| West Point Study on ‘Violent Far Right’ Shows ‘Dramatic Rise’ in Attacks |
| The report of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy, is available for download. "[It]Â asserts that three distinct ideologies exist in the 'American violent far right.' Those are 'a racist/white supremacy movement, an anti-federalist movement and a fundamentalist movement.'" |
| SAMANTHA KIMMEY - The Raw Story |
| A report published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy on Jan. 15 discusses the potential dangers of 'violent far-right†organizations, which has angered some conservatives that believe the military should focus on international threats. The executive summary of the paper, 'Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right,†claims that 'since 2007, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of attacks and violent plots originating from individuals and groups who self- identify with the far-right of American politics.†Written by Arie Perliger, Director of Terrorism Studies at the Combating Terrorism Center and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, the paper asserts that three distinct ideologies exist in the 'American violent far right.†Those are 'a racist/white supremacy movement, an anti-federalist movement and a fundamentalist movement,†the last of which 'includes mainly Christian Identity groups such as ... |
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Real history shows that civilizations that served the welfare of all the classes flourished for centuries and had few wars. The great civilizations of the past , as China's, India's and so on had such enlightened periods. Their arts, sciences, institutions and technologies were superior to those contemporary civilization in significant ways. Humanity has declined in intelligence and wisdom for several thousand years. The last complete, enlightened civilization was the synthetic Islamic, which declined after 11th century. It had periods of high culture and few wars compared to civilizations since.
The experiment in democracy begun in America that Thomas Paine's Common Sense contributed to has so far not achieved its potential . With the rise of the East and decline of the West and the need for a global civilization -- that is based on wisdom and justice - we all face the same challenge and share the same aim.