Amaq, un'agenzia di stampa affiliata all'ISIS, afferma che l'attacco di Mosca "si inserisce nel contesto di una furiosa guerra tra Stato islamico e paesi che
A weekly review of world politics by one of the world’s sharpest and most outspoken political analysts. Tariq Ali is the author of numerous books, both ficti... Tariq Ali and Patrick Coburn talk about ISIS in Sept 2014; ca 30 min.
The New Yorker 14 juni 2016
John Cassidy writes about President Obama’s impassioned [post-Orlando] speech about immigration, terrorism, and Donald Trump.
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
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
JEAN-PIERRE PERRIN, Liberation 26.8.: "... l’homme qui a pris Tripoli à la tête des rebelles libyens et en est aujourd’hui le gouverneur militaire de fact... La CIA l’a pisté, traqué, et, finalement capturé en Malaisie en 2003. Elle l’a ensuite transféré
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.
Dr Marranci's blog "Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist" [ Gabriele Marranci, Visiting Senior Fellow in Sociology, National University of Singapore]: "... your tribal affiliation may decide whether or not you have a job, your career, education, status
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).
Newsweek Aug 15 (via archive.org): "CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. "
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."
Jan Viklund: "Framför allt är det viktigt att se ickevåldsmotstånd som en handling, inte som frånvaro av handling. Ickevåld är inte passivitet. Ickevåld är en handling som är ickevåldslig. Därav kommer att ickevåldsmotstånd innebär att ersätta passivitet