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U.S. Air Force Climate Action Plan  (U.S. Air Force)
Why Climate Change Matters to the Department of the Air Force? Climate change matters first and foremost to the Department of the Air Force because it impacts our mission capabilities and those impacts are projected to increase over time. The department is composed of two military services—the Air Force and the Space Force. While both services have distinct missions, the role of both services is consistent: to deter conflict and if necessary, defeat adversaries across the air and space domains. Climate change has introduced acute challenges to achieving air and space dominance; climate change impacts our ability to maintain operational readiness, access strategic locations globally, and execute the operational mission.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany: An Interview with Hans-Jakob Schindler  (European Eye on Radicalization)
European Eye on Radicalization is very pleased to have been able to interview Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, currently a senior director at the Counter-Extremism Project (CEP) and previously the coordinator of the United Nations’ sanctions monitoring team for jihadist terrorists like the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban. EER’s interview focused on the Muslim Brotherhood. Question 1: Are the Brotherhood networks in Germany still demographically similar to those of decades past, or has the composition changed? HJS: I have not conducted demographic research into Muslim Brotherhood (MB) networks in Germany and therefore, will not be able to elaborate much on this point. However, in 2020, my organization, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), conducted research into MB networks in a range of countries in Central and Eastern Europe (see here, here, and here). This research demonstrated that while these networks have been growing since the end of the Cold War, their size, political influence in the respective countries, as well as their influence within the wider community, has been reduced in the past few years, and that other, less structured extremist Islamist networks have been taking their place. As far as Germany is concerned, the influence of MB networks continues to be a factor.

What Happened to Pennsylvania’s Shaun Winkler and the Neo-Nazi Movement?  (York Daily Record)
One of those groups – the Patriot Front – held a fundraiser in July in Western Pennsylvania and donated to a food pantry in Allentown in May, according to Josh Lipowsky, senior research analyst for the Counter Extremism Project at the Anti-Defamation League. Philanthropy isn’t the mission of the Patriot Front or other groups like it; white separatism is. What it’s leading to, according to experts, is extreme violence by lone individuals, like the mass murder of Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh four years ago and the mass shooting this year at a Buffalo grocery store, targeting Black people. In March 2021, this assessment came from the Office for the Director of National Intelligence: Racially/ethnically motivated violent extremist groups are “the most lethal” domestic violent extremist threats to the United States and racially/ethnically motivated extremists are “most likely to conduct mass-casualty attacks against civilians.” The George Washington University Program on Extremism in May 2021 said this: “Individuals inspired by RMVE (racially/ethnically motivated violent extremist) ideologies launched their own string of horrific attacks during this five-year period (2014-2019), most infamously in the form of mass shootings in Charleston, South Carolina, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Poway, California, and El Paso, Texas as well as during a riot in Charlottesville, Virginia.