Tag: Al-Qaeda
U.S. Troops Back in Saudi Arabia: What Could Go Wrong?
I’m not aware of a foreign terrorist threat against the US in which the stated motivation was anything other than opposition to US military imperialism.
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Savagery and Its Promoters and Profiteers
The Management of Savagery does what author Max Blumenthal promises and more, showing us why and how people have been duped by war promoters and profiteers.
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America’s New Africa Strategy:Â US, China, and Economic Development
Contrary to the new US Africa strategy, which seeks militarization and portrays China as a threat, Africa needs more cooperative economic development.
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Lest We Forget, One of Washington’s Greatest Crimes: the NATO Intervention in Libya
Muammar Gaddafi warned the US and its NATO partners that overthrowing him would result in a flood of refugees and emigrants into Europe. They didn’t listen.
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Is Russia Being Betrayed By Its Own Intelligentsia?
How could the Russian government possibly think that any agreement with Washington, Israel, or any of Washington’s EU puppets would mean anything?Â
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Should Al Qaeda Be Made the 51st State?
Bringing back the Russian menace is not working. Al Qaeda is the answer. If there were no Al Qaeda, the US government would have to invent one.
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Crackpot Criminality From Abu Through Zubaydah
The story of the CIA’s operation that captured Abu Zubaydah is a tale of crackpot criminality.
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Obama’s Legacy of Failure in the Middle East
The creation of the Islamic State has as much to do with Obama’s policy toward Syria as it does with Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
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War Powers: Reform Now, Before It’s Too Late
Congress needs to take a page from Senator Kaine’s playbook and reform the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
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How Stalinism Explains the Strategy, Appeal and Vulnerabilities of ISIS
ISIS followed the Stalinist playbook for seizing control of a global movement, and now faces a similar choice between urgency and decline.
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The World According to ISIS
ISIS will endure as long as the factors and circumstances that have fueled its rise remain in place in Iraq and Syria and beyond.
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Please Don’t Attack Al-Qaeda
It should be no wonder that it has been, and continues to be, official US policy to protect al-Qaeda.
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Globalization and the Refugee Crisis
Geopolitically, the USA has used jihadism against obstacles, starting in Afghanistan to remove the USSR, and in Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria.
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Will the Middle East Crisis Worsen in the New Year?
US policies have created a chaotic situation in the Middle East, and there’s little reason to expect this to change.
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The Sahel, Libya, and the Crime-Terror Nexus
The Western intervention in Libya has enabled an abundance of criminal financial streams unique to the Sahel to profit local terrorist organizations.
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The Death of Mokhtar Belmokhtar Is Not the Boon Everyone Thinks It Is
The world will not miss Belmokhtar, but in a perverted irony, the world, and the Saharan region in particular, may have become a more dangerous place.
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Obama in the Middle East: From Bad to Worse
One has to wonder what in the world the White House is up to in the Middle East—unless sowing chaos is Obama’s strategy.
Read MoreIs the Whole “War on Terror” a Fraud?
“Visas for Al Qaeda” author J. Michael Springmann talks to Lars Schall on the CIA’s role at the State Department’s visa bureau in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Book Review: Cockburn’s ‘The Rise of Islamic State’
The Rise of Islamic State is a worthy read, clearly defining the major roles and events of this long-developing story.
Read MoreSouth Asia: Battle Ground Between ISIS & al-Qaeda
South Asia has become one of the new battlegrounds for jihadi support between al-Qaeda and ISIS.
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