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Iran and the Roots of Obama’s Rage

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:24 AM

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Was Dinesh D’Souza right? Mr. D’Souza is a political commentator who proposed that the best explanation of President Obama’s behavior was not to be found in Obama’s seeming embrace of the radical socialism of Saul Alinsky but in the anti-colonialism of his father. Mr. D’Souza’s theory has been heatedly dismissed by the White House with the admonition that in America we do not judge people by their father’s political beliefs and that Ronald Reagan’s father was an alcoholic.

Fair enough, but then Ronald Reagan never wrote a memoir titled, Dreams from My Father, in which he measured his own life by both the achievements and failures of an alcoholic father that had abandoned him.

The reason that Mr. D’Souza’s 2010 book comes back into focus is Mr. Obama’s Iran deal. If we had doubts about Mr. D’Souza’s hypothesis before, Mr. Obama in recent weeks has gone a long way toward lending confirmation to it.

If you begin with the reasonable supposition that Mr. Obama is not an anti-Semite, then how do you explain his trafficking in contemptible blame the Jews rhetoric in order to promote his dangerous Iran deal? And for those who cannot bring themselves to accept Mr. Obama’s contemptible behavior, even longtime Obama supporter Abraham Foxman said, “Obama was using language—saying those opposed to the deal were cynically motivated to bomb Iranian nuclear sites—that fueled the anti-Semitic stereotyping of Jews as warmongers.”

One would think that after a lifetime of fighting anti-Semitism Mr. Foxman would know anti-Semitic references when he heard them.

So, how do you explain Mr. Obama’s sinking to this level of bullying to promote a deal that is so flawed it loses support daily?

Well, open the pages of Mr. D’Souza’s, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, and things start falling into place. Barack Obama’s view of the world is derived from that of his father’s anti-colonialism.

Mr. Obama accepts the leftist fiction that Israel is the last outpost of colonialism, an accusation too absurd to be considered serious. This is in keeping with Mr. Obama’s relationship with the late Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi, two Middle East scholars who promulgate that idea, and why to this day, the Los Angeles Times will not release the tape of Mr. Obama’s remarks at Mr. Khalidi’s farewell dinner.

This also explains why Mr. Obama joined the Rev. Jeremy Wright’s congregation, a congregation that broke its ties with mainstream white Christianity and embarked on a mission of black power and liberation theology. Wright took a dying congregation and rejuvenated it. His liberation theology and sense of black pride, along with his anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, spoke to thousands of black Chicagoans who felt alienated and marginalized in white society.

The Rev. Wright’s rage was Mr. Obama’s rage. The Rev. Wright’s theology was Mr. Obama’s theology.

When the Rev. Wright upped the ante of outrageous comments and Mr. Obama had to part company with him, it was “them Jews” that the Rev. Wright blamed for Mr. Obama putting daylight between them. Are we to believe that Mr. Obama sat at the feet of his mentor for twenty years and never knew his sermons were flavored with anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism?

The Rev. Wright simply reinforced Mr. Obama’s view of colonialism. More important, in the black power ideology, colonialism applies to the white domination of the black ghetto.

Obama senior’s inspiration, as his son interpreted it, was to fight colonialism. It is why Obama backs the Palestinians over Israel. As he told the editor of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, he was backing Israel as a political necessity to secure support from the Jews in the Democratic Party. As Mr. Abunimah put it, “He (Obama) is merely doing what he thinks is necessary to get elected and he will continue doing it as long as it keeps him power.” As these remarks became public, they appeared so threatening to Obama’s senatorial campaign that David Axelrod quickly denied them.

To reduce America’s power in the world is to reduce America’s potential for strategic dominance, i.e. colonialism, in Obama’s vision. The rise of an Obama-nourished Iranian hegemonic power in the Middle East is an impediment to American colonialism. America is not exceptional—in this vision—and should not be. The Iran deal reduces America’s strategic power and makes its prospects for interfering in the rest of the world less likely. Obama is not afraid of a stronger Iran as much as he fears a stronger America.

And the same mindset applies to the inner city. It is why three members of the administration were sent to pay respects at the funeral of a thug who fought a policeman for his gun and lost. The thug was perceived as a victim of the colonial police force.

It is why the minor altercation between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and the Cambridge police is worthy of the attention and prestige of the White House. Mr. Gates was a victim of the colonialism that oppresses black people daily.

In the end, Mr. Obama is remaking the Middle East, not in America’s interest, but in accord with a vision of America as a colonial power that projects power too easily. If his Kenyan father had a dream, Mr. Obama is fulfilling it both at home and abroad.

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Return Of The ABL? Missile Defense Agency Works On Laser Drone « Breaking Defense

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:23 AM

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The Airborne Laser Testbed, mothballed in 2012.

HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: Three years after the Missile Defense Agency mothballed its massive Airborne Laser, MDA is planning to reboot the concept for a new era.

The old ABL was Boeing 747 with a human crew and tanks of toxic chemicals to generate power. The new idea a high-altitude, long-endurance drone armed with a more compact electrically powered laser. But the technical and tactical challenge remains the same: building a laser-armed aircraft that can shoot down ballistic missiles at their most vulnerable, just after launch, without having to fly so close it gets shot down itself.

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“The problem with boost phase is…you’ve got to get close enough,” Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s procurement chief, told reporters at the Space & Missile Defense conference here. By closing in, he said, “you get a softer target: The booster, the rocket itself, is a lot softer than the reentry vehicles.” But if you’re close enough to shoot at a rocket right after it launches from enemy territory, you’re probably close enough for the enemy to shoot you.

“I was in the Pentagon when the Airborne Laser was proposed, and I asked questions about how many we would have to buy, how we’d know to put them in the air, and how we’d keep them alive,” Kendall recalled. “We didn’t have good answers to those questions, but we went ahead with the Airborne Laser anyway.”

The Missile Defense Agency will take an “incremental, step-wise, knowledge-based” approach this time, pledged the MDA director, Vice Adm. James Syring, in remarks to the Huntsville conference. “It is a very different approach than we did in the past of just leaping to something and investing everything we had.”

MDA will conduct experiments and review alternatives until 2018-2019, when Syring said it will pick “which technologies we think have the most promise.” Then a “low-power laser demonstrator” will fly circa 2021. When the full-power system will enter service is an open question, not answered in Syring’s brief.

Vice Adm. James Syring

MDA has already used existing drones to experiment with the systems required to aim the laser. “The work that we’re doing with the General Atomics Reaper and the work that we did with the Boeing Phantom Eye starts to show it can be done, in terms of these long-range sensing and tracking capabilities that we need,” Syring said.

The Missile Defense Agency is setting itself a higher bar than other military laser efforts. The Army,Air Force, and Navy have done “great work” on laser weapons for other missions, Syring said, but shooting down missiles in the boost phase requires much greater power, range, and beam quality. In fact, it may require higher performance than even the massive Airborne Laser managed.

In a successful 2010 test, ABL shot down a ballistic missile “tens of kilometers” away, Syring said, using about a megawatt of power. For the illustrative concept of operations the MDA director briefed at the conference — which he emphasized was not the only option — “we need to be hundreds of kilometers [from the target] in a platform that can go much higher and stay up for much longer.”

The manned Airborne Laser maxed out at an altitude of about 40,000 feet, where clouds and turbulence made it harder to keep the beam on the target. “65,000 feet is where we think we need to be,” said Syring, where the air is so thin that a laser beam can reach much farther.

Even in ideal atmospheric conditions, however, the power requirements are high: “hundreds of kilowatts to megawatt-class,” Syring said. “We’re today at tens of kilowatts in the lab with the beam quality we’re after.”

What matters is not just maximum power, but how much weight it takes to generate (power density), especially when you’re trying to fit the laser on an aircraft. The Airborne Laser took 55 kilograms (about 120 pounds) to generate a kilowatt of laser power, Syring said, which is why a megawatt (1,000 kW) took a 747. Electric lasers currently in the lab take 35-40 kilograms per kilowatt, and the MDA research program plans to drive that down by a factor of ten, to 3-5 kg/kW. MDA’s ultimate goal is 2 kg/kW, which would make a one-megawatt weight 5,000 pounds, something a drone could carry.

“If it had been easy we would done it by now,” Syring said. But given the rapid progress in laser technology, he went on, “it’s not a huge reach.”

“There’s a lot of work that has go on,” the admiral continued. In the traditional “crawl, walk, run” scheme, “we’re in crawl mode at this point,” he said, “but that doesn’t mean we should stop.”

“Is such a system in the realm of the possible?  Yes,” said Mark Gunzinger, a laser expert and advocate at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “Technology would support the development and possibly fielding of a 300 kilowatt or more solid-state laser within five years,” he told me. “Developing and integrating an SSL with a very high-altitude unmanned aircraft which would probably have to be designed from scratch would take longer, of course.”

“I think the most important point may be that MDA’s concept is not the ‘return of the ABL,'” Gunzinger went on. “MDA’s concept would take two maturing military technologies — unmanned systems and directed energy — and combine them to create a new weapon system that takes advantage of the attributes of both.”

Unlike a manned aircraft whose crew must land and rest, a drone can stay aloft for 24 hours or more. Unlike a chemically powered laser, or conventional missiles and guns for that matter, an electric laser can keep firing as long as the aircraft’s generators are running. A mid-air refueling both keeps the drone flying and “reloads” its ability to generate power for the laser. The combination of unmanned endurance and unlimited shots means a single drone could stay on station for days, instead of needing multiple manned aircraft to come and go in rotation.

What’s more, an electrical laser can dial its power up and down for different targets at different ranges. That would let the laser serve double duty, protecting the drone carrying it against enemy fighters and anti-aircraft missiles, Gunzinger said. It might even shoot down enemy aircraft at a distance, without having to wait to be attacked.

“Thinking of this as a ballistic missile killer may be too narrow,” Gunzinger said. If MDA can actually solve the boost-phase intercept problem, hard as that is, it will have built a laser-armed aircraft that’s lethally adaptable to other missions as well.

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Russia Seizes More Territory in Ukraine, Eastern Europe with ‘Incremental’ Strategy

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:23 AM

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Fighting has escalated in Ukraine six months after a ceasefire was supposed to end hostilities, raising fears that Russian-backed separatists could soon launch another offensive as the West focuses on other global crises.

