US, China to Hold 'Very Direct' Talks

US, China to Hold 'Very Direct' Talks

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:58 AM

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STATE DEPARTMENT—

U.S. officials are promising a "very direct" conversation with Chinese officials during a high-level, annual dialogue that continues Tuesday in Washington. 

Cybersecurity, China's disputed maritime claims and bilateral efforts to combat climate change are among the main topics expected to be raised during the meetings.

The talks opened Monday with a series of wide-ranging Strategic Security Dialogue meetings, which a senior State Department official described as frank.

"They've been candid and to the point in dealing with issues where we disagree and are very good for trying to find ways to narrow our differences on these most sensitive issues in the relationship," the official said.

China's official Xinhua news agency said the two sides held an "in-depth exchange of views on issues of common concern" and said they agreed to continue working to promote trust and improve relations.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will join Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang and State Councilor Yang Jiechi at Tuesday's broader U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.

FILE - A specialist works at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Va., Sept. 9, 2014.

Cyber concerns

One source of recent U.S.-China tensions is cybersecurity, an issue the State Department official said "will certainly be talked about in very direct terms." 

The U.S. is investigating a massive cyberattack that targeted the private records of about 4 million current and former federal government employees.

Investigators said it appears the attack began last year, although it was not detected until two months ago.

The U.S. government has not openly accused China of being behind the hack. However, officials have said an investigation is underway to determine if there is a China link.

A senior State Department official said the U.S. and China have had ongoing discussions about “all of the various aspects of cybersecurity.”

“The issue will be addressed in pretty direct terms with the Chinese,” the official said.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Internet security was something that the international community needed to face together as it was a common problem.

"China and the United States had previously always had a good dialogue mechanism on issues of Internet security. Because of reasons that everyone knows about, and not because of China, this dialogue has stopped," Lu said.

The U.S. and China do not always agree on the approach to cybersecurity and cyber defense, said State Department spokesman John Kirby.

“It is certainly one of those areas where there is room for better cooperation, better dialogue and more transparency,” Kirby said.

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about climate change to the Atlantic Council in Washington, March 12, 2015.

Climate initiatives

On Monday, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz outlined a series of collaborative efforts between the U.S. and China on climate change, including a Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage project.

The renewable energy project involves capturing carbon dioxide emissions from sources such as coal plants with a goal of either reusing the emissions or storing them so that they do not enter the atmosphere.

“The United States and China continue to lead the drive to press our clean energy ambition further, both in our countries and globally,” said Moniz.

At the same session on Monday, China’s Special Representative for Climate Change, Xie Zhenhua, said the U.S. and China could have a significant impact on climate change at the bilateral and multilateral levels.

In this photo taken Feb. 28, 2013 by a surveillance plane, and released Thursday, May 15, 2014, by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, Chinese-made structures stands on the Johnson Reef, called Mabini by the Philippines and Chigua by China, in t

South China Sea building

One of the thornier issues the U.S. will raise with China is Beijing’s construction activity in disputed regions of the South China Sea.

The U.S. voiced concern that China’s construction on islands and reefs may restrict movement of foreign vessels and planes. China has said its construction is “lawful.”

“It is not about accepting the status quo,” Kirby said.

He said the U.S. had made clear its concerns about the land reclamation activities and the militarization of at least some of the islands.

On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden will deliver remarks at the opening of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, which will include additional sessions on climate change as well as a women’s leadership dialogue.

Officials say the three-day dialogue will also help set the stage for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s September visit to Washington.  

VOA's William Gallo contributed to this report. Some material came from Reuters.

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NYT’s Orwellian View of Ukraine

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:57 AM

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Exclusive: In the up-is-down Orwellian world that is now The New York Times’ editorial page, there was no coup in Ukraine in 2014, no U.S.-driven “regime change,” no provocation on Russia’s border, just Moscow’s aggression — a sign of how propaganda has taken over mainstream U.S. media, writes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

In George Orwell’s 1984, the leaders of Oceania presented “Two Minutes Hate” in which the image of an enemy was put on display and loyal Oceanianians expressed their rage, all the better to prepare them for the country’s endless wars and their own surrender of freedom. And, now, in America, you have The New York Times.

