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Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: January 2010
Stateside: The far right in Obama’s first yearThe presidency of Barack Obama dominated political events in 2009. Whether it was discussion of the bank bailouts last winter or the continuing failure of the government to solve the ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: November 2009
Islamophobia is no secretIn Gainesville, Florida, a Christian pastor sent his ten-year old daughter to school with the slogan “Islam is of the Devil” printed in large red block type on the back ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: October 2009
Tea parties, race, republicans, and the opposition to ObamaOn 12 September, tens – perhaps hundreds – of thousands of white people descended on the streets of Washington DC. It is impossible to come by a more exact crowd ...
Author: Devin Burghart | Date: September 2009
Book review: Blood and PoliticsStateside, it’s been another long, hot, violent summer. On 30 May, a trio of anti-immigrant vigilantes allegedly carried out the brutal, execution-style killing of Raul Flores and his nine-year-old daughter ...
Author: Devin Burghart | Date: April 2009
Stateside: Inside the Preserving Western Civilization ConferenceThe Preserving Western Civilization conference drew about 100 men and women from Canada, the UK, and the USA to a suit-and-tie affair at a hotel near the Baltimore-Washington International airport. ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: February 2009
What next for white nationalists in the Obama yearsConcerns for the safety of Barack Obama, and questions about the next steps by hardcore racists continue to bubble up as the president’s inauguration nears. One set of white supremacists ...
Author: Devin Burghart | Date: December 2008
Nativism and Election 2008November’s results gave lots of reasons to be hopeful, but for human rights supporters, election-day euphoria may quickly give way to the cold reality of an uncertain future for real ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: December 2008
The election of Barack Obama: tremors along the racial fault-linesSenator Barack Obama’s election victory has changed everything about presidential politics in the United States. He ran an aggressively different kind of campaign, relying on the internet for a ground-up ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: May 2008
Barack Obama, original sin, and the presidential primary campaignIn the United States, election campaigns last too long, cost too much and usually produce results that are uninspiring, if not downright depressing. ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: December 2007
To win the debate over ‘amnesty’ for immigrants, advocates need to reach the heart of AmericaConsider October. It was a month just like any other month. And only a small part of this ever-expanding story can be told here. ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: November 2007
Nativism in the HouseAt this very moment, tens of millions of immigrants – with and without proper papers – are busy adding to the Gross Domestic Product of the United States. Slaughterhouse workers ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: July 2007
David Lane dies in prisonDavid Lane died in May at the age of 69. A Denver-area Klansmen who joined a group of Aryan bank bandits and killers known as The Order, he gained a ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: April 2007
Vlaams Belang in the USARepresentatives of Vlaams Belang, an anti-immigrant ultra-nationalist party from Belgium, met the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) on 23 February. They also spoke at a forum organised by the ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: November 2006
The ghosts of 1993 dance over election 2006Three weeks before the election, it looks as if Democrats might – and it still remains a big “if” – defeat enough sitting Republicans to take control of either the ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: October 2006
Xenophobia and the battle for CongressVoters will punch their chads and pull their levers on 7 November in every district and every state from Hawaii to New York, but the fight for control of the ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: September 2006
Five years after 9-11 the war against terror faltersIf there is one thing that might be said about the United States five years after 9-11, it is that it increasingly looks like the country it was on 10 ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: August 2006
Arrest threatens remnantsThe chairman of the National Alliance has been charged in a Salt Lake City federal court with civil rights violations. The incidents cited in the indictment date from 31 December ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: July 2006
Immigration and language, race and nationOn 1 May, chicken processing plants all across the South closed down, as workers stayed at home. Beef slaughterhouses in western Kansas and Nebraska closed their doors for the same ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: March 2006
Money can’t buy happiness (Or a place in the Aryan homeland, either)It could be a story on one of those Grade B late night television crime dramas. A self-made millionaire retires to a quiet pastoral village he thinks is the closest ...
Author: Leonard Zeskind | Date: February 2006
A year in reviewA number of deficits plagued the white nationalist movement during 2005. They lack a third political party and cannot run for elected office on their own label. No large underground ...
