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El Centro Field Note No. 5: Grillo “The Cricket”—a Santa Muerte Adherent & Sicario for Multiple Cartels SWJED Tue, 11/13/2018 - 8:28am

This essay is an excerpt from a longer field investigation conducted by Falko Ernst in Michoacán in 2015. The author met with this sicario four times to interview him about his life story. The full story was originally published as “The Life and Death of a Mexican Hitman” on 17 October 2018 by the International Crisis Group.

Pentagon Launched New Classified Operation to Support Saudi Coalition in Yemen

Pentagon Launched New Classified Operation to Support Saudi Coalition in Yemen by Sharon Weinberger, Sean Naylor and Jenna McLaughlin - Yahoo News

From The Soufan Group and more direct than normal. BLUF: ---Quote--- * On November 7, a man with a handgun murdered 11 people inside a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. * The Thousand Oaks shooting was the fourth such case in the U.S., with ten or more killed, since the start of 2018. *...

Afghanistan War Update

Afghan Leader Tells U.S. Audience Taliban Not Winning War by Matthew Pennington – AP

*Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home* and Abroad by Kenneth Osgood As the author points out, Ike was remembered primarily for the first off-set strategy, where he attempted to achieve nuclear weapon dominance over the USSR as a cost effective means of deterring Soviet...

The actual article is entitled: 'More laws won't stop terrorism but effective prevention is complex' and the author is different: ---Quote--- Dr Anne Aly is a federal Labor MP and former academic in the field of counter terrorism and countering violent extremism. ---End Quote---...

A really interesting France24 (TV) report that opens with: ---Quote--- When Paris was hit by two major terrorist attacks in 2015, France embarked on a painful journey to understand the radicalisation of its youth. Three years later, researchers have discredited initial theories about the...