The Islamic State’s center of gravity

How to make Isis fall on its own sword

By in Fort Leavenworth, Tuesday 16 September 2014 11.00 EDT   The Islamic State (Isis) is without question a very brutal extremist group with origins in the insurgency…  [more]

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Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics

Bingo! Here’s another force of evil to be ‘vanquished’

By Robert Fisk, Thursday 11 September 2014   Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh…  [more]

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The harvest to come #2

Dear editor, Have you been hearing a hollow clanging in the middle of the night? Faint, but growing louder in that gathering twilight before the fitful dreams of midnight’s slumber?  Could it be the sound of the dark lord himself,…  [more]

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The ideology, not the group

The sad legacy of 9/11: Isis and al-Qaida are stronger than ever

By , Thursday 11 September 2014   In the years leading up to the attacks of 11 September 2001, the west saw al-Qaida rising but didn’t…  [more]

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The harvest to come

Dear editor, Have you heard a distant clanging in the middle of the night?  It’s the sound of the dark lord himself, Darth Cheney, thumping his bionic chest as the scent of yet another bloody Iraq war reaches his flared…  [more]

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What we’re up against

Twitter Agent Provocateur “Ahimla Jihada” Exposed As Fake

By Shibli Zaman, September 3, 2014     Recently, Twitter was abuzz with its latest agent provocateur tweeting in support of the orcs of our time, ISIS. I’ve emblazoned the image…  [more]

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Visions of ethnic purity and supremacy

What a rising demand for the sperm of IDF soldiers and a “fun” questionnaire reveal about Israel

By Ilan Pappé, Sunday 17 August 2014   The public debate in this country about the Gaza crisis has some familiar features.…  [more]

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