Terrorism

The American Empire: Murder Inc.

January 5, 2016 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Terrorism, War crimes, Wars and Militarism

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - Terror, intimidation and violence are the glue that holds empire together. Aerial bombardment, drone and missile attacks, artillery and mortar strikes, targeted assassinations, massacres, the detention of tens of thousands, death squad killings, torture, wholesale surveillance, extraordinary renditions, curfews, propaganda, a loss of civil liberties and pliant political puppets are the grist of our wars and proxy wars. Countries we seek to dominate, from Indonesia and Guatemala to Iraq and Afghanistan, are intimately familiar with these brutal mechanisms of control. But the reality of empire rarely reaches the American public.

Terror, Climate Chaos, Financial Crisis: Costs Of ‘Doing Business’

December 29, 2015 Nafeez Ahmed, www.middleeasteye.net Educate! Climate Change, Finance and Economy, Terrorism

By Nafeez Ahmed for Middle East Eye - Fifteen years into the 21st century, humanity has made little progress in addressing major threats to civilisation. In fact, on terrorism, climate change and the economy, we’re not making progress at all, but making things worse. The "war on terror" has been waged for 14 years since 9/11, but far from terror being defeated, it has metastasized into a regional quasi-state occupying parts of Iraq and Syria. Despite the much-lauded "binding" climate accord agreed in Paris, the governments most responsible for carbon emissions are still avoiding the reductions necessary to prevent us breaching crucial tipping points into dangerous climate change.

French Constitutional Amendment On State Of Emergency

December 25, 2015 Alex Lantier, www.wsws.org Educate! Citizenship, France, State of Emergcy, Terrorism

By Alex Lantier for WSWS. French President François Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls presented to the council of ministers yesterday an amendment inscribing the state of emergency in the French constitution. Even the fragmentary initial reports that emerged from the meeting show that it opened the way to the lasting imposition of police-state rule in France. The amendment that Hollande proposed would allow the president to call a state of emergency the duration of which would be set by legislation. The amendment places no restrictions on how long a state of emergency parliamentarians could decide to allow. It also permits a stepped-up use by police of their already enormous powers of repression and electronic surveillance of the population. Moreover, by proposing to extend the deprivation of nationality to dual nationals condemned for “terrorist crimes,” including dual nationals born French, the ruling Socialist Party (PS) is openly affirming its sympathies for the ideas of the neo-fascist National Front (FN).

Dealing With Terrorism Without Going To War

December 5, 2015 Colin Archer, www.uslaboragainstwar.org Strategize! Anti-War, Terrorism

By Colin Archer for International Peace Bureau - The statement below from the International Peace Bureau offers alternatives to military action to respond to terrorism and a strategy for resolving the crisis in Syria and Iraq where ISIS, al Qaeda, al Nusra Front and other terrorist organizations operate. The USLAW website has a wealth of other resources. Start with the home page and listen to the audio recording of Phyllis Bennis. Order a copy of her new book on ISIS. It offers detailed proposals along the lines of the IPB statement. Another Bennis resource is an article: Six Steps Short of War to Beat ISIS

War On Terror Is War On Youth: Paris And Impoverishment Of Future

November 30, 2015 Henry A. Giroux and Brad Evans, www.riseuptimes.org Educate! Terrorism, Wars and Militarism

By Henry A. Giroux and Brad Evans for Truthout - There is a revealing similarity between the attacks on September 11, 2001 – when airplanes were flown into the twin towers, killing thousands of people – and the attacks in Paris, in which over 130 people were killed and hundreds wounded. Yet, what they have in common has been largely overlooked in the mainstream and alternative media’s coverage of the more recent terrorist attacks. While both assaults have been rightly viewed as desperate acts of alarming terrorism, what has been missed is that both acts of violence were committed by young men. This is not a minor issue because unraveling this similarity provides the possibility for addressing the conditions that made such attacks possible.

‘An Act Of War’ And Other Unfortunate Phrases

November 22, 2015 Professor Richard Jackson, www.richardjacksonterrorismblog Educate! Paris, Terrorism, Violence, Wars and Militarism

By Richard Jackson of Terrorism Blog. Watching the terrible events unfolding during and after the Paris terrorist attacks, I have a helpless sense of deja vu. It reminds me of the movie, Groundhog Day, only much more deadly and depressing. It feels like we have been here so many times before: the same anguished images, the same suffering, the same questions and sense of disbelief. Most depressingly, listening to the rhetoric coming from Western leaders, I can’t see any way we can avoid experiencing the same day again – whether in a few months or years time. As I explained in my book Writing the War on Terrorism (2005, Manchester University Press) about the language of counterterrorism, when the 11 September 2001 attacks occurred, President Bush said that they were “an act of war”. This was a key rhetorical move and it led the US to launch the global war on terrorism which has caused so much suffering, violence and counter-violence.

The Paris Attacks And The White Lives Matter Movement

November 21, 2015 Ajamu Baraka, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Paris, Terrorism

By Ajamu Baraka for Black Agenda Report - I received a message from one of my friends in Lebanon who asked with feigned curiosity why the U.S. media only gave a passing reference to the bombing in Beirut before turning to non-stop coverage of the attacks in Paris. Of course, like many of us she already knew the answer – that in the consciousness of the White West there is a premium on the value of White life. Acknowledging this fact is neither new nor should it be particularly controversial. Its obviousness is apparent to anyone who is honest. We saw it in the response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks where the world (meaning the White West) engaged in a gratuitous expression of moral outrage against terrorism.

