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How The FBI's Dysfunctional Search Systems Keep Information Out Of FOIA Requesters' Hands

Monday July 13th, 2015 at 8:46 AM

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Thanks to yet another FOIA lawsuit, more evidence is being produced that suggests certain federal agencies employ labyrinthine systems that seem deliberately designed to keep requesters as far away as possible from responsive documents.
Trentadue v. FBI deals with the release (or lack thereof) of videotapes containing footage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Four days of oral testimony has at least partially exposed the search methods used by the FBI, which the agency uses as convenient information silos, rather than treat their central database as a cohesive whole. Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press points out that this "system" often leads to unfulfilled or partially-filled requests. FOIA requesters are often not aware that the FBI will do a half-assed job unless led by the nose through each of its databases and document systems. (via Unredacted)

The latest testimony from the Trentadue case shows that reporters and members of the public who send FOIA requests to the FBI might not know that there are a myriad of different records "systems" that they need to specify in order for a comprehensive search to take place. They might not know that the FBI typically only searches for the location of the main file related to an investigation as reported to headquarters, so reporters should also request cross-references, which are mentions of the subject of their request in investigations outside of the main file. While field offices have FOIA-trained personnel to assist RIDS (Records Information Dissemination System), reporters should also send FOIA requests directly to individual field offices they think are relevant to the investigation, because RIDS may only request documents from the field office associated with the main file.

On top of that, the FBI utilizes an obviously misnamed Central Records System (CRS) when responding to FOIA requests. Despite the name's suggestion that it a central repository of FBI records, it actually isn't -- not because the database doesn't contain the most of the records the FBI has compiled, but because it can be searched using three different methods, all of which will return different sets of documents. The "Automated Case Support" (ACS) is the tool used to search the CRS, but that search isn't unified.

The FBI's Central Records System (CRS) contains the "universe of records" the FBI has acquired in its law enforcement operations. According to trial testimony in the Trentadue case, the Automated Case Support system ("ACS") searches the CRS, and the ACS is split into three components: the Investigative Case Management system ("ICM"), the Electronic Case File ("ECF"), and the Universal Index ("UNI").
The ICM is a case management tool for documents involved in an ongoing investigation. The ECF is broader and contains all FBI law enforcement documents uploaded to the CRS except for some aged documents, or documents not uploaded for unknown reasons. Importantly, the ECF searches the text of the documents themselves.

The FBI revealed in court that requesters basically need to know the systems as intimately as responding agents do if they expect to receive the entirety of what they're seeking. In 

Trentadue v. FBI,

 the FBI limited its search to UNI, rather than utilize the ECF, which would have found more documents thanks to its search of document text. The FBI told the court that its default method for FOIA responses is the more-limited UNI search and that it won't perform more thorough searches using other methods unless specifically asked to by the requester. 

Not only that, but the FBI will decide what keywords to use when searching the database, unless required to do otherwise by the text of the request.

Testimony revealed that the one search of the CRS was made using the generic UNI keyword "OKBOMB," even though there was a wide range of keywords that could have been used in a text-based ECF search.

That's only one part of the FBI's FOIA obfuscation efforts. MuckRock's Shawn Musgrave points out that the FBI will often refuse to perform an extensive search until sued by the requester. Even worse, when knowledgable requesters have specified an ECF search, the FBI will sometimes 

refuse to follow this instruction

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And there's more to it than simply using the least-responsive search method by default. There's also evidence suggesting the FBI is keeping information out of requesters' hand by preventing the documents from being added to the Central Records System in the first place.

John Solomon of the Associated Press in 2004 documented the existence of so-called "I-Drives" used by the FBI, which were file-sharing drives used in the course of case management but which defense lawyers said could be used to withhold evidence. Testimony showed that the I-Drives have been replaced by "S-Drives," which serve essentially the same function. Trentadue alleges the FBI failed to search S-Drives for records responsive to his FOIA request.

Finally, as if the previous information uncovered during oral testimony wasn't damning enough, this case is on hold as the 

court examines witness tampering claims

 against the FBI, which allegedly instructed a former agent not to testify at this trial. Apparently, even the FBI's 

former personnel

 can't be "searched" properly for information, not even by the courts.

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The atomic bomb brain trust: Leaders of the Manhattan Project

Sunday July 12th, 2015 at 5:58 PM

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About 600,000 men and women worked on the Manhattan Project, according to the Atomic Heritage Foundation. Here are a few of the leaders.

     

The Human Cost of the Hack on OPM and Its National Security Impact by Herb Lin

Sunday July 12th, 2015 at 5:46 PM

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By now, everyone knows about the OPM hack and the fact that the private and sensitive information compromised may make employees of the U.S. government—especially those with security clearances—more subject to blackmail, bribery, or extortion and more vulnerable to more realistic phishing attacks.  But there’s one more aspect that needs airing.

According to OPM, the hack compromised data for 4.2 million current and former government employees. Median tenure for a US Government employee is 8.5 years according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Since many of the compromised records (specifically the information derived from background investigations) go back to 2000, my conservative guesstimate for the number of current employees affected is 1 million of the total 2.8 million employed by the U.S. government.

The OPM website exhorts individuals to protect their identities by spotting the warning signs of identity theft; being aware of phishing scams; update their passwords; and getting up to speed on computer security.  (This last item is noted without further comment.)  In the website’s section of “what we’re doing to help”, OPM says they are “supporting people who have been affected” by “sending notifications to those affected by the incident involving personnel data [and] offering free identity theft monitoring and restoration services” to those affected by the personnel data breach and these services as well as “identity monitoring for minor children, continuous credit monitoring, and fraud monitoring services beyond credit files” for those affected by the background investigation incident.

In an email sent to US government employees affected by the data breach involving personnel data, OPM describes the breach, offers the services described above to help affected individuals deal with the consequences, asserts that the letter does not indicate U.S. government liability for the events described in the email, and in the next to last paragraph, says “we regret this incident.”

I go through all of this in such excruciating detail to underscore what the email does NOT say.  Nowhere does it offer an apology to the employees: an expression of regret is not the same as an apology.  And nowhere does it offer the employees any compensated time to engage any of the protective services OPM offers, which were necessitated by the OPM screw-up in the first place.

Estimates for how long it takes to clean up a case of stolen identity vary wildly—a quick search on the web reveals numbers as low as 12 hours to as much as 600 hours.  (I suspect these numbers vary so much due to differing definitions of “clean up”.)  But let’s say 8 hours are needed for affected employees to engage with the services offered.  That’s a full workday.  And employee must use personal leave to clean up a mess that OPM gave them??? 

What’s going on here?  Has anyone at OPM considered whether employees who have not received an apology and have had to use their own leave time to clean up a mess not of their own making be more likely or less likely to take seriously the task of protecting U.S. government information?  The U.S. government is rightly more worried now than before about attempts to compromise government information, but I can easily see current employees saying to themselves “the government didn’t protect my information, why should I go out of my way to protect government information?”

Perhaps someone in the administration who reads this list might suggest to OPM that a concrete gesture like giving employees a half-day or a day of comp time might go a long way towards recognizing that making employees pay the human costs of a breach is not the way to nurture a workforce that cares about cybersecurity.  I recognize such an action might cost several hundred million dollars – I suspect it would be worth the cost.

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Thoughts on Encryption and Going Dark, Part II: The Debate on the Merits by Benjamin Wittes

Sunday July 12th, 2015 at 5:45 PM

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On Thursday, I described the surprisingly warm reception FBI Director James Comey got in the Senate this week with his warning that the FBI was "going dark" because of end-to-end encryption. In this post, I want to take on the merits of the renewed encryption debate, which seem to me complicated and multi-faceted and not all pushing in the same direction.

Let me start by breaking the encryption debate into two distinct sets of questions: One is the conceptual question of whether a world of end-to-end strong encryption is an attractive idea. The other is whether—assuming it is not an attractive idea and that one wants to ensure that authorities retain the ability to intercept decrypted signal—an extraordinary access scheme is technically possible without eroding other essential security and privacy objectives. These questions often get mashed together, both because tech companies are keen to market themselves as the defenders of their users' privacy interests and because of the libertarian ethos of the tech community more generally. But the questions are not the same, and it's worth considering them separately.

Consider the conceptual question first. Would it be a good idea to have a world-wide communications infrastructure that is, as Bruce Schneier has aptly put it, secure from all attackers? That is, if we could snap our fingers and make all device-to-device communications perfectly secure against interception from the Chinese, from hackers, from the FSB but also from the FBI even wielding lawful process, would that be desireable? Or, in the alternative, do we want to create an internet as secure as possible from everyone except government investigators exercising their legal authorities with the understanding that other countries may do the same?

