in hate crimes, with nearly all extremist …
(2019-08-05). El Paso Blood Is on the Hands of Everyone Who Has Scapegoated Migrants. truthout.org | | The far right in the United States changes its look every few years, cycling through hoods, shaved heads and boots, polo shirts, fashy haircuts and even three-piece suits. But one thing remains constant: Its bigotry and scapegoating drive its followers to kill. And they do so again and again. | The slaughter of 22 people in an El Paso, Texas, Wal-Mart on Saturday was a dramatic example of this trend. It was the largest massacre by a single, open white nationalist in recent history. It follow…
(2019-08-05). The Boundaries of Whiteness Are Protected With Blood and Bullets. thenation.com The Boundaries of Whiteness Are Protected With Blood and Bullets…
(2019-08-05). Trump Says Fake News, Not His Hate Speech, Behind Shootings. telesurenglish.net U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that his country must "condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy" after a gunman killed 20 people in an attack in Texas that authorities said appeared to be a racially motivated hate crime. | Trump did not directly address accusations that his anti-immigrant and racially charged comments have contributed to a rise in hate crimes. | "These sinister ideologies must be defeated," he said in remarks at the White House. "Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul." | Trump said he was directing the Department of Justice to…
(2019-08-05). Federal Authorities Have Downplayed White Supremacist Violence for Too Long. truthout.org | | According to The New York Times, white extremist shooters have now killed at least 63 people in the United States over the past 18 months. Late last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that crime driven by racism and white supremacy was on the rise compared to the past nine months. But former FBI agents say there is reluctance within the agency to tackle white nationalist violence in part due to President Trump's rhetoric. We speak with Mike…
(2019-08-05). Israeli Ministers To Honor Rabbi Who Praised Palestine Massacre. telesurenglish.net Two Israeli ministers will speak at a conference organized in honor of a right-wing rabbi, who praised the 1994 massacre of Palestinian worshipers in Hebron and was previously charged with racism. | RELATED: | Intermarriages Among Jews Is 'Like Second Holocaust': Israeli Education Minister | Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz and Transportation…
(2019-08-05). After the El Paso Massacre, the Choice Is Green Socialism or Eco-Fascism. thenation.com After the El Paso Massacre, the Choice Is Green Socialism or Eco-Fascism…
(2019-08-05). What the El Paso Mass Shooting Tells Us About the Operationalization of Fascist Violence. commondreams.org Law enforcement agents respond to an active shooter at a Wal-Mart near Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, on August 3, 2019. – A gunman armed with an assault rifle killed 20 people Saturday when he opened fire on shoppers at a packed Walmart store in the latest mass shooting in the United States. (Photo: Joel Angel JUAREZ / AFP / Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-08-05). El Paso Massacre Galvanizes Accelerationists. splcenter.org The domestic terror incident this past weekend in El Paso has energized the growing "accelerationist" bloc of the white power movement, which argues violence is the only way to achieve its goal of creating a white, non-Jewish ethnostate.
(2019-08-05). Fascist Violence Has Gone Mainstream. truthdig.com As repulsive as it might be to take the manifesto of the El Paso killer seriously, we must shed inhibition aside and take a close look at it. For a 21-year old, it's quite well articulated, beyond the reach of most American college students in terms of linking cause and effect and describing motivation and rationale. The murderer realizes that his manifesto might well be "meh" at this point (he hasn't had time enough to deliberate), but thinks it's better to…
(2019-08-05). Mexico Plans Legal Action Against US After Six Citizens Killed in El Paso. truthout.org | | Update: The death toll has increased to a combined total of 31.After six Mexican nationals were killed in El Paso by a gunman authorities believe is the author of a racist and anti-immigrant manifesto, Mexico on Sunday said it is…
(2019-08-05). Hate is Alive in America—El Paso Shooting. splcenter.org A manifesto from shooter promotes white nationalist talking points as white nationalists mock those killed in the shooting…
(2019-08-05). Our hearts are heavy. Again. splcenter.org …
(2019-08-05). At least 29 dead after shootings in Texas and Ohio, with police probing alleged white supremacist views of El Paso gunman. nationofchange.org "We live in a country where the mass shooting that took place yesterday in El Paso, Texas is not the top story because there was another mass shooting overnight in Dayton, Ohio."
