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German Far-Right Leader Goes on Trial

A senior member of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party charged with incitement for producing CDs that prosecutors say encouraged violence against foreigners went on trial Tuesday.

Austria Delegate Utters Nazi-Era Greeting

A delegate on the outer fringes of Austria's far-right party on Sunday took his leave from the party's convention with "heil" — the greeting associated with Adolf Hitler. The head of the party said he saw nothing wrong with the word.

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Probe Into Neo-Nazi Music: German Police Raid Home of Top NPD Member

Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

When I arrived in Germany I knew that Nazism is illegal, I knew that publications were constantly evolving to hide their ties to the former feuer, I had no idea that music that had lyrics relating to neo-nazism was illegal.

Debating God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission To Save America. - By David Kuo and Hanna Rosin - Slate Magazine

Source: Slate

When I say "evangelical," I am thinking of that elite subgroup that goes to church at least once a week.

Germany Seems Powerless to Outlaw Far-Right NPD

Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

An attack on eight Indians in the eastern town of Mügeln has triggered renewed calls for a ban on the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany.

Japan's Far-Right Nationalist Wing Re-ermerges

Source: The Globe and Mail

Three months after a shocking arson attack on a leading politician, about 800 nationalists gathered at a rally in Tokyo to give their vocal support to the arsonist.

Dutch populist wants Koran banned

The populist politician Geert Wilders is calling for a ban on the Koran.

Why The Growth of Racism Has Little to do With Racists

The rise of the far right, the rise of fundamentalism and terrorists networks, and the continued support for Israel, even when they too commit atrocities, have one thing in common: they are dictated almost exclusively by one version of 'truth', by unaccountable privilege and by  …

Curious Conversation

Source: atlanta.creativeloafing.com

The picture now should be coming into focus. This was not a Rotary Club confab, although if you muted the sound and ignored a literature table, that's what the gathering resembled. This was an informal gathering of ... well, some would call them racists and white supremacists.

GOP fundraiser to feature machine gun shoot

Source: unionleader.com

Tired of the usual chicken dinners, the Manchester Republican Committee is planning to arm supporters next month with Uzis, M-16 rifles and other automatic weapons for a day of target practice at a Pelham firing range.

Mordor has not Fallen. poll

Have you ever wondered what happened to the Neo-Con propaganda Party? The ones who planned and orchestrated the Swiftboat Fascist Campaign against John Kerry causing him the election? Now that the Neo-Con's have abandoned their sunken swift boat, they all call themselves the Far- …

The Socialism of Fools: Reports From The Front

Source: transmontanus.blogspot.com

For an account of the recent strategy sessions in Cairo that brought together Canadian and British "anti-war" activists with some of the world's most violent and sinister Islamists and jihadists, the English-speaking world was obliged to rely almost exclusively upon an account (" …

Does it matter that 5 Supreme Court justices are Catholic?

Source: americablog.blogspot.com

Excellent points from John Aravosis on AmericaBlog ... the absurd hypocrisy of the far right would be just laughable, if it weren't so damn repressive. Not for long, though. The time for these people having the ear of power is past.

Europe 'ripe' for our ideas, says far right

Source: Christian Science Monitor

For more than a decade far-right parties in Europe have been lost in regional and ideological squabbles, some of them dating to the 1930s.

Racists of the world unite: Europe's Grand Far-right alliance

Source: Guardian Unlimited

In France, the group's prospective leader has been barred from teaching at his university and is awaiting a court verdict for questioning the Nazis' mass murder of Europe's Jews.

Le Pen backed by more than a quarter of French voters

Source: expatica.com

More than a quarter of French voters support the far-right ideas espoused by Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front leader who is hoping to make a strong showing in presidential elections next year, a new poll released Thursday showed.

The Barriers Come Down: Antisemitism and Coalitions of Extremes

Source: axt.org.uk

While Islamists and the far right will use each other's material but won't actually work together, the far right and far left won't even go that far; for both, the idea of giving any credibility to the worldview and political positions of the other is unthinkable.

Limbaugh on Michael J. Fox: 'I Take Back None of What I Said'

Source: Think Progress

Rush Limbaugh is sticking to his claim that Michael J. Fox is exaggerating the symptoms of Parkinson's disease — by "acting" or "not taking his medications" — in an advertisement promoting stem cell research.

Madrid and the new rise of the far right in Europe

Source: Guardian Unlimited

In the University grounds and the Casa de Campo the remains of trenches and gun emplacements are still visible today - stubborn, melancholy reminders of the siege of Madrid.

Embarrassment for German Xenophobes

Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

German right-wing extremists had hoped to lure teenagers to their cause with a new youth magazine. The nationalists even had an ad with an attractive young girl next to the slogan: "German is Hot!" The only problem? The model turned out to be a Czech erotic model.

Anne Frank diary burning sparks outrage in Germany

Source: newsbox.msn.co.uk

From the page: -- The ceremonial burning of the diary of Holocaust victim Anne Frank by far-right extremists in eastern Germany was condemned by the German government on Friday amid calls to intensify efforts to stamp out neo-Nazi activity. --

Europe's Next Immigration Crisis

Source: yaleglobal.yale.edu

Victims of sociology: Throughout the 90s the "revival" of extreme right wing groups and parties in namely Europe, but also countries like Canada and Australia, became the subject of many news reports as well as scholarly studies.

Le Pen and French Far Right Achieve Record Popularity

Source: amren.com

Spengler, in a recent book review on Asia Times, identify Islam and especially the particular branch of Islam represented by Tehran, as a crocodile calmly waiting for its prey.

Three years is not enough say Irving's accusers

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Austrian state prosecutors are to lodge an appeal to try to lengthen the three-year jail term handed down to David Irving, the British historian imprisoned in Austria for lying about the Holocaust.

Pork Soup Lines Not Kosher in France

Source: http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/antiracistlosers/200

A far-right group in France is getting the short end of government persectution for serving a soup to the homeless that Muslims took offense to.