LAST WEEK'S PICKSThe Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come | How the New Generation of Neo-Nazis Is Organizing Itself | The Next Battlefield: Securing America’s Digital Infrastructure | Experts Predict AI Will Lead to the Extinction of Humanity, and more
EXTREMISM
· Terrorist Set to Be Freed “Told Inmates He Masterminded 7/7”
· Transnational White Supremacy: Digital Violent Extremism from West to East
· The French Far Right’s Financial Catch-22
· How the New Generation of Neo-Nazis Is Organizing Itself
· Far-Right Extremists Using Games Platforms to Radicalize Teenagers, Report Warns
· Musk, a Social Media Powerhouse, Boosts Fortunes of Hard-Right Figures in Europe
· A New Satanic Neo-Nazi Group Is Recruiting Children as Young as 12
· “They Apologize for the Notification, Not for Platforming Nazis:” Substack Under Fire for Promoting Radical Content
· Gore and Violent Extremism
· Between Security and Strategy: Considerations for the Terrorist Designation of the Muslim Brotherhood
THE LONG VIEW
· America Is Slashing Its Climate Research: Hear No Science, See No Science, Speak No Science.
· Donald Trump’s War on Climate Science Has Staggering Implications
· We Fact-Checked the Trump Administration’s Climate Report
· Experts Predict AI Will Lead to the Extinction of Humanity
· Why the United States Should Not Fear a Space Pearl Harbor
· America Should Assume the Worst About AI
· The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come
· Could AI Tilt the Outcome of Elections?
MORE PICKS
· Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post
· The Next Battlefield: Securing America’s Digital Infrastructure
· It’s Time for the Semiconductor Industry to Step Up
· Radioactive Wasp Nests Found Near Nuclear Storage Site in South Carolina
· Donald Trump Shoots the Messenger
· America Is Remaking Its Disaster-Relief System
· Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
· US Space Command Is Preparing for Satellite-on-Satellite Combat
· Trump’s Desperate Move to Quiet the Epstein Scandal
· ICE’s Mind-Bogglingly Massive Blank Check
· ICE Detains Police Officer Even After DHS System Approved Him for Work
· How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline
· Heeding the Risks of Geopolitical Instability in a Race to Artificial General Intelligence
· Masked and Armed Agents Are Arresting People on U.S. Streets as Aggressive Enforcement Ramps Up
· The FBI’s Leaders ‘Have No Idea What They’re Doing’
· Golden Dome Could Learn from SDI Politics
EXTREMISM
Terrorist Set to Be Freed “Told Inmates He Masterminded 7/7” (Charles Hymas, The Telegraph)
Haroon Aswat could be released from secure hospital unit despite “grave concerns” about the security risk.
Transnational White Supremacy: Digital Violent Extremism from West to East (Sonia Sarkar, GNET)
In February, an 18-year-old Singaporean, Nick Lee Xing Qiu, was detained for planning to attack Malays and Muslims after being radicalised by violent far-right extremist ideologies. According to Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs, Lee was inspired by white supremacists in the US. Lee was allegedly radicalised online by extremist content, leading to his violent and hostile attitudes towards Muslims. Lee came across anti-Muslim content owing to the “online algorithms” on social media that recommended “far-right extremist material” to him. Despite being a Singaporean of Chinese ethnicity, who believed in the superiority of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese ethnicities, he supported white supremacy as he considered Islam to be a threat to “white culture.”
This Insight discusses and analyzes how violent white supremacist and far-right extremist networks from the West have been influencing the homegrown non-white extremists in different Asian countries. These non-white extremists draw symbols, terms, and ideology from white supremacists and neo-Nazis, and express violent anti-migrant, antisemitic, and anti-Muslim rhetoric in relation to the local context.
The French Far Right’s Financial Catch-22 (Victor Goury-Laffont, Politico)
On a sunny July morning in the French capital, a pair of investigating judges and some 20 law enforcement officers in bulletproof vests stormed into the unassuming headquarters of the National Rally, wedged between a frozen food store and a building cloaked in scaffolding. France’s far-right powerhouse had found itself in the crosshairs of the French justice system, which was probing allegations the party had funded several campaigns in part through illegal loans. Those runs included Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid and legislative elections in 2022; the 2024 European election, led by party president and rising star Jordan Bardella; and the surprise snap elections that followed.
