Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit, discusses the American presidential elections and raises ten foreign policy questions for the next president of the United States. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7
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I’m reading Michael Scheuer’s Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq at the moment; an interesting book by the author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America and former chief of the CIA’s Bin Laden...
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Dr Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, passed away a few days ago due to pancreatic cancer. Here’s his Last Lecture entitled, “Really achieving your childhood dreams”: Transcript available here [pdf].
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As regular readers will be aware, Austrolabe’s mascot is the pigeon-chested anti-Muslim campaigner Darrin (sic) Hodges. Here he is above (on the far right, with red shirt and video camera) with people we assume are his fellow “protectionist” chums. With friends like this, it will come as no surprise that Darrin also appears to be...
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