Eugene Puryear interviews VA's Lucas Koerner about the US-backed coup attempt in Venezuela and the illegitimacy of Juan Guaidó’s claim to the presidency of the Caribbean nation.
In this special segment of "By Any Means Necessary" is joined by Lucas
Koerner, writer at Venezulanalysis.com to talk about the ongoing
attempts at a US-backed coup in Venezuela, the illegitimacy of Juan
Guaidó’s claim to the presidency and the role of right-wing Latin
American governments in supporting the efforts to overthrow the
government of Nicolas Maduro.
LISTEN TO THIS NEWS: https://venezuelanalysis.com/audio/14251
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Thursday, January 17, 2019
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The Worldwide Islam Scholars Network promotes C. Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination perspectives in relation to Islam and Muslim Societies. Within this network of Sociologists, Political Scientists, Religious Studies Scholars, Historians, we will exchange scholarly information on Islam and Muslim societies.
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The Worldwide Islam Scholars Network promotes C. Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination perspectives in relation to Islam and Muslim Societies. Within this network of Sociologists, Political Scientists, Religious Studies Scholars, Historians, we will exchange scholarly information on Islam and Muslim societies.
The Sociology of Islam Academic Mailing list at Virginia Tech University is a free professional and academic networking tool to encourage interaction between individuals & organizations involved in Islam/Sociology of Islam/Islamist Movements and related fields worldwide. Members and subscribers are encouraged to dialogue and share resources on books, articles, conferences, teaching, and other related purposes.
The Archive at Virginia Tech
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3. Total discussion messages will not exceed more than 2 messages a day. We remain mindful of not flooding our members’ email inboxes with ongoing exchanges that are oftentimes limited to a few individuals. We encourage you to continue those discussions; however, please be mindful.
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Middle East Studies after September 11
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U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From
American Missionaries to the Islamic State. Routledge, 2018. https://www.routledge.com/US-Foreign-Policy-in-the-Middle-East-From-American-Missionaries-to-the/Gresh-Keskin/p/book/9780815347149
Editor of Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill)
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War - Paul Scharre
W. W. Norton - 2018
https://books.wwnorton.com/books/Army-of-None/
A Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death. What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the technology already exists to create weapons that can attack targets without human input. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in emerging weapons technologies, draws on deep research and firsthand experience to explore how these next-generation weapons are changing warfare. Scharre’s far-ranging investigation examines the emergence of autonomous weapons, the movement to ban them, and the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. He spotlights artificial intelligence in military technology, spanning decades of innovation from German noise-seeking Wren torpedoes in World War II—antecedents of today’s homing missiles—to autonomous cyber weapons, submarine-hunting robot ships, and robot tank armies. Through interviews with defense experts, ethicists, psychologists, and activists, Scharre surveys what challenges might face "centaur warfighters" on future battlefields, which will combine human and machine cognition. We’ve made tremendous technological progress in the past few decades, but we have also glimpsed the terrifying mishaps that can result from complex automated systems—such as when advanced F-22 fighter jets experienced a computer meltdown the first time they flew over the International Date Line. At least thirty countries already have defensive autonomous weapons that operate under human supervision. Around the globe, militaries are racing to build robotic weapons with increasing autonomy. The ethical questions within this book grow more pressing each day. To what extent should such technologies be advanced? And if responsible democracies ban them, would that stop rogue regimes from taking advantage? At the forefront of a game-changing debate, Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to argue that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but without surrendering human judgment. When the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.
https://books.wwnorton.com/books/Army-of-None/
Paul Scharre: Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Films/Movies and International Relations (Updated on January 16, 2019)
1.
Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Trailer
2.
The
Great Dictator 1940 Official Trailer
3.
Foreign
Correspondent 1940 Official Trailer
4.
Citizen
Kane (1941) Official Trailer #1 - Orson Welles Movie
5.
Casablanca
(1942) Official Trailer - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman Movie HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkL9l7qovsE
6.
All
the King's Men (1949) Trailer
7.
The
Manchurian Candidate Official Trailer #1 - Frank Sinatra Movie (1962) HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDfx_bsVJU
8.
Advise
& Consent (1962) Official Trailer - Henry Fonda, Lew Ayres Movie HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eb1RQ7prJY
9.