Conceptually speaking, I am with Comey on this question—and the matter does not seem to me an especially close call. The belief in principle in creating a giant world-wide network on which surveillance is technically impossible is really an argument for the creation of the world's largest ungoverned space. I understand why techno-anarchists find this idea so appealing. I can't imagine for moment, however, why anyone else would.

Consider the comparable argument in physical space: the creation of a city in which authorities are entirely dependent on citizen reporting of bad conduct but have no direct visibility onto what happens on the streets and no ability to conduct search warrants (even with court orders) or to patrol parks or street corners. Would you want to live in that city? The idea that ungoverned spaces really suck is not controversial when you're talking about Yemen or Somalia. I see nothing more attractive about the creation of a worldwide architecture in which it is technically impossible to intercept and read ISIS communications with followers or to follow child predators into chatrooms where they go after kids.

The trouble is that this conceptual position does not answer the entirety of the policy question before us. The reason is that the case against preserving some form of preserved law enforcement access to decrypted signal is not only a conceptual embrace of the technological obsolescence of surveillance. It is also a series of arguments about the costs—including the security costs—of maintaining the capacity to decrypt captured signal.

Consider the report issued this past week by a group of computer security experts (including Lawfarecontributing editors Bruce Schneier and Susan Landau), entitled "Keys Under Doormats: Mandating Insecurity By Requiring Government Access to All Data and Communications." The report does not make an in-principle argument or a conceptual argument against extraordinary access. It argues, rather, that the effort to build such a system risks eroding cybersecurity in ways far more important than the problems it would solve. The authors, to summarize, make three claims in support of the broad claim that any exceptional access system would "pose . . . grave security risks [and] imperil innovation." What are those "grave security risks"?

• "[P]roviding exceptional access to communications would force a U-turn from the best practices now being deployed to make the Internet more secure. These practices include forward secrecy—where decryption keys are deleted immediately after use, so that stealing the encryption key used by a communications server would not compromise earlier or later communications. A related technique, authenticated encryption, uses the same temporary key to guarantee confidentiality and to verify that the message has not been forged or tampered with."
• "[B]uilding in exceptional access would substantially increase system complexity" and "complexity is the enemy of security." Adding code to systems increases that system's attack surface, and a certain number of additional vulnerabilities come with every marginal increase in system complexity. So by requiring a potentially complicated new system to be developed and implemented, we'd be effectively guaranteeing more vulnerabilities for malicious actors to hit.
• "[E]xceptional access would create concentrated targets that could attract bad actors." If we require tech companies to retain some means of accessing user communications, those keys have to stored somewhere, and that storage then becomes an unusually high-stakes target for malicious attack. Their theft then compromises, as did the OPM hack, large numbers of users.

The strong implication of the report is that these issues are not resolvable, though the report never quite says that. But at a minimum, the authors raise a series of important questions about whether such a system would, in practice, create an insecure internet in general—rather than one whose general security has the technical capacity to make security exceptions to comply with the law.

There is some reason, in my view, to suspect that the picture may not be quite as stark as the computer scientists make it seem. After all, the big tech companies increase the complexity of their software products all the time, and they generally regard the increased attack surface of the software they create as a result as a mitigatable problem. Similarly, there are lots of high-value intelligence targets that we have to secure and would have big security implications if we could not do so successfully. And when it really counts, that task is not hopeless. Google and Apple and Facebook are not without tools in the cybersecurity department.

The real question, in my view, is whether a system of the sort Comey imagines could be built in fashion in which the security gain it would provide would exceed the heightened security risks the extraordinary access would involve. As Herb Lin puts it in his excellent, and admirably brief, Senate testimony the other day, this is ultimately a question without an answer in the absence of a lot of new research. "One side says [the] access [Comey is seeking] inevitably weakens the security of a system and will eventually be compromised by a bad guy; the other side says it doesn’t weaken security and won’t be compromised. Neither side can prove its case, and we see a theological clash of absolutes." Only when someone actually does the research and development and tries actually to produce a system that meets Comey's criteria are we going to find out whether it's doable or not.

And therein lies the rub, and the real meat of the policy problem, in my view: Who's going to do this research? Who's going to conduct the sustained investment in trying to imagine a system that secures communications except from government when and only government has a warrant to intercept those communications?

The assumption of the computer scientists in their report is that the burden of that research lies with the government. "Absent a concrete technical proposal," they write, "and without answers to the questions raised in this report, legislators should reject out of hand any proposal to return to the failed cryptography control policy of the 1990s." Indeed, their most central recommendation is that the burden of development is on Comey. "Our strong recommendation is that anyone proposing regulations should first present concrete technical requirements, which industry, academics, and the public can analyze for technical weaknesses and for hidden costs."

In his testimony, Herb supports this call, though he acknowledges that it is not the inevitable route:

the government has not yet provided any specifics, arguing that private vendors should do it.  At the same time, the vendors won’t do it, because [their] customers aren’t demanding such features. Indeed, many customers would see such features as a reason to avoid a given vendor. Without specifics, there will be no progress.  I believe the government is afraid that any specific proposal will be subject to enormous criticism—and that’s true—but the government is the party that wants . . . access, and rather than running away from such criticism, it should embrace any resulting criticism as an opportunity to improve upon its initial designs."

Herb might also have mentioned that lots of people in the academic tech community who would be natural candidates to help develop such an access system are much more interested in developing encryption systems to keep the feds out than to—under any circumstances—let them in. The tech community has spent a lot more time and energy arguing against the plausibility and desireability of implementing what Comey is seeking than it has spent in trying to develop systems that deliver it while mitigating the risks such a system might pose. For both industry and the tech communities, more broadly, this is government's problem, not their problem.

Yet reviving the Clipper Chip model—in which government develops a fully-formed system and then puts it out publicly for the community to shoot down—is clearly not what Comey has in mind. He is talking in very different language: the language of performance requirements. He wants to leave the development task to Silicon Valley to figure out how to implement government's requirements. He wants to describe what he needs—decrypted signal when he has a warrant—and leave the companies to figure out how to deliver it while still providing secure communications in other circumstances to their customers.

The advantage to this approach is that it potentially lets a thousand flowers bloom. Each company might do it differently. They would compete to provide the most security consistent with the performance standard. They could learn from each other. And government would not be in the position of developing and promoting specific algorithms. It wouldn't even need to know how the task was being done.

The disadvantage, of course, is that if the critics are correct and the ultimate task is not accomplishable, the performance requirement would effectively mandate the building of a series of exploitable vulnerabilities. A legal requirement to, as the title of the computer scientists' report suggests, hide keys under doormats, is a requirement of insecurity, after all, one that would show up just as we need a global effort at improving computer security.

One can, in short, summarize the problems before us—if one accepts conceptually Comey's policy objective but also accepts that there are serious, perhaps prohibitive, technical barriers to achieving it without eroding other cybercurity goods—as follows: Which actor or actors should we expect to conduct the necessary research and development to try to create an operable system and how should we incentivize that research? Should we assume the task is achievable until proven impossible or should we assume it out of reach until someone comes forward with a developed and promising strategy for achieving it?

Here are five possible strategies based on different assumptions as to the answers to these questions:

If we begin—as the computer scientists do—with a posture of great skepticism as to the plausibility of any scheme and we place the burden of persuasion on Comey, law enforcement, and the intelligence community to demonstrate the viability of any system, the obvious course is government-sponsored research. What we need here is not a Clipper Chip-type initiative, in which the government would develop and produce a complete system, but a set of intellectual and technical answers to the challenges the technologists have posed. The goal here should be an elaborated concept paper laying out how a secure extraordinary access system would work in sufficient detail that it can be evaluated, critiqued, and vetted; think of the bitcoin paper here as a model. Only after a period of public vetting, discussion, and refinement would the process turn to the question of what sorts of companies we might ask to implement such a system and by what legal means we might ask.

Conversely, if we begin with the assumption that the challenges are resolvable and that Silicon Valley is the appropriate engine of innovation and expertise to resolve them, a regulatory mandate makes a lot of sense. The theory is that companies have every incentive for market reasons to protect consumer privacy, but no incentives at all to figure out how to provide law enforcement access in the context of doing so. If you simply require the latter as a matter of law, they will devote resources to the question of how to do so while still providing consumer security. And while the problems are hard, they will prove manageable once the tech giants decide to work them hard—rather than protesting their impossibility.

