Richard Sudan looks at the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in the US, its overreach and its impact on security models.  He argues it was never fit for purpose and needs to go. 9/11 and the Climate of Fear This year will mark

Palestinian leadership’s adaptation to a world where the claims to US hegemony are decentralised is an urgent and overdue project, argues Ramzy Baroud. Linking Palestinians to terrorism is arguably one of Israel’s greatest hasbara successes. Long before the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York

For Afghanistan to break the cycles of violence and impoverishment it has been caught up in,  the new and subsequent governments need to let go of its colonial past and the internalization of colonial thinking, argues Shah Mahmoud Hanifi. It is useful to begin this