Air Force Whistleblowers: Mismanaged Drone Program Fuels Terrorism

November 19, 2015 Ed Pilkington and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com Resist! Barack Obama, Paris, Terrorism

By Ed Pilkington and Ewen MacAskill for The Guardian - The letter, addressed to Obama, defense secretary Ashton Carter and CIA chief John Brennan, links the signatories’ anxieties directly to last Friday’s terror attacks in Paris. They imply that the abuse of the drone program is causally connected to the outrages. “We cannot sit silently by and witness tragedies like the attacks in Paris, knowing the devastating effects the drone program has overseas and at home,” they wrote. The joint statement – from the group who have experience of operating drones over Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones...

Coverage Of Russian Plane Bombing Shows Difference An Enemy Makes

November 19, 2015 Jim Naureckas, www.fair.org Educate! Russia, Terrorism

By Jim Naureckas for FAIR - FAIR (11/13/15, 11/16/15,11/17/15) has noted the contrast between US media coverage of Paris and Beirut after the militant ISIS movement claimed responsibility for terror attacks in both cities. It may be even more illuminating to look at media reactions to another ISIS-claimed disaster, the bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268, a Russian tourist plane that went down over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on October 31, killing all 217 people on board. When the victims of terror come from an official enemy state, it’s clear that different media rules apply.

We Are All Everyone: Lessons Of The Paris Attacks

November 17, 2015 Rich Rubenstein, www.rich-rubenstein.com Educate! Paris, Terrorism

By Rich Rubenstein for Rich Rubenstein Blog - In the aftermath of the Islamic State’s cruel and vicious attacks in Paris, one is tempted to declare, “Nous sommes tous Paris” (“We are all Paris”). Before November 14, however, virtually no one in the West was heard to declare, “We are all Beirut” – or Baghdad, Ankara, or Moscow – notwithstanding that civilians living in all these places were killed en masse by IS militants. Nor have we ever identified ourselves in slogans or Facebook profiles with the innocent Shia, Yazidis, Assyrian Christians, and other non-Westerners executed as apostates by fighters of the Islamic State.

Non-French War Deaths Matter

November 16, 2015 Staff, www.worldbeyondwar.org Educate! France, Terrorism

By Staff of World Beyond War - We are all France. Apparently. Though we are never all Lebanon or Syria or Iraq for some reason. Or a long, long list of additional places. We are led to believe that U.S. wars are not tolerated and cheered because of the color or culture of the people being bombed and occupied. But let a relatively tiny number of people be murdered in a white, Christian, Western-European land, with a pro-war government, and suddenly sympathy is the order of the day. “This is not just an attack on the French people, it is an attack on human decency and all things that we hold dear,” says U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham.

What Preceded The Islamic State Attacks In France

November 16, 2015 Moon Of Alabama, www.informationclearinghouse.info Educate! France, Terrorism

By Moon Of Alabama for Information Clearing House - November 14, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Moon Of Alabama" - This happened last night: At least 120 dead in Paris attacks, Hollande declares emergency. Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris on Friday, killing at least 120 people in a deadly rampage that a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack.

Newsletter: Youth Recognize Their Power & Build It

November 15, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, Democracy, Fight for 15, Immigration, Occupy, Paris, Peace, Plutocracy, Racism, Student Activism, Student Debt, Student Protests, Terrorism, Tuition, Wages, Youth

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Youth are rising up. They have been showing leadership on multiple fronts of struggle. They see a broken system dysfunctional government that is corrupted by money. It is unable to respond to the crisis of climate change; the reality of systemic racism; students graduating with massive debt in a poor job market and so many other issues. Politicians aren’t the only voices with power. We have power, too. And we have more power when we act together. Young people don’t live single-issue lives. We live at the intersection of the most pressing problems today. Our movements are connected and our purpose is huge. Martin Luther King described the civil rights movement as a time when the “people moved their leaders, not the leaders who moved the people.” If enough of us push together toward a new vision, the world will begin to move. That is a message we should all take to heart. We should continue to exercise our power, continue to fight injustices and as we do so, our power will grow.

Paris: Western Nations Bring This Onto Themselves

November 15, 2015 Patrick L. Smith, www.salon.com Educate! Paris, Terrorism, Wars and Militarism

By Patrick L. Smith for Salon. What has just occurred in Paris is an affront to all of us. But to invoke universal values is to sustain the error of understanding, of recognition, of acknowledgement, that lies at the heart of all this incessant hatred, attack and counterattack. We—and hardly least the French and the Americans—have articulated such values well and often enough since the late 18th century. But there is little ground to claim that they have determined how we have acted in the Middle East and treated its people for roughly the same period of time. What has not followed is too familiar. No one, once again, asks the simple question, “Why?” This line of inquiry is so obvious, and so obviously of use in devising an effective response—know your enemy and his motivations, as any military strategist will tell you—that our avoidance of it amounts to a pathology at this point.

14 Years Of The War on Terror Produce More Terror

September 12, 2015 Paul Gottinger, readersupportednews.org Educate! Afghanistan, Iraq, Terrorism, Wars and Militarism

By Paul Gottinger for Reader Supported News - Terror attacks have jumped by a stunning 6,500% since 2002, according to a new analysis by Reader Supported News. The number of casualties resulting from terror attacks has increased by 4,500% over this same time period. These colossal upsurges in terror took place despite a decade-long, worldwide effort to fight terrorism that has been led by the United States. The analysis, conducted with figures provided by the US State Department, also shows that from 2007 to 2011 almost half of all the world’s terror took place in Iraq or Afghanistan – two countries being occupied by the US at the time. Countries experiencing US military interventions continue to be subjected to high numbers of terror attacks, according to the data. In 2014, 74 percent of all terror-related casualties occurred in Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Syria. Of these five, only Nigeria did not experience either US air strikes or a military occupation in that year.

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