Ben Makuch
National Security Reporter at Freelance
Natsec investigative reporter. Contributor: @guardian. Past: @CBCNews, @VICENews, @cdnpressnews. benmakuch on Wire and BenMakuch.90 on Signal for tips.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Makuch
Donald Trump has a long and colorful history with the Islamic State. He incorrectly blamed the founding of IS on his predecessor, said its infamous leader “died like a dog” while announcing his assassination, and rallied an international coalition that successfully ended its so-called caliphate. So far, in his second presidency, his administration has much less to do with IS. But the terror group has still benefited from him.
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4 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Makuch
A former Pentagon contractor works with secretive sections of US special forces, then ups and moves to Russia. He gets married, radicalizes and starts popping up on Telegram channels as the leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group recruiting Americans. Soon, allegations swirl that he is a Russian spy.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Makuch
An extremist blogger, who has become the Trump administration’s so-called “dark enlightenment” sage, is debating a Harvard professor of political philosophy at an unsanctioned event on its campus next week. Curtis Yarvin, who was for a time an obscure darling of Silicon Valley and the broader spectrum of the fringe right wing, has emerged as a major philosophical influence on key Capitol Hill power brokers.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Makuch
A national network of American neofascist fight clubs is endorsing youth-oriented offshoots aimed at grooming the next generation of racist activists. So-called “active clubs” have proliferated across the US and are a combination of fitness and mixed martial arts groups that often espouse neo-Nazi and fascist ideologies, openly taking their historical cues from the Third Reich’s obsession with machismo and European soccer hooliganism.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Makuch
Alleged former members of an international neo-Nazi terrorist organization are claiming its Russia-based and American leader is a Kremlin spy, according to online records reviewed by the Guardian.
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RT @cpicciolini: Of course they are. If folks had listened to me 10 years ago, this wouldn't be a breaking headline today. Russia's puppete…
In light of alleged FSB ties to the Base, my piece in the @guardian on how Russian security services are co-opting the far-right for sabotage and “long game” cells against the west, as @ColinPClarke tells me. https://t.co/LlXCVqAfrG
RT @alex_shephard: I wrote about Andrew Cuomo. Go Knicks https://t.co/UGK5H5f7eR