Human Rights and the Struggle Against Terrorism: 15 Years After 9/11 Attacks on USA
Since 2008, as the founder of Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), our activism in its current form, was driven by the perspective that the…
September 10, 2016
War of Ideas for Human Rights is Essential to Challenge Terrorism
The most vital components of a homeland security strategy are our minds, our conscience, and our universal human rights. Everything else is a very distant…
U.S. Homeland Security and Terrorist Haven Blind Spots
The U.S. Establishment’s preferred perspective on identifying potential terrorist activity is to go where they have found it before. From a practical sense, this makes…
Horror of ISIS and its Metamorphosis into a Global Terrorist Movement
Among the most significant challenges in countering terrorism today has been the dynamic nature and fluidity of ISIS, which has evolved from a more traditional…
Responsibility to Defy Extremism and Terrorism
If you have ever watched the failure of law and order in public, after a while, you will see a frequent pattern. When enough lawbreakers…
Understanding Extremism from a Human Rights Perspective
To “counter violent extremism,” we don’t have to wait for a mass-casualty terrorist attack to leave our fellow human beings dead in the street. We…
Essential Nature of National Security to Support Global Security
In the United States of America, or in any other nation, a representative government which does not view the public safety of the people it…
Terrorism and tactics of “Acceptable Losses”
In the September 2016, 100th issue of the West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) Sentinel, Brian Michael Jenkins seeks to describe the American government’s success…
Counterterror Establishment and the Resistance to Change
The U.S. struggle with too many counterterrorism experts is this: we value their detailed knowledge on individuals, groups, history, and tactics — but while such…