Author: Keith
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Targeted Killings of US Citizens? Yes We Can!
President Obama’s efforts at disrupting Al Qeada have been marked by a major increase in drone attacks and the use of US Special Forces in short end effective operations against other targets as required. This strategy seems much more pragmatic and is arguably the best way to tackle the Al Qaeda threat around the globe,…
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High Court Decrees Existence of Corporate Übermensch
Werther gives an analysis of the US Supreme Court’s decision to allow corporations to fund campaigns for or against politicians. Most seem to be very surprised by this decision, it has also led me to wonder if the founders would have been happy with the East India Shipping Company being involved with US elections? Or…
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Foundations of Terror, Pakistan’s Education System
These clips are taken from a look at Pakistan’s education system and how it neglects to teach the children the basics but rather instil in them a type of hero worship of those that are determined to keep power in the country. Poorly targeted programmes but external states (like the USA) have failed to make…
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Fly Air-Qaeda: Because Nobody is Watching
Reports have emerged (in 2008!) that Al-Qaeda (Africa) in conjunction with FARC (Latin America) have been using a fleet of rogue aircraft (as large as Boeing 727s) to transport drugs from Latin America to Africa, then filter them up to Europe. This is obviously the path of least resistance, why risk sneaking on a drug-mule…
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Global Jihad – Only Graduates and Wealthy Need Apply
For some reason policy makers seem to think that reaching out to the poor will help stem the tide of Jihadist’s that are trying to strike at America. You can look at work by Fathali M. Moghaddam and his “The Staircase to Terrorism” to support the view that poverty plays a significant part in radicalisation,…
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Doomsday Clock Announcement
DOOMSDAY CLOCK ANNOUNCEMENT from TurnBackTheClock.org on Vimeo. Tick Tock Tick Tock… Doomsday Clock Announcement on Thursday, January 14, 2010 (1000 EST / 1500 GMT). The minute hand is set to move, but will we be closer to doomsday come the end?
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Al-Qaeda has a new strategy. Obama needs one, too
“Throughout 2008 and 2009, U.S. officials repeatedly trumpeted al-Qaeda’s demise. In a May 2008 interview with The Washington Post, then-CIA Director Michael Hayden heralded the group’s “near strategic defeat.” And the intensified aerial drone attacks that President Obama authorized against al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan last year were widely celebrated for having killed over half of…
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