City Lab (The Atlantic), “Where Is the Real ‘Homegrown Terrorism’ Coming From?”
The reason listed for elevating anarchists among this company: “Last year, this group organized and directed counter-protests during white supremacist rallies and incited violence during anti-law enforcement and post-U.S. presidential election protests.” Continue Reading
Politico, “Trump’s inauguration mostly calm on security front”
President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day went off relatively calmly from a security perspective, despite anarchist protests in the streets of Washington and authorities’ grim assessments beforehand about the risks of a “lone wolf” terrorist attack. Continue Reading
New Jersey 101.5, “The biggest terror threat facing the Garden State”
“There is also growing concern about anarchists mobilizing amid civil unrest. What we are seeing is anarchists, particularly out in the west. They are beginning to join other radical social movements, including white supremacists and separatists, in causing violence around government facilities,” Rodriguez said. Continue Reading
The Atlantic, “The American Leader in the Islamic State”
In late 2003, Yahya and Tania traveled to Damascus for an extended honeymoon, living there furtively and quietly associating with other jihadists. Their existence mirrored that of many young radical tumbleweeds of yesteryear: Black Panthers, Baader-Meinhof gangsters, fin de siècle anarchists. They dodged the authorities and lied to anyone who inquired about their activities. Continue […]
ShadowProof, “An American In Syria: The Anti-Fascist Struggle For Communal Society In The Ruins”
“The main source of volunteers has been Europe; at the Academy where I was trained, we had a lot of rambunctious Italian anarchists, all covered in scars from street fighting with fascists. There are a lot, and I mean a goddam u-boats worth of Germans. Anarchists and Apoists mostly.” Continue Reading
New York Daily News, “How a deadly terrorist attack on Wall Street in 1920 still echoes today “
The Wall Street attack — which was, in effect, a prototype for thousands of car bombs to come around the world — remains officially unsolved. The hooves of the horse that drew the fatal wagon were blown off, and its shoes unsuccessfully examined for evidence. The perpetrator’s body was not among the dead, as he […]
The New Yorker, “Boston’s Last Brush with Capital Punishment,” April 22, 2015
Boston’s Last Brush with Capital Punishment By Douglas Starr, The New Yorker, April 22, 2015 No prisoners had been executed for half a century, and Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a pair of Italian-born anarchists who were sent to the electric chair under dubious circumstances in 1927, still held a place in the public mind. […]
The Wall Street Journal, “New Laws for New Threats Like Drones and Bioterrorism,” April 17, 2015
New Laws for New Threats Like Drones and Bioterrorism By Gabriella Blum and Benjamin Wittes, The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2015 Meanwhile, across town, an anarchist molecular-biology graduate student is secretly working to re-create the smallpox virus, using ordinary laboratory tools and gene-splicing equipment available online. Not content to merely revive an extinct virus […]
Doc Soup (PBS), “Daniel McGowan at Full Frame Documentary Festival,” April 14, 2015
Daniel McGowan at Full Frame Documentary Festival by Tom Roston, Doc Soup (PBS), April 14, 2015 What’s probably most striking about meeting Daniel McGowan — a man who was labeled an “eco-terrorist” by the government, served six years in prison, and is the subject of the POV Oscar-nominated film If A Tree Falls (POV 2011) […]
Cleveland.com, “Conspirator in Ohio 82 bridge-bombing plot loses appeal,” April 10, 2015
Conspirator in Ohio 82 bridge-bombing plot loses appeal by Eric Heisig, Cleveland.com, April 10, 2015 A federal judge did not err when he allowed an anarchist to represent himself at trial for the failed plot to blow up the Ohio 82 bridge in 2012, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. READ MORE