The New Face of Terror in the US
When the FBI arrested five senior members of the Neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Divison early in 2020, it seemed that the terror cell was on its last legs. Under sustained pressure from law enforcement, effective…
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Right Rising Podcast (Season One, Episode Seven): Artificial Intelligence and Far Right Radicalization
ABOUT THIS EPISODE Guest Ashton Kingdon joins Right Rising to break down the connections between Artificial Intelligence and far-right radicalization online. Along with host Augusta Dell’Omo, Ashton takes us on…
Tackling Online Radicalization At Its Offline Roots
You would be forgiven for thinking that the advent of Covid-19 and the accompanying lockdowns have led to the mass radicalization of our youth, consigned to cyberspace, and exposed to…
Boys to men: the violent teenagers of the radical right
This article is part of a debate on Countering the Radical Right inviting people to answer the question: “should we be worried about white men?” “How wonderful it is to be an…
Treating white men as a new suspect community is not the answer
This article is part of a debate on Countering the Radical Right inviting people to answer the question: “should we be worried about white men?” There is no doubt that a recent…
Countering the Radical Right in the UK: Personal and Professional Experiences of Radical Right Extremism
Following the arrest of one of its UK based followers last year, an organisation described by the Home Secretary as a “vile white supremacist group” that targeted young and vulnerable…
The Transnationalization of White Supremacist Discourse: The Hundred-Handers and the It’s Okay To Be White Campaign
The terrorist attacks perpetrated by white supremacists in the United States, New Zealand, Germany, and other western countries in the past two years illustrate the transnationalization of the extreme-right.[1] This…
Radical Right Terrorists Are Usually Self-Radicalized
With access to online resources and communities, “lone wolf” terrorist incidents are increasingly prevalent among radical right extremists. What is unhelpfully called “lone wolf terrorism” is rising by every metric,…
We Can’t Combat Right-Wing Terrorism Until We Define It
There have been many definitions of the far-right, but it really comes down to three components: Cultural Nationalism, White Nationalism, and White Supremacy. To solve a problem, we must first…
Does Norway have a neo-Nazi terrorist problem?
A young man, Philip Manshaus, who carried out the terror attack in Norway on 10 August 2019 has now been sentenced to 21 years ‘preventative detention’. He was charged with…