Rethinking about the European security model?
By Syed Qamar Rizvi.
The recent terrorist attacks in Brussels have proven that Europe is facing an era of unprecedented challenges to its security architecture. The migration crisis, the ever approaching armed conflicts and [...]
Truce in Syria collapses as pro-regime forces move on Aleppo
By Rick Francona.
It was a noble effort to staunch the bloodshed in Syria – by some estimates the war has claimed over 450,000 lives – but the truce was doomed from the start. The terms of the “cessation of [...]
Tracing The Literature of Extremist Women: Part I
By Farhana Qazi.
Terrorism has always been a battle of ideas, reflecting a desire for immediate attention and change in the international world order. Like men, women leave their homes, families and communities to join terrorist [...]
Our Day of Reckoning
By Richard Mills.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
The second half of the 20th century saw the biggest increase in the world’s population in human history.
Our population [...]
Trump’s Vice-President?
By Nelson Hultberg.
Nothing is ever certain in politics. Life’s prompting events are too transitory and human nature is too capricious. But whenever a political candidate is closing in on his party’s presidential nomination, [...]
Turkey Is Playing a Dangerous Game With ISIS as It Seeks Islamic Glory
By Riyadh Mohammed.
If you want to be a dictator, the first thing you do is control the press in the country you’re aiming to rule. That’s what Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been doing ever since he was elected President of [...]
Obama in the Gulf: Opportunity in Troubled Relations
By James M. Dorsey.
President Barak Obama has a challenge and an opportunity when he meets this week first with Saudi King Salman and then with the leaders of the six Gulf states. His challenge is to manage increasingly fundamentally [...]
International law upholds Pakistan’s Kashmir argument
By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.
Pakistan upholds the right of the people of Jammu and Kashmir to self-determination in accordance with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. These resolutions of 1948 and 1949 provide [...]
B-52 deployment to the Middle East – let’s drop the term “carpet bombing”
By Rick Francona.
USAF B-52 bombers arriving at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar
The first U.S. Air Force B-52 heavy bombers deployed to the Persian Gulf to participate in Operation Inherent Resolve have arrived at [...]
Keeping The Islamic State In Check In Libya
By Christine Petre.
Libyan soldiers stop a car at a checkpoint in Wadi Bey, west of the city of Sirte, which is held by Islamic State militants, Feb. 23, 2016. (photo by REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny)
After several failed attempts, [...]
Referendum Reveals Blue-Red Divide in Netherlands
By Nick Ottens.
Big multiethnic cities and university towns support the treaty with Ukraine. The rest of the country does not.
Originally published at the Atlantic Sentinel, April 7, 2016.
Wednesday’s referendum in the Netherlands [...]
From the wells Nato Summit To Warsaw Nato Summit
by Silviu Craescu .
The heads of state and governments who attended the NATO Council Summit held in Wales on September 4 and 5, 2014 reached a mutual understanding concerning the next NATO moves.
It was acknowledged [...]
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
By Nelson Hultberg.
What are the sources of the interminable wars throughout the world today? Why are militant Muslims terrorizing Europe and America? What has caused the turmoil in Ukraine? Is Vladimir Putin desirous of reigniting the [...]
UN’s indoctrinated defense against violent extremism
By Qamar Syed.
This week’s conference in Geneva(April 7-8) was organized to help build political momentum in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the strategy and its review and to carry forward the debate that the General [...]
International law: Nuclear security & use of nuclear weapons
By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.
The Nuclear Security Summit that just ended on Friday in Washington, D.C. wrangled over several thorny nuclear proliferation and terrorism issues, and involved over 50 countries. But the two countries [...]
Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE): Creating the Academy, Economy, Government, and Society of the Future
By Robert David Steele.
ABSTRACT
I have decided to focus on the possibilities of integrating True Cost Economics, Holistic Analytics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE). This concept is human-centric, rooted in advanced digital [...]
Turkey Is Playing a Dangerous Game With ISIS as It Seeks Islamic Glory
By Riyadh Mohammed.
If you want to be a dictator, the first thing you do is control the press in the country you’re aiming to rule. That’s what Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been doing ever since he was elected [...]
AN IMF PLOT, GREECE, THE EU and BREXIT
By Jon Kofas.
On 19 March 2016, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission team for Greece held a meeting on how to force Greece into further austerity measures. These would entail deeper wage cuts, more social security cuts, [...]
Indian espionage in Pakistan versus international law
By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.
Unnerved by the fact that one of its leading “Monkeys”, in service senior Raw officer Kulbashan Yadav, has got into the hands of Pakistan, New Delhi is frustratingly trying to get consular access which [...]
Near East And The Nearer Brussels: Eur(h)ope Possible? – OpEd
By Anis Bey.
European Union flag
There is a claim constantly circulating the EU: ‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?… That much comes from a cluster of European nation-states that love to romanticize [...]