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Violent Extremism in the U.S. | NowThis World - Duration: 7:38.
The U.S. has a problem with extremism.
But it might not be the kind you're thinking of.
In terms of sheer numbers of attacks in the U.S. over the last decade, one group in particular should stand out to you.
11 worshippers shot and killed in a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh by a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs.
14 pipe bombs at the doors of leading Democratic politicians and donors, and CNN.
Two black customers shot in a grocery store in Kentucky by a white man after he failed to make it inside a predominantly black church minutes before.
All within the last two weeks.
White supremacist and other forms of right-wing violence are currently the deadliest active domestic extremist movements in the U.S.,
according to data from several civil rights groups that track hate crimes and extremist violence.
Southern Poverty Law Center is one of those groups.
We spoke with the center's Heidi Beirich, who's been following extremist movements for almost two decades, to help break it all down.
Let's just start with the numbers.
Over the last decade, right-wing extremists committed more than 70% of extremist-related murders, according to a report published earlier this year
by the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.
The Government Accountability Office similarly reported in 2017 that right-wing extremists were responsible for 73% of fatal extremist incidents since 9/11.
The most common groups victimized by these extremists are those who are black, Hispanic, or part of a multi-racial couple or family.
It's important to note that right-wing domestic extremism is an umbrella term under which various right-wing ideologies fall in the U.S.
Crimes committed by people who are anti-government, anti-semitic, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, and fascist, among other things,
also fall under this category.
But of all the sub groups that fall under right-wing domestic extremism, white supremacists have committed the most attacks in recent years,
like the Charleston church shooting and Charlottesville attack.
[Beirich]: When we talk about terrorism at the Southern Poverty Law Center, we're talking about white supremacy,
and what I mean by that is somebody who believes the white race is literally better than all the other races,
and these folks usually believe that the United States should be what they call a white ethnostate.
[Host]: When it comes to racially-motivated hate crimes, black Americans are overwhelmingly targeted.
They make up 66% of the victims of racially-motivated hate crimes since 1995.
A recent report by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino
shows that anti-black hate crimes were the most common of any in at least five of the ten largest U.S. cities in 2017.
And when it comes to extremist ideologies, there have been incidents of attacks inspired by the so-called Islamic state.
For example, the mass shootings at Pulse Nightclub in 2016 and a San Bernardino health center in 2015.
But statistically, white American men in the U.S. pose a bigger threat than foreigners committing acts of extremism.
But you might not know that based on some of the coverage and political rhetoric surrounding extremism.
[Donald Trump]: Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
I think Islam hates us.
I want surveillance of certain mosques, OK?
[Host]: Journalists have also been complicit in the narrative that often paints white perpetrators as 'quiet' or 'lone wolves' rather than labeling them as 'terrorists,'
as they're often quicker to do with non-white perpetrators.
Extremist attacks committed by those who are Muslim receive on average 357% more U.S. press coverage
than those committed by non-Muslims, according to a recent university study. [
[Beirich]: If all the domestic terrorists who were white males were covered as heavily, and connectected together in one story
[...] we would have a different image that would come to our mind.
[Host]: In fact, Muslims and Jews, are among the most frequent religious targets of white supremacist violence.
Muslims comprised 24% and Jews, 54%, of victims of religiously-motivated hate crimes,
according to the FBI's most recent data.
[Beirich]: In people's minds, they don't really put together that this is a pattern of violent activity connected to one ideology,
basically, white supremacy, in the same way that they do when they think about extremist Muslim violence.
[Host]: But when it comes to actually being charged with terrorism, recent data from the investigative nonprofit The Nation Institute
shows that when terrorist incidents result in arrest, Muslim perpetrators are far more likely to be charged than far-right perpetrators.
A very small number of white supremacist cases do result in terrorism charges.
But what about the Oklahoma City bomber? What about the Parkland school shooter?
Indeed, all of these people had a well-documented history of racist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic views.
[Beirich]: There is a very, very narrow range under the law that applies to domestic terrorism where someone can actually be charged for terroristic offenses.
It usually involves things like, did they use a weapon of mass destruction?
So you could have a person committing an act of terrorism internationally, that is exactly the same as someone doing it domestically,
and you're going to get two completely different sets of charges.