Another, perhaps softer, possibility is to rely on the possibility of civil liability to incentivize companies to focus on these issues. At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this past week, the always interesting Senator Sheldon Whitehouse posed a question to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates about which I've been thinking as well: "A girl goes missing. A neighbor reports that they saw her being taken into a van out in front of the house. The police are called. They come to the home. The parents are frantic. The girl's phone is still at home." The phone, however, is encrypted:

WHITEHOUSE: It strikes me that one of the balances that we have in these circumstances where a company may wish to privatize value by saying, "Gosh, we're secure now. We got a really good product. You're going to love it." That's to their benefit. But for the family of the girl that disappeared in the van, that's a pretty big cost. And when we see corporations privatizing value and socializing cost so that other people have to bear the cost, one of the ways that we get back to that and try to put some balance into it, is through the civil courts, through a liability system.

If you're a polluter and you're dumping poisonous waste into the water rather than treating it properly, somebody downstream can bring an action and can get damages for the harm that they sustain, can get an order telling you to knock it off. I'd be interested in whether or not the Department of Justice has done any analysis as to what role the civil-liability system might be playing now to support these companies in drawing the correct balance, or if they've immunized themselves from the cost entirely and are enjoying the benefits. I think in terms of our determination as to what, if anything, we should do, knowing where the Department of Justice believes the civil liability system leaves us might be a helpful piece of information. So I don't know if you've undertaken that, but if you have, I'd appreciate it if you'd share that with us, and if you'd consider doing it, I think that might be helpful to us.

YATES: We would be glad to look at that. It's not something that we have done any kind of detailed analysis. We've been working hard on trying to figure out what the solution on the front end might be so that we're not in a situation where there could potentially be corporate liability or the inability to be able to access the device.


WHITEHOUSE: But in terms of just looking at this situation, does it not appear that it looks like a situation where value is being privatized and costs are being socialized onto the rest of us?


YATES: That's certainly one way to look at it. And perhaps the companies have done greater analysis on that than we have. But it's certainly something we can look at.

I'm not sure what that lawsuit looks like under current law. I, like the Justice Department, have not done the analysis, and I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who has. Whitehouse, however, seems to me to be onto something here. Might a victim of an ISIS attack domestically committed by someone who communicated and plotted using communications architecture specifically designed to be immune, and specifically marketed as immune, from law enforcement surveillance have a claim against the provider who offered that service even after the director of the FBI began specifically warning that ISIS was using such infrastructure to plan attacks? To the extent such companies have no liability in such circumstances, is that the distribution of risk that we as a society want? And might the possibility of civil liability, either under current law or under some hypothetical change to current law, incentivize the development of secure systems that are nonetheless subject to surveillance under limited circumstances?

Still another approach is to let other governments do the dirty work. The computer scientists' report cites the possibility of other sovereigns adopting their own extraordinary access regimes as a reason for the U.S. to go slow:

Building in exceptional access would be risky enough even if only one law enforcement agency in the world had it. But this is not only a US issue. The UK government promises legislation this fall to compel communications service providers, including US-based corporations, to grant access to UK law enforcement agencies, and other countries would certainly follow suit. China has already intimated that it may require exceptional access. If a British-based developer deploys a messaging application used by citizens of China, must it provide exceptional access to Chinese law enforcement? Which countries have sufficient respect for the rule of law to participate in an international exceptional access framework? How would such determinations be made? How would timely approvals be given for the millions of new products with communications capabilities? And how would this new surveillance ecosystem be funded and supervised? The US and UK governments have fought long and hard to keep the governance of the Internet open, in the face of demands from authoritarian countries that it be brought under state control. Does not the push for exceptional access represent a breathtaking policy reversal?

I am certain that the computer scientists are correct that foreign governments will move in this direction, but I think they are misreading the consequences of this. China and Britain will do this irrespective of what the United States does, and that fact may well create potential opportunity for the U.S. After all, if China and Britain are going to force U.S. companies to think through the problem of how to provide extraordinary access without compromising general security, perhaps the need to do business in those countries will provide much of the incentive to think through the hard problems of how to do it. Perhaps countries far less solicitous than ours of the plight of technology companies or the privacy interests of their users will force the research that Comey can only hypothesize. Will Apple then take the view that it can offer phones to users in China which can be decrypted for Chinese authorities when they require it but that it's technically impossible to do so in the United States?

There's a final, non-legal factor that may push companies to work this problem as energetically as they are now moving toward end-to-end encryption: politics. We are at very particular moment in the cryptography debate, a moment in which law enforcement sees a major problem as having arrived but the tech companies see that problem as part of the solution to the problems the Snowden revelations created for them. That is, we have an end-to-end encryption issue, in significant part, because companies are trying to assure customers worldwide that they have their backs privacy-wise and are not simply tools of NSA. I think those politics are likely to change. If Comey is right and we start seeing law enforcement and intelligence agencies blind in investigating and preventing horrible crimes and significant threats, the pressure on the companies is going to shift. And it may shift fast and hard. Whereas the companies now feel intense pressure to assure customers that their data is safe from NSA, the kidnapped kid with the encrypted iPhone is going to generate a very different sort of political response. In extraordinary circumstances, extraordinary access may well seem reasonable. And people will wonder why it doesn't exist.

Which of these approaches is the right way to go? I would pursue several of them simultaneously. At least for now, I would hold off on any kind of regulatory mandate, there being just too much doubt at this stage concerning what's doable. I would, however, take a hard look at the role that civil liability might play. I think the government, if it's serious about creating an extraordinary access scheme, needs to generate some public research establishing proof of concept. We should watch very carefully how the companies respond to the mandates they will receive from governments that will approach this problem in a less nuanced fashion than ours will. And Comey should keep up the political pressure. The combination of these forces may well produce a more workable approach to the problem than anyone can currently envision.

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Dozens Of Russian Troops 'Flee Unit, Fearing Ukraine Deployment'

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Dozens of Russian soldiers are facing trial for fleeing their unit, fearing deployment to Ukraine, a news site and a lawyer for five of the men said Saturday.

       

Op Tempo, Old Equipment Hit Russian Air Force

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As the Kremlin continues to assert its air power in a bid to intimidate NATO allies in Europe and North America, its mostly Soviet-built aircraft are being pushed to their limits — a fact experts point to when attempting to explain the loss of five aircraft of different designs in just the past month.

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The Fight Against ISIS

Sunday July 12th, 2015 at 5:36 PM

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The Rand Corporation's Andrew Hoehn, the Heritage Foundation's Dakota Wood, and the Center for a New American Security's Jerry Hendrix discuss America's strategy for fighting the Islamic State group.

       

National Military Strategy 2015

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The Rand Corporation's Andrew Hoehn, the Heritage Foundation's Dakota Wood, and the Center for a New American Security's Jerry Hendrix discuss the Pentagon's 2015 national military strategy.

       

Mixed Reaction to US National Military Strategy

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Analysts: Strategy Document Lacks Specifics

       

CNO Greenert Reconnects with Egyptian Navy

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The US Navy's top officer visited Egypt this weekend, meeting with the new head of the Egyptian Navy amidst a relaxation of US restrictions on operations and arms sales to the strategic Middle East nation.

       

Real-Time Cyberattack Map Shows Scope of Global Cyber War - Newsweek

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Real-Time Cyberattack Map Shows Scope of Global Cyber War Newsweek An interactive map that visualizes the global cyberwar in real time has been making the rounds on social media in recent days. It shows a steady flow, or sometimes deluge, of cyberattacks—depicted as colorful, laser-esque beams—traversing the screen ...

INFORMATION WARFARE: Disinformation Powered By The Internet

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This is a great point about Iran's official anti-Americanism - Vox

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This is a great point about Iran's official anti-Americanism Vox The US-led nuclear deal is just about Iran's nuclear program and will not resolve any of the larger issues with Iran and its relationship to the rest of the world. Still, debate about the deal has, with merit, repeatedly turned to the question of Iran ...

Watch These Charts To Better Understand China's Stock Market Crash - Forbes - Forbes

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Watch These Charts To Better Understand China's Stock Market Crash - Forbes Forbes Mainland China's stock market continued to gyrate wildly last week after crashing by more than a third since mid-June. After plunging earlier in the week, stocks finally surged on Thursday and Friday due to several aggressive countermeasures taken by ...

