@shonin from the Daily Beast’s story:

#Maine State Sen Joe #Baldacci is proposing #legislation that would prohibit groups from setting up #paramilitary training facilities in Maine. Already, 25 states have similar #laws on the books, Baldacci said, pointing to a statute in Vermont that might prevent a group like Blood Tribe from setting up shop.

#NeoNazis #WhiteSupremacy #HateGroups #DonesticTerrorism
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-wants-blood-tribe-neo-nazi-squatters-gone

"Private Russian military companies are multiplying – and so are the Kremlin’s problems"

#Biden #EU #Pentagon #Military #War #Ukraine #NATO #Putin #Russia #Weapons #US #WW3 #Zelensky #News #CounterOffensive #NAFO #Wagner #ParaMilitary

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230716-private-russian-military-companies-are-multiplying-%E2%80%93-and-so-are-the-kremlin-s-problems

"I still think it's insane that the known #fact that the #CIA used #NATO to give #paramilitary #training to #neoNazi #terrorist #groups all over #Europe gets enough attention in the Broad Debate TM

It was known as Operation Gladio and (Officially) ran between 1956 and 1990, during the course of which nearly every #European country had a neo-Nazi terrorist group armed and trained by the CIA, NATO and often their own intelligence agency. They started with the notion of being stay-behind in case of Communist invasion or victory in the elections, but then shifted their strategy to trying to crush the broad Left (socialists, communists of all stripes and Anarchists) by both directly attacking us and by carrying out terrorist violence and having their friends in the police blame it on us. In Italy, where we know the most about the operations of Gladio, they carried out dozens of terrorist attacks, killing and maiming hundreds and leading up to the Years of Lead as the Left responded to the violence by defending itself. But Italy was not their only area of operations - there was a branch in most European countries, and there has not been sufficient research to establish exactly what these groups did. In Sweden, where I'm from, the local branch is suspected of being Legion Wasa, but we simply don't know because there has never been an inquiry of any kind, for example. But this might very well be the link explaining how Nazis got a hold of a bunch of millitary hardware that they used to launch a spate of robberies and murders, as well as tossing handgranades at offices and members of my union, the syndicalist SAC.

Again, we'll never know if NATO was the reason my political beginnings was carried out in an atmosphere of fear and defensiveness, but the fact that it might have been is in itself remarkable. Whatever the truth of that, we do know for a fact that they've injured and murdered hundreds, and from the only country where this was ever properly researched."

https://www.tumblr.com/blackcat-brazil/722674494532108288?source=share

#Mercenaries out of control: #Putin tries to legalize 30 Russian #paramilitary companies | International | EL PAÍS English #PMCs

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-07-04/mercenaries-out-of-control-putin-tries-to-legalize-30-russian-paramilitary-companies.html

#Mercenaries out of control: #Putin tries to legalize 30 Russian #paramilitary companies

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaAggression #RussianCrimes #Dictatorship #Surveillance #Censorship #RussianWarCrimes #FreeNavalny #PutinsWar #Muscovy #Russia

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-07-04/mercenaries-out-of-control-putin-tries-to-legalize-30-russian-paramilitary-companies.html

Mercenaries out of control: Putin tries to legalise 30 Russian paramilitary companies.

The crisis in Russia over Wagner’s mutiny has revealed the complex network of troops working in and outside of the country. The Kremlin helped create a system that has now turned against him.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-07-04/mercenaries-out-of-control-putin-tries-to-legalize-30-russian-paramilitary-companies.html

#Russia #Putin #Kremlin #WarInUkraine #Mercenaries #Paramilitary #Wagner

#Russians exchanged their rubles for a #Dollar -pegged #cryptocurrency this weekend as #paramilitary group #Wagner rebelled against the military leadership in #Moscow - chart @WSJecon bit.ly/3Jzi80g

freed · paramilitary · soldiers · sudanese
https://papercliff.github.io/redirect/?q=freed+paramilitary+soldiers+sudanese&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:6/28/2023,cd_max:6/30/2023
#news #soldiers #paramilitary

I'm throwing ideas at the wall to see what #sticks, but still don't see a clear path to success for #Prigozhin . Even if he's truthful about this only being about the military leadership, and not a full-blown coup.

The #Wagner Group is a hell of a #paramilitary, but compared to the army, they are undermanned, under-resourced, and under-armed. I do not believe Wagner would have a chance in a head-on clash with the #army.