[Host]: Though there are varying definitions, under the federal U.S. criminal code, domestic terrorism is defined as,
Beirich says domestic terrorism legislation tends to be stronger at the state level than federal.
While some politicians have called on the government to pass a domestic terrorism statute, other people say that would be federal overreach.
It's also important to note that different groups have different standards for tracking extremist violence.
But no matter which way you look at it, data overwhelmingly show that white men are committing more acts of violent extremism in the U.S. than any other group.
And it's on the rise.
The number of hate groups in the U.S. have been ticking up in the last few years. White supremacist murders more than doubled in from 2016 to 2017.
Hate crimes also surged.
And this hate has found a home online.
Major tech platforms including Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have come under scrutiny over whether they're doing enough to monitor and block this hateful rhetoric.
Increasingly, white supremacists with significant followings have been booted from the platforms,
but tech companies also face pushback over whether those actions amount to censoring free speech.
Beirich says, this kind of thinking isn't likely to go away anytime soon, and that everyday citizens who want to combat this problem
can write letters to tech companies and local representatives to lobby for increased oversight.
But ultimately, she says, it's up to the government to track these movements more closely.
[Beirich]: White supremacy started with our constitution. It's part of our history. It's something we battled against for decades
to get equal rights for people of color.
And if we want to get rid of it, we're going to have to first of all realize how dangerous it is, and then defeat that way of thinking here at home.
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A United Nations official has declared that the migrant caravan is a "normal event,"
and says the United States should not reinforce our border against them.
Joel Millman, who is a spokesman for the United Nations, also said it was wrong to call it
an "invasion," and we should view the caravans as "normal."
The clash of ideologies and ideas between the United States and the United Nations is
likely why President Trump has opted to defund several programs within the United Nations,
the latest being the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
The New York Times describes the agency as providing assistance to millions of Palestinian
refugees.
According to The Hill, the UNRWA the United States has been UNRWA's biggest donor since
its inception and contributes a disproportionate amount towards Palestinian refugees compared
to other refugees around the world.
Millman also addressed President Trump's plan to place U.S. military on the border,
by saying, "Militarising the border is not something we are ever in favor of."
From Yahoo News
The caravan of migrants making its way through Mexico is "kind of a normal event" and
the United States ought not to reinforce its border against them, a United Nations official
said on Friday.
With days to go before mid-term elections, U.S. President Donald Trump has called the
surge of people an "invasion", ordered troops to the border and suggested any rock-throwing
by migrants should be treated as equivalent to gunfire.
Joel Millman, a spokesman for the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration (IOM),
told a U.N. briefing in Geneva there had been similar caravans for many years, and the group
was still hundreds of miles away from the United States.
"So (using) words like 'invasion' and things like that is assuming that this is
a new phenomenon which is a drastic emergency, and I don't think that anyone at IOM would
share that view," he said.
"This is kind of a normal event."
Militarised frontiers tended not to deter people from crossing borders, he added.
Instead, they increased the profits of criminal people-smuggling gangs and led to deaths among
migrants.
"Militarising the border is not something we are ever in favor of," he said.
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Trump wants voters to think the US economy is booming – is it? US news
From trade wars to tax breaks, the administration is claiming credit for a booming economy ahead of the midterm elections – could it help him win?
From trade wars to tax breaks, the administration is claiming credit for a booming economy ahead of the midterm elections – could it help him win?
"We're going to win so much, you're going to be so sick and tired of winning," Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail ahead of his election. And as the president faces his first midterm vote, the big test for Trump will be whether voters are sick of winning, or sick of him.
On many measures, the US economy has boomed under Trump. Unemployment is at lows unseen since the first moon landing, stock markets remain close to record highs, business confidence is up, trade agreements Trump has slammed as "unfair" are being rewritten. On Friday the government's latest jobs report showed wages were rising at their highest rate since 2009.
If the Republicans come through in Tuesday's vote and outperform expectations – despite Trump's unpopularity – then no doubt a lot of pundits will be using the campaign quote coined by James Carville, strategist to Bill Clinton, to explain the outcome: "It's the economy, stupid."
Trump is pushing his hard line on immigration harder than his economic record. Polling shows economic issues become less of a factor when the economy is on a sound footing.
Immigration may play well to his base but swing voters will decide this election, and the economy is still a big issue. According to Gallup, in September, 13% of US voters rated economic issues as their highest priority, equal to the number concerned about immigration.
