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White Nationalism Is a Global Crisis – It’s Time for Gun Laws Across the West to be Re-Examined
CJ Werleman argues that mass shootings in the US to further a white nationalist agenda could spread to other parts of the Western democratic world – for which it must be prepared.
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India’s Actions in Kashmir are Finally Opening the World’s Eyes to the Struggles of a Forgotten People
How recent events in Kashmir are shining a light on the plight of Muslims living there – and doing untold damage to the reputation of the world’s largest secular democracy.
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Is White Nationalism how America Ends?
To defeat and eradicate the threat of white nationalist terrorism, the US will be required to wage a war on itself. Is it up to the job?
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Who in the World Will Stand Up for the Muslims in Kashmir?
CJ Werleman on why India’s revocation of its agreements with Pakistan over Kashmir is so concerning in light of a lack of condemnation from the international community.
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White Supremacist Extremism Can Never Be Curbed in America without Changing its Gun Laws
CJ Werleman on why America must discuss the right to bear arms as the main reason why mass shootings keep happening.
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China Calculates on Turning Economic Power into Military Might
CJ Werleman sees a menacing trend in Beijing’s repression of human rights at home and abroad and its readiness to use military force in alliance with the Kremlin.
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How Trump is Using the Myth of the ‘Violent Left’ to Undermine Democracy
In seeking to categorise Antifa as a terrorist organisation, the US President is adding fuel to the fire of right-wing white supremacists.
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Eco Anxiety: The Heat Wave Heralds the Climate Emergency To Us All – Why Won’t We Wake Up?
CJ Werleman on the psychological effects of climate change, its deniers and why younger generations are right to be so disturbed by the future planet that awaits them.
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Electing Trump was About White Supremacy Not ‘Making America Great Again’
CJ Werleman on the US President’s worrying attempts to gain support by tapping into deeply-rooted anxieties and prejudices concerning race.
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Australia’s Journalism Crisis is Threatening its Democracy
With Rupert Murdoch’s chosen government waging a war on journalists in Australia, democratic values in his country of birth are in peril, writes CJ Werleman.
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“Indescribably Hideous” – China’s Harvesting of Uyghur Muslim Organs
CJ Werleman reports on China’s horrific persecution of the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
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The Blindness of the Anti-War Left is Helping Undermine Democracy and Human Rights Everywhere
CJ Werleman on the rise of authoritarianism in Asia and why some on the left are aiding the advance of illiberal regimes, not fighting it.
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‘We would Rather Die Now than be Kept in Here Forever’ – Life Inside a Saudi Detention Centre for Rohingya Refugees
CJ Werleman documents his conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a Rohingya Muslim who has been held in the kingdom’s notorious Shumaisi detention centre for the past six years.
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‘Jirga’ Provokes New Thinking on War and PTSD
CJ Werleman speaks to the Australian filmmaker Benjamin Gilmour about his new film Jirga.
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PORTLAND VIOLENCE: When Fascists Become the Anti-Fascists?
CJ Werleman on what the reaction to the violence in Oregon reveals about the rising threat of fascism in America.
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India’s Secular Democracy is in Crisis – What will it do when the Inevitable Happens?
CJ Werleman asks the darkest of all questions: what will happen in India the day after a handful of would-be violent “jihadist” terrorists carry out an attack motivated by Modi’s Hindu nationalism?
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German Foreign Minister Recognises Far Right “Terrorism Problem” while British Politicians Normalise it
CJ Werleman on how the UK is “sleepwalking” into a domestic right-wing terrorism crisis despite warnings from the police.
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“They think they have No Choice but to Take their Own Lives” – The Shame of Australia’s Manus Island Must End
CJ Werleman explores what it will take to shift the Australian Government’s controversial policy of sending refugees from Asia and the Middle East to offshore detention facilities.
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When Will the World Do Something to Save Rohingya Muslims?
CJ Werleman on why the international community should hang its head in shame over its failure to help stop the genocide still ongoing in Myanmar.
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The Fake Debate around Climate Change – How to Defy the Right Wing Media Machine
CJ Werleman says climate change activism can overcome the generational divide by focusing less on doom and instead identify the corporate culprits.
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Phony War: Iran Humiliates Trump by Calling His Bluff
CJ Werleman explains the logic behind attempts to escalate tensions in the Gulf: it’s all about bluster, and arms deals
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Australian Labor Party Loss – the Global Triumph of Murdoch Xenophobia and Fake News
CJ Werleman on the right wing culture wars around ‘white greivance’ which are putting progressive political parties on the back foot. When Australian voters went to the polls in the country’s federal election on Saturday, pundits and pollsters predicted the likelihood of a Labor Party victory to be a greater than 90 percent, with bookmakers…
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Iran Crisis: Sketchy Intelligence and Propaganda – We’ve Been Here Before
CJ Werleman sees a familiar pattern in the stoked-up tensions between the US and Iran, and once again the media is failing to check the march to war.
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Missed Opportunities: Muslims are Counter Terrorism Assets
In the wake of the Sri Lankan terror attacks CJ Werleman reports on how Muslim communities have been at the forefront of combating extremist groups.
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The Global Terror Network – From the Christchurch Mosque to the San Diego Synagogue
CJ Werleman on the spreading ‘white genocide’ ideology and online radicalisation behind the rising tide of Far-right terror attacks.
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The New ‘Al-Qaeda’ – a Right-Wing Insurgency
C J Werleman documents the global threat of Far-right terrorism and argues that Trump might seek to benefit from it.
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The Forgotten Killing Fields of Iraq
Cluster bombs, mines, ISIS IEDs: CJ Werleman reports on the ongoing casualties of 40 years of lethal ordnance littering the fields of Iraq.
