Premium – 304. How Leftist Groups Get the Blowback for Right-Wing Extremism (Patreon)

With Cop City as a case study, we draw together two recent articles — one on the historical connection between right-wing racism, environmental groups, and ecoterrorist actions, and one on how the massive expansion of RICO laws to target (and fabricate) conspiracies of all kinds has become a key tool of prosecutorial power — to explore how the actions of right-wing groups precipitate the creation of stronger, tougher laws which then get used to further suppress left-wing movements.

• The War on Ecoterror https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-war-on-ecoterror/
• An Offer You Can’t Refuse https://www.thedriftmag.com/an-offer-you-cant-refuse/

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