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And a strange, deadly war is raging around the world. Yet, each person who has lost a loved one sure...

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In effect, terrorists now have the power to ignite war. They almost have their finger on the nuclear...

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Arundhati RoyThe Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

DB: There's a lot of talk about terrorism. In fact, it's become almost an obsession for the media in...

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Arundhati RoyThe Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

The policies the US government is following are dangerous for its citizens. It's true that you can b...

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Arundhati RoyThe Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear p...

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And then, on September 11, the world fractured.It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day ...

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Barack ObamaDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and th...

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If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "hig...

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McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical succ...

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During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, t...

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The august international organizations charged with preserving peace and human dignity in the world—...

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Brigitte GabrielBecause They Hate

America is a place of opportunity. It’s people-friendly! Very much so, compared to the Muslim countr...

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Most of the barbaric and vicious acts of terror committed against innocent civilians around the worl...

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Brigitte GabrielBecause They Hate

Throughout history there have been populations that have lived in desperation, and none of them have...

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Brigitte GabrielBecause They Hate

When you don’t stop evil in its tracks when you first recognize it, you will end up with a monster f...

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The Declaration of Independence says that ‘all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their...

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Americans just don’t realize the viciousness of the militant Islamic fundamentalist.

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Brigitte GabrielBecause They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America

I think the biggest disservice to the American people was the denial by the networks to air video of...

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Brigitte GabrielBecause They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America

Just as people asked ‘Why do they hate us?’ after 9/11, one evening I asked my father, ‘Why did they...

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Brigitte GabrielBecause They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America

America has always prided itself on its multiculturalism and its multireligious communities, just as...

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Brigitte GabrielBecause They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America

Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death ...

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what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who opp...

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The Koran is empathetic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs. It unequi...

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Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terror...

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

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I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization again...

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Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repud...

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Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolution...

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[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's...

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Christopher HitchensA Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militan...

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Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror

As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked...

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Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings,...

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Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a quest...

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Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometim...

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It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradict...

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Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was...

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I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a wa...

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Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "w...

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It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as w...

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I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terro...

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What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of li...

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Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation...

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Muslim religious leaders — from Al-Azhar in Cairo to local imams throughout the world - need to say ...

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Dennis PragerDennis Prager: Volume I

As of the second decade in the twenty-first century, nearly all acts of terror around the world (as ...

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Dennis PragerStill the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

One of the most often asked questions posed after America was attacked on 9/11 was, ‘What has the Un...

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Dennis PragerStill the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

As of the second decade in the twenty-first century, nearly all acts of terror around the world (as ...

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Dennis PragerStill the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lov...

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Let's have some precision in language here: terrorism means deadly violence -- for a political and/o...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to dep...

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No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrif...

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If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at ...

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The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...

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Eric HofferThe True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.

I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once ex...

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance ...

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The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture ...

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I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down w...

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One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

What we have here is a war—the war of matter and spirit. In the classical era, spirit was in harmony...

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I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terr...

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The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definit...

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Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides ...

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Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

There is, therefore, a temptation to return to an explanation which automatically discharges the vic...

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A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that te...

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The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soak...

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Haruki MurakamiUnderground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

What alternative is there to the media’s “Us” versus “Them”? The danger is that if it is used to pro...

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Haruki MurakamiUnderground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Psychologically speaking (I’ll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me...

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Haruki MurakamiUnderground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the univers...

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How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

When private bands of fanatics commit atrocities we call them "terrorists," which they are, and have...

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If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive ...

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Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

Almost pedantically, she added: "They're not really bombs-- they're acoustic provocations.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terro...

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Jean BaudrillardSimulacra and Simulation

The idea that a dysfunctional thought could take root in a vacuum, the individual anonymous and wrai...

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Go to the internet and go to the FBI website and go to their international list of top ten terrorist...

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Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, eith...

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You revolutionists' the other continued, with leisurely self-confidence, 'are the slaves of the soci...

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Joseph ConradThe Secret Agent

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength agai...

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We routinely and rightly condemn the terrorism that kills civilians in the name of God but we cannot...

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Karen ArmstrongFields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "g...

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Leon TrotskyTerrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that ...

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In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, an...

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