Archive for the ‘Terrorism’ Category
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Terror: The Terrible Numbers
16 Nov 2015The attacks in Paris are most recently on our minds, and for many of us, more heavily there than attacks…
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1,000 Times Goodnight – a Film about Temptations (of death)
14 Apr 2015I am a great admirer of Juliet Binoche, as many movie goers are; if she’s in a film I’ll go out of…
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The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
09 Jun 2011Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25…
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In The Country of Men – Hisham Matar, Libya
10 May 2011The news from Libya this month is increasingly grim. It turns out it is extremely difficult merely to protect civilians.…
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Dangerous Substances
06 Sep 2007The brouhaha that erupted in mid-August over the deadly chemicals found in a UN office, purportedly left behind by a…
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Alabama Terrorists
06 May 2007You’ll remember the articles linked to last week about a raid on a group of Alabama terrorists. Well, it turns…
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No War on Terror
03 May 2007John Edwards says he will stop using the “War on Terror” formulation of the Bush crowd. “It’s been used to…
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Massacre
16 Apr 2007The killing of 33 at Virginia Tech shuts down the mind for a moment or two. No, they must have…
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Cluster Bombs: Good!
24 Feb 2007Cluster bombs. If only they could be teletransported into the neighborhoods of those who think they are such great weapons….…
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Columbia: Para Military Politicos
16 Dec 2006$700 million US taxpayer dollars poured into Colombia in 2006 — most of it for the military, most of that…
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School of Assassins
28 Nov 2006While thousands were battling over the purchase of an expensive toy all over the US of A, more than 22,000…
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Terrorism: Unreported
17 Nov 2006It sure seems strange to me that this little episode has gone widely unreported. Last month, one Barbara March, a…