Ukraine’s military reported 127 attacks on Monday by the pro-Russian rebels, including an assault by400 separatists and tanks about 30 miles north of Mariupol, a strategic government-held port in southeastern Ukraine. Four vehicles belonging to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were also torched last weekend in Donetsk, one of two main separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “expressed grave concern” Thursday about the escalation in rebel attacks in a phone call with Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart. Kerry urged Russia to end its support for the separatists and stick to the Minsk ceasefire signed in mid-February.

The Kremlin has blamed Ukraine for the recent upsurge in attacks and has denied providing substantial support to the rebels, despite mounting evidence that it has sent thousands of Russian soldiers to aid the separatists.

Luke Coffey, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom who studies European security issues, said in an interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing a “very incremental, deliberate, slow” strategy in Ukraine. By taking small pieces of territory over a months-long conflict, he can blunt a concerted response from an international community that has devoted attention to other immediate issues, such as the Iran nuclear deal.

“Putin will do what he knows he can get away with,” Coffey said. “Right now he can get away with a lot.”

Coffey said the latest rebel attacks are likely a response to the European Union Council Summit in June, where foreign ministers agreed to extend economic sanctions on Russia through January 2016.

More than 6,500 people have been killed in Ukraine since rebels began launching attacks against government forces in April 2014. The fighting followed Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula in March and the ouster of a pro-Moscow leader from Ukraine’s government.

The separatists’ next target is likely Mariupol, the heavily fortified port that they “desperately need” to connect Crimea with resources from the Russian mainland, Coffey said.

“[Mariupol] will be a tough nut to crack, but it is the major obstacle standing in the way of the separatists,” he said.

Ukraine is not the only former Soviet country where Russia has sought to expand its influence. Russian forces extended the border of South Ossetia—a breakaway territory that the Kremlin seized from Georgia in a 2008 war—by about a half-mile last month, gaining partial control of an international oil pipeline.

Coffey noted that Russia achieved “incremental progress” in Georgia while the United States and EU were concentrating on the conclusion of the Iran nuclear talks—in which Moscow participated—and the bailout referendum in Greece.

Additionally, the Baltic states, all members of NATO with large Russian-speaking minorities, have become increasingly concerned about a Russian incursion in their territories. Russia has launched cyber attacks against the countries in recent months and assumed an aggressive military posture toward their defenses.

NATO aircraft in Europe—which recently reduced its patrols by half—intercepted about 150 Russian bombers and fighters over the Baltic last year.

Analysts say Putin is unlikely to assume a less belligerent approach toward his neighbors in Eastern Europe as Russia’s economy, beset by low oil prices and Western sanctions, enters a recession. The Russian leader, unwilling to implement market-oriented reforms that could loosen his grip on power, has staked his regime’s legitimacy on the patriotic mobilization of his citizens against Western adversaries. That could mean more trouble ahead, Coffey said.

“Vladimir Putin’s reaped huge popularity from his actions in Ukraine,” he said. “Whose to say that he won’t push the envelope even further to boost his popularity even more?”

While U.S. forces have begun training troops in Ukraine’s National Guard, the Obama administration has resisted providing arms that Ukrainian leaders say they desperately need, including small rifles, ammunition, and anti-tank weaponry.

Most Republican presidential candidates for 2016 have said they support supplying lethal arms to Ukraine. However, Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and Democratic frontrunner, has yet to state a position. A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to a request for comment.

Gen. Raymond Odierno, the retiring U.S. Army chief of staff, joined other top military leaders on Wednesday in calling Russia the “most dangerous” threat to U.S. security, citing their threats to use nuclear weapons and destabilizing actions in Ukraine.

Increasing the sanctions on Russia and arming Ukraine, Coffey said, could incite a domestic backlash and finally alter Putin’s calculus after previous measures have failed.

“Russians are quite happy to eat feta cheese from the North Caucasus because they can’t eat feta cheese from Greece,” he said. “But when the body bags come home, people are going to start questioning what’s going on.”

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U.S. warns China on agents pressuring expatriates to return home: New York Times

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:22 AM

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sent a warning to Beijing about Chinese agents it says are operating covertly in the United States to pressure fugitives, including some suspected of corruption, to return to China, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

  

Latin American governments fail to tackle booming urban slums: report

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:21 AM

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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Latin America's booming urban slums look set to continue their rapid expansion as government housing policies fail to tackle an explosion in informal housing, legal experts said on Monday.

  

Five Nicaraguan police officers killed in attack

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:21 AM

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MANAGUA (Reuters) - Five Nicaraguan police officers were killed on Sunday in the south of the country after being attacked by a criminal group trying to free one of its members that had been detained, police said.

  

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Khamenei says nuclear deal, if passed, won't open Iran to U.S. influence

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:21 AM

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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear deal with world powers will not open the Islamic Republic to political or economic influence from the United States, and could still be blocked by either country, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday.

  

Civilians killed as fighting flares in eastern Ukraine

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:20 AM

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KIEV (Reuters) - Fighting flared between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists in two separate parts of eastern Ukraine overnight with several civilians killed by shelling, Ukrainian police and separatist sources said on Monday.

  

Iraqi parliament endorses report on fall of Mosul: two lawmakers

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:20 AM

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament endorsed a report on Monday calling for the trial of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and dozens of other top officials in connection with the fall of the northern city of Mosul to Islamic State last year, two lawmakers said.

  

Death toll in Syria air strike nears 100: activists

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:20 AM

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The death toll from a Syrian government air strike northeast of Damascus neared 100, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday, making it one of the single bloodiest attacks of the four-year-long war.

  

Palestinian shot dead after stabbing Israeli trooper

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:20 AM

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian man was shot dead on Monday by Israeli police troopers after he stabbed and lightly wounded one of them at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, a police spokeswoman said.

  

Assassinated Pakistani minister was on watchlist for retaliation

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:20 AM

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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani provincial minister killed in a suicide bomb attack had been warned he was a target for retaliation by a militant after police killed the leader of the radical sectarian group last month.

  

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Air strikes in northwest Pakistan kill 24 militants: officials

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:19 AM

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BANNU, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani air strikes killed at least 24 suspected militants in their northwestern strongholds on Monday, intelligence officials said, a day after a bomb killed a provincial minister in the prime minister's political heartland.

  

Russia, Iran say future of Assad a matter for Syrians

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:19 AM

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Iran said on Monday that Syrian groups must decide the future of Bashar al-Assad, with Moscow opposing any pre-negotiated exit of the Syrian president as part of a peace deal.

  

U.S. military to step up drone flights by 2019: WSJ

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:19 AM

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military plans to widen its surveillance and firepower in conflict zones worldwide, including in Ukraine and the South China Sea, with a major expansion of U.S. drone flights, the Wall Street Journal reported.

  

Turkey's Erdogan gambles on using crisis to consolidate power

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:18 AM

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ANKARA (Reuters) - As efforts to form a new government flounder and Turkish jets bombard Kurdish militants, President Tayyip Erdogan is hoping to turn Turkey's deepest uncertainty in more than a decade to his advantage.

  

Authorities: 5 dead in midair collision of small planes

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:18 AM

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Parachutist dies after Chicago air show accident

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Eye Opener: Crews battle fast-moving flames across West

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:17 AM

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Putin's Crimea visit aims to stir up Ukraine conflict: Poroshenko

Monday August 17th, 2015 at 11:16 AM

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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko criticized Russian leader Vladimir Putin for visiting Russia-annexed Crimea on Monday, saying his action was part of a plan to whip up tensions in eastern Ukraine.

"This is a challenge to the civilized world and a continuation of the plan to escalate the situation which is being carried out by Russian troops and their mercenaries in the Donbass (east Ukraine)," Poroshenko said in a Facebook post.

Putin visited Yalta in Crimea on Monday to promote tourism on the peninsula, according to the Kremlin's website. Referring directly to that, Poroshenko said Crimea had a future only as part of Ukraine and that included its "tourist" future.

(Reporting by Natalia Zinets; Writing by Alessandra Prentice)

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Civilians and soldiers die in east Ukraine fighting, Putin in Crimea

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KIEV Fighting flared between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels in separate parts of eastern Ukraine overnight, killing at least two Ukrainian soldiers and several civilians, Kiev's military and separatist sources said on Monday.

The clashes, near the port of Mariupol in the southeast and at rebel-held Horlivka, further frayed an increasingly tenuous ceasefire as Ukraine prepared to mark its Independence Day next week.

Kiev accused the separatists of shelling civilians on the outskirts of Mariupol. In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed Kiev for the violence, giving no detail but saying he suspected Ukraine was preparing a new offensive.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko meanwhile accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to whip up tensions in eastern Ukraine by visiting Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine last year. The Kremlin said Putin was promoting tourism on the peninsula.

The escalation has drawn expressions of concern from Western governments, which regard the ceasefire and tentative peace agreement worked out in Minsk, Belarus, in February as still the best chance of ending the rebellion in eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said the rebels had used howitzers with a range of 15-16 km (10 miles) to shell Sartana, on Mariupol's northern edge.

"The enemy was not shelling Ukrainian positions, but a civilian town," he told a briefing. "The enemy has now adopted the tactic of firing and then quickly withdrawing. The next time they'll get a quick response. What has happened in Sartana is a challenge to our forces."

He said two Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and seven wounded by separatists in the past 24 hours.

"GRAVE CONCERN"

Regional police said at least one man and a young woman had been killed in Sartana.

"On one street there were five houses that were really badly damaged by shell fragments. One house had a well-tended garden with vines and a vegetable patch. But the house had been wrecked by shells and I saw an enormous pool of blood," a local news photographer, Mykola Ryabchenko, told Reuters by telephone.

The separatist website DAN quoted the separatist mayor of Horlivka as saying at least three people had been killed and four wounded as a result of government shelling of the town, a regular hot spot north of the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

Lysenko said the rebels had used heavy weapons including Grad rockets in attacks on government forces around Horlivka.

The upsurge in fighting combined with low oil prices on Monday to undermine Russia's rouble, which touched a six-month low against the dollar.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last week expressed "grave concern" to Lavrov over a rise in separatist attacks, and urged an immediate halt to shooting.

Germany's foreign minister said the situation was explosive and urged the parties to prevent a spiral in violence.

