This week, it will be 30 years since the Oklahoma bombing. Now, it’s back on the cultural agenda, as the right-wing extremism that drove McVeigh is on the rise.
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Research indicates significant connections between military service and violent extremism. Though most go on to live peaceful lives, military members and veterans make up around 28% of mass shooters.
Donald Trump faces ‘double the trouble’ as Georgia charges were added to federal charges brought over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. And that’s thanks to federalism.
Right-wing extremism is a growing movement, as the world saw during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol building. Shouldn’t Ottawa security forces have learned lessons from Jan. 6?
A leaked database shows at least 10% of the far-right Oath Keepers militia is active police or military – people professionally trained in using weapons and conducting sophisticated operations.
25 years ago, the Waco siege became a symbol of government attacks on religious and civil liberties.
The radical right has a keen sense of its own history, and the violence of the 1990s is still fresh in its memory.
What we need is an examination of whether we’re looking at terrorism the right way to begin with.
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Professor of history, Queen's University Belfast
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Adjunct Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Research Fellow and Historian of War and Conflict, Deakin University
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