I was beat up by left anarchists in Greece. : Anarcho_Capitalism. ISIS Is Not a Terrorist Group. After 9/11, many within the U.S. national security establishment worried that, following decades of preparation for confronting conventional enemies, Washington was unready for the challenge posed by an unconventional adversary such as al Qaeda.
So over the next decade, the United States built an elaborate bureaucratic structure to fight the jihadist organization, adapting its military and its intelligence and law enforcement agencies to the tasks of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. Now, however, a different group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which also calls itself the Islamic State, has supplanted al Qaeda as the jihadist threat of greatest concern. ISIS’ ideology, rhetoric, and long-term goals are similar to al Qaeda’s, and the two groups were once formally allied. So many observers assume that the current challenge is simply to refocus Washington’s now-formidable counterterrorism apparatus on a new target.
But ISIS is not al Qaeda. 7 Things I Learned Reading Every Issue Of ISIS's Magazine. #3.
Here's What Scares ISIS Obviously, Dabiq is propaganda. But you can learn a lot about what scares a given regime by reading its propaganda, and ISIS is no exception. For example: ISIS is having financial trouble right now. Roughly half of their income last year was from robbing Iraqi banks (a one-time source of cash). ISIS has studied the past successes of terrorism all... Symbol of the Red Army Faction/wikimedia A little after midday an explosion went off at a popular downtown hotel in Jerusalem.
How to Understand Israel's National Security Strategy. Israeli national security strategy can seem baffling.
Many observers in the United States and Europe, for example, wonder how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have warned for years that Iran’s nuclear program posed an existential threat to Israel yet has balked at the international community’s attempts to defang it. By raising concerns about the nuclear deal between Iran and five great powers without offering a convincing alternative, Netanyahu has appeared to oppose any solution at all. The Jerusalem Post. Israel is under attack.
Since last week, Hamas terrorists have fired more than 1000 rockets at our civilian centers, launching those rockets from residential enclaves, kindergartens and hospitals, exposing their own children to harm as they try to kill our children. There's no ambiguity among our allies as to Israel’s right to defend her citizens. In fact, many Arab voices, in Egypt and elsewhere, have condemned Hamas, blaming it for the tragedy it is bringing on the heads of its own people. Sadly, the militant, leftist propaganda machine has not changed its tune, looking for every opportunity to make Israel the culprit in a war she did not desire and which she entered reluctantly, after days of increasing provocation. I refer specifically to "Daily Beast" writer Gideon Resnick, who so misrepresented the facts in one of my recent Facebook posts, one has to wonder if his hatred for my country hasn't rendered him outright useless to his website and his readers. 1.
Can anyone deny it? 2. 3. How to Understand Israel's National Security Strategy. Democracy v Psychology: why people keep electing idiots. Politicians.
Their reputation is very poor. In fairness, this is largely their own fault, but it would be foolish to assume every politician is like this. If they were, the whole infrastructure would collapse before you could say “can I claim this on expenses?” Still, everyone assumes they’re despicable, so always assume the worst. Politician enacts a bad policy? The Spiritual Shape of Political Ideas. How it is that we once again find ourselves rooting out sin, shunning heretics, and heralding the end times 1.
The Return of Original Sin. João Galamba: "Dívida pública é impagável e impede crescimento" É um dos deputados socialistas mais ativos e mais duros.
Acusa o governo de "seguidismo acrítico" na relação com a troika. Thucydides. Opening of the work "Thucydides the Athenian wrote the history of the war fought between Athens and Sparta, beginning the account at the very outbreak of the war, in the belief that it was going to be a great war and more worth writing about than any of those which had taken place in the past.
Análise: Gaza, o ‘Orientalismo’ e o extermínio de minorias no Magrebe e Médio Oriente. A faixa de Gaza vê-se, uma vez mais, desde o passado dia 8 de Julho de 2014, envolvida numa espiral de violência.
