It has been yet another difficult day on the terrorism front. A truck plowed into a crowd of Christmas shoppers in Berlin, killing at least nine. The Russian Ambassador to Turkey was killed by an off-duty police officer at an art gallery in Ankara. And three people were shot outside an Islamic Centre in the Swiss […]
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I have just returned from Oslo where I was thrilled to catch up with one of my favourite terrorist experts, Thomas Hegghammer. Thomas and his colleagues at the FFI – Norway’s Defence Research Establishment – have published some amazing work over the last decade or so and I have personally learned much from them. When […]
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Why France – again?
The horror of what happened in Nice compounds the horror of what happened in Paris in January and November of last year. These large-scale attacks got a lot of attention, but there were also some smaller ones like the killing of a police officer and his wife and an attempt to blow up a gas […]
The Southern Poverty Law Centre is an oddly named institution that gives little indication of what it does. No, it is not some legal aid agency for poor people. It is one of the most influential and comprehensive bodies that looks at hate and extremism in our southern neighbour, the US. The SPLC looks at […]
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Hiding in plain sight
Whenever a terrorist attack happens we collectively strive both to understand it and to look over what we may have missed. We do so in order to figure out how we can better identify the signs of violent radicalisation and perhaps act before terrorist events occur. I have long argued that the signs of violent […]
Episode 345 – The PRC’s attempts to impose Han domination needs to be countered China is a big country – really big! It may no longer have the most people – it seems to have been passed by India in that regard – but it still exerts a lot of power and influence. Within the […]
Phil’s Phathomings Episode 1 – Canada needs to ensure that immigrants do not bring nefarious plans to our country Canada, like many other nations, needs robust immigration. Our fertility rates are dropping below the 2.1 minimum to keep our population stable and immigrants can help grow our economy. The vast majority of those who seek […]
Episode 278 – We all make mistakes, even spooks. Humans are fallible: that we know. One hopes that those in specialised trades – doctors, lawyers, etc. – get more things right than wrong. If not, it is a legitimate question: should they be in those professions? What about intelligence agencies? Should they have perfect records […]
Episode 331 – Children of terrorists need special attention Adults who choose freely to join terrorist groups such as ISIS have made dumb decisions and these decisions have led to serious consequences. One of those consequences is subsequent arrest and incarceration for what they did and I imagine most people have no issue with treating […]
Episode 285 – Why are people seeing the US as an example to follow when it comes to gun violence? You cannot go a day, it seems, without a mass shooting in the US. Far too many deaths and injuries have been caused so much that the leading cause of death for people between one […]