23/11/2015, Today – BBC Radio 4
General McChrystal, who led US special forces in Iraq speaks on BBC4 about the nature of the threat posed by ISIS and how we should respond – and how not to respond in the predictable […]
November 2015
Isis: In a borderless world, the days when we could fight foreign wars and be safe at home may be long gone | Middle East | News | The Independent
It could be a good analysis from Robert Fisk, and it contains many interesting insights: irrelevance of borders both ME and European ones, etc. However, Fisk, a long-time resident of Beirut, has gone native: there […]
The French Way of War – POLITICO Magazine
The French military is highly conscious of its small size and lack of resources… Whenever possible, they try to limit the use of the military to missions for which militaries really can be of use. […]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islam Is a Religion of Violence | Foreign Policy
In the past few weeks, both Russia and the United States have escalated their military campaigns against the Islamic State. As the brutal jihadist group… Source: Islam Is a Religion of Violence | Foreign Policy
How Has Russia Weaponized Information? | CEPA
In CEPA’s latest report, Edward Lucas and Ben Nimmo describe the Kremlin’s ongoing disinformation campaign to subvert both international onlookers and its domestic population. CEPA Infowar Paper No. 1 describes the mechanisms Russia has employed […]
The threat of Islamophobia
After every Islamist outrage, every atrocity, a lament goes up, bemoaning Islamophobia, as if it was a fact and a real threat. Then people forget, until the next outrage. In the meantime, Islamophobia simply doesn’t […]
Brahma Chellaney: The Western Roots of Anti-Western Terror
Brahma Chellaney repeats, in the “The Western Roots of Anti-Western Terror“, the theory that all evil and disorder in today’s world stems invariably and unavoidably from western interventionism. As if it was a given, the […]
The Guardian: Borderless terrorism can only be tackled by borderless intelligence by Guy Verhofstadt
The Guardian: Borderless terrorism can only be tackled by borderless intelligence by Guy Verhofstadt …our security services need to work together much more closely. Following the attacks in Paris, it’s been reported the French security services […]
Gordon Adams in Foreign Policy: France Has Been No Friend to Muslims
Gordon Adams, in France Has Been No Friend to Muslims manages to make sound the 732 battle of Poitiers as only the first of many acts of aggression against Islam: “Indeed, France has been a central arena […]
The Daily Beast: Russia Is Sending Jihadis to Join ISIS
Michael Weiss writes: “Russia Is Sending Jihadis to Join ISIS” Even as Washington touts its counterterrorism partnerships with Moscow, evidence points to Putin’s intelligence service practically helping the Islamic State. It is an article of […]
Abdennour Bidar: Lettre ouverte au monde musulman
A Muslim philosopher on the monster within Islam. English version. Time to start actually thinking, not just reacting. Trouble is that there are not many more voices like that. The solution can only come from inside […]
Nie słuchaj ojca swego. Rozmowa z autorem książki “Miasta śmierci. Sąsiedzkie pogromy Żydów”|Gazeta Wyborcza
Marcin Kącki w Gazecie Wyborczej: Nie słuchaj ojca swego. Rozmowa z autorem książki “Miasta śmierci. Sąsiedzkie pogromy Żydów”