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US Labels Domestic Left Terrorist, Presses 60 Nations to Respond

7/22/2026

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U.S. Secretary of State urged officials in over 60 countries to rebuild the free-world counterterrorism architecture targeting the domestic left.
He labeled the left a transnational enemy linked to Iran and Cuba, offering no evidence.
Deputy chief of staff called left-wing terrorism a ‘fatal cancer of civilization’ and urged six measures: disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, prosecute.
A physician warned that calling citizens a cancer echoes Nazi medical rhetoric.

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U.S. Secretary of State urged officials in over 60 countries to rebuild the free-world counterterrorism architecture targeting the domestic left.
He labeled the left a transnational enemy linked to Iran and Cuba, offering no evidence.
Deputy chief of staff called left-wing terrorism a ‘fatal cancer of civilization’ and urged six measures: disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, prosecute.
A physician warned that calling citizens a cancer echoes Nazi medical rhetoric.