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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  1/18/2021
  

  Washington Must Treat White Supremacist Terrorism as a Transnational Threat

  by Joel Rubin

  A former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state argues that the threat of far-right political violence demands a stepped-up response from law enforcement.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1/7/2021
  

  Will They Ever Be Over? The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

  by Nick Turse

  Trump's incoherent foreign policy presents Joe Biden an opportunity to take genuine steps to end the entanglements of the war on terror. 

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• Terror in the City Too Busy to Hate: How the English Avenue School Bombing Challenged Atlanta’s Popular Myth of Racial Progress

  by Max Blau and Todd Michney

  Months before Atlanta’s public schools desegregated, someone bombed an all-Black school on the city’s Westside. On the 60th anniversary of that incident, Max Blau and Todd Michney revisit the forces that led to the attack and reflect on its legacy.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/9/2020
  

  An American Pogrom (Review)

  by David W. Blight

  David W. Blight reviews a new book on the 1898 Wilmington massacre and the violent overthrow of multiracial democracy in North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  FBI Won’t Deliver Report on White-Supremacist Terror Threat Until After Election

  “This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3,” Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  10/6/2020
  

  Nation’s Deadliest Domestic Terrorist Inspiring New Generation Of Hate-Filled ‘Monsters,’ FBI Records Show

  “A mass casualty event like the Oklahoma City bombing is … meant to provoke further violence," noted Kathleen Belew, a University of Chicago historian.

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• SOURCE: Untapped New York
  9/16/2020
  

  It’s the 100th Anniversary of the Wall Street Bombing

  Though authorities blamed Italian anarchists and other radical sympathizers for the destructive bombing, the case was never solved. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  9/4/2020
  

  Terror and Technology, From Dynamite to Drones (Review)

  Audrey Cronin's new book warns that terrorist networks are less likely to employ cutting-edge technology than to adapt widely-available tools to new destructive ends; security experts are still surprised by this repeating pattern. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/25/2020
  

  Policing the World (Review)

  by Andrew Lanham

  Since World War II, the United States has spread its style of policing—and police technology—around the world as a way to exert control. This link between modern policing and the national security state means they will have to be democratized together.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  5/25/2020
  

  9/11 Families Outraged by 'Massive Coverup’ Linking Saudi Arabian Official to Hijackers

  The recent inadvertent revelation of the name of a Saudi official believed to have aided the 9/11 hijackers has renewed calls by many victims' families for much greater transparency about the Saudi regime's involvement in the attacks. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  4/19/2020
  

  CIA Agents Reveal How Bill Clinton Stopped Them From Killing bin Laden and Preventing 9/11

  In The Longest War, a new documentary from director Greg Barker (Manhunt) and executive producer Alex Gansa (Homeland), former CIA agents reveal that they had another opportunity to take out Osama bin Laden with little collateral damage, contradicting President Clinton's account. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/6/2020
  

  U.S. Labels Russian White Supremacist Group as Global Terrorist

  First time a white supremacist organization Is targeted by terrorism designation.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/6/2020
  

  U.S. Will Give Terrorist Label to White Supremacist Group for First Time

  The designation of the Russian Imperial Movement reflects growing concerns among U.S. officials about violent white supremacists with transnational links.

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• 3/1/2020
  

  The Infamous Incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan

  by Michael McAuliffe

  The history of the KKK and what I learned as a federal civil rights prosecutor. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/22/19
  

  The Ongoing Crashes of the 21st Century

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Depending on what tipping points are reached and what happens after that on our rapidly warming planet, so much could come down around humanity’s ears.

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• 11/7/19
  

  The History Briefing on the Assassination of ISIS Founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: How Historians Have Discussed Recent News

  by Lila Someshwar

  Historians give much-needed context to a complex issue. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/10/19
  

  9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.  

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  09/09/2019
  

  How the Pentagon's Design Saved Lives on September 11

  On September 11, 2001, 125 people inside the Pentagon were killed. The losses were devastating, but it could have been even worse.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 9, 2019
  

  On or off, peace talks with the Taliban spell disaster for Afghanistan

  by Ali A. Olomi

  With tweets on Saturday, President Trump killed secretly planned peace talks with the Taliban at Camp David. If history is any indication, the consequences of the Trump administration’s reckless attempt at an agreement and even hastier reversal will be borne out by Afghans themselves — a reality that Afghans know all too well.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  09/05/2019
  

  We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft

  What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House, to the fighter pilots prepared to ram the cockpit and to the passengers.