The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Only noticed now, two years old, but makes more sense now with Mali and Niger in play. Al-Qaeda in the Sahel Jeremy Keenan explains how a Saharan front in the ‘global war on terror’ was fabricated. Jeremy Keenan AlJazeera, 29 Aug 2010 In November 2009, Richard Barrett of the UN’s al-Qaeda-Taliban monitoring team said that …
Qatar-Gaza: The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on Tuesday became the first head of state to visit the Gaza Strip since Hamas won control of it through elections in June 2007. He crossed into Gaza from Egypt. The Emir pledged $400 million to build two housing complexes, rehabilitate three main roads and …
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In this very informative essay, Nicolas Pelham describes how King Mohammad of Morocco and his apparat finessed the Arab Spring, even though Morocco’s poverty is far worse than Tunisia’s and the oppression of its poor by his apparat is nearly as bad as President Ben Ali’s in Tunisia. Whether or not Mohammad dodged the revolutionary …
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EXTRACT: This brings me to the Qatar (Foundation) Computing Research Institute (QCRI), which was almost called the al-Khwārizmī Computing Research Institute. I joined QCRI exactly two weeks ago as Director of Social Innovation. My first impression? QCRI is Doha’s “House of Whizzkids”. The team is young, dynamic, international and super smart. I’m already working on several exploratory …
The Hack That Wasn’t: Sec. Clinton and Operation AdWords Kim Zetter WIRED, 24 May 2012 When news outlets recently quoted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claiming that State Department operatives hacked the websites of al-Qaida affiliates in Yemen, we didn’t know whether to be proud of the feds’ leet skills or appalled at the …
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Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia and Bahrain discussed a political union at a meeting in Riyadh on 13 May. The arrangement under discussion would allow Bahrain to retain its seat at the United Nations, but the two states would merge foreign relations, defense and economic policy, according to press sources. The details have not been released. …
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Joining the Qatar Foundation to Advance Humanitarian Technology Big news! I’ll be taking a senior level position at the Qatar Foundation to work on the next generation of humanitarian technology solutions. I’ll be based at the Foundation’s Computing Research Institute (QCRI) and be working alongside some truly amazing minds defining the cutting edge of social and …