More than 6,500 people have been killed in the conflict, which erupted in April 2014 after Russiaannexed Crimea in reaction to the fall of a Moscow-backed president in Kiev.

Moscow went on to support the rebels in pressing for greater autonomy but denies sending them soldiers or arms, despite what the West and Kiev say is irrefutable proof.

Poroshenko called Putin's visit to Crimea "a continuation of the plan to escalate the situation" as Ukraine prepares to mark its Independence Day on Aug. 24.

(Additional reporting by Natalia Zinets and Alessandra Prentice in Kiev and Gabriela Baczynska in Moscow; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

A woman is seen through a hole in a damaged residential building, which, according to locals, was caused by recent shelling, on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine, August 16, 2015.

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A man cries as he inspects debris while standing outside his damaged house, which according to locals was caused by recent shelling, in Donetsk, Ukraine, August 17, 2015.

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A local resident stands in a flat that, according to locals, was damaged by recent shelling, on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine, August 16, 2015.

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A woman reacts while standing outside her house, which according to locals was damaged in recent shelling, on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine, August 16, 2015.

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A woman is seen through a hole in a damaged residential building, which, according to locals, was caused by recent shelling, on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine, August 16, 2015.

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A man cries as he inspects debris while standing outside his damaged house, which according to locals was caused by recent shelling, in Donetsk, Ukraine, August 17, 2015.

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Government air raids near Syrian capital kill more than 80by BASSEM MROUE

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 6:35 PM

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BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian airstrikes on a Damascus suburb killed more than 80 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest such raids of the four-year civil war, as fighting escalated in and around President Bashar Assad's seat of power at a time when his overstretched forces have been losing ...

Defense News Money Minute: Estate Planning

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 6:35 PM

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Episode 81: With an estate plan, more of your assets will go to your loved ones rather than the government.

       

Defense News TV: The Russia Threat

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 6:34 PM

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The investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email is being run out of FBI ... - Business Insider

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 6:34 PM

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The investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email is being run out of FBI ... Business Insider The FBI is investigating Hillary Clinton's private email server out of of its headquarters in Washington, D.C., in an "unusual move," the New York Times reported. "Nearly all [FBI] investigations are assigned to one of the bureau's 56 field offices ... FBI Tracking Path of Classified Email From State Dept. to Hillary ClintonNew York Times Hillary turned over her server to the FBI, but it's blankKomando New task for FBI: Track path of email to Clinton at State DepartmentThe Seattle Times SC Magazine -BizPac Review all 2,674 news articles »

US To Withdraw Patriot Missiles From Turkey

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 6:34 PM

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Turkey and United States said on Sunday that Washington would withdraw its Patriot missile batteries from the country in October after bolstering Ankara's air defences against threats from Syria's civil war.

       

Hillary’s Emailgate: Understanding Security Classificationby 20committee

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 6:34 PM

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The rising scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton regarding her apparent misuse of unclassified email during her tenure as Secretary of State gets worse for the Presidential hopeful with each passing day. During the week now ending, I’ve explained in writing and in radio and TV appearances how Americans ought to look at this touchy matter.

Few Americans have ever dealt with Top Secret materials and understandably they are left perplexed by this complicated and mysterious subject. This is not helped by the fact that Clinton backers seek to blow off this scandal as “no big deal.” Obfuscation does not change the fact that the placing of highly classified information on an unclassified and unencrypted network is a very serious matter indeed, not to mention very likely a criminal act to boot.

To aid understanding of how security classification works in the real world of the Intelligence Community, I’m giving you a sample intelligence assessment which I will walk you through to illustrate how this plays out every day in Washington, DC.

Everything I’m presenting you is fake — Zendia for decades was used by the National Security Agency as its preferred made-up country in training exercises — but corresponds exactly to how the IC actually writes “finished” intelligence assessments based on multiple information sources, then classifies them.

Such assessments are authored every day by multiple American intelligence agencies and offices, then shared with senior leadership. The Secretary of State is always a top consumer of such intelligence. Moreover, the State Department has its own in-house intelligence analysis shop, termed the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) to meet their department’s need for additional classified assessments and reporting.

What follows is a short intelligence assessment of the kind U.S. Government officials read every single day, made up by me but adhering to the style and substance of what I used to do at work when I was an IC analyst.

TOPSECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN

(S) Economic, Political Problems for Zendia Ahead

(TS//SI) The Zendian Ambassador to Dirtbagistan believes it is increasingly likely that his country will fail to make its next International Monetary Fund (IMF) payment, scheduled for mid-September. This IMF payment of 475 billion Zendian wangos ($8.4 billion) is beyond his government’s ability to pay, Ambassador Abu Travolta explained to a senior member of his country’s Ministry of Finance (believed to be Deputy Finance Minister Abu Nugent) on 12 August. The ambassador further opined that, in the event of this likely default, the government of Prime Minister Barack Dukakis would not last long, politically. For this reason the Zendian government is going to great lengths to prevent word of the impending IMF default from reaching the media, according to Ambassador Travolta.

(TS//SI//TK) This information was supported by Zendian Deputy Foreign Minister Abu Bon Jovi, who last week informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) that budget constraints, which he expected to get significantly worse in mid-September, meant that MFA payrolls may not be met upon “something big” happening then. This is believed to be a reference to a possible default on Zendia’s IMF loan.

(S//NF) According to U.S. Government information obtained from multiple agencies, Ambassador Travolta is a well-connected member of the ruling party and is close to Prime Minister Dukakis. He has a track record of accurate predictions about forthcoming events in his country.

(FOUO) According to media reports, Ambassador Travolta has been experiencing health problems (NFI) which may indicate his willingness to be unusually frank with fellow members of the Zendian ruling party.

(U) This situation will be updated as soon as additional information becomes available.

TOPSECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN

Off the bat, you’ll notice the report’s overall classification, TOPSECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN, in big and bold letters at the top and bottom, which reflects the highest classification levels of anything incorporated in the assessment. Only people cleared to that level — here a very high one — can read this report.

Like any report, this has a title slug reflecting what it’s about. It’s classified S for SECRET: notice that each paragraph has its classification stated in parentheses at the beginning. This is called “portion marking” by the IC.

The first paragraph is classified TOPSECRET, the highest “official” classification in the U.S. Government, while the addition of SI, meaning Special Intelligence, indicates this is very sensitive stuff. SI is a security caveat that falls under the rubric of Sensitive Compartmented Information or SCI. Not everybody cleared for TOPSECRET also has access to SCI, that’s a separate matter and all SCI materials require special handling to protect them from compromise.

Here, SI indicates that the paragraph is based on information from signals intelligence or SIGINT from NSA — in this case an intercepted phone call between two senior Zendian officials. Although the report never states that this is SIGINT, the kind of information provided plus the SI caveat indicate this is based on NSA reporting, as anybody experienced with intelligence would immediately recognize.

The following paragraph is also based on NSA SIGINT, albeit from a different, even more sensitive source: the TK in its classification stands for TALENT KEYHOLE and indicates that information is derived from foreign communications intercepted by an intelligence satellite. This, again, is a conversation between top Zendian officials, so it’s valuable “horse’s mouth” information. Here two senior bureaucrats seem to corroborate each other, which is an important revelation.

The third paragraph has a lower classification, SECRET, is not based on SIGINT, and has the NOFORN caveat, meaning it cannot be shared with non-Americans (a good deal of NSA SIGINT, even at the TS/SI level, is shared with close foreign partners such as the Anglosphere Five Eyes countries). This paragraph is based on local classified assessments — probably from the US Embassy to Zendia as well as the CIA Station there — that are sent back as regular reports to Washington, DC about the political lay of the land in that country.

The last substantive paragraph isn’t classified at all but has the For Official Use Only marking, meaning it cannot be released to the public without official approval. It’s based on media reports, which represent an important source of information for the IC and the State Department. CIA’s Open Source Center is the IC’s hub for translating foreign media in many languages and, pound for pound, represents the best value in the Intelligence Community, in my opinion. Here, unclassified media (termed Open Source Intelligence or OSINT) by some, is used to round out the assessment, and how the analyst has reached a tentative conclusion based on that media is considered to be FOUO. NFI means No Further Information.

The last line is entirely unclassified, as indicated by the U at the beginning, and states simply that more information will be forthcoming on this issue as the analyst gets it.

That last line is the only part of the assessment that is wholly unclassified and, in theory, could be released to the public without a cumbersome approval process: of course, taken alone it says nothing of interest, which perhaps is the point.

The larger point, however, is that, save that last line, absolutely none of the information in this assessment could be released to the public, or placed on any unclassified information system, by anybody, not even a cabinet secretary, without specific approval from outside agencies. The SIGINT, in particular, is highly sensitive and could only be placed in unclassified channels with an explicit NSA (and probably Director of National Intelligence) go-ahead, which is rare.

Even “talking around” such information, especially in written fashion, is unwise and usually represents a serious security breach, not to mention it may be illegal. For example, this is how a top official who read that Zendian intelligence assessment might proceed:

1. “We’re hearing Zendia will probably default on its IMF loan.” (Marginally acceptable because there’s no attribution, no sources and methods are mentioned, though even so it’s really at least FOUO if it’s a cabinet secretary putting it in an unclassified email.)

2. “We’re getting intel that Zendia will probably default on its IMF loan.” (Unacceptable, a security violation, but not classified higher than SECRET due to lack of source attribution.)

3. “NSA says Zendia will default on its IMF loan in September.” (Absolutely unacceptable in any unclassified format, a compromise of TS//SI sources and methods….call the FBI.)

What exactly happened in the case of Hillary Clinton’s classified emails we don’t know yet, but the FBI is now on the case, and I’m sure the Bureau will eventually find out. What happens after that? It’s too soon to tell ….

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Kuwait uncovers a large Iranian-Hizballah terror cell

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 6:33 PM

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Kuwait authorities issued a gag order Sunday on a police raid that arrested three Kuwaiti terrorist suspects and uncovered a large cache of arms, ammunitions and explosives hidden underground at a farm. Local media disclosed that this was a cell of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Hizballah. The cache contained 24 hand grenades, 65 guns, 56 RPGs and 144 kgs of bomb-making material. DEBKAfile: A week earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif came for a visit to assure the Kuwaiti government that Tehran was giving up its terrorist subversion against Gulf regimes.

