Month: April 2020

Summary

This report builds on background-information on 109 far-right extremist persons, who PST was worried were in a radicalization-process in 2018. Our survey shows that there was an increase in the radicalization to far-right extremism in 2015. The asylum influx is an important mobilization-factor for the milieu. The level of immigration will probably provoke radicalization to far-right extremism in Norway also in the future.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits shot up again last week, as 6.6 million more people filed initial claims, the Labor Department said Thursday. About 16.8 million have filed in the past three weeks, and analysts expect the numbers to keep rising.

Capitalism will slowly evolve into a Democratic Socialist system that will be able to provide the structures for maintaining democratic substance and resolving the challenges of a difficult future.

In Spain, which recently overtook Italy as the epicenter of the coronavirus in Europe, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez committed €200 billion — 20% of the country’s GDP — to alleviate the economic and social consequences of the pandemic. When asked how he would pay for that amount of spending, Sánchez replied that he was counting on financial help from “Europe.”

On April 6, 2020, the U.S. State Department announced the designation of the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and three of its senior leaders pursuant to Executive Order 13224.

A boy has been charged with right-wing terrorism offences.

The 16-year-old from Newcastle faces 11 charges including supporting the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.

Paris – A knife attack which resulted in two dead and five wounded Saturday morning in the town of Romans-sur-Isere, an hour drive South of Lyon, is being treated as a terrorist attack by French authorities. Two of the victims are in critical condition.