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Radical-Right Recruitment (Part I): A Proposal to Enhance Conceptual Clarity

Lede: In this first part of a two part series, Senior Fellow Dr Mario Peucker discusses the nature of radical-right recruitment and the different strategies on the spectrum of directed…

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Radical Right Extremists And The Quantum Arms Race

The next generation of the internet will rely on revolutionary new quantum technology – allowing for unhackable networks and exponentially faster computers. In the hands of an adversary, these quantum…

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Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy

In evaluating radical-right grand conspiracy theories, I confess to originally qualifying as an industrial chemist and declare my position as a skeptic in the tradition of the ‘father of chemistry’,…

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How COVID and Syria Conspiracy Theories Introduce Fascism to the Left Part 3: The Red-Brown Media Spectrum

Part 1 of this series outlined the key concepts and context surrounding red-brownism and looked at some examples of its right-leaning incantations. Part 2 dove into the chaotic world of…

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Can the Radical Right’s Reductionist Narrative Withstand Real-World Complexity?

The radical right indulges in the erasure from its narrative of inconvenient or unwelcome facts from the accepted knowledge base of history and science. There is a general recognition that…

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I Predict a Riot: An Analysis of White Supremacist Propaganda in the Wake of the George Floyd Murder

The murder of George Floyd has sparked increasingly violent protests across the United States in an outpouring of fury and frustration, and an eruption of long simmering racial tensions. An…

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The Sinking of MS Estonia: The Swedish Radical Right’s Favorite Conspiracy

More than 25 years have passed since the tragedy, yet a web of conspiracy theories that has been spun around the disaster has fueled the Swedish radical right’s imagination. On…

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Framing Far Cry 5: The Gamification of White Separatist Propaganda

As contemporary society becomes immersed in visual culture, extremist imagery is becoming progressively organised around a network of symbols, rituals, and collective meanings. Therefore, it is particularly informative to examine…

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Alt-Tech & the Radical Right, Part 2: Inside the Radical Right’s Video Addiction

The world is watching over a billion hours of video content per day on YouTube, and easy-to-use recording and streaming tools can turn anyone with a smartphone into a broadcaster.…

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Eugenics: White Nationalists Continue To Turn To The False Theory Of Genetic Supremacy

As white supremacist ideologies proliferate globally, an analysis of the racist pseudoscience that fuels their beliefs Last May, British journalist and conservative commentator Toby Young attended what he called a…

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