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Archives: Counter-Terrorism
![Muslims less likely to Commit Terrorism & other Reality-Based Statistics](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/muslims-less-likely-to-commit-te-187x137.jpg)
![hat’s the most effective way to fight terrorism? – Juan Cole on CBS](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/hats-the-most-effective-way-to-f-187x137.jpg)
What’s the most effective way to fight terrorism? – Juan Cole on CBS
Reena Ninan | CBS News | (Video Clip) | - - "A new article in The Nation suggests Ariana Grande has a better approach to fighting terrorism than Defense Secretary James Mattis.…![After Mosul: The Coming ISIL Apocalypse in al-Anbar Desert](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/after-mosul-the-coming-isil-apoc-187x137.jpg)
After Mosul: The Coming ISIL Apocalypse in al-Anbar Desert
By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - While fighting against the Islamic State group drags on in Mosul, tribal and military forces in Anbar are preparing for what will…![A distracted Trump administration Couldn’t even focus on its own anti-ISIL summit.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/a-distracted-trump-administratio-187x137.jpg)
A distracted Trump administration Couldn’t even focus on its own anti-ISIL summit.
By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | - - Donald Trump's election campaign made much of his predecessor Barack Obama’s failure to control and defeat ISIL, contrasting this with his own…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/167352-187x137.jpg)
Daesh/ISIL encouraging Loner attacks to Mask its Death Spiral
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The terrorist organization known as Daesh in the Middle East and Europe but as ISIS or ISIL in the US is in a…![Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/will-trump-use-the-next-isil-att-187x137.jpg)
Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins | (Informed Comment) | - - You have to hand to the civil society groups pushing back on the Trump administration’s recent executive orders banning the entry of…![Trump Counter-Terrorism Program to drop White Supremacists, focus on Islam](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/trump-counter-terrorism-program-187x137.jpg)
Trump Counter-Terrorism Program to drop White Supremacists, focus on Islam
TeleSur | - - He could rename the "Countering Violent Extremism" program to "Countering Islamic Extremism," according to Reuters sources. The Trump administration wants to revamp a U.S. government program designed to…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/joshuac-1-187x137.jpg)
Real-Life Trolling: How Provocation Works and How to Respond
By Joshua Cole | ( The Michigan Daily) Yesterday was the anniversary of the attacks in Paris at the Bataclan concert venue and other locations throughout the city. These terrorist attacks in…![Sting & Gandhian anti-Terrorism: Your Paris vacation can help cripple ISIL](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/sting-gandhian-anti-terrorism-yo-187x137.jpg)
Sting & Gandhian anti-Terrorism: Your Paris vacation can help cripple ISIL
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Sting, 65, played a concert at the Bataclan Theater where ISIL terrorists killed 90 innocent people a year ago, in one of the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/15415-1-187x137.jpg)
Selling arms to Arab rulers won’t improve security in the Middle East
By Stephanie Dornschneider | (Informed Comment) | - - As a child, Najeh Ibrahim, who founded one of the most violent groups in recent Egyptian history, loved his president. “We all loved…![People don’t join Terrorist Groups b/c of Religion: Are Recruited by Family & Friends](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/people-dont-join-terrorist-group-187x137.jpg)
Family & Friends, not Religion, Draw People into Terrorist Groups
By Rose Delaney | (Inter Press Service) | - - LONDON (IPS) - A recent study supported by the government of Finland has found widespread misconceptions regarding what drives people to join…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/countthedeadturse-180x137.jpg)
Is Bombing Fallujah into Rubble from the air really a Winning Strategy?
By William J. Astore | (Via Tomdispatch.com ) | - - In the era of the long war on terror, Thursday, June 2nd, 2016, was a tough day for the U.S. military.…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/rulesworldchomskyhc-1-180x137.jpg)
Chomsky – How the Elites’ ‘War on Terror’ Multiplies Terror
By Noam Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - [This piece, the second of two parts, is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books). Part 1…![Al-Qaeda Everywhere: US support for Oppressive Gov’t’s undermined victory against Bin Laden](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/al-qaeda-everywhere-us-support-f-187x137.jpg)
Al-Qaeda Everywhere: US support for Oppressive Gov’t’s made Bin Laden’s Killing Moot
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US government has never understood insurgency for the most part. Smart USG officials with whom I've interacted have had a firm belief…![What would effective Counter-Terrorism look like after Brussels?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/03/what-would-effective-counter-ter-187x137.jpg)
What would effective Counter-Terrorism look like after Brussels?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The various nostrums proposed to counter Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) terrorism in Europe and North America by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz (armed patrols…![30 Americans die worldwide from Terrorism annually, while 130,000 die by accident](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/03/30-americans-die-worldwide-from-187x137.jpg)
30 Americans die worldwide from Terrorism annually, while 130,000 die by accident
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The right wing is carping that President Obama is "downplaying" the dangers of Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) in the wake of the Paris and…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/george-lakey-187x137.jpg)
8 Ways Nonviolence can Combat Terrorism
By George Lakey | ( Waging Non-Violence) | - - One of my most popular courses at Swarthmore College focused on the challenge of how to defend against terrorism, nonviolently. Events now…![Daesh/ ISIL in the Digital Realm v2.0](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/01/daesh-isil-in-the-digital-realm-187x137.jpg)
Daesh/ ISIL in the Digital Realm v2.0
By Michael Degerald | ( History X ISIS ) Not long ago I wrote a piece that explored various facets of how Daesh, the organization, relates to the internet most broadly. The…![The Surprising Reason we Keep Falling for ISIL/ Daesh Propaganda](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/01/the-surprising-reason-we-keep-fa-187x137.jpg)
The Surprising Reason we Keep Falling for ISIL/ Daesh Propaganda
Haroro J. Ingram | (The Conversation) | - - The rise of [the so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS) has reaffirmed what al-Qaeda and the Taliban proved last decade: strategic communications, particularly counter-propaganda…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701055540im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/5c1ee48e3d9e4b9f8cc90e2ffca2fada.square.png)