ISIS launches attack on Iraqi forces outside Falluja

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 6:33 PM

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Three explosives-packed military vehicles driven by ISIS suicide bombers attacked Iraqi troops Sunday outside the town of Falluja west of Baghdad.. DEBKAfile: The Iraqi troops had held back from laying the ISIS-held town to siege or attempting to retake it.

Obama Administration Warns Beijing About Agents Operating in US - New York Times

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 6:33 PM

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Задержанный на Донбассе офицер РФ просит Путина не отказываться от российских военных (видео) : Новости УНИАН

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 2:20 PM

Информационное Агентство УНИАН

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Старкова задержали на Донбассе / Скриншот из видео

На видеозаписи Старков в который раз утверждает, что он - действующий офицер, прослужил 19 лет.

"19 лет я прослужил в российской армии, а меня теперь не признают, говорят, что такого не было", - отметил офицер РФ.

Читайте такжеЗадержанный российский майор признался, что военным РФ на Донбассе выплачивают тройной оклад

При этом он подчеркнул, что если отправлять на такие операции, нужно специальных людей отправлять.

"Я не террорист, я не шел сюда кого-то убивать, поэтому при задержании я не стал оказывать сопротивление. Украина нам войну не объявляла, мы тоже. Поэтому прошу все же признать, что я на самом деле военный и помочь отсюда в Россию перевестись", - обратился возмущенный военнослужащий РФ к Путину.

Как сообщал УНИАН со ссылкой на Государственную пограничную службу Украины, около 22.00 25 июля сотрудники Госпогранслужбы на контрольном посту "Березовое" (Донецкая область) задержали "КамАЗ" с боеприпасами. В транспортном средстве, которое заехало с оккупированной территории, были два человека в военной форме.

После задержания грузовика пограничники предварительно выяснили, что один из мужчин -кадровый военнослужащий вооруженных сил РФ в звании "майор", а другой входит в состав незаконных вооруженных формирований.

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Isis militants crucify headless corpses and burn down hospital as battle for Sirte intensifies

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 1:45 PM

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Isis militants are reported to have beheaded 12 people and crucified their bodies during the fight for the Libyan city of Sirte.

Trump Joining Long List of Celebrities With NYC Jury Duty

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 1:44 PM

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Celebrity Jury Duty: Trump joining long list of well-known New Yorkers reporting for service

Trump outlines immigration specifics - CNN

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 1:44 PM

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Trump outlines immigration specifics CNN (CNN) Republican frontrunner Donald Trump announced Sunday in a policy paper his plans to reform the U.S. immigration system and secure the southern border, providing his most detailed account yet of how he will handle a key policy issue. Trump, who ... Donald Trump Unveils His Immigration Plan, Calls for End to Birthright ...ABC News Donald Trump Releases Immigration Plan, Including Ending Birthright CitizenshipDaily Caller Donald Trump's immigration plan is out — and here's what's in itMarketWatch The Federalist -Washington Post -Dispatch Times all 36 news articles »

US, Germany to Pull Patriot Missiles From Turkeyby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 1:43 PM

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The United States is withdrawing its Patriot missile system deployed near Turkey's border with Syria when its mandate expires in October. A joint Turkish and U.S. announcement said Sunday that the air-defense units could be returned to Turkey within a week if the need arises. It said U.S. navy ships would be present in the Mediterranean to support Turkey's defense. The U.S., Germany and the Netherlands all deployed Patriots in early 2013 after Turkey asked its fellow NATO...

Sicilian City to Bury Latest Migrants Who Died at Seaby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 1:42 PM

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The dozens of migrants who died in the crowded hold of a smuggling boat will be buried in a local cemetery, officials in Catania, Sicily, said Sunday. Deputy Mayor Marco Consoli said the bodies of 49 migrants are expected to arrive Monday in Catania, an Italian port. On Sunday, a Norwegian vessel participating in a European rescue-and-patrol mission in the Mediterranean was bringing the bodies and more than 300 survivors from the boat toward Sicily. The migrants were rescued Saturday...

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Sirte Violence Triggers Libya Request for Anti-IS Helpby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 1:38 PM

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» Loyalty of Russian Bureaucracy to Moscow Wearing Thin
16/08/15 12:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble             Staunton, August 15 – The reaction of officials in Tyumen’s far north highlights just how much...

» Russian Women Increasingly Marrying Chinese Men, Hong Kong Paper Says
16/08/15 12:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble             Staunton, August 15 – Vladimir Putin’s “turn to Asia” is taking on an unexpected and for some ...

» Russia and China want to radically change how the internet is used - Business Insider
16/08/15 12:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russia and China want to radically change how the internet is used Business Insider Russia and China will maintain a unified front to challenge the West's conception ...

» Министр обороны Российской Федерации генерал армии Сергей Шойгу закрыл первые Международные армейские игры
16/08/15 12:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RSS. В АРМИ-2015, которые проходили с 1 по 15 августа на 11 полигонах, Западного, Южного и Центрального военных округов, приняли участие 57 команд от 17 государств Европы, Азии, Африки и Латинской Америки.

» ФБР проверяет российских хакеров на причастность к взлому email Хиллари Клинтон - BFM.Ru
16/08/15 12:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Полит.ру ФБР проверяет российских хакеров на причастность к взлому email Хиллари Клинтон BFM.Ru Сотрудники Федерального бюро расследований США пытаются выяснить, не удалось ли хаке...

» Original Gravestone of Kennedy Assassin Returns to Texas
16/08/15 12:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. After a long legal fight, the gravestone of U.S. presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is finally back in its home state of Texas after being stolen, hidden and forgotten, then winding ...

» Ukraine fears 'big war' as Russia sends in more troops
16/08/15 12:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. Military authorities in Ukraine believe the number of Russian troops within and close to its borders has risen to more than 50,000, raising fears of a substantial escalation in the confl...

» Russia Says It Destroyed Nearly 600 T of Imported Food in 10 Days - Novinite.com
16/08/15 12:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Novinite.com Russia Says It Destroyed Nearly 600 T of Imported Food in 10 Days Novinite.com A decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 6 coincided with the annivers...

» Putin Represents Only a Single Russian Tradition, One Too Dangerous to Allow to Continue, Eidman Says
16/08/15 12:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble             Staunton, August 16 – Many in both Russia and the West have convinced themselves that Vladimir...

» Rebel-held Ukraine overhauls education system as it aligns itself with Russia - The Guardian
16/08/15 12:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Guardian Rebel-held Ukraine overhauls education system as it aligns itself with Russia The Guardian Alongside the superficial changes, more fundamental shifts are under way as reb...

» Putin's Russia is ‘Deeply Ill Country Which Can’t Realize Its Imperial Ambitions,’ Zubov Says
16/08/15 12:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble             Staunton, August 16 – Russia under Vladimir Putin is “a deeply ill country which does not have...

» Hundreds line streets to honor Marines at reunion in Ohio
16/08/15 12:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Hundreds of people along with firefighters, police officer and veterans lined streets near Columbus to honor members of a unit that lost 11 ...

» US to withdraw Patriot missile system from Turkey
16/08/15 12:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. The United States is withdrawing its Patriot missile system deployed near Turkey's border with Syria when its mandate expires in October.

» Trump wants ground troops against Islamic State; money from US allies in Mideast
16/08/15 12:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is outlining a foreign policy in which the United States would put ground troops in the fight against Islamic State militants and dema...

» US, Germany to pull Patriot missiles from Turkey - Reuters
16/08/15 12:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Reuters US, Germany to pull Patriot missiles from Turkey Reuters BERLIN/ISTANBUL The United States and Germany said they will pull Patriot missile batteries from southern Turkey after ...

» Syrian government air strikes on market place kill at least 82 people
16/08/15 12:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Attack on rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus also injures more than 200 in one of the deadliest single incidents since war began five years ago Syrian government warplanes...

» Hamid Gul, Pakistan spy chief with anti-American views, dies at 78
16/08/15 12:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. Hamid Gul, who led Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency as it funneled U.S. and Saudi cash and weapons ...

» Ecuador Declares State of Emergency Over Volcano
16/08/15 12:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. The president of Ecuador declared a state of emergency Saturday in response to volcano activity 30 miles away from the country’s capital. A few hundred people were evacuated from two residentia...

» Parachutist Undergoes Surgery After Chicago Air Show Injury
16/08/15 12:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Spokeswoman: Parachutist remains in critical condition after Chicago air show collision

» Fireworks Show at Pearl Harbor Caps WWII Event
16/08/15 11:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The mayors of Honolulu and Nagoaka, Japan – two cities linked by World War Two – joined hundreds of people Saturday night to mark the 70th anniversary of the conflict's end by watching a ...

» Government Airstrikes on Syrian Market Kill More Than 80
16/08/15 11:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The death toll in Douma, a rebel-held territory, puts the incident among the deadliest air attacks during more than four years of conflict in Syria.

» Yemeni Fighters Make Progress Against Rebels
16/08/15 11:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Yemeni fighters allied with a Saudi military coalition captured a strategic province, extending a series of victories against the Houthi rebels.

» Kurdish women pray for peace as fears of civil war in Turkey mount
16/08/15 11:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Erdogan launches missile attacks as conflict with PKK explodes after two years of calm A group of women have gathered in the mountain pastures, a large herd of goats swarming ...

» Walk and use a mobile at the same time? No | Elizabeth Day
16/08/15 11:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. It is time that many people took some urgent lessons in pavement etiquette One of the first things I learned when I moved to London 14 years ago was how to walk in the city. I...

» Deputies Shoot, Kill Target of 2-Week Manhunt in California
16/08/15 11:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Deputies shoot, kill target of 2-week manhunt in California's rugged high desert

» Hamid Gul, a Pakistan Spy Master Tied to Militants, Dies
16/08/15 11:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Hamid Gul, one-time leader of Pakistan's powerful ISI spy agency who supported militants, dies

» Pakistan's former spy chief Hamid Gul dies aged 79
16/08/15 11:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Notorious spymaster died of a brain haemorrhage, his family says, as tributes pour in that are likely to anger India and Afghanistan Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s I...

