Tag: terrorism

Celebrity Assassination

By Dan Nexon

In foreign policy

On January 19, 2020

Douglas London, a retired Senior CIA Operations Officer, has a disturbing – but not in a terribly surprising way – piece at Just Security. The gist is that Trump is obsessed with taking down “celebrity” targets, and in ways that undermine American national security objectives. At CIA, I saw this play out more than once. […]

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Racism in Action

By Erik Loomis

On March 21, 2018

Of course. #watchwhitenesswork pic.twitter.com/6j9bms3tWt — Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) March 21, 2018 Remember kids, it’s not terrorism unless the murderer is brown or black. And if the m

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Bad Jobs and Terrorism

By Erik Loomis

On November 13, 2017

We will likely never know what turns an individual into a murderer. But we do know that poverty and hopelessness can lead people toward violence. It’s worth taking this Joe Allen piece seriously

“Terrorism” in America

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 2, 2017

We already know that the mass murderer in Vegas can’t be a terrorist because he was white. It’s hard to imagine anything that gets closer to the deep, dark heart of racism in America than the automatic exclusion of mass murder by whites as “terrorism,” making that an inherently racialized word. And while this modern […]

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Hobby Lobby: Sorry, We’re New To This Theft Stuff

By Christa Blackmon

On July 6, 2017

Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts store run by conservative, Evangelical Christians has been caught smuggling nearly 5,500 ancient artifacts from the Middle East according to a civil complaint filed by

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Why, Yes, It IS Terrorism

By Melissa Byrnes

On June 19, 2017

Just after midnight, London time, yet another attacker drove a van into a crowd of people, killing one and seriously injuring nine more. All of the victims were Muslims leaving their evening pr

London Grieving But We Want To Hear More About Trump

By Christa Blackmon

In General

On June 5, 2017

Late Saturday night, three men executed a coordinated attack with knives on civilians in the neighboring areas of London Bridge and Borough Market. Police arrived on the scene and closed down the area and took down the attackers within eight minutes of the first emergency call. The final death toll, not including the attackers, is […]

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Counting Bodies (Or How To Effortlessly Minimize Civilian Casualties)

By Christa Blackmon

On April 22, 2017

Twitter compatriot and fellow foreign policy female Sarah Shoker was kind enough to join in to my discussion of civilian casualties from American airstrikes. Sarah is a doctoral candidate in the Depa

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A Number of Gas Grills in Thailand Have Exploded. Thus, We Have Decided to Ban the Importation of Canadian Grilling Utensils.

By Dan Nexon

On March 21, 2017

If you haven’t heard yet, the Department of Homeland Security has ordered carriers to force customers to check a number of electronic devices on flights originating from a number of airports i

I am So So Very Done with Sebastian v. Gorka’s Dissertation

By Dan Nexon

In General

On March 17, 2017

I promised a Part IV, but Foreign Policy asked me to do a piece for them… so I’m pointing you all there. You’ve seen some of the arguments before, but not all of them. For example, it turns out Gorka played a fast one with the—already extremely weak—evidence he uses in his efforts to show a trend toward […]

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The Gorka Dissertation, Part III

By Dan Nexon

On March 1, 2017

I wasn’t that enthusiastic about writing another installment. There’s only so much satisfaction from bashing an obvious vanity dissertation. But now I see that some right-wing media outl

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European Violence versus American Violence

By Erik Loomis

On March 22, 2016

Terrible, awful, no good stuff in Brussels. But for context. Estimated number of deaths in Paris and Brussels attacks combined: 158 Estimated number of deaths due to gun violence in the United States

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