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
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