» Number of migrants trying to enter Channel tunnel at Calais falls
16/08/15 11:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Eurotunnel says situation remains unacceptable but that extra security measures at Fréthun terminal have made a difference, as figure drops to 150 a nightIncreased security ha...

» Rebel-held Ukraine overhauls education system as it aligns itself with Russia
16/08/15 11:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. History and geography syllabuses altered with greater Russian bias as part of systematic campaign to rid breakaway territories of western influences Reminders of Ukrainian ide...

» 2015-08-16The Murder of Mexico’s Free Press Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 9:45 AM
16/08/15 11:23 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-08-16 The Murder of Mexico’s Free Press Sunday August 16th, 2015 at 9:45 AM The Murder of Mexico’s Free Press Sunday August 16 th , 2015  at  9:45 AM 1 Share The day before the Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa was murdered in ...

» China Explosion Death Toll Rises to 112 as Investigation Begins
16/08/15 11:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (TIANJIN, China) — Authorities pulled more bodies from a massive blast site at China’s Tianjin port, pushing the death toll to 112 on Sunday as teams rushed to clear dangerous chemicals a...

» Donald Trump talks policy: Iran deal 'will lead to nuclear holocaust'
16/08/15 11:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Republican frontrunner outlines details of policies – fighting Isis, taking on immigrants and shutting down government to stop Planned Parenthood Donald Trump, the billionaire...

» Murder Trial to Begin in Kansas Jewish Site Shootings
16/08/15 11:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Capital murder trial to begin for white supremacist accused in Kansas Jewish site shootings

» Trump wants money from U.S.-backed Mideast nations
16/08/15 11:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. GOP presidential candidate lays out a foreign policy vision that includes ground troops in the Middle East

» Investors to look at Fed, earnings with China filter - Reuters
16/08/15 11:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Reuters Investors to look at Fed, earnings with China filter Reuters Strategists at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch said in client notes in the past week that China's move may be...

» Report: Documents reveal details behind AT&T-NSA partnership
16/08/15 11:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. WASHINGTON (AP) - Under a decades-old program with the government, telecom giant AT&T in 2003 led the way on a new collection capability that the National Sec...

» Turkish Civil War?
16/08/15 11:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ThereAreNoSunglasses. [SEE:  “We Have A Civil War”: Inside Turkey’s Descent Into Political, Social, And Economic Chaos ] Huge explosion as police safely detonate bomb-laden vehicle in eas...

» Police still looking for killer of ex-Marine
16/08/15 11:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. Shawn Clark was shot Jan. 29, 2013, outside Patriot Skateboards. Video surveillance and witnesses led investigators to believe that two men entered the store intending to rob him.

» Experts: In cyber warfare, deterrence a challenge but may be key to nation's defense
16/08/15 11:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. The United States' best defense against a crippling cyber attack could be a more visible offense, military leaders and other experts recently suggested at the Army War College in Carlisl...

» Pentagon surveying potential US 'Guantanamo North' lockups
16/08/15 11:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. Pentagon teams studying alternative lockups to Guantánamo Bay visited Fort Leavenworth in Kansas this week and head to the Charleston, S.C., brig next week as part of spadework for a pro...

» Winding Down the War on Drugs: Reevaluating Global Drug Policy ...
16/08/15 11:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from international drug trafficking organizations - Google Blog Search. The United States then turned its attention to Escobar's major rival, the Cali Cartel, which, with Escobar out of the picture, quickly bec...

» Iran to permit only one IAEA visit to Parchin
16/08/15 11:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 16, 2015, 9:50 AM (IDT) Iran has presented to the UN nuclear watchdog documents regarding its nuclear program, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced Sunday. They are part of th...

» Head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Israel intelligence desk is executed as Israeli spy
16/08/15 11:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 16, 2015, 3:22 PM (IDT) Highly credible Iranian exile sources in Europe have revealed to debka file that the Director of the Israel  Israeli Desk of the Revolutionary Guards clandestine s...

» Iran prepares four-point peace plan for Syria
16/08/15 11:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 16, 2015, 4:13 PM (IDT) Mid East sources report that Iran is preparing to submit a four-point peace proposal for Syria to the United Nations Assembly next month. It includes a national un...

» Problems for China's economy extend far beyond currency - Financial Times
16/08/15 11:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Financial Times Problems for China's economy extend far beyond currency Financial Times “Currency depreciation to stimulate export growth is neither useful nor necessary,” said...

» Why China is the bull in a US shop - New York Post
16/08/15 11:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. New York Post Why China is the bull in a US shop New York Post When the second-largest economy in the world plays games with its currency, it's Americans who suffer. China deci...

» CIA Mistakenly Releases Apology Letter It Wrote to Senate For Illegally Spying ... - Techworm
16/08/15 11:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. Techworm CIA Mistakenly Releases Apology Letter It Wrote to Senate For Illegally Spying ... Techworm The documents of the US government that were expected to remain out of reach in the c...

» Latest Baghdad Bombings Kill at Least 22 People
16/08/15 10:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. A car bomb at a popular auto dealership Saturday killed 13 people and injured 52 in eastern Baghdad’s volatile Sadr City neighborhood, where a market bombing two days earlier killed do...

» Ecuador Declares Emergency as Volcano Near Quito Spews Ash
16/08/15 10:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency Saturday over increasing activity in the Cotopaxi volcano near the capital of Quito, and officials evacuated a few hundred people ...

» Toxic Chemicals Found at China Blast Site
16/08/15 10:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The warehouse at the center of deadly blasts in Tianjin likely housed hundreds of tons of highly toxic sodium cyanide, Chinese officials said.

» Attack on Syrian Market Kills More Than 50
16/08/15 10:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Air raids on a suburb of the Syrian capital have killed more than 50 and wounded scores, activists said.

» Queen Mary 2 Abandons Search for Missing Crewmember - New York Times
16/08/15 10:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. CBC.ca Queen Mary 2 Abandons Search for Missing Crewmember New York Times LONDON — abandons search for missing crewmember CBC.ca The Queen Mary 2 has abandoned the search for a crewmem...

» Pro-Government Fighters Seize Southern Yemeni Province from Houthis
16/08/15 10:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Fighters backing the exiled Yemeni government have seized the southern province of Shabwa from Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Yemeni military officials said Saturday that the rebels pulled...

» Plague Found at Yosemite Campground; Site to Be Closed, Treated
16/08/15 10:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Health officials in California are closing a campground at one of America's most popular wilderness destinations, Yosemite National Park, after tests on dead rodents found them to be carr...

» 3 Turkish Soldiers, Police Officer Killed in Kurdish Attacks
16/08/15 10:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Three Turkish soldiers and a police officer were killed in separate incidents Saturday, security sources said, as violence roils the country's mainly Kurdish southeast in recent weeks fol...

» Republican Senator Weighing Support for Iran Deal Will Vote No
16/08/15 10:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. With a month left before the deadline for U.S. Congress to vote on the international deal limiting Iran's nuclear program, President Barack Obama appears to have lost his only chance to g...

» Chinese Military: Tons of Cyanide at Deadly Blast Site
16/08/15 10:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. China has confirmed that sodium cyanide, a toxic chemical, was stored in the warehouses devastated by massive explosions in the port city of Tianjin.   Shi Luze, the chief of staff of the...

» Pakistan Suicide Blast Kills 8
16/08/15 10:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The home minister for Pakistan's populous Punjab province, along with dozens of people, including police officers were buried under the rubble of the minister's home after a massive suici...

» Thailand Bike Ride Honors Queen
16/08/15 10:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Thailand's crown prince, in a rare public appearance, led thousands of bicyclists through the streets of Bangkok Sunday in an event billed as a tribute to his mother, Queen Sirikit, on he...

» Iraq PM OKs Court Martial for Officers Who Fled Ramadi
16/08/15 10:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi agreed Sunday with an investigative commission's recommendation to court martial Iraqi commanders who withdrew from Ramadi earlier this year as the ci...

» 8 People Killed Along Kashmir Border
16/08/15 10:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Indian and Pakistani troops intensified firing along their disputed frontier in Kashmir, killing at least eight people and wounding 14, officials said on Sunday. Frontier clashes have int...

» Monitor: Government Strikes Kill 58 in Syria
16/08/15 10:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. At least 58 people were killed in Syria on Sunday in Syrian government airstrikes on the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus, a monitoring group said. The attacks on a market wounded a...

» Elton John to sue French mags for spreading rumours about his health
16/08/15 10:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The 68-year-old star and his 52-year-old husband, David Furnish, are particularly angry about the slurs because the couple are the parents to two young boys: Zachary, four, and Elijah, ...

» The lesbian couple who BOTH used to be men: Chelsea (born Jonathan) shocked to find out boyfriend Craig wants a sex change too... and now he's a woman called Carla
16/08/15 10:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Chelsea Jade, born Jonathan, and Carla, born Craig, have not ruled out gender reassignment surgery and the couple, who live in Belfast, are currently planning their wedding.

» North Korea holds huge rally inside Demilitarised Zone which separates Kim’s dictatorship from the South
16/08/15 10:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Kim Jong Un held a mass rally with dancing and fist pumping to mark 70 years of freedom from Japanese colonial rule. The celebrations were held metres from North Korea in the Demilitari...

» Roman Abramovich's wife Dasha Zhukova furious at Jose Mourinho's over Eva Carneiro outburst
16/08/15 10:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Dasha Zhukova is said to be furious over Mourinho’s treatment of Eva Carneiro after he publicly swore at her for rushing on to the pitch to tend an injured player during match against S...

» Batley Bulldogs' Keegan Hirst comes out as gay and is first openly homosexual rugby player
16/08/15 10:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Married rugby league player Keegan Hirst, captain of West Yorkshire side Batley Bulldogs, has come out as gay, making him the first openly homosexual Englishman in the sport.

» Lord Carey, Former Archbishop of Canterbury on why assisted suicide must be legal
16/08/15 10:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Lord Carey, pictured, like the church, once opposed assisted suicide, but life experience has convinced him that the law should allow for terminally ill people to have their passing eased.

» Senate Republican comes out against Iran deal - Los Angeles Times
16/08/15 10:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Los Angeles Times Senate Republican comes out against Iran deal Los Angeles Times President Obama's hopes for a sliver of bipartisan support for the nuclear agreement with Iran w...

