Rickard Falkvinge: Zacqary Adam Green – Reflections on Property

Ideas Can’t Be Property. Can Dirt? Reflections – Zacqary Adam Green:  So, we’re all in agreement that intellectual property is a bad thing that should not exist. What about plain old property? If no one has a right to monopolize the use of an idea, is there a justification to allow monopolies on the use …

Penguin: Two Al Qaeda Book Reviews — Bunches of Guys Losing the Deep Battle of Ideas? + Celebration of Max Manwaring

Worth a read, key insights apart from the summary of the books’ contents. Bunches of Guys Owen Bennett-Jones Decoding al-Qaida’s Strategy: The Deep Battle against America by Michael Ryan Columbia, 368 pp, £23.15, September, ISBN 978 0 231 16384 2 The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organisations by Jacob Shapiro Princeton, 352 pp, £19.95, July, ISBN 978 0 691 15721 4

Berto Jongman: US-Saudi Arabia-Kuwait Backing Al Qaeda in Syria, Undermining Afghanistan-Taliban Peace Endeavor

US, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait backing Al-Qaeda in Syria LAHORE – Sunni Supreme Council and Tanzim Ahle Sunnat chairman Javaid Ibrahim Paracha has claimed that the US, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria and scores of Afghan Hindus have disguised as Taliban after growing beards. In an interview with Nawa-i-Waqt’s Sunday magazine, Paracha, …

4th Media: Der Spiegel Interviews Bashar al-Assad: WEST Supported al-Qaeda For 10 Years

Der Spiegel Interviews Bashar al-Assad: WEST Supported al-Qaeda For 10 Years President Bashar al-Assad said that all the political decisions that have been taken by the west in the last ten years have been in support of al-Qaeda, intentionally or inadvertently. In an interview with the German Der Spiegel News Magazine, President al-Assad said that …

Berto Jongman: Al Qaeda Potpourri

Al Qaeda Effectiveness Index (PDF) Al-Qaeda loosens its admissions standards (BBC) Al Qaeda new framework for defining the enemy (AEI) Foreign Extremists in Syria (Washington Post) Jihadi Twitter Activism – Introduction