Extremist Content Online: Al-Qaeda Releases Propaganda Video on 25th Anniversary of September 11 Attacks; ISIS Al-Naba Editorial Reflects on Global War on Terror, Encourages Acts of Terrorism
(New York, N.Y.) — The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. In this week’s issue:
«La chose la plus difficile au monde est de suivre à la trace n’importe quelle idée jusqu’à sa source». ~ Edward Mandell House
La remontée à la source est donc l’objet de ce texte. Il m’a semblé capital de donner au squelette d’une description linéaire des faits leur densité psychologique et leur incarnation dans les hommes qui ont fait l’histoire de cette époque-là.
En 2018, Washington déclenche une guerre technologique contre Pékin sur le terrain des semi-conducteurs. Pourtant, les derniers modèles d’IA chinois rivalisent aujourd’hui avec les meilleurs modèles américains. Décryptage d’une montée en puissance irrésistible.
Introduction : Le mensonge originel
Le Liban n’est pas un pays qui a échoué ; c’est un pays qui a été conçu pour échouer, et que ses propres enfants ont obstinément refusé de sauver. Pour comprendre l’état de décomposition avancée dans lequel il se trouve en cette année 2026, il ne faut pas chercher des causes économiques conjoncturelles ni des complots extérieurs uniquement. Il faut remonter à la matrice : un pacte colonial, une complicité populaire et une myopie existentielle. Comme le disait le philosophe Thomas Hobbes dans Le Léviathan, «l’homme est un loup pour l’homme» ; au Liban, cette maxime est érigée en système de gouvernement, où chaque communauté est un loup tapi dans l’ombre de l’autre, guettant sa part de proie plutôt que de bâtir un bien commun. Et comme l’écrivait le poète libanais Khalil Gibran dans Le Prophète : «Votre maison n’est pas une ancre mais un mât». Mais les Libanais ont transformé leur maison en un champ de ruines, où chaque chef de clan plante son drapeau sur un tas de décombres.
Hezbollah and Amal are already manipulating where donor funding goes and who gets credit for reconstruction, so Washington and its partners should coordinate ways to bypass them before the country’s wider reconstruction effort begins in earnest—starting with the first batch of “pilot zones.”
Sept. 8, 2026, update: Based on data from Ukraine’s DeepState OSINT group, Russian forces made a net gain of 14 square miles of Ukraine’s territory in the past four weeks (Aug. 11–Sept. 8, 2026).1 In comparison, Russia made a net gain of 33 square miles during the previous four-week period (July 14–Aug. 11, 2026), according to DeepState’s data. In contrast, RM’s analysis of data from ISW indicates that Russia made a net gain of 75 square miles of Ukraine’s territory in the past four weeks (Aug. 11–Sept. 8, 2026). According to the map maintained by DeepState, Russian forces advanced near 15 Ukrainian settlements2 in the period of Sept. 1–8, 2026. On Sept. 3, 2026, the Ukrainian Armed Forces regained control of an area near one settlement (Dvorichna), according to DeepState.
Territorial Control (DS and ISW figures as of Sept. 8, 2026)2
Key Takeaways:
Spain released classified files showing CNI warnings before the July 30 surge when about 80,000 people entered Ceuta. Agents flagged social-media calls to cross by fence and sea around 8 p.m. during Morocco’s Throne Day.
The messages described large online followings and possible entries by swimming or over the fence, and a CNI memo was also sent to Moroccan security services.
Sánchez says the papers show the government was not properly warned; Interior Minister Grande-Marlaska says intelligence did not alert them, while Defence Minister Robles says CNI did. Coverage notes the declassification is incomplete.
Farhad N. was just a few months old when hijacked airliners were deliberately piloted into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, part of attacks on the United States that killed thousands of people.
Twenty-five years later, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for plowing a Mini Cooper car into a crowd of people in Munich, killing two people and injuring dozens.
A review of Aliza Marcus’s book ‘Resurgence & Revolution: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight in Turkey and Syria’
Aliza Marcus’s latest book offers a useful timeline of events and insightful interviews with PKK figures; but the darker stains remain woven into a compelling liberation narrative instead of being allowed to disrupt it – leaving empty some much-needed space between romanticisation and demonisation.
Anyone looking for critical literature offering an inside view of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), particularly its Syrian affiliate, encounters a familiar problem. Even accounts not written by former People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighters themselves and presented as scholarly studies tend to carry distinctly activist undertones.