Leading Human Rights Defender Arrested In Iran
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Leading Human Rights Defender Arrested In Iranby noreply@rferl.org (Golnaz Esfandiari)
Narges Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) co-founded by Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, was arrested on May 5 at her home in Tehran, according to her husband.
Russia's 'Victory Day' Glory Over Nazis Overshadowed by Ukraine by webdesk@voanews.com (Daniel Schearf)
Russia is preparing to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, known since the Soviet era as “The Great Patriotic War,” with a massive parade on May 9th of military hardware and millions of medals handed out to veterans or their relatives. But critics say the Soviet-style display of power and nationalism overshadows tragic scars during and after the war that still influence politics and foreign policy, especially in the current Ukraine crisis. VOA's Daniel...
It is the first IS claim of any attack in the US, though the White House says it is too early to say if the group had any role.
Moscow vows to use veto at UN to prevent EU military strikes on Libyan ports
US Top Diplomat Heads to Saudi Arabia as Yemen Deterioratesby webdesk@voanews.com (Heather Murdock)
In the first few weeks of the Saudi offensive, Ghaida’a Motahar, a wife and the mother of a 4-month-old son, tried to get used to the bombings in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a. But it late April, a Houthi military base was bombed near her house. “It was unbelievable,” she said in her Sana’a home. “I felt at that moment that there is a rocket hitting my house.” She grabbed her son and hid in the stairwells as debris and dust rained down inside her home. Now she lives in constant fear, and...
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President Barack Obama nominated Marine General Joseph Dunford as the next chairman of the joint chiefs on Tuesday, choosing an officer with battlefield experience in Iraq and Afghanistan for the US military's top job. Duration: 00:43
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 New York Daily News |
US husband and wife stabbed to death in Virgin Islands: cops
New York Daily News United States tourists were stabbed to death in a resort in the U.S. Virgin Islands, authorities said. The bodies of the husband, 73, and wife, 67, were discovered in vacation home on the main island of St. Thomas, and cops claim they're chasing “a series of ... US Couple Found Stabbed to Death on Virgin Islands VacationABC News Sudbury Couple Killed In US Virgin Islands; Son Facing ChargesCBS Local all 76 news articles » |
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US targets 4 ISIS leaders, offers $20 million in rewards
CBS News WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is offering rewards of up to $20 million for information leading to the whereabouts of four top leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). 10 Photos ... US offers multi-million dollar rewards for IS group leadersYnetnews State Dept. Offers Rewards for Information on ISIS Islamist TerroristsHSToday Rewards for Justice - Reward Offers for Information on Islamic State of Iraq and ...US Department of State (press release) all 35 news articles » |
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five paintings missing since World War II are being returned to collections in Germany at the behest of the heirs of their American acquirers....
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday that the investigation on the Garland, Texas exhibition shooting is not yet conclusive about a link between the shooters and the Islamic State or other terrorist groups.
Earnest said: 'The thing that we can say definitively is that because of the brave work of local law enforcement officers, a terrorist attack was foiled' Continue reading...
Earnest said: 'The thing that we can say definitively is that because of the brave work of local law enforcement officers, a terrorist attack was foiled' Continue reading...
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Lindsey Graham: 'New phase in the war' if Islamic State behind Texas attack
Washington Times Possible 2016 presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks at the Republican Leadership Summit Saturday, April 18, 2015, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) more >. By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 5, ... Here's how Lindsey Graham's spokesman explains his latest 'joke' about the ...Washington Post (blog) Lindsey Graham's unfortunate beef with the word 'the'MSNBC Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'Everything that starts with 'Al' in the Middle East is bad ...The Week Magazine Jewish Telegraphic Agency all 16 news articles » |
Critics have seized on the spying allegations, noting a whiff of hypocrisy emanating from Berlin, given the German outrage over American surveillance.
