Pakistan’s Security Dilemmas
By Syad Manzar Abbas Zaidi.
INTRODUCTION
The security challenges facing Pakistan are complex and intertwined with issues relating to identity, modernization, globalization and a specific set of regional and geographical circumstances. [...]
Security Analysis of Accountable Anonymous Group Communication in Dissent
By Yale University.
1 Introduction.
Anonymous participation is often considered a basic right in free societies (Yale Law Journal 1961). The limited form of anonymity the Internet provides is a widely cherished feature (Teich, [...]
The Pentagon releases studies that suggest Christians and Roman Catholics as religious extremist
The Daily Journalist commentary.
These are a few study groups by the name of The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Alliance Defending Freedom organizations that provide information to the Pentagon, and U.S. Homeland Security [...]
Border agency report reveals internal struggles with corruption
By Andrew Becker: Border and National Security Reporter.
Turf battles, internal dysfunction and other troubles have left U.S. Customs and Border Protection grasping to get a handle on corruption and other misconduct within its ranks, [...]
ISIS Analysis of IAEA Report on Syria: IAEA Concludes Syria “Very Likely” Built a Reactor
By Paul Branan, Institute for Science and International Security.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has released its May 24, 2011 report on the implementation of NPT safeguards in Syria. The report outlines in detail [...]
The FARC: the Peace Process and the Potential Criminalisation of the Guerrillas
By Insight Crime.
1. Executive Summary.
Once again the possibility of ending nearly 50 years of civil conflict is being dangled before Colombia. While the vast majority of the Colombian public want to see peace, for themselves and especially [...]
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons and Missiles: Status and Trends
By FAS.
Background
In the mid-1990s, the primary threat posed by NBC weapons to the United States shifted from an all-out U.S.-Russian strategic exchange to less overwhelming, but more numerous and perhaps less predictable [...]
Eastern Congo: Why Stabilisation Failed
By the International Crisis Group.
Since Bosco Ntaganda’s mutiny in April 2012 and the subsequent creation of the 23 March rebel movement (M23), violence has returned to the Kivus. However today’s crisis bears [...]
Mines and Mineral Occurrences of Afghanistan
The Daily Journalist Opinion.
The War in Afghanistan was possibly ‘partly caused’ to the discovery by the Pentagon of vast amounts of mineral reserves found all over the country. When the Pentagon finds mineral wealth, its [...]
PROTON, CLEARWATER and LEXIS-NEXIS
By Anonymous.
Given the use of constitutionally repulsive practices by the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies, this information is being made public to educate and inform so they might arm [...]
Iran and Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Military Dynamics of Nonproliferation
From Harvard University by Mansour Salsabili.
1. Introduction
There are five military reasons why weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) are not an appropriate class of weapons for Iran. Careful examination of these [...]
The Scottish Economy Report they Classified Top Secret
By The Scottish Economic Planning Department. 1975.
At the meeting which you held last week on various aspects of North Sea oil and devolution I suggested that I might send in the attached paper in the hope that [...]
Zambia Human Rights Report
By State Gov.
Zambia is a constitutional republic governed by a democratically elected president and a unicameral national assembly. International and local observers considered national elections held in September 2011 to be generally [...]
Sudan And South Sudan: China and conflict-affected states
By Larry Attree (Safe World).
This case study draws on evidence gathered through desk review and field research in Juba, Central Equatoria State, and Bentiu, Unity State, South Sudan, Khartoum, Sudan and Beijing and Shanghai, China in [...]
Overview of corruption in Pakistan
By Transparency International.
Summary:
Corruption remains a substantial obstacle for Pakistan where it is still perceived to be widespread and systemic. Petty corruption in the form of bribery is prevalent in law enforcement, [...]
The future of AlQaeda: Results of a foresight project
By The Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
What would AlQaeda look like in 2018?
Challenged for more than a decade by a determined global counter-terrorism (CT) campaign, Al-Qaeda (AQ) is facing an uncertain future. The death of [...]
Nicky Hager Appearance before the European Parliament ECHELON Committee
By Nicky Hager.
What is project Echelon?
Good morning. I am very pleased to be with your committee, and I think [...]
As U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue commences this week, study finds religious groups are harassed in four-in-five countries
By Brian J. Grim.
For two years running, religious groups were harassed in four-in-five countries (81%) worldwide, according to a recent Pew Research study. This finding is notable as government representatives from the world’s [...]
Report of the UK Intelligence Services Commissioner
By The Rt Hon Sir Mark Waller.
Foreword
My Appointment
I was appointed by the Prime Minister to the post of Intelligence Services Commissioner on 1 January 2011 under section 59 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 [...]
Scenes from an epidemic: A Report on the SCI’s Investigation of Prescription Pill and Heroin Abuse
By New Jersey Investigative Commission.
Executive Summary.
Stopping regularly in downtown Newark, the nondescript minivans drew a select clientele: homeless Medicaid recipients and drug addicts who had been told by flyers [...]