The author is Director of the Center of Security Studies and of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He worked for many years at RAND Corporation. His books on terrorism have been translated into several languages. He is often invited by mainstream media to comment on terrorism issues. While utterly useless as a textbook on terrorism, Bruce Hoffman’s book can be profitably used by aspiring academic prostitutes.
Read more . . .http://electronicintifada.net/content/egypts-propagandists-and-gaza-massacre/13662 Egypt’s propagandists and the Gaza massacre Joseph Massad The Electronic Intifada 29 July 2014 Sisi’s “ceasefire” offered a week into the Gaza slaughter was spurned by Palestinians in favor of a valiant military resistance. (ActiveStills) As Israel’s murderous machine … Read more . . .
An alleged spectacular Iranian bomb plot uncovered in Kenya in 2012 has all the hallmarks of a Western intelligence “false flag” operation – with the aim of tightening international oil sanctions even further on Iran.
Read more . . .ICTR Judge Arbour suggested that the ICTR’s mandate only extended to events within the genocide, which in her view began ‘after’ the shooting down of President Habyarimana’s plane, an event that triggered the atrocities. Personnel of the ICTR were accordingly forbidden to investigate that plane crash.
Read more . . .A recent poll asked people in Britain how many Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The answers they gave were shocking. A majority said that fewer than 10,000 had been killed. Scientific studies report that up to a million Iraqi men, women and children died in an inferno lit by the British government and its ally in Washington. That’s the equivalent of the genocide in Rwanda. And the carnage goes on. Relentlessly.
Read more . . .On a leaked tape, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is heard to say that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees any attack as an “opportunity” to increase Turkish presence in Syria, where it has staunchly supported the anti-Assad rebels
Read more . . .For the first time in decades, there have even been murmurings about the possibility of the country splitting into two, with the poorer northeast ceding from a generally richer and more urban south centred on Bangkok.
Read more . . .The division of Libya into three separate countries is part of the US-NATO imperial design. It is part of a project shared by the U.S., Britain, Italy, and France.
The NATO war launched against Libya in March 2011 was geared towards the breakup of the country into three separate entities.
How German leaders conspired with the U.S. and Syria in covering-up a secret operation
Read more . . .The debate we need to have Henri A. Kissinger, 8 April 2008 (International Herald Tribune) The long-predicted American debate about national security policy has yet to occur. Essentially tactical issues have overwhelmed the most important challenge a new administration will … Read more . . .
And with the king, five plane-loads of advisers The Telegraph, October 30, 2007 By Caroline Gammell The House of Saud is not known to scrimp when its principal players go travelling. Arriving at Heathrow yesterday afternoon, it is understood that … Read more . . .
New Realities in the Media Age: A Conversation with Donald Rumsfeld Speaker: Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense Presider: Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman, American Express Company February 17, 2006 Council on Foreign Relations New York, NY KENNETH CHENAULT: … Read more . . .
The Syria Endgame: Strategic Stage in the Pentagon’s Covert War on IranBy Mahdi Darius NazemroayaGlobal Research, January 07, 2013http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-syria-endgame-strategic-stage-in-the-pentagons-covert-war-on-iran/5317907Since the kindling of the conflict inside Syria in 2011, it was recognized, by friend and foe alike, that the events in … Read more . . .
November 01, 2012Assuaging the the guilt-pangs of Iran sanctions through spinby Cyrus Safdari In light of reports that the US-imposed sanctions on Iran have started to negatively affect innocent people including the sick and elderly who are deprived of needed … Read more . . .
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/syrias-many-new-friends-are-a-self-interested-bunch#full Syria’s many new friends are a self-interested bunch Charles GlassJul 11, 2012 Last week France hosted the third conference of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People, a collection of 107 countries and organisations modelled on the Friends … Read more . . .
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MJ18Dj06.htmlOct 18, 2011THE ROVING EYEObama, the king of AfricaBy Pepe Escobar If United States President Barack Obama really wanted to get rid of the new bogeyman du jour, Uganda’s Joseph Kony – a former altar boy turned mystical Christian prophet/politico, … Read more . . .
The Protest Movement in Egypt: “Dictators” do not Dictate, They Obey Orders by Michel Chossudovsky, February 2011, Global Research The Mubarak regime could collapse in the a face of a nationwide protest movement… What prospects for Egypt and the Arab … Read more . . .
PARTITION BY CENSUS We, the undersigned, defending the right of Iraq to independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, rejecting the attempts of Iraqi puppets promoted by the US occupation to trade the national rights of Iraqis and to institutionalise via … Read more . . .
BALKANIZATION OF PAKISTAN BY SHAHID R. SIDDIQI Re-mapping of the Muslim world is under spotlight of American strategists, working on redrawing its borders along ethnic lines and creating new political entities in the name of justice for “oppressed … Read more . . .
The Deadly Blast in Islamabad Why was the Marriott Targeted? By TARIQ ALI http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq09232008.html The deadly blast in Islamabad was a revenge attack for what has been going on over the past few weeks in the badlands of the North-West … Read more . . .