Surely the Times is a bit more subtle than the powers-that-be in Orwell’s Oceania, but the point is the same. The “paper of record” decides who our rotating foreign enemy is and depicts its leader as a demon corrupting whatever he touches. The rest of us aren’t supposed to think for ourselves. We’re just supposed to hate.

As the Times has degenerated from a relatively decent newspaper into a fount of neocon propaganda, its editors also have descended into the practice of simply inventing a narrative of events that serves an ideological purpose, its own version of “Two Minutes Hate.” Like the leaders of Orwell’s Oceania, the Times has become increasingly heavy-handed in its propaganda.

Excluding alternate explanations of events, even if supported by solid evidence, the Times arrogantly creates its own reality and tells us who to hate.

In assessing the Times’s downward spiral into this unethical journalism, one could look back on its false reporting regarding Iraq, Iran, Syria or other Middle East hotspots. But now the Times is putting the lives of ourselves, our children and our grandchildren at risk with its reckless reporting on the Ukraine crisis – by setting up an unnecessary confrontation between nuclear-armed powers, the United States and Russia.

At the center of the Times’ propaganda on Ukraine has been its uncritical – indeed its anti-journalistic – embrace of the Ukrainians coup-makers in late 2013 and early 2014 as they collaborated with neo-Nazi militias to violently overthrow elected President Viktor Yanukovych and hurl Ukraine into a bloody civil war.

Rather than display journalistic professionalism, the Times’ propagandists ignored the evidence of a coup – including an intercepted phone call in which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt discussed how to “mid-wife” the regime change and handpick the new leaders.

The Times even ignored a national security expert, Statfor founder George Friedman, when he termed the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president “the most blatant coup in history.” The Times just waved a magic wand and pronounced that there was no coup – and anyone who thought so must reside inside “the Russian propaganda bubble.”[See Consortiumnews.com’s “NYT Still Pretends No Coup in Ukraine.”]

Perhaps even more egregiously, the Times has pretended that there were no neo-Nazi militias spearheading the Feb. 22, 2014 coup and then leading the bloody “anti-terrorist operation” against ethnic Russians in the south and east who resisted the coup. The Times explained all this bloodshed as simply “Russian aggression.”

It didn’t even matter when the U.S. House of Representatives – of all groups – unanimously acknowledged the neo-Nazi problem when it prohibited U.S. collaboration in military training of Ukrainian Nazis. The Times simply expunged the vote from its “official history” of the crisis. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “US House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine.”]

Orwell’s Putin

Yet, for an Orwellian “Two Minute Hate” to work properly, you need to have a villain whose face you can put on display. And, in the case of Ukraine – at least after Yanukovych was driven from the scene – that villain has been Russian President Vladimir Putin, who embodies all evil in the intense hatred sold to the American public.

So, when Putin presents a narrative of the Ukraine crisis, which notes the history of the U.S.-driven expansion of NATO up to Russia’s borders and the evidence of the U.S.-directed Ukrainian coup, the Times editors must dismiss it all as “mythology,” as they did in Monday’s editorial regarding Putin’s remarks to an international economic conference in St. Petersburg.

“President Vladimir Putin of Russia is not veering from the mythology he created to explain away the crisis over Ukraine,” the Times’ editors wrote. “It is one that wholly blames the West for provoking a new Cold War and insists that international sanctions have not grievously wounded his country’s flagging economy.”

Without acknowledging any Western guilt in the coup that overthrew the elected Ukrainian government in 2014, the Times’ editors simply reveled in the harm that the Obama administration and the European Union have inflicted on Russia’s economy for its support of the previously elected government and its continued backers in eastern and southern Ukraine.

For nearly a year and a half, the New York Times and other major U.S. news organizations have simply refused to acknowledge the reality of what happened in Ukraine. In the Western fantasy, the elected Yanukovych government simply disappeared and was replaced by a U.S.-backed regime that then treated any resistance to its rule as “terrorism.” The new regime even dispatched neo-Nazi militias to kill ethnic Russians and other Ukrainians who resisted and thus were deemed “terrorists.”

