Reflectii

Introduction

This report will discuss jihadis’ use of the phrase Allahu akbar – meaning “Allah is the greatest” – as a battle cry during terror attacks. This subject has been discussed in previous MEMRI analyses, but there have been many attacks since carried out by jihadis in the West in which this battle cry was repeated.[1] In two recent examples, an Islamist named Trevor Bickford shouted “Allahu akbar” as he lunged at New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve near Times Square,[2] and a man who stabbed six people in a January 11, 2023 attack at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris also shouted the phrase during his attack.[3] This report will provide more than three dozen additional examples from recent years of the use of the term as a jihadi battle cry (see Appendix).

Le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d’Irlande du Nord mérite une attention particulière et des recherches approfondies sur l’organisation et l’exécution d’opérations psychologiques et l’utilisation de technologies de manipulation, car il possède une longue et considérable expérience dans la réalisation de telles actions dans les régions les plus dissemblables du monde.

Nous venons d’entrer dans une nouvelle année et, comme il est de coutume, nous nous sommes présentés les uns les autres nos meilleurs vœux. Pourtant le cœur n’y était peut-être pas. Après ce que nous avons subi au cours des trois dernières années, l’année 2023 s’annonce en effet comme celle de tous les dangers – mais aussi heureusement de tous les possibles.

Suffering from geopolitical and energy crises, the European economy in 2022 had a hard time when it faced the triple predicaments of high inflation, energy crisis, and economic slowdown. Looking forward to 2023, as the European Central Bank (ECB) continues to push for interest rate hikes, which in turn may cause the European economy to face a long period of difficulty. According to the researchers at ANBOUND, it remains challenging for Europe to resolve the inflation problem, and there is more likelihood for it to fall into stagflation.

L’an passé, 951 militaires allemands ont fait la demande de ne pas être déployés en zone de conflit. C’est près de cinq fois plus qu’en 2021. Les pacifistes allemands appellent l’armée à offrir une porte de sortie à tous les objecteurs de conscience.

The most defining feature of international terrorism in 2023 will be its diversity, reflected by the broad array of ideologies and grievances motivating plots and attacks.

The challenge of dealing with “everyday extremists” remains, as lone actors influenced by accelerationism and other forms of violent extremism radicalize online and seek to conduct real-world acts of politically and ideologically motivated violence.

Джейсон Блазакис и Тур Буккволл – о наемниках Евгения Пригожина как передовом отряде Кремля в его агрессии против Украины

29 декабря Центр по исследованию коррупции и организованной преступности (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, OCCRP) объявил «персоной года» (то есть, антигероем по версии этой организации) Евгения Пригожина – человека, прозванного «поваром Кремля» и стоящего за множеством темных дел в интересах своего главного клиента, президента России Владимира Путина.

With the rapid growth of metadata and political and corporate surveillance in America during the last two decades, anthropologists Roberto J. González and David H. Price—long-time contributors to CounterPunch—have been studying the impacts and implications of these developments. Both Price and González recently published books that critically examine surveillance in the United States (Price’s The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent and González’s War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future). Below are excerpts from an extended conversation between the two on the cultural, military, and political dimensions of surveillance, technology, culture, and power.