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Study: US Job Market Improvingby webdesk@voanews.com (Jim Randle)
The U.S. unemployment rate is expected to get better, millions of people find work, and wages grow a little faster over the next couple of years, according to a recent study by Credit Suisse Bank analyst Julia Dumanskaya. She said poor job prospects prompted a higher than usual number of people to attend universities and other training during and after the recession in the hope of becoming more employable. She added the gradually improving U.S. economy means that about 2.5 million more people will find opportunities for work over the next couple of years. Dumanskaya projects that U.S. unemployment will fall to 4.7 percent by the end of 2016. The U.S. jobless rate has already fallen from a recession-high of 10 percent to the current 5.5 percent. Economists surveyed by the Bloomberg financial news service say the jobless rate will probably decline slightly when the latest data is reported on Friday, showing 5.4 percent of people willing and able to work are unable to find jobs. The Credit Suisse study says when unemployment falls, companies have to compete harder for workers, and that puts upward pressure on wages. But wages are currently rising more slowly than they have in previous recoveries. That is partly because many of the new jobs are in low-paying sectors like retail and hospitality. Other areas, like information technology and finance have seen wage growth, but these jobs make up too small a portion of the workforce to push up average wages very much. Dumanskaya says wage growth could speed up if worker productivity grew more, and says faltering business investment has slowed gains here. PNC Bank Senior Economists Gus Faucher is also optimistic about the U.S. job market, unemployment, and wage growth. He says continued recovery will cut the ranks of people who are under-employed, including millions who want full time work but can only find part-time employment. In a Skype interview, Faucher says by the end of this year, there will also be fewer college graduates holding jobs traditionally done by people with just high school diplomas. While economists have said the recession ended years ago, Faucher says reducing the ranks of the under-employed may convince workers and employers that the recovery is real.
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Russia and China have had enough of western banking
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Sweden warns of Cold War cat-and-mouse game with Russia
Sydney Morning Herald Western officials say Russia has stepped up probing flights and mock bomb runs near Europe's borders since 2013, forcing jets from NATO nations and non-NATO allies like Sweden to scramble repeatedly. For its part, Moscow says NATO has dramatically ... NATO starts anti submarine exercise in North Sea as tension with Russia riseReuters US, NATO Open Direct Communication Link With Russia As NATO Holds Anti ...International Business Times AU all 97 news articles » |
Telegraph.co.uk |
North Korea might be courting Russia, but China still looms larger
Washington Post SEOUL — After months of “will he, won't he?” speculation, it's now clear. He won't. Kim Jong Un will not be traveling to Moscow on Saturday for Russia's Victory Day celebrations marking the end of World War II in Europe. Having previously said that ... Did Kim Jong-un snub Putin because Russia refused to sell him anti-aircraft ...Telegraph.co.uk North Korea officially squelches speculation of Kim Jong-un trip to RussiaWashington Times North Korea Officially Squelches Speculation of Kim TripABC News KSL.com- International Business Times -CNBC all 311 news articles » |
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Chinese warships just sailed to Russia ahead of a possible major arms deal ...
Business Insider Two Chinese warships are passing through the Black Sea towards the Russian port of Novorossiysk. The guided missile frigates will arrive in Russia by May 9, likely in time to participate in Russian celebrations commemorating the 70th anniversary of the ... Two Chinese Warships Enter Black Sea, Reports Link Visit to Possible Chinese ...USNI News all 5 news articles » |
In nominating Joseph F. Dunford Jr. of the Marines, the president picked a veteran combat commander to help him wind down one war and figure out how to win another.
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As the Western establishment works to bolster the communist regime ruling mainland China, Beijing has been intensifying its brutal campaign of persecution against Christians and other believers as part of a broader war on dissent. In fact, according to a recently released report by Christian human-rights organization China Aid, the dictatorship’s crackdown on believers of numerous faiths last year reached levels unseen in at least a decade, surging by more than 10,000 percent in one category over 2013. Analysts are warning that the worst may be yet to come as the Communist Party of China seeks to smash any and all perceived challenges to its ruthless rule and propaganda. Even government-approved and -managed churches have found themselves in the autocracy’s crosshairs.
