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Twitter C.E.O. Dick Costolo on Receiving Death Threats from ISIS

VANITY FAIR by Caleb Garling October 9, 2014 Twitter C.E.O. Dick Costolo and his staff have received death threats from ISIS, Costolo said on stage at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit. After shutting down some of the group’s Twitter accounts, … Continue reading

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EU Prepares to Impose Crushing Sanctions on Israel

BREITBART by Thomas Rose October 8, 2014 Even as details of the latest ISIS plot to behead innocents on the streets of London emerges, the machinery of the European Union’s massive bureaucracy is well along its plan to impose crippling economic … Continue reading

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Turkey and the Battle for Kobane

WASHINGTON INSTITUTE by Soner Cagaptay October 8, 2014 Turkey’s primary objective in Syria is to oust the Assad regime, so it is unlikely to materially help the besieged enclave without U.S. and Kurdish commitments toward that goal. In the past … Continue reading

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The Islamic State Is Here

FRONT PAGE MAG by Robert Spencer October 9, 2014 During the recent race riots in Ferguson, Missouri, CNN’s Jake Tapper was walking down a street and filming a segment when someone emerged out of the shadows behind him, holding a … Continue reading

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Qatar Is a U.S. Ally. They Also Knowingly Abet Terrorism. What’s Going On?

NEW REPUBLIC by Lori Plotkin Bloghardt October 6, 2014 In a televised interview on September 25, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour confronted the emir of Qatar about allegations that his country is not a true ally of the United States. Doha hosts … Continue reading

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A Terrible Slaughter Is Coming

THE ATLANTIC by Jeffrey Goldberg October 6, 2014 On the Turkish border, the world stands idly by as ISIS threatens a massacre in a Syrian town. The theme of the week in the Syria conflict—that airstrikes are of only limited … Continue reading

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#JSIL Hashtag Compares Israel to #ISIS

BREITBART by Breitbart London October 3, 2014 In an attempt to pull the focus of international attention from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria back to their bête noire, anti-Israel campaigners have attempted a rebrand, and have floated the … Continue reading

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Iran Rising

WASHINGTON TIMES by Clifford D. May October 1, 2014 In his address to the UN General Assembly last week, President Obama called the conflict in the Middle East “a fight no one is winning.” I think the evidence suggests he’s … Continue reading

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If ISIS Is Not Islamic, then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic

NEW REPUBLIC by Jerry A. Coyne September 13, 2014 As ISIS slaughters its way though Syria and Iraq, it became inevitable that we’d hear from apologists who claim that ISIS is not in fact “true Islam,” and that its depredations are due … Continue reading

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Why Obama Can’t Say His Spies Underestimated ISIS

THE DAILY BEAST by Eli Lake September 28, 2014 On “60 Minutes,” the president faulted his spies for failing to predict the rise of ISIS. There’s one problem with that statement: The intelligence analysts did warn about the group. Nearly … Continue reading

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