Category: Politics & Political Science
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From Seed to Hand: Unveiling the Ethical Journey of Our Everyday Products
The following blog grew from a seed, a seed that was planted at a restaurant table, some alcohol, and as my daughter and I debated the world. She metaphorically got me pinned against the wall as I tried to defend some people’s choice of occupations, and the retort of “so you would be happy if…
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Where Are We Now? [Musings About the Future of MAG Ireland]
Saturday the 11th of October 2014 That could have been the day that MAG Ireland ceased to exist. If not for the 15 members who turned up and a relatively animated discussion (my apologies to the board) then MAG Ireland faced a potential shutdown over the course of the next year with October 31st 2015…
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The Legality of America’s Program of Targeted Killings by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Here is one I made earlier, the full article can be found on e-IR but below you can find the introduction and conclusion. Enjoy! Amplify’d from www.e-ir.info The Legality of America’s Program of Targeted Killings by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles On the 5th of November 2002 a Hellfire missile fired from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)…
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In the wake of the attack on Rep. Gifford should we call it terrorism & is this the end of lone-wolf terrorism?
Another excellent post from Brigitte L. Nacos which questions why people are not prepared to call this attack an act of terrorism and simply white wash over it with the usual assumptions that the guy must be crazy. I agree, and writers like Sam Harris have already pointed out that only the liberal left would…
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Some Numbers from AfPak 2010
From the AfPak Channel at Foreign Policy magazine, some numbers on casualties in Afghanistan and links to a further 3 reports on the Afghan war. It all makes for sobering reading at the start of 2011, combined with what is looking like the collapse of the Pakistani government and the tentative position of the Afghan…
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Wikileaks Cablegate List
Here is the tip of the iceberg with regards to the latest release by Wikileaks of the US diplomatic cables. There are already some headline grabbing stories (as seen below) but the real story will emerge as we study the discourse in greater depth with all the threats and deals becoming clear. This presents a…
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What Can Obama Do?
With the US mid-term elections behind him President Obama has to carefully consider what to do next, while he hopes for a 1996 style comeback George Friedman suggests that Obama would be better served by looking at how Reagan bounced back after his mid-term defeat in 1982. Of course the threat of a double dip…
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ACLU vrs U.S. Gov over the lives of citizens
The debate around the targeted killing of US citizens abroad by the U.S. government is still on going, but the article below by Robert Haddick is probably one of the better discussions I have read or heard on the topic. Could this be considered a new battlefield space to be exploited by the military or…
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Terrorist Tactics and Blackberry Battles
Very interesting piece looking at how slow intelligence agencies can be at adapting to new and emerging technologies. Here they highlight how the LeT terrorists, which undertook the Mumbai attacks in 2008, built a global battlefield communication system from a few mobile phones and some commercial software. Yet the knee-jerk reaction of simply demanding access…
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Is Obama Muslim? Increasing numbers of Americans think so
Since 2008 there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Americans who say that Obama is Muslim. I note that this is what people are ‘saying’, especially from the Republican side. Part of me suspects that they probably know what religion Obama is but it is more ‘PC’ to call him Muslim then…
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