Playing Russian Roulette With COVID-19 “Cures”
Ivermectin is an excellent drug, at least as long as you happen to be a horse or a cow or some other livestock. If you are a patient infected with…
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How anti-Corona measures have revived the populist right
Introduction Western Europe’s right-wing populists have opened up a new front in Western Europe’s variant of the American culture war. The magic word is “Impffreiheit” (or freedom to choose to…
Antisemitism In The Anti-Vax Movement Is Nothing New
In April 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk (1914-1995), a virology researcher at the University of Pittsburgh’s school of medicine, announced he had received confirmation the vaccination he had developed was a…
Alt-Medicine: How the Far Right Weaponizes Vaccine Hesitancy
Religious groups and alternative medicine advocates have always been resistant to vaccines. But in the current COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement, they have mutated into variants of the far right in a…
Review of ‘Fascismens gröna rötter. Konspirationsteorier, kris och kollaps´ [”The Green Roots of Fascism. Conspiracy Theories, Crisis and Collapse”] by Hannah Pollack Sarnecki (78p. 2021)
In early 2021, two Swedish youngsters were prosecuted for carrying out an arson-attack against a mink farm in Sweden, motivated by eco-fascist, accelerationist ideas. With obvious links to online support…
How Authoritarian Movements Are Exploiting COVID Restriction Protests
Since 2020, during the pandemic and the lead-up to the tightly-contested US presidential election, people have started to gather in city centers in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, representing a…
COVID-19: The Lab Leak Theory Makes a Comeback
The sudden reemergence of the lab leak theory earlier this year — that COVID-19 was made in and escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology — has hit international media…
Anti-Vaxxers’ Trivialization Of The Holocaust Is Antisemitic
In June of this year, a British nurse, Kate Shemirani, was struck off for spreading misinformation about the covid-19 pandemic. The fact that a nurse was arguing that the illness was…
Is pandemic isolation pushing people towards extremism?
While the UK and, indeed, most of Europe has been under some form of lockdown over the last 12 months, there has been growing discussion about the detrimental effects of…
The Murky Overlaps Between Swedish COVID Protests and the Radical Right
Despite Sweden’s comparably soft public-health approach in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, the Anti-Corona movement finally hit the streets in early 2021. Under the fuzzy slogan “Freedom and Truth”, a motley crew…