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4 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Mass shootings in the US

(Editorial, August 4, 2019) If one of the perpetrators of this weekend’s two mass shootings had adhered to the ideology of radical Islam, the resources of the American government and its international allies would mobilize without delay.

The awesome power of the state would work tirelessly to deny future terrorists access to weaponry, money and forums to spread their ideology. The movement would be infiltrated by spies and informants. Its financiers would face sanctions. Places of congregation would be surveilled. Those who gave aid or comfort to terrorists would be prosecuted. Programs would be established to de-radicalize former adherents.

No American would settle for “thoughts and prayers” as a counterterrorism strategy. No American would accept laying the blame for such an attack on video games, like the Texas lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, did in an interview on Sunday when discussing the mass shooting in El Paso that took 20 lives and left 27 people wounded. Continue leyendo →

4 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Belt and road tracker

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What’s Happening with China’s Belt and Road?
July 31, 2019 | Jonathan E. Hillman
In Reconnecting AsiaXi Jinping’s signature foreign policy vision, the Belt and Road Initiative, is a long-term strategy to make China the center of the global economy. Can China deliver on its ambitious plans? CSIS Reconnecting Asia Director Jonathan Hillman explains what’s happening with China’s…

3 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Media Helped Legitimize Extremism (WIRE)

How the Media Helped Legitimize Extremism

A new study, by a respected scholar on internet culture, winds up a penetrating indictment of journalism’s internal inconsistencies. wired.com

xaviercolas@xaviercolas –How the Media Helped Legitimize Extremism | WIRED | “paradox of reporting on the so-called “alt-right”: Doing so without amplifying that ideology is extremely difficult” via ⁦@eduardosuarez⁩ https://www.wired.com/story/study-media-and-extremism/ …

3 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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The end of the INF Treaty

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Unidad de Análisis y Estudios y Diplomacia Pública

Difusión selectiva de documentos electrónicos sobre

seguridad y defensa en Estados Unidos

2 de agosto de 2019

U.S. Withdrawal from the INF Treaty on August 2, 2019

Press Statement by Secretary of State Pompeo,

August 2, 2019

Fact Sheet – INF Myth Busters: Pushing Back on Russian Propaganda Regarding the INF Treaty

Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance

July 30, 2019

Fact Sheet – Timeline of Highlighted U.S. Diplomacy Regarding the INF Treaty Since 2013

Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance

July 30, 2019

Special Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Ambassador James F. Jeffrey And Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Nathan A. Sales

U.S. Department of State

August 1, 2019

 

3 agosto, 2019
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The global terrorist threat (August 2019)

The New York Times

By Nick Cumming-Bruce (Aug. 3, 2019)

GENEVA — Less than five months after the military defeat of the Islamic State in Syria, a United Nations report is warning that the group’s leaders could launch international terrorist attacks before the end of the year, including those intended to “exacerbate existing dissent and unrest” in European nations.

In a bleak assessment of the global spread of jihadist movements, a report by United Nations analysts on the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee said that Islamic State leaders, despite their military defeat in Syria and Iraq, are “adapting, consolidating and creating conditions for an eventual resurgence” in those countries.

The group, though hobbled by a lack of financing, is also exploring ways to “reinvest in the capacity to direct and facilitate complex international attacks,” the July report said.

“The current abatement of such attacks, therefore, may not last long, possibly not even until the end of 2019,” the analysts added. Their report was based on the intelligence assessments of United Nations member states.

President Trump confidently predicted the group’s elimination when United States and allied forces took Baghuz, Syria, the last stronghold of the Islamic State’s caliphate, in late March. The report’s authors, though, say the group still has many fighters in Iraq and Syria who are able to move freely and carry out attacks.

Some 30,000 Islamic State foreign fighters and dependents may have survived the conflict and “will be of international concern for the foreseeable future,” the analysts said. “Some may join Al Qaeda or other terrorist brands that may emerge.”

European governments have estimated that around 5,000 to 6,000 of their citizens have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join extremist movements, most of them signing up with the Islamic State. While many were killed or detained, up to 40 percent are unaccounted for.

The radicalization of people held inside Europe’s prisons “remains a critical concern,” the report said, noting the first wave of returnees who had been jailed were expected to be released in the coming year.

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