Race, Politics and Lies by Thomas Sowell
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.
Baltimore’s Tough Streets by Ralph R. Reiland
Washington Post columnist, writes that she went to Baltimore to get a firsthand look at how the poorest of the poor live. In short order, she got robbed and knocked around.
It isn’t really about Freddie Gray. And it isn’t really about race, either.
Corporate media plays up unverified link between suspects and ISIS.
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America Has Lost Its Culture by Infowars.com
Authoritarians attack American cars, guns, rugged individualism, liberty...
The Marine Commandant will replace Gen. Martin Dempsey, whose term as the highest-ranking U.S. military leader ends in September
Law enforcement officials say there was no indication of an imminent shooting, but one of the gunmen had been on the radar screen for years
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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Tuesday that the issue of whether Germany should pay reparations to Greece for the Nazi occupation during World War II had been settled, while not denying the country's moral responsibility.
NATO will temporarily move its southern European headquarters to Romania in June as part of a major military exercise, an American official said Tuesday.
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Thousands of soldiers from 18 countries took part Tuesday in military drills in Jordan jointly overseen by the US Army, officials said.
Gen. Paul Selva is President Obama's pick as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The officer who killed them was armed only with a handgun.
According to Fox News, Garland Police spokesman Joe Harn said the unnamed officer “probably saved lives.” He added, “His reaction, and his shooting with a pistol, he did a good job.”
Harn said Simpson and Soofi were armed with “assault rifles” and wearing body armor, yet the officer was able to take them out.
“Four SWAT team members with high-powered rifles also fired at the suspects,” but CNN reports that both were killed by the traffic cop armed with a .45 caliber Glock.
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The Merchant of Revolution by fredslibrary
Title: The Merchant of Revolution
Author: Z. A. B. Zeman
Zeman, Z.A.B. (1965) and Scharlau, W. B. The Merchant of Revolution: The Life of Alexander Israel Helphand (PARVUS), 1867-1924. New York: Oxford Univ. Press
LCCN: 65006995
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- Translation of Freibeuter der Revolution, Parvus-Helphand.
Date Posted: May 5, 2015
Reviewed by George C. Constantinides[1]
A fascinating biography, the first in English, of Help hand (pen name Parvus), the brilliant and equally fascinating radical socialist who was a leading adviser to the Germans on revolutionary affairs in Russia in World War I and was used by the Germans to organize and finance efforts to bring about Russia’s collapse via the Russian socialists. Helphand’s role as a German political action agent was revealed by German foreign office archive: captured after World War II. According to the authors, the archives show Helphand to have been the central figure in the conspiracy connecting the Germans and the Russian Social Democrat party, particularly Lenin’s segment. Alan Moorehead in The Russian Revolution[2] describes Helphand’s agent role on behalf of the Germans and is based on these captured documents. This socialist, journalist, theoretician, writer, and publisher made a fortune in the war in business and as an agent; he plotted to bring a revolution to Russia, assisted Russian minorities’ efforts to achieve independence, ran intelligence collection operations, channeled funds to Lenin’s faction, and subsidized other European socialists with German funds. He was also imaginative in conceiving economic warfare and propaganda schemes. The record of what he did is partial, first because Helphand destroyed his private papers and second because the Germans did not make a record of all their dealings with him. The critic for the American Historical Review stated that there was little about his life prior to the war and that the presentation of Helphand’s association with the Russian Social Democrat party was “riddled with errors.” Be that as it may, this work by a British and a German historian is a superior study of covert political, economic, and psychological war fare in time of war and in connection with some of the greatest and most far-reaching events in modern history; the same American Historical Review writer judged it the “best account available of German efforts to undermine the Czarist regime.”
