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"According to the Counter Extremism Project, Jane's Revenge is an extremist pro-abortion rights group that emerged after the leak of the expected U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The group has been linked to attacks at pro-life centers across the nation."

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December 19, 2022
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "The 25 people that were arrested is not the end of the story. There are additional people that are under investigation and the number keeps growing. They all belong, at the core of it, to a movement that is called the Reichsbürger, which holds old neo-Nazi beliefs really prevalent since 1945 in Germany that the Deutsche Reich did not end with the end of the Second World War and the foundation of the Federal Republic, but continues and therefore all political institutions, on the local, state, and federal level are therefore inherently illegal."

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December 14, 2022
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"Last week, German police arrested 25 members of a far-right group who were plotting a coup. What is the Reichsbürger movement? How dangerous are they? And what does this incident tell us about the nature of political extremism in Europe -- and closer to home? To answer these questions, Paul is joined by Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project."

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December 14, 2022
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Loyalist terrorists who committed atrocities while the Troubles were running hot were frequently hunted down and rightly banged up by the police and security services. Their republican counterparts committed countless similar crimes but have evaded accountability on a far more frequent basis."

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December 13, 2022
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "This was a fairly serious attempt of a group of individuals to organize nothing less than a coup d'etat in Germany." 

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December 7, 2022
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CEP Research Analyst Gregory Waters writes: "Damascus has adopted many strategies during its decade-long war in an attempt to adapt to and overcome serious opposition gains and international interventions. The most ubiquitous of these are the brutalizing of dissident civilians while announcing substance-less reforms, legalizing loyalist militias as legitimate forces, besieging and forcibly cleansing anti-regime neighborhoods, and finally using the guise of “reconciliation” to reimpose its will over destroyed regions and people. All of these approaches had one thing in common: the use of violent coercion dressed up as political diplomacy. Today, with much of the country back under Assad’s control, Damascus continues to try to strong-arm its remaining enemies into “negotiated settlements,” akin to the so-called reconciliation agreements that saw thousands of families expelled from their homes and thousands more men forcibly conscripted into the armed forces. But the Kurdish-led government in northeast Syria and the Turkish-protected zones in northwest have proved much more difficult to threaten than besieged rebel towns."

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December 8, 2022
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "The primary planning tool was online, chat fora. There were a couple of physical meetings where they tried to recruit members of the police and military forces, but all of the primary planning was done online. This means messenger services and social media, which really don't have the controls in place to hinder or in any way bother people planning these things. This is not the very first time that something similar like this has been discovered in Germany..."

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December 7, 2022
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"LEAD STORY: German police foil coup plot. Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director, at CEP explains. ALSO, Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director, NCRI-US says Iran's Morality Police are still active. AND, a Ukraine War Update with Yuriy Sak, Advisor to Ukraine's Minister of Defense."

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December 7, 2022
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "This was one of the, if not the, largest counterterrorism operation on German soil since 1945. 3,000 police officers in 130 different locations, arresting 25 individuals, 27 individuals under further investigation on top of that. It was surprising as far as the scope and the scale is concerned. But, unfortunately, this is not the only violent cell that has been discovered from the broader violent right-wing extremist spectrum in Germany over the last couple of years. Since 2019, the Federal Ministry of the Interior has consistently judged that violent right-wing extremism is the largest domestic threat against security and this morning really brought home that point again." 

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December 7, 2022
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler joined BBC Scotland's The Nine to discuss the Reichsbürger movement, amid news that German authorities arrested 25 individuals suspected of plotting to overthrow Germany's government. The suspects were alleged Reichsbürger members, with elements of QAnon, as well as a former MP for far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).  

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December 7, 2022
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