Posts Tagged ‘ 9/11 ’

Iran and the Prospect of Domestic Terrorism

Mar 6th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Gary Gibson, Introduction... "We can kill you whenever we want to." We confess to a gross distortion. Those are not Attorney General Eric Holder's exact words. But we vigorously insist that they were his meaning. In the wake of the the president's murder-by-drone of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, the Attorney general explains why ...read more

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Victory in Iraq?

Dec 16th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
There is no peace treaty, no humbled enemy, no national glory and certainly no newfound freedom. The "liberation" of Iraq leaves a widely hated puppet dictator in charge with a mandate "to see that process of strengthened central authority continue," in the words of a U.S. cable revealed by WikiLeaks. Still, ...read more

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Make War Your Friend, Part I

Jan 24th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
With the advent of yet another year, we take a close look at the most powerful and least welcome driver of geo-politics-war. As in the misnamed yet overarching War on Terror and in the more specific War in Iraq and, maybe, coming to a theater near you, the expanding New ...read more

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