The upside-down narrative of what happened in Ukraine has become the conventional wisdom in Official Washington and has been imposed on America’s European allies as well. According to The New York Times’ Orwellian storyline, anyone who notes the reality of a U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine is engaging in “fantasy” and must be some kind of Putin pawn.

To the Times’ editors, all the justice is on their side, even as Ukraine’s new regime has deployed neo-Nazi militias to kill eastern Ukrainians who resisted the anti-Yanukovych coup. To the Times’ editors, the only possible reason to object to Ukraine’s new order is that the Russians must be bribing European dissidents to resist the U.S. version of events. The Times wrote:

“The Europeans are indeed divided over the extent to which Russia, with its huge oil and gas resources, should be isolated, but Mr. Putin’s aggression so far has ensured their unity when it counts. In addition to extending existing sanctions, the allies have prepared a new round of sanctions that could be imposed if Russian-backed separatists seized more territory in Ukraine. …

“Although Mr. Putin insisted on Friday that Russia had found the ‘inner strength’ to weather sanctions and a drop in oil prices, investment has slowed, capital has fled the country and the economy has been sliding into recession. Even the business forum was not all that it seemed: The heads of many Western companies stayed away for a second year.”

An Orwellian World

In the up-is-down world that has become the New York Times’ editorial page, the Western coup-making on Russia’s border with the implicit threat of U.S. and NATO nuclear weapons within easy range of Moscow is transformed into a case of Russian aggression. The Times’ editors wrote: “One of the most alarming aspects of the crisis has been Mr. Putin’s willingness to brandish nuclear weapons.”

Though it would appear objectively that the United States was engaged in serious mischief-making on Russia’s border, the Times editors flip it around to make Russian military maneuvers – inside Russia – a sign of aggression against the West.

“Given Mr. Putin’s aggressive behavior, including pouring troops and weapons into Kaliningrad, a Russian city located between NATO members Lithuania and Poland, the allies have begun taking their own military steps. In recent months, NATO approved a rapid-reaction force in case an ally needs to be defended. It also pre-positioned some weapons in front-line countries, is rotating troops there and is conducting many more exercises. There are also plans to store battle tanks and other heavy weapons in several Baltic and Eastern European countries.

“If he is not careful, Mr. Putin may end up facing exactly what he has railed against — a NATO more firmly parked on Russia’s borders — not because the alliance wanted to go in that direction, but because Russian behavior left it little choice. That is neither in Russia’s interest, nor the West’s.”

There is something truly 1984-ish about reading that kind of propagandistic writing in The New York Times and other Western publications. But it has become the pattern, not the exception.

The Words of the ‘Demon’

Though the Times and the rest of the Western media insist on demonizing Putin, we still should hear the Russian president’s version of events, as simply a matter of journalistic fairness. Here is how Putin explained the situation to American TV talk show host Charlie Rose on June 19:

“Why did we arrive at the crisis in Ukraine? I am convinced that after the so-called bipolar system ceased to exist, after the Soviet Union was gone from the political map of the world, some of our partners in the West, including and primarily the United States, of course, were in a state of euphoria of sorts. Instead of developing good neighborly relations and partnerships, they began to develop the new geopolitical space that they thought was unoccupied. This, for instance, is what caused the North Atlantic bloc, NATO, to go east, along with many other developments.

“I have been thinking a lot about why this is happening and eventually came to the conclusion that some of our partners [Putin’s way of describing Americans] seem to have gotten the illusion that the world order that was created after World War II, with such a global center as the Soviet Union, does not exist anymore, that a vacuum of sorts has developed that needs to be filled quickly.

“I think such an approach is a mistake. This is how we got Iraq, and we know that even today there are people in the United States who think that mistakes were made in Iraq. Many admit that there were mistakes in Iraq, and nevertheless they repeat it all in Libya. Now they got to Ukraine. We did not bring about the crisis in Ukraine. There was no need to support, as I have said many times, the anti-state, anti-constitutional takeover that eventually led to a sharp resistance on the territory of Ukraine, to a civil war in fact.