» Iran submits nuclear activity information to UN watchdog - Ynetnews
16/08/15 10:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. The Star Online Iran submits nuclear activity information to UN watchdog Ynetnews Iran has submitted documents linked to its past nuclear activity, the UN's atomic watchdog has c...

» Flake Opposes Iran Deal, Reducing Hopes for Bipartisan Support - Bloomberg
16/08/15 10:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Haaretz Flake Opposes Iran Deal, Reducing Hopes for Bipartisan Support Bloomberg Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said Saturday that he opposes President Barack Obama's...

» Donald Trump jury duty: Will he be picked for a trial? - Christian Science Monitor
16/08/15 10:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Christian Science Monitor Donald Trump jury duty: Will he be picked for a trial? Christian Science Monitor Donald Trump, a 2016 presidential candidate, has been summoned to serve...

» Donald Trump: Undocumented Immigrants 'Have to Go' - NBCNews.com
16/08/15 10:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com Donald Trump: Undocumented Immigrants 'Have to Go' NBCNews.com Donald Trump would reverse President Obama's executive orders on immigration and deport all undocumente...

» Deputies Shoot, Kill Target of 2-Week Manhunt in California - ABC News
16/08/15 10:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Fox News Wall Street Journal Deputies Shoot, Kill Target of 2-Week Manhunt in California ABC News Sheriff's deputies in California shot and killed a man believed to be the target...

» Hamid Gul, a Pakistan Spy Master Tied to Militants, Dies - New York Times
16/08/15 10:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. The Nation Hamid Gul, a Pakistan Spy Master Tied to Militants, Dies New York Times ISLAMABAD — Family members say Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intellig...

» Can the US trust Europe to punish Iran if it violates the nuclear deal? - Jerusalem Post Israel News
16/08/15 10:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Jerusalem Post Israel News Can the US trust Europe to punish Iran if it violates the nuclear deal? Jerusalem Post Israel News Implementation of the deal will be ultimately determ...

» Trump, ahead in recent polls, to campaign in Michigan - Sentinel Republic
16/08/15 10:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Sentinel Republic Trump, ahead in recent polls, to campaign in Michigan Sentinel Republic But in a warning of sorts to Trump, who sparked controversy during and after last week's...

» Iraqi PM Approves Courts-Martial For Officers Who Surrendered Ramadi
16/08/15 10:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has approved a recommendation by investigators to begin court-martial proceedings against military commanders who surrendered the cit...

» Suicide Bomber Strikes Home Of Pakistan Official
16/08/15 10:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Authorities in Pakistan say at least six people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked the home of a provincial official in Punjab Province.

» Pakistan's Controversial Former Spy Chief Dies
16/08/15 10:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The former head of Pakistan's notorious spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is dead.

» Cultivating Ties: Ukraine Feeds China's Growing Appetite For Crops
16/08/15 10:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Ukraine’s economy is reeling as the conflict with Russia-backed rebels in the east drags on, but all is not doom and gloom. Agriculture is on the rebound, and one of Mosc...

» Germany's Steinmeier Warns Of 'Explosive' Ukraine Crisis
16/08/15 10:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Germany's foreign minister says the situation in eastern Ukraine is "explosive" and that urgent talks must be held to prevent "a new military escalation spiral."

» 40 Migrants Found Dead in Sea Rescue
16/08/15 10:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. At least 40 migrants died on an overcrowded smuggling boat north of Libya, and about 320 others aboard were saved by the Italian Navy.

» Hamid Gul, Pakistan’s Former Spy Chief, Dies at 78
16/08/15 10:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Mr. Gul, a three-star general, was deeply involved in the country’s policy toward neighboring Afghanistan during the Soviet withdrawal.

» Biden calls US attacker 'jihadist'
16/08/15 10:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. US Vice-President Joe Biden says the Chattanooga shooting was the work of a "perverted jihadist", despite no official determination of motive.

» VIDEO: New York's $100m apartments
16/08/15 10:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Nick Bryant reports on New York's 'Billionaire's Row', luxury skyscrapers which are becoming a potent symbol of wealth inequality.

» Biden calls Chattanooga shooter a 'perverted jihadist'
16/08/15 10:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 9:42 a.m. EDT. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday called the slaying of four Marines and a sailor at a Chattanooga reserve center the act of a "perverted ji...

» Obama and the Clintons: Top Dems mingle on Martha's Vineyard
16/08/15 10:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 9:42 a.m. EDT. OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) -- America's two foremost Democratic families - the Obamas and the Clintons - mingled on Saturday as politics mixed with summer repose on swanky Ma...

» Obama can do Iran nuclear deal even if Congress disapproves
16/08/15 10:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 9:42 a.m. EDT. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The September vote on the Iran nuclear deal is billed as a titanic standoff between President Barack Obama and Congress. Yet even if lawmakers reject t...

» The Murder of Mexico’s Free Press
16/08/15 09:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . The day before the Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa was murdered in Mexico City in late July, the governor of Veracruz, the province Mr. Espinosa had fled fearing for his life, gave other journalis...

» How the F.B.I. Uses Facial Recognition Analysis
16/08/15 09:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . To the Editor: Re “ Police Depts. Using ID Tool Honed in War ” (front page, Aug. 13): I would like to clarify several points about the F.B.I.’s Next Generation Identification technology̵...

» Homeland Security moves to prevent attack on power grid
16/08/15 09:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . The Department of Homeland Security is creating a new committee dedicated to boosting digital defenses for utilities. In a notice published in Friday’s Federal Register , the department announced that t...

» Clemency: The issue that Obama and the Koch brothers actually agree on
16/08/15 09:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Clemency: The issue that Obama and the Koch brothers actually agree on. Liberal watchdog group Bridge Project last month released a report, “ The Koch Brothers’ Criminal Justice Pu...

» At Point 18 in eastern Ukraine, the war grinds on, night after night
16/08/15 09:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Sasha Bak, 7th company’s commander, tours the trenches at one of his platoon’s positions in Pisky, Ukraine. Point 18 is the only place where Bak’s men live above ground; the rest live in tre...

» Hidden damage revealed in veterans' brains
16/08/15 09:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story .

» Obama Power Foursome Hits Links Before Vernon Jordan Soiree - First Draft. Political News, Now.
16/08/15 09:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Obama Power Foursome Hits Links Before Vernon Jordan Soiree. President Obama’s golf habit on Martha’s Vineyard is so frequent that locals shrug it off. But there was nothing routin...

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» 2015-08-157:14 PM 8/15/2015 - World News Review: » Japan’s emperor offers remorse on anniversary
15/08/15 22:57 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-08-15 7:14 PM 8/15/2015 - World News Review: » Japan’s emperor offers remorse on anniversary of WWII surrender 16/08/15 01:17 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post | » Want to hack a car...

» Patriot Militia Shown to be Criminal Drug Thugs: FBI Sting - Ring of Fire
15/08/15 19:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Ring of Fire Patriot Militia Shown to be Criminal Drug Thugs: FBI Sting Ring of Fire The anti-Muslim support militia known as the Arizona Special Operations Group has been revealed by an...

» Michigan House Unveils Brand-New Medical Marijuana Provisioning Centers Act - The Weed Blog (blog)
15/08/15 19:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from house judiciary committee - Google News. The Weed Blog (blog) Michigan House Unveils Brand-New Medical Marijuana Provisioning Centers Act The Weed Blog (blog) On Tuesday a new version of those bills will b...

» Chattanooga remembers servicemembers killed by gunman
15/08/15 19:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. On a gray and rainy Saturday, Chattanooga gathered once more to honor its five slain servicemen and their grieving families, and acknowledge a community forever changed by a lone gu...

» Islamic State affiliate consolidates hold over Libya's Sirte
15/08/15 19:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. A witness says Islamic State fighters have consolidated their hold over the city of Sirte in central Libya, calling on residents to pledge allegiance over loudspeakers from its main...

» Front-runners Clinton, Trump descend on Iowa State Fair
15/08/15 19:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. As Hillary Rodham Clinton walked among the booths of funnel cakes and corn dogs at the Iowa State Fair, trailed by a massive pack of media and onlookers, Donald Trump's helicopter c...

» Air Traffic Center Problem Delays Flights in Northeast
15/08/15 19:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. FAA is attempting to determine the cause of the problem.

» Donald Trump's Momentum Not Slowed by Controversies, Says Conservative Radio Host
15/08/15 19:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. The conservative radio host spoke with ABC News.

» Biden, Defense Secretary Attend Memorial for 5 Servicemen
15/08/15 19:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Vice President Biden, Secretary of Defense Ash attend memorial to 5 servicemen slain in Tenn.

» Clinton hits back at Bush over Iraq
15/08/15 19:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Democratic presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton hits back at one of her Republican rivals, Jeb Bush, over who is responsible for instability in Iraq.

» Ex-Pakistan intelligence chief dies
15/08/15 19:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Hamid Gul, a former chief of Pakistan's powerful military intelligence (ISI) who was known for his hardline Islamist views, dies aged 79.

» Syrian and Iraqi members of LGBT community have found a haven - of sorts - in Istanbul
15/08/15 19:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - World RSS Feed. Sweat drips down brows and whirling lights illuminate the faces of the energised crowd as Saturday night slips into Sunday morning in Tek Yön, Istanbul's best-known gay club.

» Migrants brawl on Greek island of Kos
15/08/15 18:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from itnnews's YouTube Videos. From: itnnews Duration: 01:21 Fighting has broken out between groups of migrants on the Greek Island of Kos. Around 50 migrants threw stones and kicked and punched each other....

» Flight control problem delays flights in NYC, DC
15/08/15 18:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. FAA investigating technical issues at air traffic center in Virginia

» Clinton dismisses latest controversy over her emails
15/08/15 18:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. The Democratic presidential candidate says that she never sent or received classified material through her private server -- and that voters just don't care about it

» Trump willing to spend $1 billion on presidential bid
15/08/15 18:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. "I don't think I've made mistakes," the Republican candidate said of his campaign so far

» Joe Biden: Chattanooga shooter a "perverted jihadist"
15/08/15 18:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. The vice president spoke at a memorial for the five servicemen killed in a shooting rampage last month

» Russian spy Yevgeny Ivanov 'photographed secret documents' in Profumo's study
15/08/15 18:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Russian spy Yevgeny Ivanov was able to take photographs of top secret documents, left lying around in the Secretary of State for War's office, a Cambridge historian has claimed in a new...