[1] Constantinides, George C. (1983). Intelligence and Espionage: An Analytical Bibliography.Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 5-7-509
[2] Moorehead, Alan (1958). The Russian Revolution. New York, Harper [LCCN: 58006154]
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From Apes to Warlords by fredslibrary
Title: From Apes to Warlords
Author: Baron Solly Zuckerman
Zuckerman, Solly (1978). From Apes to Warlords. New York: Harper and Row
LCCN: 00694687
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Date Posted: May 5, 2015
Reviewed by George C. Constantinides[1]
Although by strict definition Zuckerman’s book does not exactly meet this bibliography’s criteria it is included for its symbolic lessons to the intelligence officer and because of the relevance of operations research in certain intelligence areas. Zuckerman was one of the pioneers in operations research in World War II and as the scientific adviser on planning to the Allied Expeditionary Air Force and to SHAEF was a working research scientist admitted into inner planning circles. He led the group arguing for air attacks on the enemy’s railway system to paralyze its war-making machine instead of strategic bombing. Zuckerman’s thesis is that a study of the facts should be the basis for action and for analyzing results of operations, not preconceived notions or a priori reasoning. The conclusions he draws on what bombing policy to pursue and the results of the applications of his theories in the invasion of France in 1944 contain lessons worth pondering when set against intelligence appreciations by the regular services. If Zuck erman’s “transportation plan” was right, the question remains of why certain service estimates and decision makers who long opposed it or diluted it in practice were not. Zuckerman acknowledged the value of ULTRA as his most important source in his post-invasion study of air attacks. Lewin in Ultra Goes to War[2] was of the opinion that Zuckerman’s version of the results of one phase of the railway interdiction strategy in Italy was rosier than the actuality. Still sobering is the author’s accusation of the absence of any challenge to the uniformly negative appreciations of the intelligence agencies on the strategic significance of the program of attacks on transportation.
[1] Constantinides, George C. (1983). Intelligence and Espionage: An Analytical Bibliography.Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 509-510
[2] Lewin, Ronald (1978). Ultra Goes to War: The First Account of World War II’s Greatest Secret Based On Official Documents. London: Hutchinson
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Russia's Auto Sector Is an Important Indicator of Economic Health
STRATFOR Russia's economic challenges extend beyond its extractive industries. Sanctions, a volatile ruble, the crisis in Ukraine and low oil prices have also led to a decline in foreign investment in a variety of Russian sectors while disrupting or reducing ... and more » |
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Russia's main arms exporter Rosoboronexport will present at the International Defense Industry Fair IDEF-2015 in Turkey about 20 samples of Russian defense products, including the T-90S tank and Mi-28NE combat helicopter, head of Rosoboronexport's delegation Anatoly Aksyonov told TASS in an interview on Tuesday.
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The newly formed Strategic Command of Russia's Northern Fleet during the winter training period has confirmed its combat capability, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday.
Russian-Turkish technological cooperation will continue in joint projects to include short-range missile defense systems, tactical digital communications, orbital space systems, as well as various military and marine equipment.
A number of NATO members and Sweden have launched large-scale military drills in Europe amid ongoing tensions with Russia.
The Russian Armed Forces conducted 886 exercises of different level during the winter training period, including 260 multiservice force drills, fulfilling all the planned tasks, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday.
Workers laying a cable beneath the Baltic Sea are on the front line in Lithuania's struggle for energy independence from Moscow.
The purpose of entry of the ships into the Black Sea waters is still unknown, as there are no reports of previous visits of the Chinese ships.
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Fresh clashes in Ukraine's volatile eastern region have left a volunteer pro-government fighter dead.
Iran plans to add 23 mm cannons to the radar network of air defense of the Army Ground Force, said an Iranian Army Ground Force Commander general Hesameddin Abbaspour.
Possible supplies of the Antey-2500 antiaircraft missile systems to Turkey stay fully within the latter country's powers to decide, Anatoly Aksyonov who chairs a delegation of the Russian state weaponry exporting corporation to the 12th international defence industry fair IDEF'15 told TASS.
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