China wants to steal gold-market 'reins' from New York, London - MarketWatch - MarketWatch

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China wants to steal gold-market 'reins' from New York, London - MarketWatch MarketWatch Gold prices haven't found much support in the wake of China's recent stock-market drop, but Blanchard said that if Chinese stock investors become “increasingly disillusioned” about losses in the country's stock market, gold prices could “benefit greatly.”. and more »

Effects of China hack on US - Business Insider - Business Insider

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Effects of China hack on US - Business Insider Business Insider In any case, the Obama administration has yet to call out the Chinese directly for its role in the hack — even though all evidence points to China as the origin of the attack — likely because the US regularly engages in the same kind of cyber ... and more »

Five Reasons America's Rivals Are Catching Up In Military Technology - Forbes - Forbes

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Five Reasons America's Rivals Are Catching Up In Military Technology - Forbes  Forbes Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work told a Washington audience earlier this year that “Russia and China are fielding very advanced capabilities at an extremely rapid pace” — long-range antiship missiles, sophisticated jamming systems, stealthy ...

China wants to build a 200km-long undersea tunnel to America • The Register

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The Behring Strait. Russia is to the west, Alaska to the east

China likes trains. Its latest idea is to drive a railway route from Beijing to America via Russia, running under the Bering Strait to Alaska, Canada and America.

The 8,000 mile route would need two undersea tunnels; one running from Russia to the Big Diomede Island, and one from Little Diomede Island to America – well, Alaska. The three miles between the two islands could be crossed by a shorter third tunnel or a bridge.

This journey would take a day, as the international date line splits the islands, which are known as Tomorrow Island and Yesterday Isle.

Much like the Channel Tunnel, the scheme to link the East and West has been kicking around for a hundred years. Tsar Nicholas II thought it a good idea in 1905, and El Reg wrote about it in 2007, when we reported that Russia was more interested in links with China.

The new Chinese scheme provides both, giving China a land route to the US (and Canada) and Russia a route to both North America and China.

According to the Chinese website sina.cn.com, engineer Wang Meng-shu lays out a plan for a route from northeast China through the Bering Strait. It is reported that Wang Meng-shu said that his plan would have 200 kilometres of tunnels; albeit not contiguous, this is breathtakingly ambitious. China, however, claims to have the technology. The 8,000 mile route would reduce the need to fly, although at 350kph (220mph) it would still take two days.

China has a number of ambitions train projects in the pipeline. It is experimenting with a Hyperloop-style enclosed system which could, so it says, hit 1,800mph. ®

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12/07/15 12:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Rival Republican Blasts Donald Trump as a 'Wrecking Ball' TIME - 49 minutes ago South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday denounced fellow GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump as “a wrecking ball ...

» The Observer view on nurturing gay rights around the world | observer editorial
12/07/15 12:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comment is free | The Guardian. Kenyan leaders’ warnings to President Obama not to raise the issue of gay rights on his visit remind us that, globally, the war for LGBTI rights is far from won One of the m...

» Italian cyber-security firm suspects foreign government was behind mass attack ... - Reuters
12/07/15 11:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyberwarfare - Google News. Times of India NDTV Italian cyber - security firm suspects foreign government was behind mass attack ... Reuters ROME Italian cyber - security firm Hacking Team said a governmen...

» Anti-American sentiment surges in Russia -- and the feeling is mutual - Washington Times
12/07/15 11:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from anti-americanism in russia - Google News. Washington Times Anti-American sentiment surges in Russia -- and the feeling is mutual Washington Times Moscow | Anti-Americanism is on the rise in Russia , and th...

» American Views On Europe's Geopolitical Clout - Analysis - Eurasia Review - Eurasia Review
12/07/15 11:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from anti-americanism in russia - Google News. Eurasia Review American Views On Europe's Geopolitical Clout - Analysis - Eurasia Review Eurasia Review Roosevelt saw the world as a quasi-unipolar one in which th...

» XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications
12/07/15 11:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Intercept. Illustrations by Blue Delliquanti and David Axe for The Intercept Coming next: A Look Under the Hood of XKEYSCORE One of the National Security Agency’s most powerful tools of mass surveillan...

» A Look at the Inner Workings of NSA’s XKEYSCORE
12/07/15 11:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Intercept. Second in a series. Part 1 here . The sheer quantity of communications that XKEYSCORE processes, filters and queries is stunning. Around the world, when a person gets online to do anything —...

» Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks
12/07/15 11:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Intercept. After failing to criminally prosecute any of the financial firms responsible for the market collapse in 2008, former Attorney General attorney general Eric Holder is  returning to Covington ...

» FBI Director Says Scientists Are Wrong, Pitches Imaginary Solution to Encryption Dilemma
12/07/15 11:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Intercept. Testifying before two Senate committees on Wednesday about the threat he says that strong encryption presents to law enforcement, FBI Director James Comey didn’t so much propose a solution a...

» A Remote Region of Georgia Loses its Children to ISIS
12/07/15 11:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Intercept. R AMZAN ALKHANASHVILI WAS  was just 18 years old when he disappeared from the small Georgian village of Dumasturi in April of this year. His mother, Tina Alkhanashvili, dropped him off at sc...

» Spying on the Internet is Orders of Magnitude More Invasive Than Phone Metadata
12/07/15 11:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Intercept. When you pick up the phone, who you’re calling is none of the government’s business. The NSA’s domestic surveillance of phone metadata was the first program to be disclosed...

» Antipsychotic use rising among teens and young adults
12/07/15 11:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Infowars. Prescriptions for boys outpacing girls during elementary, high school and college years.

» Alabama man dies after being pepper-sprayed by police
12/07/15 11:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Infowars. Man tried to resist arrest.

» Editorial: The cyber defense crisis
12/07/15 10:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post. ANYONE WHO has ever filled out standard form 86 will attest that it is arduous. This 127-page “Questionnaire ...

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» Slingshot ride's cable SNAPS seconds before kids are catapulted into the air
11/07/15 21:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Footage shows the cable snapping and being whipped towards the ground - narrowly missing a teenage boy - at a theme park in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.

» ISIS leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan 'killed by US drone strike'
11/07/15 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Hafiz Saeed Khan and more than 30 other insurgents were believed to have been killed on Friday in the Nangarhar province, Afghan officials said.

» Dozens Of Russian Troops 'Flee Unit, Fearing Ukraine Deployment' - DefenseNews.com
11/07/15 20:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. DefenseNews.com Dozens Of Russian Troops 'Flee Unit, Fearing Ukraine Deployment' DefenseNews.com MOSCOW — Dozens of Russian soldiers are facing trial for fleeing their unit, fearing d...

» Unlikely Targets in Cross Hairs as Russia Takes Aim at ‘Foreign Agents’
11/07/15 20:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. While some targets have been predictable, Russia’s new foreign agents include an organization that supports the mothers of soldiers and Memorial, Russia’s oldest human rights organization.

» Wife Stranded in Desert Was Prepared to Die Next to Husband
11/07/15 20:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Woman stranded in desert after wrong turn was prepared to die in car next to her husband

» The Latest: Greek Bailout Talks to Resume in the Morning - New York Times
11/07/15 20:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Wall Street Journal The Latest: Greek Bailout Talks to Resume in the Morning New York Times BRUSSELS — The latest from Greece's financial crisis (all times local): ___. 12:10 a.m.. Bai...

» Greece nears euro exit as bailout talks break up without agreement
11/07/15 20:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Last-ditch negotiations to resume on Sunday after eurozone’s fiscal hawks put up fierce resistance to Alexis Tsipras’s rescue plan Greece’s final attempt to avoid being kicked...

» Trump Criticizes China, Russia Policies - Immigration, Too
11/07/15 20:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Trump hammers away on immigration, expands criticism to foreign policy with China and Russia

» ‘Husband’ and ‘wife’ words to be illegal in US
11/07/15 20:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. After the same-sex marriages legalization in all the US states, the law is suggested to be extended. A 77-year-old Lois Capps, member of the US House o...

» As Latin Tour Nears End, Pope Travels to Paraguay
11/07/15 20:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Pope Francis highlighted Paraguay’s history to emphasize its resilience, but also criticized corruption, a delicate issue in one of Latin America’s poorest countries.

» As nuclear talks continue, Iran's supreme leader slams U.S. "arrogance"
11/07/15 20:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments to university students suggests continuing distrust of Washington, regardless of the outcome of nuclear negotiations

» 2015-07-11Espionage Lessons from the OPM Hack - Saturday July 11th, 2015 at 2:00 PM: "At
11/07/15 17:23 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-07-11 Espionage Lessons from the OPM Hack - Saturday July 11th, 2015 at 2:00 PM: "At the strategic level, the exploit of OPM’s four million records means very little. It has not and will not change how the United States conducts the...