» Pro-Russia rebels challenge Ukraine government to ultimate tank showdown
15/08/15 18:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Pro-Russian rebels have challenged Ukraine's government to compete in a Tank Biathlon event, to settle the ongoing Ukrainian conflict by pitting their strongest champions against each o...

» Prince Charles feared divorce even BEFORE his marriage to Diana
15/08/15 18:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Writing to Montreal based ex-girlfriend Janet Jenkins, Prince Charles admitted that he dreaded the prospect of divorce and the effect of such on any children he may have gone on to have.

» More than 40 Libyan migrants suffocate to death on overcrowded boat in Mediterranean
15/08/15 18:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Around 320 migrants have been rescued from the overcrowded boat (pictured) which was carrying a total of around 400, when it was intercepted by the Italian Navy.

» AP Top News at 3:41 p.m. EDT
15/08/15 18:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 3:41 p.m. EDT Cubans sound unusually open to Kerry call for democracy HAVANA (AP) - The blazing Caribbean sun rose Saturday on a U.S. flag flying over Hava...

» Biden: Chattanooga Gunman a 'Perverted Jihadist' - USA TODAY
15/08/15 18:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Fox News Biden: Chattanooga Gunman a 'Perverted Jihadist' USA TODAY Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday called the slaying of four Marines and a sailor at a Chattanooga reserve ...

» 2015-08-15News Headlines: 8.15-1.15
15/08/15 18:54 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-08-15 News Headlines: 8.15-1.15 News Headlines: 8.15-1.15 Current News Topics General best photos today - Google Search best photos today - Google Search Security encryption debate - Google Search aspen security forum 2015 - Google ...

» Police Suspected Over 18-Murder Killing Spree
15/08/15 18:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Sao Paulo officials investigate whether officers carried out the shootings in one night in revenge for the deaths of colleagues.

» Severed Leg In River 'Is Roman Gangster's'
15/08/15 18:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. Police believe a limb found on the banks of a tributary of the Tiber belongs to a man linked to far-right football supporters.

» Donald Trump sweeps into Iowa on his personal helicopter
15/08/15 18:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. Trump's campaign aides have the look of movie stars and television show actresses - that is because, in part, they are

» Obama back on the golf course
15/08/15 18:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. Barack Obama, criticised for the amount of time he has spent playing golf, joins Bill Clinton for a round on Martha's Vineyard

» Despite White House lobbying, Senator Flake opposes Iran nuclear deal - Reuters
15/08/15 18:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Reuters Despite White House lobbying, Senator Flake opposes Iran nuclear deal Reuters WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Jeff Flake announced his opposition on Saturday to the nuclear deal with I...

» Iran Gives UN Agency Documents Linked to Past Nuclear Work
15/08/15 18:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Iran has given the U.N. nuclear agency documents linked to a probe of allegations that Tehran tried to develop atomic weapons, meeting a key deadline to potentially satisfy a condition fo...

» Traffic Control Technical Problem Snarls US East Coast Flights
15/08/15 18:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Flights to and from New York, Washington and other U.S. East Coast airports have been delayed Saturday by technical problems in the government's air traffic control network. The Federal A...

» New York Times: AT&T Helped NSA Spy on Emails, Phone Calls
15/08/15 18:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T gave valuable assistance to the National Security Agency's program to spy on domestic Internet and telephone traffic, according to The New York Time...

» AT&T Helped NSA Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic - New York Times
15/08/15 18:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times AT&T Helped NSA Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic New York Times The National Security Agency's ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing...

» Spate of bombings kill 24 across Baghdad - Reuters
15/08/15 18:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. U.S. News & World Report The Straits Times Spate of bombings kill 24 across Baghdad Reuters BAGHDAD A spate of bombings across Baghdad killed at least 24 people on Saturday, ...

» Two presidents — Obama and Clinton — join Vernon Jordan for some birthday golf - Washington Post
15/08/15 18:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Wall Street Journal ABC News Two presidents — Obama and Clinton — join Vernon Jordan for some birthday golf Washington Post MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Mass. -- Many men would happily spe...

» ​Nevada deputy killed in line of duty; suspect also dead - CBS News
15/08/15 18:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CBS News ​Nevada deputy killed in line of duty; suspect also dead CBS News CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Officials say a Nevada sheriff's deputy is dead after a man opened fire on officer...

» North Korea Threatens Strikes Over South Korea’s Propaganda Broadcasts
15/08/15 18:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. (SEOUL, South Korea)—North Korea on Saturday threatened to attack South Korean loudspeakers that are broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda messages across their shared border, the world’...

» Libya's government urges Arab air strikes against Islamic State in Sirte
15/08/15 18:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's internationally recognized government has asked fellow Arab states to conduct air strikes against Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, a cabi...

» U.S., allies hit Islamic State militants in Iraq with 15 air strikes: U.S. military
15/08/15 18:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces continued to bombard the Islamic State in Iraq on Friday, targeting the militant group with 15 air strikes, according to a statement released by ...

» Emperor Akihito Expresses ‘Deep Remorse’ for Japan’s Role in World War II
15/08/15 18:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Emperor Akihito, whose father announced his exhausted country’s surrender in World War II 70 years ago, expressed “deep remorse” for the conflict on Saturday at a memorial service marking t...

» Editorial: Ugly Attacks on Refugees in Europe
15/08/15 18:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. With resentment against new arrivals growing, European nations must do more to help Greece and Italy cope.

» Cubans sound unusually open to Kerry call for democracy
15/08/15 18:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 5:32 p.m. EDT. HAVANA (AP) -- The blazing Caribbean sun rose Saturday on a U.S. flag flying over Havana for the first time in 54 years and people discussing political reform with an ope...

» Clinton reaffirms she didn't send, receive classified emails
15/08/15 18:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 5:32 p.m. EDT. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated Saturday that she did not send or receive emails marked classified from her h...

» Sole GOP senator weighing support for Iran deal will vote no
15/08/15 18:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 5:32 p.m. EDT. PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, the lone Republican senator who was considering support for the Iran nuclear deal, announced plans on Saturday to vote no, dealin...

» AT&T has 'extraordinary, decades-long' relationship with NSA – report
15/08/15 17:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. New York Times and ProPublica cite newly released NSA documents Telecoms giant assisted with ‘wiretapping United Nations headquarters’ The telecoms giant AT&T has had an “...

» 2015-08-15NATO refutes report on active preparations for war with Russia
15/08/15 14:44 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-08-15 NATO refutes report on active preparations for war with Russia - Washington Times NATO refutes report on active preparations for war with Russia - Washington Times Saturday August 15 th , 2015  at  1:55 PM Russia - Google News...

» NATO refutes report on active preparations for war with Russia - Washington Times
15/08/15 13:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Washington Times NATO refutes report on active preparations for war with Russia Washington Times Reacting to a nato-actively-preparing-war-report/” target=”_blank”>report from a Lo...

» RUSSIA'S BRIEF, SHINING MOMENT - The Globe and Mail
15/08/15 13:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Globe and Mail RUSSIA'S BRIEF, SHINING MOMENT The Globe and Mail The era feels impossible now, in a Russia that's increasingly closed, controlled and paranoid: Crowds dancing as b...

» Sweden's Russia Problem - In Homeland Security
15/08/15 13:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. In Homeland Security Sweden's Russia Problem In Homeland Security Since the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, Moscow hasn't stopped throwing its weight around with the former Sovie...

» Revealed: Russia's Mighty Pivot to Africa - The National Interest Online (blog)
15/08/15 13:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The National Interest Online (blog) Revealed: Russia's Mighty Pivot to Africa The National Interest Online (blog) Russia's interests in Africa are manifold. As economic sanctions cons...

» Failed Russian Mistral Ship Deal Will Cost France Twice As Much As Paris Spent ... - International Business Times
15/08/15 13:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. International Business Times Failed Russian Mistral Ship Deal Will Cost France Twice As Much As Paris Spent ... International Business Times The Sevastopol (left) and the Vladivostok ...

» Food fight in Russia as government bulldozes, burns illegal produce, meat imports - Los Angeles Times
15/08/15 13:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Los Angeles Times Food fight in Russia as government bulldozes, burns illegal produce, meat imports Los Angeles Times Russian President Vladimir Putin's latest show of defiance agains...

» Internet Hoax on Downing of Malaysian Jet Spreads in Russia - New York Times
15/08/15 13:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Internet Hoax on Downing of Malaysian Jet Spreads in Russia New York Times In the immediate aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over rebel-held, eastern Ukraine la...

» Finland Preparing For War With Russia? Helsinki Calls Up 18000 Reservists For ... - International Business Times
15/08/15 13:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. International Business Times Finland Preparing For War With Russia ? Helsinki Calls Up 18000 Reservists For ... International Business Times Still, Finland, which is not a member of N...

» Russia on alert as US trains Ukraine's troops - Irish Times
15/08/15 13:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Irish Times Russia on alert as US trains Ukraine's troops Irish Times The vast Yavoriv firing range between the city of Lviv and the Polish border hosts training that Ukraine says is ...

» Is U.S. Ready For War Against Russia? - ValueWalk
15/08/15 13:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. ValueWalk Is U.S. Ready For War Against Russia ? ValueWalk The U.S. has conducted a number of secret military drills over the summer, the result of which left defense officials and mi...

» Islamic State Leader Raped American Hostage, U.S. Says
15/08/15 13:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. American hostage Kayla Jean Mueller, who was allegedly killed in a Jordanian air strike in February, was sexually abused by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, acc...

» Moscow Sculptures Smashed By Orthodox Activists As 'Blasphemous'
15/08/15 13:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Sculptures by a renowned Soviet artist on show in central Moscow were smashed after being denounced by Orthodox activists as "blasphemous."

» 3,345,5493,345,5492015-08-14Recent Posts: 3,292,4323,292,4322015-08-04» Obama charm offensive...
15/08/15 13:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova's Blogs Posts Review. 3,345,549 3,345,549 2015-08-14 Recent Posts: 3,292,4323,292,4322015-08-04» Obama charm offensive... 3,292,4323,292,4322015-08-04» Obama charm offensive targets Venezuela...

