Archive for April, 2009
‘Resistance’ is the essence of Islamism
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, April 22, 2009
Once in a while a wave of ideas sweeps across societies and countries, and when combined with political and social activism it changes global history for a time. We are living through such wave now in the global Islamist movement that has swept across much of […]
Posted: April 28th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Islamists.
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Power, humiliation and torture
By Paul Woodward, War in Context, April 19, 2009
In the wake of 9/11, no phrase more succinctly projected the upwelling of popular jingoism across the United States than the words “Power of Pride.”
America needed to reassert its potency after experiencing the insult and humiliation of witnessing its power simultaneously centralized and instantaneously crushed when two […]
Posted: April 20th, 2009 under ARTICLES, Bush Administration, War on terrorism.
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Alastair Crooke on BBC Radio 4
Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, February 23, 2009
Alastair Crooke recently appeared on Start the Week, presented by Andrew Marr, where he discussed his recently published book, Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution.
The complete broadcast can be heard here (in RealAudio).
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Posted: April 13th, 2009 under Alastair Crooke, Islamists.
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