In a smart piece for Just Security, Vasabjit Banerjee looks at how rural insurgencies have emerged in countries around the world. The United States could be next, he says, especially if Donald Trump is turned out of office. The militias are dispersed, and lack regional organizations but they have a strong socio-cultural base in rural...
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Time for Rethinking: U.S. National Security in an Age of Insurrection
How the Insurrectionists Breached the Capitol
In the Face of the Fascist Threat, an Epic US Intelligence Failure
Behind the IRGC-Hezbollah Alliance, Soleimani Bonded With Mugniyeh’s Family
Former U.S. Defense Secretaries Warn Against a Military Coup
Россия: Главное разведывательное управление (ГРУ)
Among the Most Popular Stories of 2020: JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy
‘Eyes in the Sky’: The Scary Realities of Wide Area Surveillance
中国:国家安全部(MSS)
Inside The Five Eyes: ‘Like a Moon Base’
Will U.S. See a Rural Insurgency?
Bellingcat: FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning
Россия: Федеральная Служба Безопасности (ФСБ)
RIP: Jerrold Post, CIA Profiler Who Said Trump Was a ‘Malignant Narcissist’
Iran’s Intelligence Service (in Farsi ایران: وزارت اطلاعات و امنیت ( واجا) و سپاہ پاسداران انقلاب جمھوری ایران (سپاہ)
The Five Eyes See ‘Every Corner of the Globe’
美国:国家安全局(NSA)
The FBI, the Law, and the Growing Threat of Trump Terrorism
Pakistan’s ‘Deep State’: پاکستان: انٹر- سروسز انٹلی جینس (آئی ایس آئی)
Category: <span>Counterterrrorism</span>
Will U.S. See a Rural Insurgency?
The FBI, the Law, and the Growing Threat of Trump Terrorism
Jeff Stein at SpyTalk on the release of two Trumpster terror suspects in Washington DC. Had their names been Ahmed and Fatima, with family connections in, say, Lebanon, they almost certainly would have been held for further investigation. But their case, like so many others involving armed white pro-Trump extremists over the past four years,...
DHS Analysts: Trump Defeat May Trigger Right-Wing Terror
An Aug. 17 Department of Homeland Security analysis also warns of possible election-related attacks. “We assess ideologically-motivated violent extremists and other violent actors could quickly mobilize to threaten or engage in violence against election or campaign-related targets in response to perceived partisan and policy-based grievances,” says the document, which was obtained by Yahoo News. While...
Counterterrorism: A Woman’s Game
From The Interpreter, an Australian blog about international politics. two recently published books on counterterrorism, intelligence, and national security fly in the face of the notion that counterterrorism and national security is a man’s game and show that when it comes to gender and counterterrorism, there is much more than meets the eye. The first...
ISIS’s Two Biggest Enemies Are Now Fighting Each Other
In Just Security, Luke Hartiwig explains four reasons why killing Soleimani will help ISIS First, the Iraqi government reacted in outrage, both over the killing and what appears to be a failure to seek its consent prior to the operation. This alone may well lead to future restrictions on armed drone operations or U.S. strikes...
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