“Where do we go from here?” Putin asked. “Today we primarily need to comply with all the agreements reached in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. … At the same time, I would like to draw your attention and the attention of all our partners to the fact that we cannot do it unilaterally. We keep hearing the same thing, repeated like a mantra – that Russia should influence the southeast of Ukraine. We are. However, it is impossible to resolve the problem through our influence on the southeast alone.

“There has to be influence on the current official authorities in Kiev, which is something we cannot do. This is a road our Western partners have to take – those in Europe and America. Let us work together. … We believe that to resolve the situation we need to implement the Minsk agreements, as I said. The elements of a political settlement are key here. There are several.”

Putin continued: “The first one is constitutional reform, and the Minsk agreements say clearly: to provide autonomy or, as they say decentralization of power, let it be decentralization. This is quite clear, our European partners, France and Germany have spelled it out and we are quite satisfied with it, just as the representatives of Donbass [eastern Ukraine where ethnic Russians who had supported Yanukovych have declared independence] are. This is one component.

“The second thing that has to be done – the law passed earlier on the special status of these territories – Luhansk and Donetsk, the unrecognized republics, should be enacted. It was passed, but still not acted upon. This requires a resolution of the Supreme Rada – the Ukrainian Parliament – which is also covered in the Minsk agreements. Our friends in Kiev have formally complied with this decision, but simultaneously with the passing by the Rada of the resolution to enact the law they amended the law itself … which practically renders the action null and void. This is a mere manipulation, and they have to move from manipulations to real action.

“The third thing is a law on amnesty. It is impossible to have a political dialogue with people who are threatened with criminal persecution. And finally, they need to pass a law on municipal elections on these territories and to have the elections themselves. All this is spelled out in the Minsk agreements, this is something I would like to draw your attention to, and all this should be done with the agreement of Donetsk and Luhansk.

“Unfortunately, we still see no direct dialogue, only some signs of it, but too much time has passed after the Minsk agreements were signed. I repeat, it is important now to have a direct dialogue between Luhansk, Donetsk and Kiev – this is missing.”

Also missing is any objective and professional explanation of this crisis in the mainstream American press. Instead, The New York Times and other major U.S. news organizations have continued with their pattern of 1984-ish propaganda.

Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his latest book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com). You also can order Robert Parry’s trilogy on the Bush Family and its connections to various right-wing operatives for only $34. The trilogy includes America’s Stolen Narrative. For details on this offer, click here.

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Russia Slams EU Decision to Extend Sanctions

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:57 AM

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Kremlin officials denounced the decision by the European Union to extend economic sanctions against Russia for an additional six months.

The sanctions were extended to keep pressure on Moscow over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and have drawn a warning of retaliation from Russian officials.

The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the Europeans of bending to an anti-Russian lobby, apparently a jab at the United States, which had urged a continuation of sanctions to maintain pressure on the Kremlin over its intervention in eastern Ukraine.

“We are deeply disappointed that once again the opinion of the Russophobic lobby, which pushed through the decision to extend the illegal restrictions, dominated in the EU,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich.

The Russian government said it would retaliate with an extension of countersanctions in response to the decision European Union foreign ministers made during a meeting of the 28-member bloc's foreign ministers in Luxembourg.  EU envoys had preliminarily approved the measure last week.

The sanctions target Russia's energy, defense and financial sectors and have been in place since July 2014, some four months after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.  They will now run through January 31, 2016.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said Russia considers the sanctions unfounded and that the basis for Moscow's response is "reciprocity."  Analysts have said that could mean a further ban on European food imports.

EU spokeswoman Maja Kodijancic said on Twitter that the extension was done "with a view to complete implementation of [the] Minsk agreements." 

That cease-fire plan signed in February by Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France calls, in part, for the withdrawal of all heavy weapons and foreign fighters from eastern Ukraine.  Observers say the agreement has been repeatedly violated.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin's website said that in a three-way telephone call Monday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, President Vladimir Putin "reiterated the need for an immediate halt" to what the website described as Ukrainian government forces' shelling of residential areas in eastern Ukraine. 

The website reported that Putin also called for "energizing" the process of settling the conflict politically, by addressing the issues of constitutional reform and "the socio-economic reconstruction of southeastern regions" of Ukraine.

