Some links for light reading - Thursday, July 3, 2014

What I Read Last Week

• Libertarianism and Classical Liberalism: Is There a Difference?by Mario Rizzo I consider myself both a libertarian and a classical liberal. I have been teaching a seminar in classical liberalism at the NYU Law School for six semesters. I am always asked about…

• Israeli FM Lieberman Tells Kerry Independent Kurdish State is a Foregone Conclusion; Peres Says De-Facto Kurd State is Democratic

  Kurdish-inhabited areas cross the national borders of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that the emergence…

• The British jihadis in Syria might be driven by more than just religion

  Nasser Muthana (R), 20, from Cardiff, who uses the nom de guerre Abu Muthanna al-Yemeni, in the online video. Photograph: Al-Hayat Media Centre/AFP/Getty Reyaad Khan and Nasser Muthana sound like…

• al-Ḥayāt Media Center presents a new video message from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: "There Is No Life Without Jihad"

  Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām — “There Is No Life Without Jihad”

• Europe faces transnational terror threat from Syrian ‘jihadists’

  European security services are concerned at the threat of jihadists returning from the war in Syria (photo: dpa)

• داعش لا "تناغش" وواشنطن لا" تلاطف"

  مبنى المحكمة العسكرية في عمّان…

• ISIS Issues Mandate To Single Mosul Women: “Mujahideen Have Right To Rape You”

  Written By : Tiffiny RuegnerJune 23, 2014 I’m sure life is already not very easy for single Mosul women but a recent letter was released saying that the unmarried women are required to…

• The world's richest jihadi group could ignite the entire Middle East

  The Sunni militant group ISIS captured Iraq's largest oil refinery over the weekend — a major blow to the Iraqi government and Baghdad's energy security. But oil is just one part of the…

• دراسة تظهر أماكن توزع الجهاديين بالأردن « عمان نت

  عمّان نت - محمد عرسان 24 / 06 / 2014 بينت دراسة…

• New software targets hard-to-understand privacy policies

  Have you ever tried to read a website’s privacy policy only to give up after slogging through paragraphs and paragraphs of dense, lawyerly language? Privacy-focused companies Disconnect and…

• Saudi Funding of ISIS

  Significantly undermining ISIS's financial base would require rolling back the group's access to local Syrian and Iraqi income sources. On June 13, U.S. Treasury Department officials stated that…

• Analyzing the ISIS “Twitter Storm”

  For the last eighteen months we’ve been closely monitoring the Syrian conflict. One of the ways we do this is through social media, using a range of tools to aid our work. For Twitter, we use…

• Robert Fisk: The old partition of the Middle East is dead. I dread to think what will follow

  The Lebanese Druze leader – who fought in a 15-year civil war that redrew the map of Lebanon – believes that the new battles for Sunni Muslim jihadi control of northern and eastern…

• Washington's Worst and Least-Bad Options in Iraq

  Image Credit: Wikimedia CommonsISIS is making progress in Iraq, and the United States has no good options for stopping it. Iraq’s sectarian woes have escalated sharply in recent days. The…

• “داعش” تتقدم في تحقيق خطتها مع جيش يبلغ 14 ألف مقاتل والخبراء يعتقدون ان لديها خطة للاستيلاء على منطقة العراق وسورية والاردن وفلسطين لكنها مستعدة للاكتفاء بخطة اصغر تشوش بها على سوق النفط العالمية وتحول القارة الاوروبية الى ميدان قتل

  Jun 20, 2014 بقلم: سمدار بير

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