The Vagina Diatribes, Part II: Radical Islamism and Enlightened Demeaning Sexism
Enlightened Demeaning Sexism (EDS) is an unfortunate amalgamation of the two forms of sexism that come from Ambivalent Sexism Theory – hostile sexism and...
How ISIS Disseminates Propaganda over the Internet Despite Counter-Measures and How to Fight Back
Authors: Lorand Bodo, M.A. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. A s ISIS is rapidly losing its territory in Syria and Iraq they continue to...
The Potential Threats Posed by ISIS’s Use of Weaponized Air Drones and How to Fight Back
Authors: Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. and Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. L ike every other recent technological advancement, commercial aerial drones entered to our daily...
Why Taking the Tabqa Dam is Important in the Fight against ISIS and Retaking of Raqqa
Authors: Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. This week U.S. Colonel Joseph E. Scrocca, a coalition public affairs officer and spokesman for...
The Vagina Diatribes, Part I: Why Violent Gender Extremism Persists
“The Quran liberated women from subhuman status, gave us rights to choose whom to marry, to work, to be in leadership positions, and to...
Smearing campaigns lead to Trust Crisis
P ropaganda was originally about propagating faith, a task given in the 17th century to a committee of Catholic cardinals, the Sacred Congregation...
Metaphysics and strategic analysis
S peaking about metaphysics today seems almost an insult to the standard Western culture, all based on Reason and Feeling and on empiricism...
Turkey’s Crippled Counterterrorist Capacity: How Domestic Purges Represent an International Threat to Europe’s Security
T urkey has been suffering from terrorism for a long time, losing over 40,000 people in the last 40 years. When the Syrian...
President Trump’s new Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
D aniel Ray "Dan" Coats is the new Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) appointed by President Trump - a designation everyone was awaiting...
Big data and the Future of Democracy: The Matrix world behind the Brexit and the US Elections
Authors: Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus
Aegean theater of the Antique Greece was the place of astonishing revelations and intellectual excellence – a remarkable density...