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      Germany Arrests 25 Over Alleged Far-Right Plot to Violently Overthrow Government

      Prosecutors said supporters of the group--who reportedly include a descendant of royalty, a judge, and a Russian citizen--believe Germany is ruled by a so-called "deep state" that should be overthrown "through the use of military means and violence."

      Jessica Corbett
      Dec 07, 2022

      In early morning raids on Wednesday, authorities arrested 25 alleged members and supporters of a far-right terrorist organization accused of plotting to violently overthrow the German government.

      Roughly 3,000 officers took part in the raids across Germany, and two people were arrested in Austria and Italy, according to a lengthy statement from federal prosecutors. The organization was formed last year and those detained include members of the right-wing extremist Reichsburger (Citizens of the Reich) movement and people influenced by QAnon conspiracy theories.

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      Tucker Carlson's 'Great Replacement' Theory Comes From an Anti-US Nazi French Thinker

      People like Tucker Carlson are pitifully ignorant of history and so are wielding an anti-American, highly unpatriotic notion for the sake of their television ratings.

      Juan Cole
      May 16, 2022

      A hate-filled 18-year-old murdered 10 and wounded 3 African-Americans in Buffalo on Saturday, having penned a rambling screed about replacement theory. The most common version of this whiny idea, imported from the more hysterical fringes of the French Right wing, holds that Jewish capitalists are importing cheap immigrant labor to replace more highly-paid white workers. Notoriously, the Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 against the removal of Confederate statues chanted "Jews will not replace us."

      These useful idiots of the far right are symbolically still deployed around Hitler's bunker, defending it from the approaching Allies.

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      Steve Bannon and the Deadly Implications of 'Deconstructing the Administrative State'

      It may sweep away the last barrier against political barbarism.

      Mike Lofgren
      Nov 17, 2021

      Yale historian Timothy's Snyder'sBlack Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning was published in 2015. It was a book on a subject that had already received vast attention from historians, but it stood out for its novel thesis: it was traditional bureaucratic state structures which protected persons under their aegis. This applied even during the Holocaust. It was the destruction of the state apparatus or the stripping of persons' citizenship that made the worst horrors possible.

      It received mostly positive reviews but some experts considered the thesis too pointed, and dismissed as far-fetched the final chapter's scenarios that major nations might react to future crises by repeating the horrors of the 1940's. Richard J. Evans, a respected authority on the period, wrote, "[Snyder's] speculations about possible Chinese or Russian wars of conquest driven by the need for resources are wild in the extreme."

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