» Head of IS in Afghanistan Killed
11/07/15 16:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The head of the so-called Islamic State group in Afghanistan, Hafiz Saeed Khan, has been killed in a drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s intelligence ...

» Turkish Military Cooperation Prompts Russian Military Moves in the Caucasus ... - STRATFOR
11/07/15 16:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. STRATFOR Turkish Military Cooperation Prompts Russian Military Moves in the Caucasus ... STRATFOR There has been growing military cooperation between Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan ov...

» Putin is playing with fire
11/07/15 16:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World.

» Beach evacuated; witnesses report boom, woman knocked down - USA TODAY
11/07/15 15:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. USA TODAY Beach evacuated; witnesses report boom, woman knocked down USA TODAY A July Saturday summer day got a jolt when a Rhode Island beach was evacuated after reports of a sa...

» Confiscated mafia loot worth billions gives Italy an unexpected ...
11/07/15 15:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world news - Google Blog Search. home · US · world selected · opinion · sports · soccer · tech · arts · lifestyle · fashion · business ...

» Nazi Enigma machine expected to sell for £70,000
11/07/15 15:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The Enigma 1, which dates from between 1930 and 1938 is also known as the Wehrmacht, or 'Services' Enigma, and was used by German military and the railways before and during the war.

» Isis's female Gestapo wreaking terror on their own sex
11/07/15 15:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. One teacher told of her horrifying capture in the Syrian city of Raqqa by the ruthless all-women police unit, the Al-Khansa brigade, created to enforce IS rules.

» 2nd Tunisia terror attack foiled as 5 ISIS extremists shot dead
11/07/15 15:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Five Islamic extremists on the verge of carrying out another terrorist attack on holidaymakers in Tunisia were yesterday shot dead as thousands of tourists were flown home.

» Satanic Temple still plans to unveil devil statue in Detroit, despite protests
11/07/15 15:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. The Satanic Temple plans to unveil a large statue dedicated to the devil in the city of Detroit later this month, despite intensified protests by churc...

» AP Top News at 12:51 p.m. EDT
11/07/15 15:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 12:51 p.m. EDT The Latest: Greece urged to back up plans with actions Car bombing at Italian Consulate in Egypt's capital kills 1 CAIRO (AP) - A car bomb r...

» ISIS Supporters Claim Fatal Car Bombing in Egypt’s Capital
11/07/15 15:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (CAIRO)—A car bomb ripped into the Italian Consulate in Cairo early Saturday, destroying a section of the historic building in a powerful blast that killed one Egyptian and marked the most sign...

» This Weekend’s Foreign Policy Must-Reads
11/07/15 15:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. Healing a Wounded Sense of Morality – The Atlantic “Moral injury is its own separate trauma with symptoms that can include feelings of shame, guilt, betrayal, regret, anxiety, anger, self...

» Pope Praises Paraguayan Women
11/07/15 15:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Pope Francis celebrated Paraguayan women as the “most glorious women of America” in a sermon at the shrine of the country’s patron Madonna Saturday, the second-to-last day of his weekl...

» Espionage Lessons from the OPM Hack
11/07/15 14:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense One - All Content. It has almost been a month since the Office of Personnel Management ( OPM ) infiltration was made public and shockwaves of the hack reverberates in Washington, D.C. and beyond.&#...

» OPM hack's unprecedented haul: 1.1 million fingerprints
11/07/15 13:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . This is extremely sensitive information, especially as we increasingly use biometric scanners on phones and computers. This could be one of the potentially worst parts of the Office of Personnel Management ha...

» Brics Create Their Own IMF
11/07/15 13:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . July 11, 2015 1:48 a.m. ET Emerging Markets The five countries that make up the Brics account for nearly half of the world’s population, and now they officially have their own bank. At their annual summ...

» BRICS Central Banks Sign Forex Reserves Pool Pact - Real Time Economics
11/07/15 13:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Real Time Economics. By Andrey Ostroukh The Bank of Russia in Moscow. The central banks of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have signed an operational pact to set up a pool of foreign exchange...

» In Fiery Speeches, Francis Excoriates Global Capitalism
11/07/15 13:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Having returned to his native Latin America, Pope Francis has renewed his left-leaning critiques on the inequalities of capitalism, describing it as an underlying cause of global injustice,...

» Pope's Tour Focuses on Poor, Violent, Neglected in South America
11/07/15 13:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from VOAvideo's YouTube Videos. From: VOAvideo Duration: 02:07 Pope Francis is wrapping up a weeklong tour of Latin America with a visit to one of the poorest neighborhoods in Paraguay's capital, Asuncion. ...

» Greeks Fear Bailout Deal Could Threaten Tourism Lifeblood
11/07/15 13:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from VOAvideo's YouTube Videos. From: VOAvideo Duration: 02:28 Tourists are continuing to flock to Greece despite the fears of economic catastrophe if there is no bailout agreement with international lender...

» 2015-07-11US Foreign Policy Headed for Millennial Shift - VOA | » Greek Crisis
11/07/15 13:20 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-07-11 US Foreign Policy Headed for Millennial Shift - VOA | » Greek Crisis Poses Military, Political Fallout 11/07/15 11:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks US Foreign Policy Headed for Millennial Shift by webdesk@voanews.com (Ceci...

» Islamic State's Afghan Leader Killed in Strike
11/07/15 13:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The leader of Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a U.S. drone strike, dealing a setback to the extremist group as it seeks to expand.

» Ancient Roman frescos 'worthy of Pompeii' found in southern France
11/07/15 13:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. Archeologists in Arles have unearthed one of the only full Roman murals ever found outside Italy

» Bewildered Greeks left wondering what happened to referendum 'No' vote
11/07/15 13:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. Less than a week after they celebrated their rejection of a harsh austerity plan, many Greeks are struggling to understand why Alexis Tsipras is signing up to even deeper spending cuts

» Rocks thrown at Serbian PM during Srebrenica anniversary - video
11/07/15 13:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Serbia's prime minister is hurried away from a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre after the crowd begin jeering him and throwing rocks. Alek...

» India, Pakistan Hail Shanghai Group As New Economic Axis
11/07/15 13:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. I ndia and Pakistan, the newest prospective members of a growing economic club formed by Russia and China in the Eurasian region, have hailed the emergence of an economic...

» Iran Nuclear Talks Still Face ‘Difficult Issues,’ Kerry Says
11/07/15 11:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Iran’s insistence on the lifting of a ban on shipments of conventional weapons in and out of the country has become an obstacle to an accord.

» Iran, six powers struggle to overcome deadlock in nuclear talks
11/07/15 11:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran, the United States and other major powers struggled on Saturday to break a deadlock in nuclear talks that has held up a historic deal that would bring sanctions...

» Jury to 50 Cent: Pay $5M to woman who sued over sex tape
11/07/15 11:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11:19 a.m. EDT. NEW YORK (AP) -- Someone else's sex tape is proving to be costly for 50 Cent: A jury ordered the rapper-actor Friday to pay $5 million to a woman who said he acquired a ...

» Ukraine's self-defense units look for the enemy within
11/07/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11:19 a.m. EDT. ODESSA, Ukraine (AP) -- Striding through headquarters, Todor Panevsky gleefully announced that comrades in his self-defense unit had detained a pro-Russian separatist sy...

» After years of declining crime, a spike in city violence
11/07/15 11:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11:19 a.m. EDT. CHICAGO (AP) -- Police departments across the country that have spent years boasting about plummeting crime numbers are now scrambling to confront something many agencie...

» Counterfeiter evades US lawsuits and gets green card
11/07/15 11:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11:19 a.m. EDT. SHANGHAI (AP) -- This could be the story of an American dream. An immigrant family builds a successful business and buys a four-bedroom house in a quiet neighborhood wit...

» U.S. Intercepts Russian Planes, Gets Snub From Putin - Daniel Davis - Townhall - Town Hall
11/07/15 11:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Town Hall U.S. Intercepts Russian Planes, Gets Snub From Putin - Daniel Davis - Townhall Town Hall Russia gave the United States a disparaging snub this past July 4 when it sent long-...

» Europeans Rush to Seek Cuba Deals in Light of US-Cuba Thaw
11/07/15 11:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. European officials and businesses are visiting Cuba in unprecedented numbers, attracted by its market-oriented reforms and hastened to act by Havana's improved relations with the United S...

