Some Notes on Right Wing Violence

I go to Raw Story for the comments. This was just hanging out there. I quick put it here. Now I have to go back and see who to credit. It is Wesley Stubbs Sandel.

Homegrown Terrorists Nearly All Right-wing
https://www.theatlantic.com...

Far-Right Groups Are Behind Most U.S. Terrorist Attacks, Report Finds https://www.nytimes.com/202...

Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years
https://www.theguardian.com...

Right-wing extremists killed 38 people in U.S. in 2019, Anti-Defamation League finds https://www.cbsnews.com/new...

Every extremist murder in 2018 was linked to right-wing terrorism https://americanindependent...

Report: U.S. Right-Wing Extremists Killed 330 People In Last Decade
A new Anti-Defamation League report also finds that an anti-Latino massacre at a Walmart made 2019 the sixth-deadliest for extremist-related violence since 1970.
https://www.huffpost.com/en...

“In the past 10 years when you look at murders committed by domestic extremists in the United States of all types, right-wing extremists are responsible for about 74 percent of those murders,” he said. https://checkyourfact.com/2...

Right-wing killings eclipsed all other extremist-related murders in 2018. The numbers don’t lie. https://www.jta.org/2019/01...

In 2018, Right Wing Extremists Were Behind Every Terrorist Murder Inside US https://mavenroundtable.io/...

All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report https://www.businessinsider...

There were at least 50 extremist-related killings in 2018, according to the report, making it the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970. https://www.businessinsider...

U.S. sees 300 violent attacks inspired by far right every year https://www.pbs.org/newshou...

Right-wing terrorists killed three times more people in US than Islamists in past decade with attacks soaring in 2018, report says https://www.independent.co....

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a report that white supremacists remain “the most persistent and lethal threat” in the country.
https://thehill.com/policy/...

All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report

https://www.businessinsider...

Right-Wing Extremism Is Still the Biggest Threat to National Security

https://www.gq.com/story/ri...

Right-Wing Extremist Violence is Our Biggest Threat. The Numbers Don't Lie.

https://www.adl.org/news/op...

It’s Time to Confront the Threat of Right-Wing Terrorism

https://www.newyorker.com/n...

Right-Wing Terrorism Has Gone Global

https://slate.com/news-and-...

As Far-Right Violence Surges, Ted Cruz Seeks To Brand Antifa A Terrorist Organization. Last year was the fourth-deadliest in the nation for right-wing extremist violence, according to data from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.

https://www.huffpost.com/en...

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The Surrender of General R. E. Lee to General U.S. Grant

Note: Repeating because of increased interest in the era. Published April 9, 2010

April 9 is the anniversary of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant which ended the military phase of the American Civil War.

To mark the occasion, Bede's Beat brings you a sample of Kurt Weill's settings of four of Walt Whitman Civil War poems.



Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war against the U.S., Kurt Weill -- who had fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and moved to the U.S. in 1935 -- began to set three of Walt Whitman's Civil War poems to music.

The poems Weill chose form a cycle which was completed by the addition of the setting of a fourth poem in 1947.

The first poem, Beat! Beat! Drums!, begins the cycle with an enthusiastic martial call to arms. The middle part of the cycle is devoted to the inevitable result of war: death.

The second, O Captain! My Captain!, about death of a leader in time of war, proved prophetic.

The third poem, Come Up from the Fields Father uses the imagery of autumn and the harvest to presage the grief of a mother upon learning of her son’s death -- a reminder of the toll of war on the home front.

The cycle concludes with Dirge for Two Veterans, and the contrast of Whitman's lament with the first poem in the cycle is reflected in music for each: while the first movement is sprightly, martial and optimistic, the final poem is set to a funeral march.