Israel-Palestine: 2 Very Different Narratives http://t.co/I64ysntpu5—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 18, 2015
Israel-Palestine: 2 Very Different Narratives
19 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
The Taleban is back
17 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Afghanistan, Taleban, war on terror
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/653888723034222592/photo/1
14 years after US invasion, the Taliban are back in control of large parts of Afghanistan. bit.ly/afghan-maps http://t.co/c2W7NQ46Yy—
NYT Graphics (@nytgraphics) October 16, 2015
The revival of the Taliban
17 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Afghanistan, war on terror
German and French war planners both believed WWI was going to be an offensive one
11 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Armistice Day, World War I
How the Taliban overlaps ethnicity in Afghanistan
11 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Afghanistan, economics of identity, Taliban, war against terror
How the Taliban overlaps with ethnicity in Afghanistan: bit.ly/VoxMidEastMaps https://t.co/I8HBhCooJQ—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) October 01, 2015
Refugee populations by country of asylum – UK, USA, France and Germany since 1960
10 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in economic history, population economics, war and peace
I had to use two charts because Germany hosted so many refugees after in the early 1990s that it made the reading the remaining data not possible because of the scale of the axis.
UNHCR – UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database.
British, French, German and Italian asylum seeker intake since 1980
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics, war and peace
The Germans admitted so many asylum seekers in the early 1990s that I have had to reproduce the graph without Germany so some meaningful interpretation can be made of the three other countries.
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
The British started to admit a great many more refugees at the end of the 1990s compared to the already large number admitted at the beginning. Italy is only started offering shelter to a significant number of asylum seekers since the end of the 1990s. The French have been pretty consistently admitting reasonable numbers of asylum seekers and adjusting their quota upwards in a crisis.
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Scandinavian asylum seeker intake since 1980
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics, war and peace
Sweden took in so many asylum seekers in the early 1990s that I am reproducing the graph for the period after to give the data more meaning. Swedish generosity so dominates the rest of Scandinavia that it distorts any reading of the graph unless it is split into two.
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
@nzlabour @NZGreens @OxfamNZ @AmnestyNZ @johnkeyPM asylum seeker intake of Japan, S. Korea and New Zealand since 1987
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics, war and peace
When notoriously insular Japan and South Korea overtake New Zealand as a refuge for asylum seekers, the Left of New Zealand politics, which loves to lecture the rest of the world on peace and human rights, clearly dropped the ball as the self-appointed consciences of the nation. Being a nuclear free New Zealand is not a passport to moral superiority in the 21st century.
Source: Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
The last time a large number of refugees were admitted to New Zealand was under the 1990s National Party government.
@jamespshaw @nzlabour @actparty inflow of asylum seekers into Australia and New Zealand since 1987
08 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: asylum seekers, Australia, economics of migration, refugees
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat; Dataset: International Migration Database.
@KURDISTAN_ARMY great explanation of who is fighting who in Syria
08 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Middle-East politics, Syrian Civil War
I support the Kurdish army because they are about the only faction in Syria that are quite clearly fighting to be left alone and will not harm anybody else as long as they are left alone.
@jeremycorbyn was von Stauffenberg’s plot to assassinate Hitler a near tragedy?
08 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: British politics, Leftover Left, World War II
https://twitter.com/orbyuk/status/651819447326523392was
This is the man David Cameron calls “security threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating” #OurCorbyn http://t.co/qAV9KUY0rj—
(@JeremyCorbyn4PM) October 07, 2015
RT @jeremycorbyn your friends in Hamas think stabbing a baby is heroic
05 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: British politics, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Middle-East politics, war on terror
To Hamas, all Israelis are "settlers." Here's their response today to murder of 2 Jerusalem men & stabbing of a baby http://t.co/SAmXXqhAK2—
Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) October 04, 2015
Who is fighting who in Syria?
05 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Iraq, Middle-East politics, Syria, war and terror
https://twitter.com/thei100/status/650435182923681792/photo/1
Where are the Russians bombing?
Not ISIS held areas. http://t.co/YkVk2IWmtM—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 04, 2015
Six @CNN graphics to explain #Syria's war. Spoiler alert: 3 are from ISW. cnn.it/1PcfLOu http://t.co/9V4TeyiHW2—
ISW (@TheStudyofWar) October 04, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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