Al Qaeda uses the same web gimmicks as games and social networks to rally its base.
Al Qaeda Has Its Own “Superusers” and “Badges”
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War & Peace
Enhanced Drone-Strike Accuracy Makes Accidents Look That Much More Suspicious
If U.S. is improving drone-strike accuracy in Pakistan, what happened on March 17 when 41, including women and children were killed?
New Nuclear Project Distracts From Existing Safety (Read: Seismic) Issues
Imagine if a plant that produces a nuclear weapon’s pit, in which the chain reaction occurs, were rocked by an earthquake?
Nuclear Disarmament Can Be a Very Disarming Experience
Skeptics about Global Zero fail to foresee the momentum it might generate.
Want to Die in a Fire? No? Then You’re Opposed to Nuclear Weapons
Those who support keeping nuclear weapons as a deterrent forget that nuclear war means death by fire for millions of us.
African Solutions for Cote d’Ivoire: The Deception of ‘No Solution’
Despite Africa’s intention to empower its continental and regional organisations, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States have failed to propose a determined solution for the post-electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. Instead the prospect of a new civil war looms on the Ivoirian horizon.
Postcard from…Libya
Sixty years after the conclusion of World War II in North Africa, destroyed European weaponry once again litters Libya’s coastal roads as the civil conflict there enters its second month. But Europeans are not fighting on the ground in the former Italian colony. Rather, their arms are. In Libyan hands, European-made arms are part of a proxy battle that demonstrates the unintended consequences of the international arms trade.
Robert Kaplan Continues to Flog His Tribal Ruler Meme With Gaddafi, Gbagbo and Saleh
You might think that the poor critical reception he received for his book about tribal politics would make Robert Kaplan think twice before resurrecting the “warrior” leitmotif in relation to Gaddafi, Gbagbo, and Saleh.
The No-Doctrine President
Zoologists get pretty excited when they discover an unusual animal. They happily devote many hours to the task of classifying the beast and, if it qualifies as a new species, giving it a name. A great deal of money and prestige rides on these scientific endeavors. The same applies to the political sphere, where new and unusual creatures frequently turn up. When it comes to Barack Obama, however, political zoologists remain undecided whether he is a new kind of political animal and if his foreign policy represents a unique departure from the same old, same old.
Other Obstacles to Disarmament Exist Besides States Holding on to Nukes
There are other obstacles to nuclear disarmament than how anal states are about the number of nuclear weapons they have.