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Share Tweet [ONLINE] – Strategic Foresight in U.S. Agencies The Challenge of Long-Term Thinking Amid Uncertainty Event How can American policymakers adequately value the long term given the uncertainty of the future and the resulting pressure to focus on the short term? In his report, “Strategic Foresight in U.S. Agencies,” New America International Security Program […]

The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda DATE: April 26, 2022 TIME: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Bin Laden’s greatest fear was not capture or death but the revelation of al-Qaeda’s secrets. Yet when he was killed in May 2011, SEAL Team 6 brought back thousands of pages of al-Qaeda’s […]

INE] – The Forever Prisoner: Abu Zubaydah and the CIA’s “Enhanced Interrogation” Program EVENT Six months after 9/11, the CIA captured Abu Zubaydah and announced he was number three in Al Qaeda. Frantic to thwart a much-feared second wave of attacks, the U.S. rendered him to a secret black site in Thailand, where he collided […]

Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:30 AM First United Methodist Church, 104 S Pineapple Ave, Sarasota, FL, 34236 More info: https://sillsarasota.org The riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a reminder that right-wing extremism is a serious problem. Since 9/11 right-wing militants and jihadist terrorists have both killed around the same number of […]