How the Southern Poverty Law Center started inventing ‘hate groups’

April 27, 2020Kyle Shideler

On March 14, 2019 the Southern Poverty Law Center publicly fired its founder and long-time leader Morris Dees on accusations of racial and sexual discrimination, and announced it would bring in outside assistance to investigate the climate of the organization Dees had built and ruled over for almost half a century. Since its founding, the SPLC had been treated — at least in the mainstream media — as an unquestioned arbiter of what qualifies as racism and hatred.

Groups tied to terror use COVID-19 crisis for fundraising, positive PR

March 31, 2020Kyle Shideler

With the media focused on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic across the world, Islamist groups are using the virus to improve their public perception and raise funds. Using unrelated disasters to raise their own profile is standard operating procedure for Islamist groups, which can often pay dividends for years to come.

Moscow secretly funded US anti-fracking groups. Is it now attacking US energy companies?

March 24, 2019J. Michael Waller

Is Moscow funding climate-change activists to damage the American energy industry around the world? In an effort to slow down US natural gas production, the Russian government backed the anti-fracking movement in the United States. Moscow even funded US anti-fracking activists. Now, with US climate change activists working to have ExxonMobil banned from addressing the …

Roll Call Smears Jewish Groups That Called for Omar’s Removal From House Committee

March 7, 2019Adam Kredo

Originally published by The Washington Free Beacon: Roll Call is facing backlash after one of its reporters attempted to discredit a recent effort by a group of leading Jewish and pro-Israel organizations to see Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee following a series of anti-Semitic statements that drew widespread …

Roll Call Hit Piece Uses SPLC Disinformation to Smear Pro-Israel Conservative Groups

March 7, 2019Debra Heine

Originally published by PJ Media: Roll Call is facing calls to retract after publishing a ridiculous hit piece smearing two conservative foreign policy groups based on disinformation gleaned from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing smear machine. The article, written on Wednesday by Emily Kopp, former press intern for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, describes ACT for …

MS-13 Killing Raises Questions About How To Handle Transnational Threat Groups

March 7, 2018Dominic Smith

Written By: Preston Panetti and Dominic Smith On March 6, 18 year old Carlos Otero-Henriquez was lured into a vehicle by six members of the Mara Savatrucha-13 (MS-13) gang. Under the impression that he was headed to a party. The police later found Carlos’s body at a rock quarry near Harpers Ferry in West Virginia. …

The SPLC’s Attacks on Conservative Groups

June 15, 2017Secure Freedom Radio

With Fred Fleitz, Dale Wilcox, Matthew Trymand, John Ligato:

People of Burundi Flee in Mass as Rebel Groups Align

April 14, 2016Kevin Samolsky

The different rebel groups around Burundi have formed one cohesive unit known as the Republican Forces of Burundi. The group’s goal is to “drive out Nkurunziza by force to restore the Arusha accord and democracy.” The rebels and government forces have clashed on many different occasions, and the rebel groups even launched a failed mortar …

British Government Defend Anti-Terrorism Law Against Questionable Charitable Groups

February 16, 2016Ryan Healy

The British government’s anti-terror law designed to help prevent the flow of humanitarian aid funds to terrorism is under fire. Two former international development secretaries claim that the United Kingdom’s anti-terrorism law negatively impacts Islamic charities. British authorities say however that any charity involved in humanitarian aid is at risk from terrorist intervention, and that …

San Bernardino Terrorist Followed Brotherhood-Linked Groups on Twitter

December 3, 2015David Reaboi

On Twitter, San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook followed several accounts associated with Muslim Brotherhood, including the official accounts of Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Revolution Network. PJMedia’s Patrick Poole found that, while Farook never seemed to tweet from this account, several of the 11 accounts he followed were institutional Twitter accounts with ties …

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