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Terrorism Leads Ghana's Religious Groups to Ramp Up Security

NOVANEWS The Cathedral of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso | Photo: Wikimediacommons Executive Director of the African Center for Security and Counter-Terrorism, Emmanuel Kutin, stressed that "the churches must take their own security seriously." An attack on a Catholic church by gunmen in Burkina Faso Sunday, which resulted in the killing of five churchgoers and one priest, has prompted the Executive Director of the African Center for Security and Counter-Terrorism, Emmanuel Kutin, to advise churches in Ghana to ramp up security. RELATED: UN Security Council Debates Military Group to Address Violence in West Africa The gunmen did not conclude their attack after targetting the church. According to Urbain Kabore, a spokesperson for the West African country's Sahel region...

The Global War on Terrorism from Two Perspectives

NOVANEWS By Camillo Mac Bica, Ph.D. Understanding the Global War on Terrorism from the perspective of the Militarist, the Mythic perspective, and the Rationalist, the sensory perspective The Militarist (Mythic) Perspective: A Preemptive War* to combat terrorism, uphold American values, defend freedoms, and to fulfill a sacred and noble responsibility to liberate and bring democracy (and Christianity?) to the oppressed peoples of the world. The Rationalist (Sensory) Perspective: A Preventive War** initiated and sustained by multiple Presidential Administrations; enabled and financed by a rubber stamp and spineless Congress, many of whom continue to influence policy and decisions of state despite their ineptitude and errors in judgment; orchestrated by the Defense Department’s arrogant...

The plain truth about terrorism

NOVANEWS or why the “oops we accidentally let ISIS get our guns” excuse does not work… OffGuardian We get a few people here saying some variant on “ISIS, al Qaeda etc are all the unlooked-for by-product of the criminal western policy in the Middle East.” It’s one of the would-be middle-of-the-road positions occupied as much through fear of what lies beyond it than for any inherent value it contains. It’s still possible to be considered relatively mainstream and hold this position. Sensible people like Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky promote it. There’s only one problem with it really, namely that it is not true. Recent leaks/releases of government documents have put it beyond question that the US, its Gulf allies and NATO at very least willingly got behind the creation of extreme jihadist ...