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March 15, 2019: Christchurch Mosque Shootings

On this day in 2019, Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant, carried out attacks on two mosques in Christchurch that resulted in the deaths of at least 50 people.

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Governments Should Adequately Fund Existing Agencies Rather Than Create New Ones

When faced with failure governments have a nasty tendency to create new bodies rather than support existing ones whose advice they ignored in the first place

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What to do with online extremism

Efforts to remove content online is essentially ‘Whack-a-Mole’. New items are posted as quickly – or even more quickly – than old items are removed. Do we really want to play this game with terrorists?

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March 3, 2009: Attack on Sri Lankan cricket team

On March 3 2009 the Sri Lankan cricket team was fired on by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi while in Pakistan, wounding six.

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Terrorism is a matter of public safety, not national security

There are national security and public safety threats: terrorism is most usually one of the latter, not the former.

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What do the New Zealand stabbings tell us about terrorism?

In a world where everyone has concluded that the only threat to the West comes from the ‘far right’, a series of stabbings in New Zealand reminds us this is not 100% accurate.

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Mass shootings are terrifying, but are they all ‘terrorism’?

We have ‘terrorism on the brain’ and vested interests are using any excuse to label all acts of violence committed by any group as terrorist

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So, where is all the Right Wing Extremism?

Just because someone says something about terrorism does not make it so: claims are made all the time but not all these are backed up by any data.

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

Tony McAleer: What is it like to be a former neo-Nazi?

Episode 83 – Borealis talks with Tony McAleer a former skinhead who is trying to help others not make the same mistake he did.

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Quick Hits Video

Does who we are define what we do?

The warning signs in the Christchurch terrorist’s Australian upbringing.