» 2015-08-15Russia steps up demand for US to drop European missile shield
15/08/15 13:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova's Blogs Posts Review. 2015-08-15 Russia steps up demand for US to drop European missile shield - Reuters: MOSCOW Russia urged the United States on Friday to scrap plans to station parts of a ...

» Ferguson police officer to be investigated by department after boasting of spending his 'Michael Brown bonus'
15/08/15 13:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - World RSS Feed. US police are investigating after a Ferguson officer reportedly bragged about spending his "Michael Brown bonus".

» Mohammed Morsi's lawyer launch appeal against ex-Egyptian president's death sentence
15/08/15 13:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - World RSS Feed. Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ’s legal team have launched an appeal against his prison term and death sentence.

» 2 Parachutists Injured at Chicago Air & Water Show
15/08/15 13:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Fire officials: 2 parachutists injured at Chicago Air & Water Show

» Palestinian stabs Israeli trooper, shot dead: police
15/08/15 13:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian teenager was shot dead on Saturday after stabbing an Israeli paramilitary policeman patrolling a road in the occupied West Bank, police said.

» Iraq War, family ties bind Jeb Bush
15/08/15 13:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. Jeb Bush, the son and brother of presidents, can't escape his family; sometimes he doesn't even try. Jeb Bush's family connections have forced him to negotiate a tricky path through...

» The 'magic words': How a simple phrase enmeshed the US in Syria's crisis
15/08/15 13:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. By the summer of 2011, the Syrian uprising was spiraling into a full-fledged insurgency. On Aug. 18, 2011, The White House, after a month of heated debate, settled on a written stat...

» Iran gives UN agency papers linked to alleged nuke arms work
15/08/15 13:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. Iran on Saturday gave the U.N. nuclear agency documents linked to the agency's probe of allegations that Tehran tried to develop atomic arms, along with a confidential explanation t...

» Obama administration still predicts 'Assad's days are numbered'
15/08/15 13:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes News. By autumn 2011, weeks after President Barack Obama demanded that Bashar Assad step aside and with the rebels making some modest gains on the battlefield, the question among the admi...

» Second Palestinian stabbing attack Saturday
15/08/15 12:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 15, 2015, 7:14 PM (IDT) An Israeli border police officer was slashed in the neck Saturday by a Palestinian near the Tapuach junction on the West Bank. The attacker was shot and badly inju...

» 3 Soldiers Killed in Bomb Attack in Eastern Turkey
15/08/15 12:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. 3 Turkish soldiers killed in roadside bomb attack in eastern Turkey

» Nevada Deputy Killed in Line of Duty; Suspect Also Dead
15/08/15 12:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Nevada deputy killed in line of duty during domestic violence call; suspect also dead

» AP Top News at 11:48 a.m. EDT
15/08/15 12:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 11:48 a.m. EDT China blast zone evacuated over contamination fear; 104 dead TIANJIN, China (AP) - New small explosions rocked a disaster zone in the Chines...

» Pakistani minister resigns over allegations of spy agency coup
15/08/15 12:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Environment minister Mushahid Ullah Khan steps down after giving interview in which he claimed former intelligence chief was behind anti-government rallies A senior Pakistani ...

» Three Turkish soldiers killed in Kurdish militant attack
15/08/15 12:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three Turkish soldiers were killed and six wounded on Saturday when Kurdish militants detonated a remote-controlled explosive that hit their convoy, the military s...

» Pentagon looks at stateside prisons as alternatives to Gitmo
15/08/15 12:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Defense Department is taking another look at the military prison in Kansas and the Navy Brig in South Carolina as it evaluates potential U.S...

» Kayla Mueller raped repeatedly by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
15/08/15 12:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. WASHINGTON (AP) — American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, U.S. in...

» Benghazi case focuses attention on US interrogation strategy
15/08/15 12:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. WASHINGTON (AP) - After a suspected militant was captured in Libya last year to face charges for the deadly 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, he was b...

» A Culture Warrior Contemplates Defeat
15/08/15 12:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. In his 1948 essay, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture , T.S. Eliot argued that the highest levels of culture are only attainable by relatively small groups of people, and that ...

» Russia Promises To Veto Future UN Sanctions Against Iran
15/08/15 12:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ThereAreNoSunglasses. UN Sanctions Against Iran To Be Blocked By Russia In Future, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Says By Christopher Harress @Charress c.harress@ibtimes.com  Negotiators for Iran and six ...

» BOOK REVIEW: The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus and Beyond
15/08/15 12:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from StrategyPage.com. None

» Navy: Asbestos found at Guantánamo's Camp Justice, but it's safe for occupancy
15/08/15 12:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. A public health team found evidence of carcinogens at the war crimes court compound at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, but has concluded so far that the buildings are safe fo...

» Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (August 8-14)
15/08/15 12:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Just Security I. Torture and the American Psychological Association Marty Lederman,  What, Exactly, Does Yesterday’s American Psychological Association Resolution Prohibit?  (Saturday, Augus...

» Islamic State Seen Making Small Inroads In Afghanistan
15/08/15 12:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. The Islamic State group is making small inroads in Afghanistan and could grow into a more worrisome threat, a U.S. Army general has said.

» Islamic State Militants Subdue Sirtre Uprising
15/08/15 12:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. Libyan TV reported is reporting that Islamic State (IS) militants killed several dozen captives Friday in the Libyan port city of Sirte.

» Why Did the FBI Spy on James Baldwin? - The Intercept - First Look Media
15/08/15 12:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. The Intercept - First Look Media Why Did the FBI Spy on James Baldwin? The Intercept - First Look Media James Baldwin's FBI file contains 1,884 pages of documents, collected from 1960 un...

» Israel’s first ever arms deal with an Arab country – drones for Jordan to fight ISIS
15/08/15 12:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 15, 2015, 9:31 AM (IDT) In its first arms sale to an Arab country, revealed here by debka file , Israel has sold Jordan 12 advanced unmanned aerial vehicles of the Heron TP and Skylark ty...

» China's Yuan Could Fall 10% or More - Barron's
15/08/15 12:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Barron's China's Yuan Could Fall 10% or More Barron's On a sultry mid-August evening last week, world currency markets were rocked by what amounted to nothing short of a regime...

» New explosions and fires as China evacuates 2-mile zone over chemical ... - Toronto Sun
15/08/15 12:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. BBC News New explosions and fires as China evacuates 2-mile zone over chemical ... Toronto Sun TIANJIN, China - China on Saturday evacuated residents who had taken refuge in a ...

» 'We Wanted to Cut Off Che Guevara's Head' – Ex-CIA Agent - Sputnik International
15/08/15 11:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. 'We Wanted to Cut Off Che Guevara's Head' – Ex- CIA Agent Sputnik International ... and shown only to foreign the heads of state and government visiting the island. On October 8, 1967 th...

» Asylum seekers are being housed at the Britannia Hotel in Stockport
15/08/15 11:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Some of the Asylum Seekers from Sudan outside the hotel. Dozens of asylum seekers from Sudan have moved in to a popular hotel and spa, without bosses telling the paying guests. The fami...

» Minister resigns over BBC interview
15/08/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Pakistani minister Mushahidullah Khan resigns after an interview with BBC Urdu in which he made allegations against a former intelligence chief.

» USA threatens Russia for testing unnamed state-of-the-art cruise missile
15/08/15 11:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. Officials at the US State Department said that Russia had tested a state-of-the-art cruise missile capable of posing a threat to Europe, Japan and the ...

» Russian Helicopter Crashes Into Sea, Five Missing
15/08/15 11:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russian investigators say a helicopter has crashed into the Sea of Okhotsk in the Far East and that five of the 16 on board are missing and presumed dead.

» Series of Explosions Rocks Texas Oil Field Chemical Supplier - ABC News
15/08/15 11:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. USA TODAY Series of Explosions Rocks Texas Oil Field Chemical Supplier ABC News A series of explosions have rocked an oil field chemical supply firm north of Houston. The explosi...

» Donald Trump Called to Jury Duty in Manhattan - New York Times
15/08/15 11:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. TIME NBCNews.com Donald Trump Called to Jury Duty in Manhattan New York Times Donald J. Trump, whose bid for the Republican presidential nomination has shaken up the race, will p...

» Islamic State confirmed to have used mustard gas against Kurds in Syria
15/08/15 11:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news. American analysts confirm that Islamic State used chemical weapons on a Kurdish militia

» China Evacuates Tianjin Blast Area
15/08/15 11:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Civilians resettled in a temporary shelter amid fears of toxic chemicals in the air.

» Street Style in Medellín, Colombia | Fashion Intersection | The New York Times
15/08/15 11:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheNewYorkTimes's YouTube Videos. From: TheNewYorkTimes Duration: 03:08 Elisa and Amelia Ochoa, twins and founders of the website Sisterly Style, discuss fashion in Medellín’s Poblado neighborhood. Gra...

» Brazilian police under investigation over Sao Paulo killing spree
15/08/15 11:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian police are investigating whether a string of 18 murders in metropolitan Sao Paulo on Thursday night were a coordinated act of revenge by off-duty office...

» Soldier's journey to heal spotlights `soul wounds' of war
15/08/15 11:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11 a.m. EDT. SAN DIEGO (AP) -- "It was just another day in Mosul," the soldier began, his voice shaking. Sgt. 1st Class Marshall Powell took a deep breath. He couldn't look at the other...

» Questions and answers about the war wound `moral injury'
15/08/15 11:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11 a.m. EDT. A psychological wound known as moral injury is gaining attention in the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with veterans now being treated for these injuries to...

» ISIS Suspected of Chemical Attack Against Kurds in Syria
15/08/15 11:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. If verified, the use of chemical agents could increase pressure on the Obama administration to intervene in the war more forcefully.

» ISIS Held U.S. Aid Worker as Sex Slave Before Death
15/08/15 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Details of Kayla Mueller’s captivity, including her repeated rape by the leader of the Islamic State, were pieced together by American officials.

» Brooklyn Man Accused of Supporting ISIS Pleads Guilty
15/08/15 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Adburasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 25, who admitted to plotting to provide material to the Islamic State terrorist group, could face up to 15 years in prison.

» Civilians Killed In Eastern Ukraine Following Surge In Shelling
15/08/15 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Three civilians have been killed in eastern Ukraine during what government forces said was record high shelling since the start of a fragile cease-fire in February.