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The West has failed utterly to understand the appeal of the ISIS narrative, much less to develop effective counter narratives. 
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Islamic State is often called ‘medieval’ but is in fact very modern – a horrific expression of a widespread frustration with a globalised western model that promises freedom and prosperity to all, but fails to deliver...
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The brutal ‘Islamic State’ is a symptom of a deepening crisis of civilisation premised on fossil fuel addiction, which is undermining Western hegemony and unravelling state power across the Muslim world...
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We air the second part of our two-day interview with Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author.
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The political scientist and philosopher Noam Chomsky tells Channel 4 News that the ceasefire agreement in Ukraine is "a glimmer of hope... but we'll have to wait and see."
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With Egypt’s air strikes in Libya, the international war against ISIS has widened.
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The political scientist and philosopher Noam Chomsky tells Channel 4 News that the ceasefire agreement in Ukraine is "a glimmer of hope... but we'll have to ...
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Jordan is vulnerable to challenges from fundamentalists. And Islamic State is gaining strength in its neighborhood.
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After 133 days of bloody war against ISIS, the Revolutionary Kurds of Kobane have finally declared victory.
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Despite apparent victory, analysts warn that IS still maintains heavy presence in Syrian Kurdistan
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When a gunman took hostages and displayed an Islamic flag at a coffee shop in the heart of Sydney last week, supporters of the Islamic…
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Across the group’s territory in Iraq and Syria, a breakdown of services and deepening deprivation call into question its ability to govern and its sustainability.
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Pakistan will not succumb to the brutality and inhumanity of the Islamic State.
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Neoliberalism devours other competing world-views through the commodification of cultural difference—turning a tidy profit. Wrest this monopoly on political readings of Islam away from capital and authoritarianism.
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It has become a commonplace in recent months to observe that the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is the latest chapter in the long story of the anticolonial awakening — the arbitrary borders drawn after World War I by the great powers being redrawn — and simultaneously a chapter in the struggle against the way global capital undermines the power of nation states. But what causes such fear and consternation is another feature of the ISIS regime: The public statements of the ISIS authorities make it clear that the principal task of state power is not the regulation of the welfare of the state’s population (health, the fight against hunger) — what really matters is religious life and the concern that all public life obey religious laws. This is why ISIS remains more or less indifferent toward humanitarian catastrophes within its domain — its motto is roughly “take care of religion and welfare will take care of itself.” Therein resides the gap that separates the notion of power practiced by ISIS from the modern Western notion of what Michel Foucault called “biopower,” which regulates life in order to guarantee general welfare: the ISIS caliphate totally rejects the notion of biopower.
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Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky MIT Armenian Society on Oct 4, 2014 An interview of Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT by David Barsamian. The interview takes us on a general overview of the state of ...
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The Islamic State gets a lot of attention, but the state of Sino-American relations, the ability of the eurozone to generate some economic growth, and a resolution of the crisis in Ukraine are likely to matter a lot more to the overall state of world affairs in the months and years ahead. I'd even argue that a nuclear deal and gradual thaw with Iran will matter a lot more to world affairs than the battle against the Islamic State.
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In the endless geopolitical realignments of the Middle East, the caliphate of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) seems to have frightened just about everyone else involved in Middle Eastern politics into a de facto geopolitical alliance. All of a sudden, we find Iran and the United States, the Kurds (both in Syria and Iraq) and Israel, Turkey and Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government, western Europe (Great Britain, France, and Germany) and Russia all pursuing in different ways the same objective: stop the caliphate from expanding and consolidating.
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