In this article, Yan St-Pierre offers an overview how COVID-19 is perceived as both validation & opportunity for ideological & religious terrorist organisations & extremists, and how the current situation will likely nudge borderline terrorists to act.
The assassination of German politician Walter Lübcke, allegedly by a far right extremist, surprised many German politicians, who appear to have suddenly become aware of the threat far right terrorism represents. Yan St-Pierre discusses, why the climate of fear and extremism has been decades in the making. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0)
On Sunday, April 21, 2019, nine suicide bombers launched their attacks on nine different targets in Sri Lanka. For this article, Yan St-Pierre focuses on the government’s and security officals’ response to the early warning intelligence and their public relations management after the attack.
It appears the security situation in Burkina Faso has become a good indicator of the expansion and tendencies of terrorist activities. In this post, Yan St-Pierre discusses the tactics behind a re-routing of smuggling routes in the Sahel region.
While this is not surprising, it's misleading. Tactical use of violence by #antifa near exclusively focuses on material targets.
Hence, presenting Antifa as less deadly is a media narrative twist, not a reflection of the circle's targets & intent 1/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/27/us-rightwing-extremists-attacks-deaths-database-leftwing-antifa
Real ? is have xlw crimes - property destruction, physical abuse, sabotage, etc - increased in recent years? The answer is yes.
It's partly due to vicious cycle escalation between religious/#xrw/#xlw actors since 2014. Also more climate activism, categorized as xlw violence 2/
Therefore the numbers to look at with #antifa is not how deadly they are - it's simply not their overall MO - it's how destructive they are. 3/3
African summit ends with no deal on Mali political crisis https://bit.ly/2EgFedp
