Berto Jongman: Jihadology – Pros and Cons and Outcomes of Imprisoning Muslims

GUEST POST: Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t: The Gordian Knot of Europe’s Jihadi Homecoming By Zach Goldberg Introduction The homecoming of Europe’s jihadi volunteers (or émigrés) from Syria remains an enduring source of public disquiet. That battle-hardened and radicalized Muslim-European passport holders would return to leverage acquired “skills” at home is a specter …

Berto Jongman: Jihadists Now Control Secretive U.S. Base in Libya

Jihadists Now Control Secretive U.S. Base in Libya A camp on the Libyan coastline meant to train terror-hunters has instead become a haven for terrorists and al Qaeda. A key jihadist leader and longtime member of al Qaeda has taken control of a secretive training facility set up by U.S. special operations forces on the …

Rickard Falkvinge: Sweden Retards – If You Need a Permit to Exercise a Freedeom, It is NOT a Freedom!

Sweden Goes Full Retard, Requires Registration Of Every Individual Playing Lottery Privacy:  Sweden, like most European countries, has a number of governmentally-run state lotteries that are an efficient extra tax on the people who can’t math properly. Because of the jackpot sizes (nine-figure euro or dollar amounts), they are still hugely popular. From June 1, …

U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists? CNN plays the bullshit card (again)

U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists? In fact, since 9/11 extremists affiliated with a variety of far-right wing ideologies, including white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and anti-government militants, have killed more people in the United States than have extremists motivated by al Qaeda’s ideology. According to a count by the New America Foundation, right …

Rickard Falkvinge: More People Were Paid To Exploit Heartbleed For The NSA Than To Fix It

More People Were Paid To Exploit Heartbleed For The NSA Than To Fix It Infrastructure – Zacqary Adam Green: Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the NSA knew about the Heartbleed bug since shortly after it was added to OpenSSL. While thousands of salaried NSA personnel search for bugs like these to exploit, OpenSSL has only four …

Chris Hedge: The Crucible of Iraq – Best Book from Worst War

The Crucible of Iraq The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq, by Hassan Blasim, is the most important book to come out of the Iraq War. Blasim, whom I met with last week in Princeton, N.J., has a faultless eye for revealing detail, a ribald black humor and a psychological brilliance that makes every story …