By Ivan Eland.     Lately, the tactics of local police departments have been in the news because of mass shootings at Orlando and Fort Myers nightclubs, questionable police killings of civilians in suburban St. Paul and Baton [...]

By Gary Grappo.   Globalization has become bad word of late. It has been the punch line for the “Leave” supporters of Brexit, a campaign platform—if indeed he has such a thing—for US presidential candidate Donald Trump, [...]

By Robert David Steele Vivas.   Had God planned for a trillion years, he (or she, give me a break) could not have created a more opportune moment for the Libertarian Party, a moment that is going up in smoke as the Libertarian candidates [...]

  By Gary Grappo.     It has been the punch line for the “Leave” supporters of Brexit, a campaign platform—if indeed he has such a thing—for US presidential candidate Donald Trump, a Bernie Sanders throw line [...]

By Ijaz  Khan.     It is clear that relations between Pakistan and the United States are deteriorating once again. The May 2016 drone strike that killed Mullah Mansour in Balochistan ushered in another round of questions about the [...]

  By Stephen Bryen.   The new Russian base in Iran is a strategic asset for Moscow and may be a game changer in the power balance in the Middle East. The United States and Russia are competing for influence on a global basis.  In [...]

By Jeff Berwick. (1)  (1) Europe is convulsed by Islamic immigration, Brexit and a brutal economic state-of-affairs that are making it difficult for the average European citizen to live anything like a normal life or plan for the future. Germany [...]

Robert J. Burrowes     I sometimes wonder whether one of the ways in which ‘Amercian exceptionalism’ manifests is that many US scholars and others are unable to consider the contributions of those who are not from the [...]

By Aminesh Roul.     The Maldives, the Muslim-majority archipelago country in the Indian Ocean, is going through a tumultuous time, facing increasing Islamist activities at home, an exodus of radicalized youth to join the jihad in [...]

By James Hyde.     The New York Times reports that in the latest release of Clinton documents, billionaire donors to the Clinton Foundation tried to curry favors from a responsive State Department when Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary [...]

By Animesh Roul.     A seemingly organized sectarian violence against Pakistan’s beleaguered minority Shi’a community has plumbed new depths in recent months with a series of bombings of Shi’a worshipping places and targeted [...]

By Robert Steele.     None of the candidates have a coherent national policy matrix in part because they don’t want one — their staffs are not designed to actually create coherent national policy that addresses all threats and [...]

By Rick francona.     I appeared earlier today on CNN Newsroom – Martin Savidge in the anchor chair. Martin and I have been on the air together before – he is an excellent interviewer, and today was no exception. The [...]

  By Aminesh Roul.     Mohamed Muhsin Sharfaz Nilam was the first known Sri Lankan member of the Islamic State to be killed in Syria (Source: Dabiq).   In recent months, there has been growing evidence of actual and attempted [...]

By Christine Axsmith. Trump is No Hitler You can tell the level of Trump panic by the number of comparisons to Hitler in your Facebook feed. I call it the Hitler index. Not to worry, Trump is not another Hitler, will not become another Hitler, [...]

By Aminesh Roul.       It is increasingly evident that each time the relations between India and Pakistan improve, India-focused jihadist groups from across the Pakistani border attempt to disrupt it with attacks in the Indian [...]

  By Christine Axsmith.   The Story of Cocaine in our World Everyone Does Cocaine The book first assaults our misperceptions. To dismantle general denial about the levels of popular drug use, the author takes us through a catalog [...]

By Animesh Roul.     Islamic State has found some success in recruiting youths from India (source: Indian Express) A series of arrests this year in India has highlighted how India has been unable to escape its overtures as Islamic [...]

  By Rick Francona.     Was intelligence reporting by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the combatant command responsible for American military operations in the Middle East, skewed to fit more optimistic assessments of [...]

  James M. Dorsey.     Abu Otaiba, the nom du guerre of a self-taught imam and Islamic State (IS) recruiter in Jordan, uses soccer to attract recruits.   “We take them to farms, or private homes. There we discuss and we [...]