» US Senators Introduce Bill to Expand Sanctions on North Korea
11/07/15 11:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill to toughen sanctions against North Korea, responding to a House measure introduced earlier this year. The North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of...

» Russian Soldiers Increasingly Deserting Their Units to Avoid Being Sent to Fight in Ukraine
11/07/15 11:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble             Staunton, July 11 – Several dozen contract soldiers in a Russian motorized rifle brigade...

» US, World Leaders Resume Iran Nuclear Talks
11/07/15 11:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are meeting Saturday in Austria in the latest round of discussions on reaching a nuclear deal between ...

» Analyst: Ending Iran Sanctions Could Push Down Oil Prices
11/07/15 11:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Iran’s economy has been hammered by a series of sanctions that have pushed it into recession, slashed the value of its currency, sparked soaring inflation, and hurt its oil sector. If and...

» Some US Locales Cool to Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
11/07/15 11:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage has sparked a furious backlash in some conservative states across the country. While most state and county governments followe...

» US Foreign Policy Headed for Millennial Shift
11/07/15 11:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Move over, baby boomers: Millennials now outnumber you as America’s largest living generation. And their very different views of themselves and their place in the world will likely reshap...

» Report: US Psychologists Colluded With Torture Program
11/07/15 11:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The top U.S. psychology association has apologized for the group's collusion with the U.S. Defense Department and the CIA to issue guidelines that supported torture, including waterboardi...

» Minsk 2 Documents Undermine Ukrainian Sovereignty, Illarionov Says
11/07/15 11:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble             Staunton, July 11 – Speaking in Kremenchug this week, Andrey Illarionov said that Ukrain...

» AP Top News at 10:58 p.m. EDT
11/07/15 11:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 10:58 p.m. EDT Greek lawmakers back bailout reform plan ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's parliament backed the government's reform plan containing austerity ...

» AP Top News at 3:05 a.m. EDT
11/07/15 11:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 3:05 a.m. EDT Greece heads to negotiation for bailout reform proposals ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's negotiators head to Brussels on Saturday armed with t...

» AP Top News at 8:40 a.m. EDT
11/07/15 11:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 8:40 a.m. EDT Serbia PM attacks at Srebrenica ceremonies SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Anger boiled over Saturday at a massive commemoration of the...

» Can Obama shield millions from deportation? Arguments play out in court
11/07/15 11:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. Lawyers for the Obama administration and a coalition of states squared off in federal court Friday over whether President Barack Obama has the authority to launch programs that woul...

» Russia says it's developing "carrier killer" submarines - Business Insider - Business Insider
11/07/15 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russia says it's developing "carrier killer" submarines - Business Insider Business Insider The Russian Navy is investing in two new submarines, one of which is being...

» China and Russia Lay Foundation for Massive Economic Cooperation | Foreign ... - Foreign Policy (blog)
11/07/15 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Foreign Policy (blog) China and Russia Lay Foundation for Massive Economic Cooperation | Foreign ... Foreign Policy (blog) By Reid StandishReid Standish is an assistant digital produc...

» Russia bringing back Cold War mini-subs, report says | Fox News - Fox News
11/07/15 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Fox News Russia bringing back Cold War mini-subs, report says | Fox News Fox News Russia is reportedly bringing back a fleet of Cold War-era mini-submarines, a move that could ramp up...

» Joint Chiefs nominee appears to side with Romney on Russian threat - Fox News
11/07/15 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Fox News Joint Chiefs nominee appears to side with Romney on Russian threat | Fox News Fox News The general chosen by President Obama to replace the Pentagon's top military officer ha...

» India, Pakistan to join China, Russia in security group - Yahoo News - Yahoo News
11/07/15 11:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Yahoo News India, Pakistan to join China, Russia in security group - Yahoo News Yahoo News UFA, Russia (Reuters) - India and Pakistan began accession to a regional security group led ...

» Russia Working To Resume Tu-160 Nuclear Bomber Production: Report - International Business Times
11/07/15 11:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. International Business Times Russia Working To Resume Tu-160 Nuclear Bomber Production: Report International Business Times Russian authorities are working to relaunch production of t...

» U.S. Strike Is Said to Kill Senior ISIS Militant in Afghanistan
11/07/15 11:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The death of the senior militant, Hafiz Saeed Khan, in an airstrike Friday was reported by Afghan officials but could not be confirmed independently.

» The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
11/07/15 11:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices. Lawfare kicked off the week with a post from FBI Director James Comey on encryption and “going dark,” following up on his conversation with Ben on the topic last w...

» Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (July 4–10)
11/07/15 11:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Just Security I. Defense Department Law of War Manual Adil Ahmad Haque,  Guest Post: DOD’s Unbalanced Stance on Precautions Against Harming Civilians  (Tuesday, July 7) Geoffrey S. Corn,  Gu...

» Middle class women lead surge in heroin usage
11/07/15 11:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Watch: The number of women fighting heroin addiction is on the rise and the drug's low is making it hard for officials to get a handle on the problem

» Greek Crisis Poses Military, Political Fallout
11/07/15 11:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. ROME — As politicians and finance ministers work to keep crisis-hit Greece within the Euro-zone, analysts have warned of far-reaching consequences for security in the Mediterranean if ...

» US Army Targets Multinational Comms
11/07/15 11:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. WASHINGTON — As the shrinking US Army places greater emphasis on working with and through partner-nation militaries, it is struggling to link its communications networks with theirs &#...

» OPM chief resigns after massive hack; Navy says fingerprints stolen - U.S.
11/07/15 08:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes U.S.. WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) –– The controversy over the computer breach of 21 million federal employment records ballooned Friday as the director of the government...

» Puerto Rico: The Other Debt Crisis
11/07/15 00:10 from Mike Nova - Google+
Puerto Rico: The Other Debt Crisis Puerto Rico: The Other Debt Crisis by webdesk@voanews.com (Molly McKitterick) Friday July 10 th , 2015  at  8:28 PM Voice Of America 1 Share While Greece has center stage in the arena of on-the-brink fi...

» Greek Parliament Backs Bailout Proposals
10/07/15 20:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Greece's parliament has backed the government's reform proposals, aimed at securing another crucial bailout.

» Министерство обороны Грузии подписало договор с Францией - Коммерсантъ
10/07/15 20:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. СЕГОДНЯ Министерство обороны Грузии подписало договор с Францией Коммерсантъ Министр обороны Грузии Тинатин Хидашели подписала с Францией второй по счету договор, детали которого п...

» India, Pakistan to join expanding security organization led by Russia and ... - Fox News
10/07/15 20:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Fox News India, Pakistan to join expanding security organization led by Russia and ... Fox News Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister of Pakistan Mu...

» India, Pakistan to join China, Russia in security group | Reuters - Reuters
10/07/15 20:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters India, Pakistan to join China, Russia in security group | Reuters Reuters Those words will have pleased Putin, who says the United States has an outdated vision of a "uni...

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» 3,133,6783,133,6782015-07-09"And they discovered some serious collusion that sounds more like
10/07/15 19:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 3,133,678 3,133,678 2015-07-09 "And they discovered some serious collusion that sounds more like something out of Soviet Russia or Red China than here in the U.S." - Does Seeking to Ja...

» 3,134,0113,134,011New Tensions Emerge in Iran Nuclear Talks Thursday July 9th, 2015 at
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mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 3,134,011 3,134,011 New Tensions Emerge in Iran Nuclear Talks Thursday July 9th, 2015 at 7:18 PM New Tensions Emerge in Iran Nuclear Talks Thursday July 9th, 2015 at 7:18 PM WSJ.Com: W...

» Today's Headlines and Commentary
10/07/15 19:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices. Nuclear negotiations with Iran have been extended through the weekend. According to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the United States is prepared to keep worki...

» APA Releases Report Critical of Ethics Guidelines That Facilitated CIA Enhanced Interrogation
10/07/15 19:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices. A little over a week ago, the law firm Sidley Austin LLP submitted its "Independent Review Relating to APA Ethics Guidelines, National Security Interrogations, and...

» Rational Security, the "Let's All Go Dark" Edition
10/07/15 19:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices. This week on  Rational Security , FBI Director James Comey goes to Capitol Hill to talk about “going dark,” and the gang discusses his reception in two Senate comm...

» It’s Time to End the “Debate” on Encryption Backdoors
10/07/15 19:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Kevin Bankston Yesterday, on Lawfare , FBI Director James Comey laid out his concern that the growing adoption of strong encryption technologies will frustrate law enforcement’s ability to c...

