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The Waco Siege – BPR Interviews: David Thibodeau [Part 1]
David Thibodeau is a survivor of the 1993 siege against Mount Carmel, the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. The Branch Davidians...
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The Waco Siege – BPR Interviews: Gary Noesner [Part 1]
Gary Noesner was Chief Hostage Negotiator for the first half of the siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. The Branch...
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Opening the Floodgates: Water Security and Terror
In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to clean drinking water, and called upon states and...
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Nov 3, 20176 min read


Islam in Indonesia: Bucking the Narrative
The narrative about Islam fed to the American public by the media and politicians revolves around the volatility and violence in the...
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Dec 9, 20144 min read


Mexico and the Politics of Terror
A new chapter of Mexican history began in 2006, when former President Felipe Calderón declared war against the country’s powerful drug...
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Dec 9, 20145 min read


The War on Terror: Does the End Justify the Means?
On September 22, 2001, President Bush announced that the 9/11 terrorist attacks had “awakened the United States to danger, and called it...
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Dec 9, 20146 min read


Profiting From Terrorism: Futures Markets and World Events
“Unbelievably stupid,” is how one senator referred to the program designed in the aftermath of 9/11 to completely revamp our intelligence...
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Dec 9, 20145 min read
Liberation Through War: The Paradox Facing Middle Eastern Women
In her radio address to the nation on November 17, 2001, First Lady Laura Bush declared, “The fight against terrorism is also a fight for...
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Dec 9, 20146 min read


Terrorists-In-Waiting: The Problems With FBI Sting Operations
It seems relatively straightforward: Four black Muslims in Newburgh, NY, known as the “Newburgh Four,” team up with Shahed Hussain, who...
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Dec 9, 20144 min read


A Well Regulated Militia: American Militarized Terrorism
In the decades since the “Militia Movement” first rose to prominence in the ’90s, the movement has received even fewer minutes of...
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Dec 9, 20144 min read


“The Youth” and Its Reign of Terror
Somalia, a conflict-torn nation on the Horn of Africa, has seen over a decade of terror and destabilization at the hands of various...
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Dec 7, 20145 min read


Terrorism, Imperialism, and Other Buzzwords in the North Caucasus
On September 9, 1999 shortly after midnight, an apartment complex exploded in southeast Moscow, killing 94 inside. This was just one...
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Dec 7, 20145 min read


Terrorist Wanted: How ISIS Recruits Western Women
Recruitment within terrorist organizations was long considered a homegrown issue, where groups attracted new members within the countries...
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Dec 7, 20146 min read


A State of Terror: How the Security State Came at the Expense of American Minorities
After 9/11, the United States experienced an expansion of security measures that were intended to create a safer, more secure nation....
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Dec 7, 20146 min read


AQ Khan’s Deals for the Bomb
A national Pakistani hero, for whom more than a dozen academic institutions have already been named, spent five years under house arrest...
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Dec 6, 20148 min read


Terrorism and the Indian Maoists: Dispelling the “Robin Hood” Myth
They attacked at dawn, descending on a police patrol in the remote Sukma District of Chattisgarh, a state in central India. Emerging from...
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Dec 6, 20146 min read


Financing Terrorism: Saudi Arabia and Its Foreign Affairs
They cross over during the Hajj. Dressed in white like the pilgrims to Mecca, representatives of fundamentalist Islamist organizations...
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Dec 6, 20146 min read
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