Terrorism

The UK Intelligence Community: Ineffective, Unethical and Unaccountable

Annie Machon • Mar 11 2008 • Articles

The UK intelligence community continues to operate outside meaningful democratic control. Their cultures are self-perpetuating oligarchies, where mistakes are glossed over and repeated, and where questions and independent thought are discouraged. We deserve better.

The War on Terror: Why Do We Fight?

Ian Lustick • Jan 14 2008 • Articles

The question can be posed as follows. The Unites States went to war in Iraq to destroy Weapons of Mass Destruction that did not exist, and we fight a War on Terror now despite virtually no evidence whatsoever that a serious terrorist threat to the American homeland exists. “Why,” then, “do we fight?”

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