Terrorists have almost no military strength so they create a spectacle. How should states respond? Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens, a history of humanity, reflects on the past, and alarming future, of the fear factor
For anyone who still has doubts about 911, weigh out the facts and the overwhelming amount of evidence supporting the reality that the events of 911 were one...
Anonymous and not-so-anonymous reflection on this tragic day in history. I remember where I was when Reagon was shot, when the Challenger shuttle exploded, and when the Wall came down. Do you remember where you were on 9/11?
Includes statements by John Mueller, political science professor at Ohio State University. Author of: Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda. Mueller thinks nukes are fairly secure in the sense that they will not be used by acciden
Sept 23 (CNN) -- British-born Samantha Lewthwaite was once seen as a kind of victim of the July 2005 London terror attacks -- the pregnant wife of one of the suicide bombers who killed 52 people, now left alone to care for her children. She condemned the attacks but then vanished. Now, Kenyan authorities say, she is the infamous "White Widow," alleged to be a supporter and financier of people linked to the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab.
Nafeez Ahmed: "So the US is not targeting the Islamic State’s financial lifeline - its black market oil infrastructure - but instead is teaming up with the same al-Qaeda affiliated groups that spawned IS in the first place, to undermine Assad. And Russia, for all its muscle-flexing rhetoric, sees its main priority as countering US-led efforts to topple Assad, by targeting his most immediate opponents.
This is, in other words, a New Cold War between competing empires, the unending victims of which are the Syrian people. As for the Islamic State, it is little more than the proxy bastard child of a conflict that looks set to escalate.
I\'m declaring September 11 \"International Enough Day.\" Enough flag-waving, enough violence, enough nationalism. Enough already. September 11 was not an American tragedy, it was a human tragedy. It was a tragedy not just for the people in the US who die
Hans Magnus Norell är ”terroristexpert”. Frågan är hur man blir ”terroristexpert” egentligen? Ämnet kan knappast studeras på högskola. Gör ett tankeexperiment. Du är journalist. Det har hänt något i Pakistan, Östafrika eller England. Du har fått en massa
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”. "Despite an open conspiracy to drown the region in sectarian strife, the US now poses as a stakeholder in Iraq’s stability. Having armed, funded, and assisted ISIS into existence and into northern Iraq itself, the idea of America “intervening” to stop ISIS is comparable to an arsonist extinguishing his fire with more gasoline."
Far From Over, Post-9/11 Wars Continue in 78 Countries Under President Biden
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011
Jake Wallis Simons on Telegraph Blog, April 25th, 2013: "The UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur, Richard Falk, has provoked outrage by claiming in an essay in Foreign Policy Journal that American foreign policy was to blame for the Boston marathon bombings" ... "... the notion that Islamic terror arises merely as a response to US, Israeli and British action is gravely insidious." Jake Wallis Simons is a Telegraph features writer.
ADEN, Yemen, April 19 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. drone raid on early Saturday killed 16 al-Qaida militants and five civilians in Yemen' s southeastern province of al-Bayda, a Yemeni army officer said. The drone hit a pickup car which was carrying 16 suspected militants in Hazmiah area of al-Bayda, about 268 km southeast of the capital Sanaa, local sources said. Five civilians passing by in a nearby car were also killed. Another six civilians travelling in another car on the highway of Hazmiah area were also wounded, witnesses said. It's the seventh of such drone strikes in the past two months.
This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn’s new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, with special thanks to his publisher, OR Books. The first section is a new introduction written for TomDispatch "The Underrated Saudi Connection " (underrubrik) "The “war on terror” has failed because it did not target the jihadi movement as a whole and, above all, was not aimed at Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the two countries that fostered jihadism as a creed and a movement. The U.S. did not do so because these countries were important American allies whom it did not want to offend. Saudi Arabia is an enormous market for American arms, and the Saudis have cultivated, and on occasion purchased, influential members of the American political establishment. Pakistan is a nuclear power with a population of 180 million and a military with close links to the Pentagon."
The U.S. funded Pakistan's intelligence service to run a veritable insurgency training school that processed 35,000 foreign Muslims to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Charlie Wilson's War, the book and movie that celebrated U.S. assistance
I do think there's a case to be made, moral as well as pragmatic, against assassination-by-drone. I don't buy it, but I may be wrong. But if, as is often said, the United States should not be fighting terrorism with battalions of soldiers occupying foreig
by Simon Jenkins Opinion The Guardian
Paranoid politicians, sensational journalists – the Isis recruiting officers will be thrilled at how things have gone since their atrocity in Belgium
We...live inside a matrix...[its] hegemonic power...only strengthened since [911]. Lies...repeated until... accepted as truth...by a bloated, myopic...bureaucracy...stench of pork is everywhere...
The Changing Face of the Jihadist Movement in Libya Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 7 Issue: 1 January 9, 2009 By: Camille Tawil "The Libyan jihadis were left without a leadership. In fact, LIFG leaders in Libyan prisons started to talk to the au