» Describing Violence: The Charleston Shootings and the Label of Terrorism
10/07/15 19:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Faiza Patel Soon after the Charleston church shooting , FBI Director James Comey argued that Dylann Roof’s actions probably weren’t terrorism , eliciting criticism that law enforcement emplo...

» Let’s Balance the Argument About the DOD Law of War Manual and Targeting
10/07/15 19:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “ mini forum ” on the new Defense Department Law of War Manual. This series includes posts from Sean Watts , Eric Jensen , Ad...

» NATO missiles hacked remotely by ‘foreign source’
10/07/15 19:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from intelNews.org. A Patriot missile system stationed in Turkey by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was allegedly hacked by a remote source, according to reports.

» Evolving Terrorist Threats to the Homeland: From al-Qaida to ISIS
10/07/15 19:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. By Jeff Gardner Faculty Member, Homeland Security at American Military University For the next decade plus the U.S. focused on fighting the away game by aggressively going after AQ ov...

» Report: Lockheed Nears $8B Deal for Sikorsky
10/07/15 19:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. Report: Lockheed Nears $8B Deal for Sikorsky             

» Is the alliance between Russia and Iran growing? - YouTube
10/07/15 19:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Jul 10, 2015 The United States is watching carefully the dangerous alliance that is growing between Russia and Iran. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.

» Greece could be grinding toward a deal
10/07/15 19:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. The country's latest package of offers is getting serious consideration, with a decision from the EU coming this weekend

» On Twitter, Scott Walker Says He Is Running for President - New York Times
10/07/15 19:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Politico On Twitter, Scott Walker Says He Is Running for President New York Times In what appears to be either a premature presidential announcement or a tease of one to get atte...

» Detroit-area cancer doctor sobs during sentencing
10/07/15 19:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Dr. Farid Fata admitted he had inflicted needless pain and suffering on more than 500 of his patients

» So Many People Want To Hear Donald Trump Speak, They Need Bigger Venues - Huffington Post
10/07/15 19:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Huffington Post So Many People Want To Hear Donald Trump Speak, They Need Bigger Venues Huffington Post WASHINGTON -- The size of the crowds who want to hear Donald Trump speak h...

» AP Top News at 6:28 p.m. EDT
10/07/15 19:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 6:28 p.m. EDT Greece's Tsipras tries to rally support for austerity deal ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's prime minister acknowledge Friday the reforms his g...

» US psychologists linked to CIA torture
10/07/15 19:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Report finds industry body turned blind eye to interrogations

» Former Vatican ambassador goes on trial in child abuse case
10/07/15 19:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic, will go on trial on Saturday accused of child sex offences in a case seen...

» Group's Effort to Charge 2 Officers in Boy's Death Dismissed
10/07/15 18:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Group's effort to charge 2 white police officers in black boy's shooting death dismissed

» State Dept. splits with Obama's Joint Chiefs nominee... - YouTube
10/07/15 18:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Jul 10, 2015 State Dept. spokesman John Kirby weighs in on General Joseph Dunford's assertion that Russia poses the greatest threat to U.S. national security.

» Royals mark 75th Battle of Britain anniversary - YouTube
10/07/15 18:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Jul 10, 2015 Keep up-to-date with the latest news, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/AFP-subscribe Britain's royal family watched a flypast by Spitfires and Hurricanes at Buckingham Palace to mark th...

» Army Reducing Force by 40,000
10/07/15 18:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from VOAvideo's YouTube Videos. From: VOAvideo Duration: 01:43 The U.S. Army is cutting 40,000 troops over the next three years. Our Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb reports that the cuts come amid global ...

» Obama Names Tunisia Major Non-NATO Ally
10/07/15 18:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. President Barack Obama named Tunisia a major non-NATO ally Friday, making it eligible for closer strategic and military cooperation with the United States. Obama said during a visit by Tu...

» UN Arms Ban on Iran Remains a Hurdle to Nuclear Deal - New York Times
10/07/15 18:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Business Recorder UN Arms Ban on Iran Remains a Hurdle to Nuclear Deal New York Times VIENNA — One of the last major obstacles to concluding a historic nuclear deal with Iran is a disp...

» Angela Merkel and François Hollande urge Ukraine leader to give rebels self-rule
10/07/15 18:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. In a rare and blunt message, the German and French leaders call on Petro Poroshenko to ensure partial self-rule for the pro-Russian separatist east

» Omar Sharif dies aged 83 'after suffering heart attack in Cairo'
10/07/15 18:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The Hollywood star is understood to have died of a heart attack at a hospital in Cairo, where he was resting after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

» Prince Philip gets impatient and swears during photocall for Battle of Britain
10/07/15 18:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The Duke of Edinburgh seemed to lose patience at how long it was taking for the photographs to be taken at the RAF Club.

» Islamic State Militants Attack Iraqi Forces In Anbar
10/07/15 17:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Islamic State (IS) militants have attacked Iraqi security forces near the two main cities of the western province of Anbar.

» French, German Leaders Press Ukraine On Constitutional Reforms
10/07/15 17:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angel Merkel have called on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to ensure partial self-rule for the pro-Russian ...

» U.N. Arms Ban on Iran Remains a Hurdle to Nuclear Deal
10/07/15 17:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The sanctions, first passed in 2006, ban the shipment of conventional arms into and out of Iran and appeared to have been resolved months ago.

» Turkey Arrests 21 Suspected of Ties to ISIS
10/07/15 17:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. In early morning raids Friday in Istanbul and Sanliurfa Province, which borders Syria, the police also seized automatic rifles, ammunition and military uniforms.

» Rio de Janeiro subway assailants shoot man dead, force shutdown
10/07/15 17:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Assailants shot and killed a man beside a subway-station ticket counter in central Rio de Janeiro Friday afternoon, prompting a shutdown of the station and r...

» AP EXPLAINS: Confederate battle flag, flown around US South
10/07/15 17:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 3:19 p.m. EDT. The Confederate battle flag has been removed from South Carolina's Statehouse grounds, in the wake of the massacre of nine African-Americans - including a state senator -...

» 'Communist crucifix' gift to pope in Bolivia raises eyebrows
10/07/15 17:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Euronews's YouTube Videos. From: Euronews Duration: 01:33 Pope Francis in Bolivia on his South American tour looked somewhat bemused when his host President Evo Morales handed him an unusual gift : a w...

» Vienna talks on Iran nuclear deal will continue over weekend
10/07/15 17:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Euronews's YouTube Videos. From: Euronews Duration: 00:56 Talks in Vienna to reach an agreement on the Iran nuclear question will continue into the weekend. As another deadline passed, Britain's foreig...

» Omar Sharif has died aged 83
10/07/15 17:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Euronews's YouTube Videos. From: Euronews Duration: 00:46 Actor Omar Sharif, best known for his title role as Doctor Zhivago in the Oscar-winning film, has died, Egyptian state television said. He was ...

» Palmyra Empties as Bombs Rain Down
10/07/15 17:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Syria regime’s air campaign to loosen Islamic State’s grip on the historic city has sent its residents fleeing and further endangered its famed antiquities.

» Srebrenica Burials to Continue, 20 Years On --- Photos
10/07/15 17:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Photographer Pablo Cobos has documented the past two burial ceremonies for victims of the Srebrenica massacre, which have become an annual ritual as victims’ remains are identified two...

» U.S.-Canada Dairy Spat Sours Trade Talks
10/07/15 17:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. A dairy spat between the U.S. and Canada is emerging as the thorniest issue souring final talks to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.

» The Holy Land's Surprising Wave of Tourism
10/07/15 17:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Despite the violence rattling the Middle East, religious tourists are flocking to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.

» WorldViews: That look you get when you give the pope a crucifix shaped like a hammer and sickle
10/07/15 17:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. It's the kind of gaze you see when a relative hands a present to a child after not seeing them for a few years.They don't qui...

» Inside The Cartels: Business Of Cooking Crack
10/07/15 17:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Sky News gains unprecedented access to the most notorious Mexican drug cartels and meets crack cooks who claim to be "the best".

» Cancer Doctor Jailed For 'Huge, Horrific' Fraud
10/07/15 17:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. The oncologist, who subjected hundreds of victims to thousands of unnecessary treatments, tearfully blames his "quest for power".

» Iran nuclear talks deadline missed due to split between US, Russia, China over ... - CBS News
10/07/15 17:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CBS News Iran nuclear talks deadline missed due to split between US, Russia , China over ... CBS News VIENNA -- Iran has blamed bickering between the U.S. and its negotiating partners...

