topic: Islamic State

Terrorism Craves an Audience and We are Playing into the Islamic State's Hands by Watching
October 2, 2014
The well-known US security expert, Brian Jenkins, famously declared in 1974, that “ terrorism is theatre ”. And over the last few weeks,...
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On ISIS
June 20, 2014
Media coverage of recent military advances by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is misguided. Many analysts and pundits have focused...
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Iraq has been Broken
June 11, 2014
Today, an Iraqi interior ministry official said, "The city of Mosul is outside the control of the state and at the mercy of the militants...