Terror: The Terrible Numbers
The attacks in Paris are most recently on our minds, and for many of us, more heavily there than attacks …
Category Archives: Terrorism
1,000 Times Goodnight – a Film about Temptations (of death)
I am a great admirer of Juliet Binoche, as many movie goers are; if she’s in a film I’ll go out of …
The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25 …
In The Country of Men – Hisham Matar, Libya
The news from Libya this month is increasingly grim. It turns out it is extremely difficult merely to protect civilians. …
Dangerous Substances
The brouhaha that erupted in mid-August over the deadly chemicals found in a UN office, purportedly left behind by a …
Alabama Terrorists
You’ll remember the articles linked to last week about a raid on a group of Alabama terrorists. Well, it turns …
No War on Terror
John Edwards says he will stop using the “War on Terror” formulation of the Bush crowd. “It’s been used to …
Massacre
The killing of 33 at Virginia Tech shuts down the mind for a moment or two. No, they must have …
Cluster Bombs: Good!
Cluster bombs. If only they could be teletransported into the neighborhoods of those who think they are such great weapons…. …
Columbia: Para Military Politicos
$700 million US taxpayer dollars poured into Colombia in 2006 — most of it for the military, most of that …
School of Assassins
While thousands were battling over the purchase of an expensive toy all over the US of A, more than 22,000 …
Terrorism: Unreported
It sure seems strange to me that this little episode has gone widely unreported. Last month, one Barbara March, a …