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The Iranian Economy in Syria: A Shiite Persian Cloak

Syria

2021-11-19 / www.fanack.com

 The Iranian economic presence in Syria is inseparable from Tehran’s political and military influence, which was consolidated by subjective factors related to the two ruling regimes, and objective factors linked to developments in the region after the American invasion of Iraq in ...

How Turkish Threats in Northeast Syria Moved the SDF Closer to Assad

Syria

2021-11-18 / Syrian Observer

Since the end of last month, Turkey and its Syrian opposition allies have been threatening to intervene militarily in Northeastern Syria against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Ankara considers the SDF, whose main component is the People’s Defense Units ...

Escalation of Attacks in Syria

Military

2021-10-24 / www.infosources.info

On October 08, 2021, an airstrike was carried out on the T4 military airbase. The airport is located adjacent to the road connecting the city of Palmyra in the east to the city of Homs in the west, about 60 ...

Is Defending Taiwan Worth the Risk?

Taiwan

2021-10-08 / www.foreignpolicy.com

Emma Ashford and Dr. Matthew Kroenig discuss Chinese incursions and U.S. training of Taiwanese forces and what could raise the specter of war. Could the U.S.A handle this conflict? What is the U.S.A position towards ...

Ethiopia used its flagship commercial airline to transport weapons during war in Tigray

Smuggling

2021-10-08 / www.cnn.com

Ethiopia's government has used the country's flagship commercial airline to shuttle weapons to and from neighboring Eritrea during the civil war in Ethiopia's Tigray region.
Cargo documents and manifests seen by CNN, as well as eyewitness accounts and photographic ...

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Human Rights & Accountability

Pandora leaks are damning for Latin America

Tax Evasion

2021-10-25 / www.ft.com

Latin America has again hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. Politicians and officials from the region feature prominently in the Pandora Papers, a release of leaked files on wealth held in offshore havens. Ninety out of the 330 politicians ...

Le dessous des ONG, une vérité cachée

politics

2020-06-28 / www.agoravox.fr

AGORA VOX publie le 13 octobre 2017 un article intitule « Qui est derrière Amnesty International ? ». le site se demande si la soi-disant organisation de défense des droits de l’Homme, avec un C.A dépassant €278,000,000 en 2015, est vraiment une entité indépendante. A ...

France Weighs Its Love of Liberty in Fight Against Coronavirus

Pandemic

2020-04-17 / www.nytimes.com

The French are cautiously considering digital tracking, which has proved effective in Asia. But can a country that so prizes personal freedom and privacy ever accept it?

As France sought clues last month on how to tame the coronavirus, experts looked ...

Airbus reaches deal to settle corruption probes

Industry

2020-01-28 / www.ft.com

Airbus has agreed to settle a bribery and corruption probe with regulators in the UK, France and the US, in a move that could see the aerospace group pay billions of dollars in penalties.
Airbus said it has reached an ...

Crypto scam offers modern twist on classic pyramid fraud

cybercrime

2019-12-19 / www.ft.com

 Bulgarian entrepreneur accused of helping to trick millions of investors.

It was billed as an exciting new cryptocurrency that would one day become more popular than bitcoin and turn myriad small investors into multimillionaires. But OneCoin, launched by a Bulgarian entrepreneur ...

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Innovation & Technology

Strong ties bind Silicon Valley to Silicon Wadi

Israel

2021-10-31 / www.jns.org

A new report notes growing venture investment, acquisitions of Israeli companies, Israeli-founded unicorns and public companies in Silicon Valley, and corporate and binational R&D.
A new San Francisco-based Bay Area Council Economic Institute report, “Silicon Valley to Silicon Wadi: California’s ...

Meet the ex-Googler who’s exposing the tech-military industrial complex

Military

2021-10-08 / www.fastcompagny.com

Formed by Jack Poulson and other Silicon Valley dissidents, Tech Inquiry uncovers the tech industry’s role in weaponry and surveillance.

Jack Poulson has developed an encyclopedic knowledge of how tech companies are evolving into military contractors. Tracking such intricate connections has ...

Business scenario for the future of cybercrime

Cybercrime

2020-12-30 / www.icspa.org

 

The rate of mainstream uptake of some technologies depicted in the narratives may seem somewhat ambitious for 2020. This is a conscious choice, which not only allows for a richer and more consistent realization of emerging technologies, but also reflects ...

citizen scenario for the future of cybercrime

cybersecurity

2020-12-30 / www.icspa.org

The rate of mainstream uptake of some technologies depicted in the narratives may seem somewhat ambitious for 2020. This is a conscious choice, which not only allows for a richer and more consistent realization of emerging technologies, but also reflects ...

It's Called Artificial Intelligence—but What Is Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence

2020-05-19 / www.wired.com

Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most sophisticated learning system—the mind of a baby.

 

Gurgling infants might seem like no match ...

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Terrorism

Australian far-right terrorism investigations have increased by 750 per cent in 18 months

extremism

2021-10-08 / www.sbs.com.au


The threat of nationalist and racist violent extremism is escalating rapidly, according to Australia's domestic security and investigative services.
In the past 18 months, the Australian Federal Police’s Joint Counter Terrorism Team's (JCTT) caseload covering the area has risen ...

Dark ops: Isis, the far-right and the gamification of terror

gamified terrorism

2020-02-14 / www.ft.com

Adding game-playing elements to situations that are not games - a concept called gamification - is a wonderful thing. Getting lost in an imagined world where reality isn't more than a simulation, a thought experiment, can be oddly comforting.
But ...

Government Continues Turning a Blind Eye to Radical Islamist Grant Recipients

USA

2020-01-22 / www.investigativeproject.org

The federal government knows a lot of troubling things about two prominent American Islamist organizations. Curiously, the same federal government continues to seek out partnerships with those same radical organizations and even awards them taxpayer-funded grant money.
Last summer, the ...

Islamic State Has a Major Opportunity in Libya

Libya

2020-01-20 / www.investigativeproject.org

"Several thousand ISIS fighters have left Idlib in Syria through the northern border and have ended up in Libya," Jordan's King Abdullah recently warned. "That is something that we in the region but also our ...

Is ISIS gaining ‘serious’ ground in Afghanistan? Russia says yes. The US says no.

Foreign Fighters

2018-03-27 / www.militarytimes.com

Over the last two months, Afghan security forces and U.S. targeting has eliminated more than 140 ISIS-Khorasan fighters. And while the pressure on ISIS-K coincides with pressure to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table with the Afghan government, officials ...

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