Truth in Media: Toyota, U.S. Treasury Department Promise to Investigate ISIS-Toyota Connection
After months of speculation, the U.S. government has begun investigating how the Islamic State has acquired the hundreds of Toyota pickup trucks which are featured in the group’s propaganda videos. ABC News reports that Lukman Faily, the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, statedthe Iraqi government believes ISIS has not only re-purposed older trucks but also has obtained “brand new” Toyota trucks in recent years.
“This is a question we’ve been asking our neighbors,” Faily said. “How could these brand new trucks… these four-wheel drives, hundreds of them — where are they coming from?”
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.