Wavering voters may well be looking to the numbers while they decide who gets their vote. The top line for "Trumponomics" looks good. A deeper dive exposes some uncomfortable facts about the US economy, but the headlines could be enough to propel the Republicans back into office.
The US unemployment rate hit 3.7% in September, its lowest rate since 1969. The US has now added jobs for 96 consecutive months, the longest streak of jobs growth since records began. The majority of those jobs were added under Barack Obama's presidency but, hey … he's no longer president.
But what kind of jobs have been added? Wage growth has lagged behind jobs growth since the recession, suggesting that the kinds of jobs the US is adding are lower-waged and that, thanks in part of the decline of unions, employers still have the upper hand in pay negotiations despite the tight labor market.
Mining has added 53,000 jobs over the past year; Trump campaigned on ending "the war on coal". But compare that with healthcare, where there are many low-paid jobs, which has added 302,000 jobs.
The proof is in workers' pockets. October's job report showed wages growing at an annual rate of 3.1%, the highest rate since 2009, but still well below the 4.2% average right before the 2001 recession.
Trump has tweeted about stock markets 67 times – more than 10 times the number of tweets that mention his daughter Tiffany.
Under his presidency the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq have all hit record highs, growth fuelled by his $1.5tn tax breaks, aggressive deregulation and a buoyant global economy.
Now he is worried. As the Federal Reserve raises rates, stock markets are wobbling, and Trump has publicly attacked the Fed, an unprecedented move for a sitting president. China's growth is stalling, Europe once more looks like it is heading for trouble, some economists are predicting a recession next year.
And perhaps Trump should be worried about where those stock market gains have actually gone. The top 10% of American households owned 84% of all stocks in 2016, according to a paper by the NYU economist Edward Wolff. That includes all the equities the bottom 90% hold in 401k retirement savings, university funds and other investments.
So while stock markets have boomed, the benefit has gone disproportionately to the wealthy. This isn't the housing boom, which boosted the wealth of many middle-income Americans, while it lasted. But if stock markets do fall, which they inevitably will, the bottom 90% are likely to feel it first as corporations cut staff to trim their costs to appease the shareholders who have already done so well.
Trade wars are "good and easy to win" Trump declared in March before taking on all of the US's largest trading partners in the largest trade dispute in a generation.
To be fair to the president, the trade issue has not – yet – been as catastrophic as many predicted. And Canada and Mexico, the US's largest trade partners behind China, are now at the negotiating table and working towards a new deal. But China is a different matter. Relations appear to be worsening. And the EU, having called a ceasefire in July, is still bristling and has taken its dispute to the World Trade Organization.
Talking to business leaders in the US, it is obvious that what they dislike the most about Trump's trade policy is the uncertainty. Caterpillar, a bellwether of the manufacturing sector, warned earlier this month that Trump's tariffs had raised its costs. Cheese makers in Wisconsin, the US's dairy capital, are pleased that Canada is negotiating on imports but worried that the EU has taken advantage during the dispute and that talks could break down.
The trade disputes may be on pause now, as the midterms draw to a close, but they are far from over. And the US under Trump has emerged not only as a bastion of protectionism after decades of extolling free trade but also a place where policy can be rewritten by a tweet.
Trump's $1.5tn tax break is the single largest policy achievement of his presidency – and yet the Republicans are barely mentioning it in the run-up to the election. Most of the cuts went to business and the rich and polling shows voters now trust Trump less on tax reform than they did before the bill was passed.
Clearly aware that his initial tax package has bombed with hoi polloi Trump has now proposed "a 10% tax cut for middle-income families … no business". The proposal doesn't seem to have much substance. The last tax cut helped push the Federal deficit to $1tn and even Republicans who have decided that deficits don't matter, after years of believing the opposite, may balk at increasing it more. But it does acknowledge that politically for the average American a tax plan that Trump called "a bill for the middle class" hasn't worked.
It is time for undecided voters to come off the fence but it is too early to truly assess Trump's record on the economy. Trade disputes are ongoing, the long-term impact of tax cuts is still being assessed. So this election cycle, whether voters feel sick of winning or sick of Trump, is likely to be decided by their political leanings rather than the economy. By 2020 we will have a clearer assessment of Trump's legacy and we will know who is really winning.
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