Israelgaza-conflict-whats-the-use-of-balance-in-such-an-asymmetric-war-9630766. Invariably, the allegations of bias in the BBC's coverage come from both the supporters of Israel and of the Palestinians. Listeners and viewers have complained in equal numbers that the corporation's coverage was biased either towards Israel or towards the Palestinians. BBC bosses say that if complaints are coming from both directions, they must be striking the right balance. But lack of balance is only one of several charges levelled at the broadcaster. Failure to put current events in their proper historical context is another. Israel-Gaza conflict: The secret report that helps Israelis to hide facts - Comment. There is a reason for this enhancement of the PR skills of Israeli spokesmen. Going by what they say, the playbook they are using is a professional, well-researched and confidential study on how to influence the media and public opinion in America and Europe.
Written by the expert Republican pollster and political strategist Dr Frank Luntz, the study was commissioned five years ago by a group called The Israel Project, with offices in the US and Israel, for use by those "who are on the front lines of fighting the media war for Israel". To Understand the Ukranian Protests, Look to Russia. KIEV—This morning, the much-loathed Ukrainian prime minister, Mykolay Azarov, resigned. A few hours later, the parliament voted to cancel the anti-democratic laws that had brought the country on the brink of civil war. For a week, though, both sides in the standoff between security forces and anti-government protesters seemed paralyzed by tunnel vision. Exposição do mundo português. Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker? A cultura de direita em Portugal. A direita portuguesa contemporânea: itinerários socioculturais (1)
CIÊNCIA. JL2. O eduquês. Um ecossistema político-empresarial. Um ecossistemaAn ecosystem of político-empresarialcorporate politicians Portugal 1975-2013 Visualização interactiva das relações de membros de Governos de Portugal com empresas e gruposInteractive visualization of the relations between members of Portuguese governments and companies English Thank you for your interest in this subject. The democratization of democracy - Eurozine Review. Wespennest 165 (2013) "Mind the gap. Construction site gender", the title of a new issue of Wespennest (Austria), implies speaking of "neither crisis nor of backlash". Rather, writes guest-editor Christine Lötscher, it signifies "the wish to shed an alternative light on our lives as gendered beings".
Greece: When the state turns antifa. Greece's powerful far right party, Golden Dawn, is being repressed. This is a detailed account and analysis of the organisation and the actions of the Greek state which, after encouraging it, has now turned on it. Golden Dawn (GD), as we knew it, is over. Their leader N. Right and left are fading away in politics – Steve Fuller. The ideological dichotomy of ‘Right-’ and ‘Left-wing’ has had a good run. The ‘wing’ metaphor itself dates from the seating arrangements in the postrevolutionary French National Assembly, where supporters of King Louis XVI gathered to sit on the president’s right side and revolutionaries sat on his left.
The scheme also recalls a traditional association of the left hand with suspicion (sinister is Latin for ‘left’) and the right with trust — in this case, trust in established authority. More than 30 years ago, a jet-setting Iranian playboy, transhumanist author and corporate consultant argued that this divide was due for a 90-degree rotation. F M Esfandiary — or ‘FM-2030’ as he began calling himself in the 1970s — predicted an axial shift to ‘up-wing’ and ‘down-wing’ political priorities. A culpa não é de António José Seguro.
Será que Portugal pode sair da crise? Anti-Communist propaganda is more awesome than any horror movie poster. It's working out great for Venezuela, isn't it? As medidas de austeridade na Irlanda e em Portugal. Right and left are fading away in politics – Steve Fuller. Falkvinge on Infopolicy - Discussions on information policy and civil liberties. Israel - ConexaoIsrael - 18 anos depois. Allies Spy on Each Other. Breathless coverage of the revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been tracking allied foreign leaders aside, spying on allies -- even friendly ones -- is nothing new in international politics. Are We All On Crack? How Rob Ford Keeps His Job. Greece: When the state turns antifa. The Rise or Fall of the American Empire - By Robert Kagan, Gideon Rachman, and Daniel W. Drezner.
Blogs - Adam Curtis - THE BABY AND THE BAATH WATER. On the NSA. Politics Makes Morons of Us All. Microsoft Word - Maduro - Final.docx - 7-Maduro.pdf. IGSN 9 - Whose Gramsci? Right-wing Gramscism. Antonio Gramsci, schooling and education.