Happy 153rd birthday Canada – or is it? It is time to push back against some myths, by looking at how safe a country we are, when it comes to terrorism.
On this day in 2013, two converts to Islam convicted of a pressure cooker terrorism plot to occur in British Columbia on Canada Day. They were later acquitted.
How do foreign policy decisions and terrorism intersect? Listen as I am joined by James Tibbs to discuss these issues and much more.
On this day in 2016, Islamic State in the Sinai claimed the shooting of a Coptic Christian priest in the Egyptian city of Arish, claiming the cleric was a ‘warrior against Islam’.
News that Russia is paying the Taliban to kill US military in Afghanistan came out this week. How big is this and what will the Trump Administration do in response?
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What makes a good analyst?
There is far too much information to process: what is the analysts’ best way to wade through it all?
When you hear someone say that terrorism has ‘changed’ and that we have to change with it be skeptical. Nothing really has changed over 150 years with the sole exception of technology.
On this day in 2007, two car bombs manufactured by Al Qaeda terrorists at the Glasgow International Airport and in London’s West End failed to detonate.
On this day in 1914, the terrorist assassination of Austro Hungarian Empire Archduke Ferdinand led to the outbreak of WWI and the deaths of 9,000,000.
They say practice makes perfect: this applies to terrorists too. MATSUMOTO, JAPAN — Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist and author. He is the creator of such books as The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. In the latter he famously stated that 10,000 hours of practice really can make you an expert at anything. Anything? […]