(2019-08-05). Headlines for August 5, 2019. democracynow.org White Supremacist Kills 20 People After Hate-Fueled Gun Rampage in El Paso, Gunman with Misogynistic Past Kills 9 People in Dayton, OH Shooting Spree, General Strike Grips Hong Kong as Protesters Refuse to Back Down, India Revokes Kashmir's Special Status as Tensions Mount in Disputed Region, Iran Seizes Tanker as Tensions Between Iran and U.S. Remain High, Russian Police Arrest 800+ Protesters as Crackdown on Dissent Continues, Sudan's Military Rulers and Opposition Leaders Sign Transition Agreement, 3 Mexican Journalists Killed in Under a Week, Pierluisi Sworn In as Puerto Rico's New Governor as San Juan Mayor…
(2019-08-05). RNs of National Nurses United Say Racism, Xenophobia Combined With Lax Gun Control Laws At Root of Mass Shooting Epidemic. indybay.org August 04, 2019 – The 150,000 registered nurses of National Nurses United (NNU) are sickened and angered as we bear witness to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; and Gilroy, Calif. Horrifically, these three mass shootings have claimed the lives of at least 32 people, and left dozens of others injured. NNU represent nurses in all three locations.
(2019-08-05). The fascist attack in Gilroy and the US epidemic of mass shootings. indybay.org [August 3: This article is republished here the same day yet another white supremacist has killed at least 20 people in El Paso, Texas, less than a week after the racist attack at the Garlic Festival in Gilroy.]…
(2019-08-05). Ex-FBI Agent Speaks Out: Federal Authorities Have Downplayed White Supremacist Violence for Too Long. democracynow.org 
According to The New York Times, white extremist shooters have now killed at least 63 people in the United States over the past 18 months. Late last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that crime driven by racism and white supremacy was on the rise compared to the past nine months. But former FBI agents say there is reluctance within the agency to tackle white nationalist violence in part due to President Trump's rhetoric. We speak with Mike German, fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law. From 1988 to 2004, German served as an FBI agent…
(2019-08-05). El Paso Shooting Probed as Domestic Terrorism After Anti-Immigrant Gunman Kills 22 People. democracynow.org 
Over the span of 13 hours, the United States was shaken by two mass shootings. Saturday morning, a heavily armed gunman opened fire inside a crowded Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people, including a number of Mexican nationals. Federal authorities are treating the El Paso attack as an act of domestic terrorism. The suspected gunman has been identified as a 21-year-old white man named Patrick Crusius, who lived 600 miles away in a suburb of Dallas. Shortly before the attack in El Paso, the gunman posted an anti-immigrant manifesto on the far-right message board 8chan. Some of the language in the manifesto…
(2019-08-05). After Massacre in El Paso, Experts and Lawmakers Say Time to Call Racist Shooting What It Was: 'Trump-Inspired Terrorism'. commondreams.org "Thanks to his hate-filled rhetoric, the president poses a clear and present danger to the people, and especially the minorities, of the United States." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-08-05). 'Completely Inconsistent With Everything He's Ever Said and Done': Trump's Teleprompter Speech on Mass Shootings Pilloried. commondreams.org In White House speech, president condemns racism, but not his own | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-08-05). Beto O'Rourke Rips Media for Failing to Connect Trump Rhetoric to El Paso: 'You Know the Sh*t He's Been Saying…Members of the Press, What the F*ck?'. commondreams.org "It's these questions that you know the answers to. I mean, connect the dots about what he's doing in this country. He's not tolerating racism, he's promoting racism." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-08-05). 'Height of Unethical Journalism,' Say Critics, After CNN's Jake Tapper Uses Racist El Paso Shooter to Attack Palestinians. commondreams.org "Tapper is the worst person on cable news. At least the Fox crowd doesn't fake objectivity." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-08-05). Trump: The political enabler of fascist violence. wsws.org The president is the moral and political author of the bloody violence in El Paso, Gilroy and Dayton.
