Search: Media,Radical Islam,International Relations,Foreign Affairs,War,Security,USA (6 materials)

Walk the Line: Russia as the New Chair of the UN Security Council

... be one of the more interesting Chairships of the United Nations Security Council, with Russia taking over and being charged with ... ... Power. She has always held relatively adversarial positions toward Russia and recently made major headlines when she accused ... ... Zakharova, the official spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Some of the highlights of her comments were rich ... ... horrific internal dissension, but that there were far too many radical Islamists mixed in liberally with so-called “moderate ...

26.10.2016

American Jihadi: Why Westerners Fight with the Islamic State

Media outlets and government circles both cringe and squirm when the subject of Westerners ... ... seems more myth than reality. Reality in America, if you are not able to hook into upward mobility and access privileged success, is a fairly dull and even depressing situation:... ... beyond anything the West could ever think plausible. Against this backdrop, it is inexcusable that American agents find themselves at a loss to understand the appeal of that...

18.04.2015

The American UAV Attempted Apartheid

... honest answers, based on previous American drone usage, probably carry some severe repercussions for ... ... all. China and Pakistan Most discussions of an immediate drone rival to the United States begin and ... ... feel that the U.S. is purposely compromising its own security and risking the lives of its people? Indeed,... ... develop their own programs. The basic principles of foreign affairs dictate that America could easily be ... ... prominently. It is inconceivable to think a ‘drone war’ between Iran and Saudi Arabia or Egypt would ...

05.04.2015

Twisting in Our Own Tortured Noose: American Verbal Duplicity and Torture

... Americans can be about their own people, country, government, and its foreign affairs. Let's just break this down in simple terms: ... ... that is supposedly now over, the one we used to call the Global War on Terror. So the 'shock' must be to learn ... ... after 9/11 is the bogus semantics game being played out with the media now in the report’s aftermath. “Yes we did torture.... ... alright, maybe I cannot prove that was actually the case, a direct causal link, but I am pretty sure SOME information EVENTUALLY came ...

15.12.2014

Yemen's Special Interests, or, Horton Hears a Houthi

... country since 2004, meaning there has basically been war in Yemen as long as there has been war in Iraq.... ... guy hats’ and ‘bad guy hats’ into foreign affairs: BOTH sides were right in their descriptions.... ... against. The only sustained message given in the media, coming from the government, is that America ... ... government has always made connections and leveled accusations of Iranian involvement and support to the ... ... and a potential danger to their sovereign national security interests in the Gulf and beyond. So while ...

23.07.2014

The Strange Bedfellows of a New Deadlier Iraq

... has already fallen completely into the hands of a radical Islamist terrorist group called ISIS. While ... ... last decade, most of us that deal in academia with international relations have long known that it is ... ... society-building that last long after battles and wars have ended and leave indelible wounds that are ... ... also perhaps as a direct threat to its own national security goals, given the open declarations from ISIS ... ... welcome one and all to the wonderful craziness of foreign affairs in the modern multipolar world. Where ...

01.07.2014

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