Posted on January 25, 2015. Tags: Afghanistan, Aid, Al Qaeda, Counter-terrorism, Culture, development, Enlightenment, Human, Humanitarian, Iraq, IS, ISIL, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Military, Modernity, Philosophy, Politics, Poverty, rights, Taliban, Terrorism, UN, World
Why are humanitarian workers targeted? On World Humanitarian Day this year the United Nations reported that in various conflict zones in 2013, 155 aid workers were killed, 171 were injured and 134 were taken as captives. We have to ask, what is the justification for such acts? Let us begin with the illegal occupation of […]
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Posted in Humanitarian Intervention, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Religion, Security Issues, Syria, Terrorism, UN, World
Posted on January 21, 2015. Tags: China, Corruption, Economics, Graft, Growth, India, Modi, Politics, Poverty, wealth, World Bank
As anyone who has spent any length of time travelling in India will attest, it is a country of stark contrasts. In few ways is this more obvious than the vast disparities in wealth between 500 million of India’s total 1.27 billion citizens living on less than $1.25 per day and a small but increasingly wealthy elite […]
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Posted in Asia, Economic Security, Economics, Food Security, Global Economy, India, Uncategorized, World
Posted on May 8, 2014. Tags: Counter-terrorism, Poverty, Terrorism
Three weeks ago, a Taliban commander named Mohammad Ashan turned himself in to Afghan police. Ashan had noticed wanted posters around his native Paktika province promising a $100 bounty for his capture, and he surrendered himself hoping to collect it. Needless to say, he collected nothing and was detained on the spot. Ashan’s comically simple […]
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Posted in Economic Security, Food Security, Middle East, Security Issues, Terrorism, World