{"id":1042,"date":"2026-07-16T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:43:34","slug":"state-department-launches-global-effort-to-combat-left-wing-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"State Department Launches Global Effort to Combat Left-Wing Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. State Department held a summit in Washington D.C. Thursday, focused on countering far-left political terrorism, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio declaring that the threat must be dismantled to defend civilization.<\/p>\n

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During his remarks before the inaugural \u201cInternational Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism,\u201d Secretary Rubio declared that the threat of left-wing violence \u201ccan no longer be denied or ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n

Far-left terrorism, he said, \u201cis a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Diplomats from 67 countries attended the summit to discuss strategies to deal with the threat, including\u00a0\u201cstronger joint action among nations to reinforce frontline defenses and close the gaps the terrorist actors continue to exploit,\u201d according to a statement from the State Department.<\/p>\n

The Secretary stated that the West has long had a \u201cblind spot\u201d when it comes to counterterrorism, noting that \u201ceven today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse\u2014as a dangerous, fascist conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will no doubt see the dogma rear its head in the coverage of this very conference,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cIn spite of the clear and undeniable reality, in spite of the objective numbers and statistics, in spite of the fact that in this room today there are representatives from across the political spectrum, we will hear that this kind of organized violence and terror will be dismissed. It will be dismissed as a partisan fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Secretary pointed out that while acts of left-wing violence and terrorism are routinely dismissed, right-wing violence is always treated as \u201ca murderous act of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed out how violent antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters were not prosecuted during the George Floyd \u201csummer of love\u201d in 2020 as a prime example of the double standard.<\/p>\n

\u201cA whole industry grew up in our countries around the study of extremism,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe have thinktanks and fellowships and journals and consultancies, with the unspoken understanding among them that only one kind of political violence was a true threat to the system: A bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was a nefarious and murderous act of evil. It is. But a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary? Well, that\u2019s merely a tragic excess of idealism. Perhaps its means were misplaced or overzealous, but its ends were virtuous and just. That\u2019s the implication of how they treat it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHere in my country, so many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression, so long as they served a left-wing cause,\u201d Rubio continued. \u201cIt is why, during those so-called George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through America\u2019s great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees, city governments all across the country simply refused to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is the reason for the now-infamous image. Maybe you all recall this: a news anchor from a very prominent agency standing in a neighborhood consumed in flames. Meanwhile, the chyron on the bottom read that the protests were \u2018mostly peaceful.\u2019 This was something worse than a double standard. Left-wing violence was not just excused. It was treated as sacrosanct, a protected class unto itself,\u201d he said. \u201cThat era has to end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are here because this is real, and it is getting worse, and it can no longer be denied, and it can no longer be ignored,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause it is time to crush this evil forever. The simple fact is none of this that I\u2019ve just described is new. Far-left political terrorism is not a recent-day modern novelty. It is not a fiction manufactured by conservative politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else-a hatred for civilization itself,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cIt is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti-capitalists or anti-imperialists, or communists, or anarchists, or Marxists. But the fundamental character is always the same. It is always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice and liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite,\u201d he said. \u201cCommunism does not \u2018sound good in theory.\u2019 The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world it envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive toward, a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things. And the world communism envisions is a world without God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievements of our civilization are an unbearable humiliation-a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, they choose instead to destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n