Lawrence
Of Arabia Theatrical Movie Trailer (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veJ96Pptsvg
10. Dr Strangelove - Official Trailer
[1964]
11. Seven Days In May (1964) Official
Trailer - Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas Conspiracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWL06waOAGw
12. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
(1965)
13. The Battle of Algiers - Official
Trailer (1966)
14. The Baader Meinhof Complex (1967) -
Trailer
15. Burn! - Marlon Brando Movie (1969)
16. Army of Shadows (1969)
17. The Conformist - Official Trailer
(1970)
18. The Confession (1970)
19. State of Siege (1972)
20. The Parallax View (1974) - Trailer
21. https://Three Days of the Condor
(1975) - Trailer
22. All The President's Men (1976)
Official Trailer - Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC3YFyah_Yg
23. Breaker Morant (1980)
24. Reds (1981) Trailer
25. Missing (1982) TRAILER
26. Brazil - 1985
27. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
trailer
28. The Beast of War (1988) Trailer
29. Scandal - 1989
30. The Hunt for Red October (1990)
31. Burnt By The Sun Trailer 1994
32. Land and Freedom (1995)
33. NIXON Original Theatrical Trailer (1995)
34. WAG THE DOG - Trailer - (1997)
35. Brave New World Trailer (1998)
Aldous Huxley
36. Bulworth - Trailer 1998
37. The Truman Show (1998)
38. Election (1999) Official Trailer #1
- Reese Witherspoon Movie HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBgM_Kw6PSM
39. Thirteen Days - Trailer (2001)
40. Conspiracy (2001)
41. Goodbye Lenin! [2003] - Trailer
42. Madras Cafe (2013)
43. HOTEL RWANDA (2004) - Official
Movie Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZzfxL90100
44. Syriana (2005) Official Trailer -
George Clooney, Matt Damon Movie HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvTni7Nggi0
45. Munich (2005) - Trailer
46. V For Vendetta (2005) Official
Trailer #1 - Sc-Fi Thriller HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSA7mAHolAw
47. The Good Shepherd (2006) - Trailer
48. Babel Trailer HQ (2006)
49. The Last King of Scotland (2006)
50. In the Loop (2009)
51. Charlie Wilson's War Official
Trailer #1 - Tom Hanks Movie (2007) HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1mnSjjeC2o
52. Milk (2008) - Movie Trailer
53. Oorlogswinter (2008)
54. Burn After Reading Official Trailer
#1 - Brad Pitt Movie (2008) HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVCHSiRWjJM
55. 12 Monkeys - 2009
56. Into the Storm (2009)
57. The Ghost Writer (2010) Official
Trailer - Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan Movie HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3NrIz5lwVo
58. The Iron Lady Official Movie
Trailer [2011]
59. Margin Call (2011)
60. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) -
Official Trailer
61. Argo Official Trailer #1 (2012) Ben
Affleck Thriller Movie HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW3WfSFgrVY
62. Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Idris Elba, Naomie Harris Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAglZjX3HOk
63. Kill the Messenger Official Trailer
#1 (2014)
64. The Imitation Game Official Trailer
#1 (2014) - Benedict Cumberbatch Movie HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuPZUUED5uk
65. Bridge of Spies Official Trailer #1
(2015) - Tom Hanks Cold War Thriller HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBBuzHrZBro
66. Eye in the Sky Official North
American Trailer (2015) - Aaron Paul, Helen Mirren War Thriller HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOqeoj669xg
67. The Post - 2017| Official Trailer [HD]
| 20th Century FOX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrXlY6gzTTM
Red Sparrow - 2017| Official Trailer [HD] | 20th
Century FOX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmUL6wMpMWw
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Sociology of Islam Journal: Special Issues
The Gulen Movement (2013)
Guest Editor: Hoshua Hendrick
Contemporary Social Movements in the Middle East and Beyond (2014)
Guest Editor: Mojtaba Mahdavi
China, Islam and the Middle East (2017)
Guest Editor: Tugrul Keskin
Immigration, Political Economy and Islam (2017)
Guest Editors: Ray Jureidini and Sari Hanafi
Leading the Faithful: Religious Authority in the Contemporary Middle East (2018)
Guest Editor: Mehran Kamrava
Unregistered Muslim Marriages: Regulations and Contestations (2018)
Guest Editor: Annelies Moors
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