The tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States is an opportune time to reflect on the enduring consequences of that event and how the world has changed over the past decade, and speculate about what lies ahead. To mark the anniversary, Business Monitor Online last week published a special feature discussing… [Read more]
Inevitably, many will see the terror attacks allegedly committed by Anders Behring Breivik last Friday as the work of a deranged individual. However, there is no question that Breivik, whatever his personal problems, chose to make his crimes political in nature, first by detonating a bomb in central Oslo near a key government building and… [Read more]
It is now nine years since the ‘9/11’ terror attacks, and in recent years, I have used this occasion to comment on the state of the ‘War on Terror’ – a phrase that is heard less often these days. This year, the anniversary has been marred by plans by a very obscure American pastor, Terry… [Read more]
There was a time when audio or video messages issued by Osama bin Laden would be front-page news, and we’d all wonder if a new al-Qaeda terror attack was imminent. However, in recent years, a widespread belief has developed that bin Laden is irrelevant, and that the real terror threat to the West comes from… [Read more]