Al Qaeda

George Crile’s book Charlie Wilson’s War is the most in-depth account of the CIA’s support to the Afghan mujahideen, based...

Anwar al Awlaki rose to notoriety in the 2000s as a leading internet jihadist whose lectures and videos were very...

Anwar Al Awlaki was the head of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula until his death in a CIA drone...

1996’s action thriller Executive Decision may be light on action and lacking thrills but it is notable for one thing...

Right now, Blue America has a mobile billboard riding up and down the highways of two adjacent California congressional districts, CA-22 and CA-16, both centered in the Fresno area. Those are Devin Nunes' and Jim Costa's districts, the first a corrupt reactionary Republican and the second a corrupt reactionary Blue Dog Democrat.

The 1996 action thriller Executive Decision was an early example of what should be called ‘irregular war films’, pitting a...

By Vanessa Beeley

Apropos of today's main blog, Mr. S.D. spotted this story in the Egyptian media: Egyptian media: John McCain is real Supreme Guide of the […]
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Aimen Dean, born Ali Al-Duranni, was MI6’s spy inside Al Qaeda from 1998 to 2006. In this episode I do...

In this penultimate review episode I look at how the education system is a poor place to learn anything, how standardised testing is a form of child abuse, the fundamental problems of electoral politics, and expand on why an intelligence-based approach to societal problems is always better than a military-based approach. I also talk about the politicisation of police investigations, the relevance of Michel Foucault and what The Wire has to do with the murder of Meir Kahane by followers of the Blind Sheikh.