In Washington, the New America Foundation sponsors something called the New Models of Policy Change initiative. In studying gender and security issues, NMPC highlighted four emerging data trends/ Political violence targeting women is on the rise. ACLED found that there were twice as many violent events targeting women worldwide in the first quarter of 2019...
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Has Trump Ended the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan?
A new report from the New America think tank in Washington raises the possibility that the U.S. drone against suspected terrorists in Pakistan may be over. The last American drone strike in Pakistan, according to New America’s research, occurred on July 4, 2018 when a U.S. drone killed Qari Abdullah Dawar, the chief commander of the Hafiz Gul...
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Behind the Khashoggi Coverup, the Pursuit of Proxy War With Iran
If you watch close up in Washington, you can sometimes see the secret sector of the U.S. government in action. This doesn’t require a security clearance or inside sources. Sometimes you can see it happening in public in the presentations of the capital’s think tanks. After Jamal Khashoggi disappeared, I wrote that the case of...