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One of the hazards of being a conspiracy-minded rightwinger is that, if you’re not careful, you end up citing all kinds of dodgy sources– including racists and antisemites.
Glenn Beck is not careful.
Last June Beck promoted on his radio show a 1936 book entitled The Red Network: A “Who’s Who” and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, [...]

Stephen Colbert, a liberal who pretends to be a rightwinger on his TV show “The Colbert Report,” testified (mostly in-character) before a Congressional committee on behalf of the United Farm Workers union. Colbert recently accepted an invitation from the union to spend a day working as a farm laborer.

The UFW supports a bill in Congress [...]

Guest post by Karl Pfeifer
It was on 9/11, the 11th of September, that the Hungarian neo-Nazi party Jobbik chose to celebrate its “Day of Hungarian-Arab Friendship”.

There were proclamations by Gábor Vona, Jobbik’s leader, and by Lóránt Hegedüs jun., a pastor of the Reformed Church of Hungary and president of “Hamasz” (the official acronym of [...]

Lutfur Rahman is a Tower Hamlets politician, with links to the Jamaat-e-Islami aligned Islamic Forum Europe, and to “millionaire businessmen and social housing tenant Shiraj Haque“.
He was dumped by Labour’s NEC, when it was presented with evidence that Rahman was engaging in “vote banking“: neighbours claimed that they were being signed up as Labour party [...]

Ken Livingstone will be Labour’s candidate for Mayor in 2012.
This is very sad news for those of us who were looking forward to a Labour victory.

It was not immediately clear whether Amnesty would reconsider its promotion of CagePrisoners – an organisation which supports and defends both detained and convicted Salafi Jihadi terrorists – in the aftermath of the Gita Sahgal affair.
During the course of the debate that followed Gita Sahgal’s departure from Amnesty, the politics of CagePrisoners had become widely [...]

The Guardian reports this morning of talks between the two Miliband camps regarding how they might work together in the future ahead of tomorrow’s Labour leadership election result at party conference in Manchester.
The paper says the Ed Miliband team are taking the willingness of his brother’s camp to agree to talks as a sign that [...]

This is a cross post by Terry Glavin
Imprisoned for the past two years in Tehran, Hossein Derakshan, a Canadian citizen, is now said to be facing execution. The self-described “Iranian blogfather” was arrested in November, 2008 on charges of collaborating with enemy states, insulting the Khomeinist religion, and making propaganda against the regime and for [...]

The comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” today presents a completely misleading account of wealth distribution in the US.
In fact, the richest one percent of Americans are not wealthier than the bottom 95 percent combined. They are only wealthier than the bottom 90 percent combined.
(Source: The Federal Reserve Board: “Currents and Undercurrents: Changes in the Distribution [...]

So, Lutfur Rahman has decided to stand as an Independent. This move should also mean independence for the Labour Party – who can now turf him out of the party.
Given that Rahman is, and has always been, an Islamic Forum Europe entryist, given that the IFE is associated with the clerical fascist Jamaat-e-Islami, and given [...]