So far I've come up with one ending that isn't a #wipeout for Wagner.

Like @Lockdownyourlife , I also didn't have "Military #coup in #Russia" [1] on my 2023 bingo card.

This weekend will be #interesting, in the Chinese-proverb sense of the word.

#wtf #news #russia #churn #proverb

[1] I'm not even sure what to call it. It's not actually the military doing it, it's a commercial/#mercenary #paramilitary. Officially their aim is to #topple the leadership of the #military, not the #civilian #government of the country, but I'm sure #Putin doesn't see it that way.

"reading #wikipedia #articles about #history will expose you to the #biases of #guys with #deranged and #hyperspecific #political positions you couldn't even imagine"

"every wikipedia article about like #byzantine grain exports in 456 is #propaganda written by a guy who has inexplicably made it his life's #mission to rehabilitate the image of a random general who was poisoned by his horse at age 30 and every article about #wwii is written by a guy who #fantasizes about being part of an #esoteric #eastern #european #nazi #paramilitary group and owns a shelf of #books called like The Honor Of The #Wermacht And Their Honor and thinks that the problem with modern #warfare is that they need to make the tanks more #racist"

"#history/ #geopolitics article on wikipedia is generally a battleground between serious #historians and guys like that, but this is esp true for U.S.'s Official Enemies. I've since given up on this, but any article about the #DPRK is just 20 editors that are all convinced that we need to come together as a #global #community to glass the entire northern half of the #Korean peninsula reverting and shouting down any efforts at actual historians trying to at least be semi-sensible about the #country."

https://www.tumblr.com/stardrifting/720494456923717632?source=share

The Whole World is Watching!

We stand with the #Zapatista Communities and demand an end to State complicity in #paramilitary violence!

https://www.congresonacionalindigena.org/2023/05/31/aleman-erklarung-aus-mexiko-und-der-welt-zur-aggression-gegen-die-gemeinde-moises-gandhi/

#ParemosLaGuerra #LetsStopTheWar
#YaBasta #PorLaPaz
#ConLasZapatistas #Mexiko

The MilitiaWatch Monthly update for May 2023 is out and available here:
https://militia.watch/updates/202305/

It covers some of the major events of the last month within the #militia/unlawful #paramilitary space that MW keeps an eye on.

Some of these events, including battles against paramilitary training sites, VOP activity on the border, and Bundy's fun #BBQStandoff are ongoing and will continue to drive the news cycle in June, too.

Explosion hits Revolutionary Guard base in Iran, report says
https://artifact.news/s/Fkps5Yg2Z3Q=

#iran #paramilitary

The MilitiaWatch Monthly update for April 2023 is out and available here:
https://militia.watch/updates/202304/

It covers some of the major events of the last month within the #militia/unlawful #paramilitary space that MW keeps an eye on. Some of these events, like Bundy's fun "BBQ Standoff" are ongoing and will potentially drive the news cycle this next month, too.

Wagner Group surges in Africa as U.S. influence fades, leak reveals

"The #Wagner Group is moving aggressively to establish a 'confederation' of anti-Western states in #Africa as the Russian mercenaries foment instability while using their #paramilitary and disinformation capabilities to bolster Moscow’s allies, according to leaked secret U.S. intelligence documents."

https://archive.ph/6MLSl (WaPo - paywall removed )

#Russia #Prigozhin

The #Wagner group is moving aggressively to establish a “confederation” of anti-Western states in #Africa as the #Russian mercenaries foment instability while using their #paramilitary and disinformation capabilities to bolster Moscow’s allies, according to leaked secret U.S. intelligence documents.

https://wapo.st/40CUtS9

Sudan is in a power struggle between its military and #paramilitary forces causing fears of civil war. Authoritarian rulers setting up armed groups, loose command and control, ethnic ties and external mercenaries have exacerbated the issue.

#Sudan #Africa
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/04/22/sudan-violence-between-army-and-militia-is-a-symptom-of-an-old-disease-that-is-destroying-africa/

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/02/06/oregon-lawmakers-aim-to-address-domestic-terrorism-and-paramilitary-activity/
#DomesticTerrorism #Oregon #Militia #Paramilitary

#Sudan conflict: #Hemedti – the warlord who built a #paramilitary force more powerful than the state

https://theconversation.com/sudan-conflict-hemedti-the-warlord-who-built-a-paramilitary-force-more-powerful-than-the-state-203949

By Alex de Waal