(2019-08-05). Forty years since first German broadcast of the "Holocaust" series. wsws.org Under conditions of an international resurgence of fascist forces, the series, which had an enormous impact in West Germany in 1979, has lost none of its relevance.
(2019-08-04). Central New York 'stands against racism. workers.org 
Under the slogan "CNY Stands Against Racism," about 50 people gathered in downtown Syracuse to protest the virulent U.S. racism that enforces life-threatening im/migrant camps, the deadly prison-industrial complex and the unjust criminal "justice system." One speaker pointed out that all these structures break up families and attack the most . . . | Continue reading Central New York 'stands against racism at Workers.org
(2019-08-04). FRSO leader slams racist mass murder in El Paso. fightbacknews.org Washington DC – "The Freedom Road Socialist Organization strongly condemns the mass murder carried out in El Paso," said Masao Suzuki, chair of the FRSO Joint Nationalities Commission. Of the shooter he said, "With a Twitter account liking the hashtag BuildtheWall and a photo of guns spelling Trump, it is clear that the motivation for this white supremacist crime is shaped by Trump's racist attacks." | On August 3, a Trump-supporting gunman carried out a massacre of at least 20 people in El Paso, Texas, which he justified in racist, anti-immigrant statement. | Suzuki added, "Racist violence, from the massacres of…
(2019-08-04). Chicano leader Carlos Montes condemns racist massacre in El Paso. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – Carlos Montes, a longtime leader in the Chicano movement, spoke out about the vicious massacre in Texas, stating, "We must condemn this mass killing in El Paso as a hate crime against Mexicans and Chicanos. President Trump's racist attacks have emboldened white supremacists to commit violent crimes against Blacks, Muslims and now Brown people." | Montes noted, "El Paso is a special city for Chicanos and the millions of Mexicans and Central Americans who have passed through el Paso al norte in traveling North. It is affectionately referred to as el corazon de Aztlan [the heart of Aztlan] in…
(2019-08-04). White Nationalists Praise El Paso Attack and Mock the Dead. splcenter.org White nationalists, who have employed terroristic rhetoric with increased enthusiasm in recent months, expressed solidarity with the man who police say killed at least 20 people in El Paso, Texas on Saturday.
(2019-08-04). Yemen's Houthis Agree to Lift Aid Suspension: UN Food Program. telesurenglish.net The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and Yemen's Houthis announced Saturday that they reached an agreement allowing the agency to resume one again the aid it had partially ceased, affecting some 850,000 Yemenis. | RELATED: | War in Yemen May Actually Come to an End: UN | "Cash distribution will soon begin, God willing, in accordance with the mechanism," said Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Houthis' Supreme Revolutionary Committee, referring to cash transfers to those in need, so they…
(2019-08-04). Mueller and wishful thinking. workers.org 
Anyone who clung to the illusion that Robert Mueller's July 22 testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees would put POTUS in a pickle had to be disappointed. Now it should be clear: There will be no shortcut to pushing the president back, let alone smashing his reactionary racist . . . | Continue reading Mueller and wishful thinking at Workers.org
(2019-08-03). The most vile anti-Corbyn front page yet just flopped, big time. thecanary.co The Jewish Telegraph has published perhaps the most vile front-page attack on Jeremy Corbyn yet. Because the story has some serious holes when compared to the very report it's referencing. | The Community and Security Trust (CST) reported on antisemitic incidents in the UK from January to June 2019. It recorded a total of 892 incidents of antisemitism including an alarming 85 cases involving assault against Jewish people, an increase of 37%. | Shameful: | But the Jewish Te…
(2019-08-03). Weekend Read: The SPLC fights an internal threat to our democracy. splcenter.org In his recent testimony before Congress, Special Counsel Robert Mueller pointedly warned the nation about Russia's ongoing attempts to meddle in our nation's elections.