» Greece is flirting with Russia to make Europe jealous - Business Insider - Business Insider
10/07/15 16:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Greece is flirting with Russia to make Europe jealous - Business Insider Business Insider Over the past few months, Greece and Russia have exhibited a serious case of...

» Western Toughness Causing Putin to Pursue De Facto Annexation of Donbas Rather than New Aggression in Ukraine, Piontkovsky Says
10/07/15 16:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, July 10 – Because the Western powers have made it clear that they will react harshly to any further Russian advance into Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has sh...

» 'Let's just swap Greece for Puerto Rico', suggests German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble
10/07/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. What's the best way to mend Greece's financial problems? By playing swapsies with the US, at least according to Germany's Wolfgang Schäuble.

» Four Ways Ukraine Isn't Greece
10/07/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The simultaneous debt crises faced by Ukraine and Greece have spawned comparisons between the two countries’ financial situations. But their predicaments differ in severa...

» Pope Speaks Out Against Greed, Apologizes for Colonialism
10/07/15 16:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Pope Francis spoke out against corporate greed and apologized for colonialism in the Americas in a speech Thursday in a meeting of groups working for the unemployed, landless and impoveri...

» US Personnel Chief Resists Calls to Resign Amid Data Hack
10/07/15 16:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The head of the U.S. government's personnel office, OPM, is rejecting bipartisan calls for her resignation following revelations that hackers stole the personal information of more than 2...

» Kerry Setting Records with Long Vienna Stay
10/07/15 16:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been locked in this round of Iran nuclear talks for a longer period than any top American official has devoted to a single international negotiation...

» Министр финансов Германии предложил США обменять Грецию на Пуэрто-Рико - РБК
10/07/15 16:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Коммерсантъ Министр финансов Германии предложил США обменять Грецию на Пуэрто-Рико РБК Министр финансов Германии Вольфганг Шойбле предложил своему американскому коллеге Джеку Л...

» Putin's China Syndrome
10/07/15 16:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The new Sino-Russian partnership was on display this week. And it's clear who's boss.

» VOA Video: Pentagon's Warren Discusses Islamic State
10/07/15 16:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. It’s been one year since the Islamic State announced the territory it had seized in Syria and Iraq constituted an Islamic caliphate, and the Pentagon is settling in for a years-long battl...

» High-ranking Vatican official Jozef Wesolowski set to stand trial for child abuse
10/07/15 16:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Jozef Wesolowski, the first important Vatican official to be charged with paedophilia, is set to stand trial in a Holy See court tomorrow.

» FBI: Church Shootings Suspect Got Past Background Check
10/07/15 16:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The FBI said Friday that the man accused of shooting nine parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last month should not have been allowed to buy a gun. The FBI said Dylann...

» In Athens, Greeks Muse on Tsipras’s Abrupt Reversal
10/07/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Greeks were struggling to process the news, gird themselves for further budget cutbacks and assess what they had gotten for their efforts to stand against the European orthodoxy.

» Moscow creates taskforce to identify suspected remains of tsar's children
10/07/15 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Remains have been in state archives for nearly a decade, since being discovered by a builder more than 40 miles away from the burial site of their family Russia has launched a new dr...

» Russia unveils 'straight' flag, internet responds | euronews, world news - euronews
10/07/15 16:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. PRI TIME Russia unveils 'straight' flag, internet responds | euronews, world news euronews Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party has unveiled a 'straight flag' in an effort to countera...

» Greek energy minister unveils plan for €2bn gas deal with Russia - FT.com - Financial Times
10/07/15 16:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Financial Times Greek energy minister unveils plan for €2bn gas deal with Russia - FT.com Financial Times EU policy makers are concerned that Russia could take advantage of the crisis...

» The new Eastern Bloc: China, Russia and India are joining forces - Newsweek - Newsweek
10/07/15 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Newsweek The new Eastern Bloc: China, Russia and India are joining forces - Newsweek Newsweek the world's population. If the hopes of its leading backers – particularly Russia – are r...

» Russia Doubling Military Troops on Novaya Zemlya In Arctic by 2020 - International Business Times
10/07/15 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. International Business Times Russia Doubling Military Troops on Novaya Zemlya In Arctic by 2020 International Business Times Russian President Vladimir Putin observes exercises in the...

» Greece finally admits €2bn gas pipeline deal with Russia - Telegraph - Telegraph.co.uk
10/07/15 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Telegraph.co.uk Greece finally admits €2bn gas pipeline deal with Russia - Telegraph Telegraph.co.uk Greece has admitted for the first time it is planning a €2bn gas pipeline with Rus...

» Putin in the middle as Russian spies meddle in Greece - Business Insider - Business Insider
10/07/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Putin in the middle as Russian spies meddle in Greece - Business Insider Business Insider This financial and political uncertainty in Athens — and across Europe in ge...

» Joint Chiefs Nominee Says Russia Could Pose 'Existential Threat' To U.S. : The ... - NPR
10/07/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. NPR Joint Chiefs Nominee Says Russia Could Pose 'Existential Threat' To U.S. : The ... NPR The Obama administration's nominee to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...

» Russia Cracks Down on Moscow Election Monitors - Newsweek
10/07/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Newsweek Russia Cracks Down on Moscow Election Monitors Newsweek Russian authorities on July 7 searched the Moscow office of the Golos Association, the country's leading election-moni...

» Russia Says Its Economy Is Fine - Daily Beast
10/07/15 16:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Daily Beast Russia Says Its Economy Is Fine Daily Beast When the European Union extended economic sanctions on Russia until January 31, 2016, it caused little kerfuffle among pro-Krem...

» PETER HANNAFORD: How Russia threatens Internet freedom - Washington Times - Washington Times
10/07/15 16:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Washington Times PETER HANNAFORD: How Russia threatens Internet freedom - Washington Times Washington Times Paranoia apparently played a role in the legislation. Russian leader Vladim...

» Big loser in any nuclear deal with Iran may be Russia - Reuters - Reuters Blogs (blog)
10/07/15 16:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Blogs (blog) Big loser in any nuclear deal with Iran may be Russia - Reuters Reuters Blogs (blog) A general view of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, built by Russia , Octob...

» Malaysia Airlines MH17: Russia rebukes push for UN tribunal - World - CBC News - CBC.ca
10/07/15 16:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CBC.ca Malaysia Airlines MH17: Russia rebukes push for UN tribunal - World - CBC News CBC.ca "I don't see any future for" this resolution, Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said in...

» ISIS Comes to Russia - The Daily Beast - Daily Beast
10/07/15 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Daily Beast ISIS Comes to Russia - The Daily Beast Daily Beast Estimates of the size of the insurgency are hard to come by, as Russian official statistics are notoriously unreliable, ...

» Russia must not be allowed to rewrite Srebrenica's history | Natalie ... - The Guardian
10/07/15 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Guardian Russia must not be allowed to rewrite Srebrenica's history | Natalie ... The Guardian Russia must not be allowed to rewrite Srebrenica's history. In denying the term geno...

» The Russian Air Force is falling out of the sky - The Week - The Week Magazine
10/07/15 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Week Magazine The Russian Air Force is falling out of the sky - The Week The Week Magazine Now, after months of aggressive flying, Russia's overworked air force is falling out of ...

» US beating drums of war against Russia to increase European defense ... - RT.com - RT
10/07/15 15:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT US beating drums of war against Russia to increase European defense ... - RT.com RT Several senior American officials say Russia is the greatest threat to their country's national ...

» Joint Chiefs Nominee Warns of Threat of Russian Aggression
10/07/15 15:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > United States Defense and Military Forces. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., at his Senate confirmation hearing, pointed to the Russian government’s aggressive behavior and its nuclear arsenal.

» Incoming Joint Chiefs Chairman Calls Russia, China Top Threats
10/07/15 15:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. In Senate testimony, Gen. Joseph Dunford puts the two countries ahead of the Islamic State group on his list of national security concerns.             

» AF: Next-Gen Bomber Award Could Slip Into Fall
10/07/15 15:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. The Air Force award of a contract for the long-range strike bomber, originally expected last spring, could take up to three more months, Air Force officials said.       ...

» OSCE Condemns Russia's Actions In Ukraine
10/07/15 15:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. The Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) passed a resolution at its summit meeting in Helsinki Thursday roundly condemning Russia's actions and military intervent...

» OPM hack hit potentially millions of troops, vets
10/07/15 15:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. A defense official confirmed that records of current and former service members dating back to at least 2000 were breached.