Seeking to understand them as an (ab)reaction to the technological and political expansion of capitalist globalization, rather than as a war of religiously-based or civilization-based warfare...he contrasted 9/11 to the 'non-event' of the Gulf Warby termi
February 1, 2013 "A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media."
"So the movements against new industrialisation engulfing Eastern India is intimately connected to the war on terror, both because the metals’ apex use is in manufacturing arms, and because the attempt to set up new mining-metals projects is escalating co
UPI Oct 20: "Africa's exports of oil to the United States, largely from Nigeria and the dictator state of Equatorial Guinea, are roughly equal to those of the Middle East." "A major oil strike was made around Lake Albert in western Uganda in 2006, and geologists say it contains at least 2 billion barrels.Only 25 percent of the region, which includes the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has so far been explored, and some reports say there could be up to 6 billion barrels there.Uganda expects to start producing an initial 200,000 barrels per day in early 2012." Makerere prof Naimah Achim Bucha: "The truth is that Africom is there for the militarization of Africa and for the other purpose of elbowing out all U.S. competitors from the continent, China and Russia included."(
"Lagen tillkom mol bakgrunden av de många politiska terroristdåd som under senare år hade ägt rum i stora delar av väriden och som ofta urskillningslöst hade drabbat oskyldiga människor. Även i Sverige hade internationella terroristdåd ägt rum. Också under den lid som har förflutit efter lagens tillkomst har en lång rad av nya internationella terroristdåd ulförts i olika delar av världen. Del har varit fråga om sådana brott som tagande av gisslan, mordförsök, mord, sabotage och kapningar av flygplan. I några fall har trafikflygplan beskjutits med granatgevär. Utskottet kan härvidlag hänvisa till en redogörelse för den internationella utvecklingen som lämnas i propositionen (s. 6-9) och vill också erinra om det helt nyligen inträffade angreppet mot Förbundsrepubliken Tysklands ambassad i Stockholm."
the murky world of online financial transactions where money bounces between accounts from Cyprus to New York in the blink of an eye. "While Liberty Reserve was incorporated outside the United States, federal officials used a provision in the Patriot Act to target the organization and other financial institutions with whom they conducted business. It was the first time the provision had been used to prosecute a virtual currency provider, officials said." "Organized crime and terrorist groups are now financing their operations through these anonymous payment systems,” said Tom Kellermann, a vice president at Trend Micro, a security firm. “The financial sector no longer has a monopoly on moving capital around the world.”
By Christopher Stephen and Zaid Sabah - Aug 21, 2011 6:58 AM Den 21 Augusti 2011 rapporterade nyhetsbyrån Bloomberg: "The decisive battle to liberate Tripoli started,” Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a rebel brigade commander, said in an interview with Al Jazeera.
Posted December 2009. The reach of the newly global market, as Napoleoni argues in her new book, Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality, connects us all to the dark side, regardless of our intentions to be responsible -- and, she says, our deep connec
William F. Engdahl. " Mali for the Pentagon is but the next building block in the militarization of all of Africa by AFRICOM using proxy forces like France to do the dirty work. "
RAMALLAH, May 25, 2010 (IPS) - On Sunday approximately 150 Palestinians from 20 families were driven out of their homes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza strip, by heavily armed police and soldiers who menaced them with clubs. The difference this time was th
For now, it remains an agreement to agree – a philosophical framework that will require much work to turn into reality. It marks another stage in the evolution of the MILF.
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, also known as the Uncatchable, is said to have been passed over for several senior positions within al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Tjebbe van Tijen "It has dawned on me that the supposed killing in battle of Osama Bin Laden, applauded worldwide as a victory of justice, has all the aspects of a classical act of ‘tyrannicide’. David George of Cambridge University published in 1988 - i
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Baba Aye, trade union educator, deputy national secretary of the Labour Party: "So you see now that either with more secular garbs or with religious garbs, you know, the essential thing was you had a group which had its agenda, its program, but which had some level of mass followership, being courted by the sections of the elite that wanted to tap into the mass followership it had, and also the relatively--it had till before then relatively benign military capacities, you know, but placing resources before such groups, be it Niger Delta militants in the south-south or Boko Haram in the northeast, and then creating a Frankenstein which went further beyond the designs of those elites. So that is exactly the kernal of the problem."
Noam Chomsky, Reader Supported News , 07 May 11 "In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it "believed" that the plot was hatched in
Insider thieves are the new nuclear threat. Protect the materials and prevent the terrorism. by Matthew Bunn is an associate professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and a former adviser in the White House science office. He is the author of Securing the B
By Kenneth N. Luongo and Kenneth C. Brill March 24, 2014 "This summit is actually the beginning of the end of the heads-of-state meetings. The Washington–hosted gathering in 2016 will likely be the last. So these two meetings must yield results. Together they can form a solid foundation for an effective governance system for the world’s nuclear materials and facilities, creating a springboard for new policies and action."
The New Yorker 14 juni 2016
John Cassidy writes about President Obama’s impassioned [post-Orlando] speech about immigration, terrorism, and Donald Trump.
Mirjam Kalland 24.10. "Så vitt jag kan förstå kan man varken skylla helt och hållet på individpsykologiska faktorer eller helt och hållet på den dynamik som uppstår i samfund som låter hat och rädsla styra sina tankegångar."
Open Letter 26th November, 2019 from
29 members of the European council on foreign relations (ECFR) Members They urge European governments to immediately begin a programme of managed repatriation of ISIS foreign fighters in Syria.