(2019-08-03). El Paso Shooting Suspect May Have Authored Manifesto Containing White Nationalist Talking Points. splcenter.org The suspect in a shooting that left 20 people dead at an El Paso Walmart may have posted and liked anti-immigrant leaning remarks on what appears to be his Twitter account.
(2019-08-02). Can a Majoritarian Movement Be Built to Stop Trump's Racist Momentum? therealnews.com 
Ajay Chaudhary & Maurice Mitchell analyze the racist right wing surge & how to fight for a real democracy built on racial, social and economic justice…
(2019-08-02). The Lines Between Us: The Modern History of Baltimore Apartheid (2/2). therealnews.com 
In part two, Lawrence Lanahan says the fight for fair housing did not end after the civil rights movement.
(2019-08-02). Need Damage Control? Be A Racist! progressive.org Why is Trump picking racial fights? The short answer is because he is a racist. The longer answer is that it is a great way to fire up his base.
(2019-08-02). South Africa: Transforming community protests into an uprising. greenleft.org.au 
There were protests galore in the build up to South Africa's May 8 national elections, which coincided with the 25th anniversary of the people's victory against Apartheid. Protests occurred in many parts of the country but predominately in Gauteng, the nation's industrial heartland, and in the Western Cape, with its legacy of colonialism. | The correlation of protests and elections is not new in South Africa. What was new, however, was the ferocity and proliferation of the protests. The images of chaos in the country's urban working class townships during the elections implied that there was a crisis underlying S…
(2019-08-02). Trump and Black Misleadership Class: Collaborators in the Defense of White Power. counterpunch.org 
In a case that finally started to receive national attention over the last few weeks, Baltimore prosecutors finally achieved their desired goal after three attempts, a conviction of Keith Davis Jr, a young Black working class resident of Baltimore, who his supporters say, was set up by Baltimore police, for the murder of Kevin Jones. More
(2019-08-02). Boycott HP products to show solidarity with Palestinians. greenleft.org.au 
Not many people know about the role of IT giant HP in Israel's grave violations of Palestinian rights and its system of military occupation, racial segregation and oppression. | Just as many companies profited from the South African Apartheid regime, HP is today profiting from Israel's apartheid policies towards Palestinians. It supplies Israel with technology, equipment and information that is used in its ongoing violations of Palestinians' rights. | July marked a year since Israel adopted its Jewish "nation-state" law, giving constitutional status to its apartheid policies towards Palestinian citizens of Israel…
(2019-08-01). Cornel West: Corporate Media's Superficial Coverage Helped Create "Fascist Frankenstein Trump" democracynow.org 
On Tuesday night, Senator Bernie Sanders openly criticized CNN's handling of the debates. He told CNN's Jake Tapper, "Your question is a Republican talking point. And by the way, the healthcare industry will be advertising tonight on this program." We speak with Cornel West and Dolores Huerta about the media coverage and the structure of the debate.
(2019-08-01). 2nd Dem Debate Pt 2: Presidential Candidates Attack Trump as a Racist (1/4). therealnews.com 
Trump was called out as a white nationalist in the second night of Democratic presidential debates; demonstrators demanded Eric Garner's killer be fired, and justice for immigrants. With Kimberly Moffitt, Dharna Noor, and Marc Steiner as host…
(2019-08-01). Inside the Hive Mind. progressive.org After several years submerged in violent prison racism, I became a fascist.
(2019-08-01). Trump's Demagoguery Is an Old American Tradition. thenation.com Trump's Demagoguery Is an Old American Tradition…
(2019-08-01). How the Alt-Right Plans to Take Over. progressive.org Their 'war of position' will unfold on cultural terrain.
(2019-08-01). He IS a Racist, and He Plays One on TV. thenation.com He IS a Racist, and He Plays One on TV…