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New York Times runs my piece on neo-Marxist war propaganda
Decades after losing to Ronald Reagan’s line-in-the-sand in the 1980s, Latin American Marxist revolutionaries continue their fight in a different battlespace: the legal system. Prosecutions of former military officers and dictators, as I argue in the New York Times, aren’t about justice. …
PW Class 12 – Islam, Islamism and cultural warfare
Is there a difference between Islam, the religion, and Islamism, the range of political ideologies based on the religion? Should the US make a distinction for its own
Alinsky, jailed political warriors, and Guantanamo
Jail time is valuable for a busy and distracted political warrior to rest, organize his thoughts, and develop his philosophy. Here's what Saul Alinsky has to say about
The disappeared Levick article on propaganda for detainees
A few weeks ago I assigned a reading by Richard Levick, a paid agent of influence for terrorist detainees in Guantanamo. In the article, he described how he
Threat of lawsuit spiked UK report on ‘head of state’ funding of al Qaeda
Was it a sharp-eyed editor's discovery of a false story, or outside forms of influence that caused a major London newspaper to spike its story yesterday about an
Agents of influence for enemy combatants
This article expands on the subject of last week's class on the lobbying industry. It is a first-person account of a paid agent of influence on behalf
Undermining the war on terror: Top American Muslim groups courted by the Bush administration have used their political cover to launch influence operations and extend support to terrorists
Published by Insight magazine, a weekly of the Washington Times, March 18, 2003 by J. Michael Waller Terrorists and their supporters are doing their best to weave themselves into the
Domestic front in the war on terror
Published in Insight magazine, a weekly of the Washington Times, January 7, 2002. by J. Michael Waller The brochure warns: "Don't talk to the FBI. The FBI is looking for
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