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Mother: Father kidnapped daughter, took her to Russia

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:56 AM

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GREENWICH, Conn. (WTNH)–A Greenwich mother has been working around the clock to get her seven year-old daughter home safely from Russia.

Katerina Hramovich tells News 8 that her ex-husband, Ruslan Usmanova, took their daughter Alina to Russia just over a week ago without her consent. Hramovich says Greenwich Police got in touch with her Tuesday night saying her ex reached out to his Greenwich landlord letting him know he’s not returning

On June 15th, Hramovich thought her daughter was at school in Greenwich. That morning, her world was turned upside down. “I got a call that Alina didn’t show up and I called my ex-husband right away to find out where she is and Alina picked up the phone and told me she’s in Russia,” said Hramovich.
She says the conversation got even more frightening when Alina kept hanging up. She told me, “Daddy’s coming, Daddy’s coming.”

Katerina immediately started calling everyone she could think of and went to the Greenwich Police. They were able to confirm her ex-husband did in fact take Alina to Russia. She says, “He went to the Russian embassy and got her a Russian passport without my consent.”

Hramovich showed News 8 there were previous protective orders in place and Usmanova was even arrested at one point. She says, “He’s choked me, he kicked her.”

Right now, Katerina has primary residential custody and her ex has supervised visitation. She says recently that changed in a verbal agreement. “The therapist recommended to increase the time. I want her to have a father.” She says what she doesn’t want is a father who she feels plotted to kidnap their daughter and take her to Russia where has a lot of family and friends.”

After a few days of silence, Hramovich says she got an email from Usmanova saying he and Alina are in Russia and will be going to Uzbekistan. Since then, he hasn’t responded to any of her calls or emails. “Over there, there is nobody to protect her. I’m afraid because he’s unpredictable,” said Hramovich.

Hramovich says people like Senator Richard Blumenthal are giving her hope that her daughter will return to the US safely. News 8 spoke with Senator Blumenthal Tuesday. He says he’s contacted all authorities and added, “We may face an uphill battle because Russia has no respect for rule of law, but we’re going to do everything possible.”

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Экс-президент Украины Виктор Янукович дал большое интервью журналистам ВВС

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:54 AM

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Бывший президент Украины Виктор Янукович дал первое со времени своего отрешения от власти интервью западным СМИ.  Беседа вышла в эфир в Великобритании на телеканале ВВС, ну а разговор, как сообщили журналисты, состоялся в Подмосковье.

По словам Януковича, переворот в феврале 2014 года спровоцировали радикалы, и было сразу понятно, что это приведет к самым печальным последствиям.

"Я предупреждал, что они не остановятся на Майдане, что они пойдут дальше. За эти полтора года произошла война, за эти полтора года Украина потеряла Крым и Донбасс и тысячи жизней людей. Разрушили страну, втянули в конфликт весь мир: Европу, Россию, Соединённые Штаты Америки", - сказал Виктор Янукович.

Говоря о воссоединении Крыма с Россией, Янукович отметил, что это "факт, который случился", а по поводу нынешней ситуации в Донбассе заявил о необходимости неукоснительно исполнять Минские договорённости и добиваться прямых переговоров Киева с представителями самопровозглашённых Донецкой и Луганской народных республик.

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Rwanda Confirms Arrest of Intelligence Chief in London

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:53 AM

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Rwanda has confirmed that its intelligence chief, General Karenzi Karake, who is wanted in Spain for alleged war crimes, has been arrested in London.

Karake is accused of ordering a number of massacres while head of military intelligence during the 1994 genocide. The BBC reports that Karake was arrested Saturday at London’s Heathrow Airport.

Rwandan Justice Minister Johnston Busingye said the government is seeking clarification from British authorities on the reasons for Karake’s arrest.

“Our intelligence chief was in London for seven days, from the previous Saturday to this gone Saturday.  And, on his way back, he was prevented from boarding his flight and was not allowed to proceed home.  He was detained at the airport and then transferred to another place,” he said.

Busingye said Karake is due in court Thursday and Kigali wants more information on the case.

“We are expecting more information and clarification from the United Kingdom government.  We are working with the relevant institutions to find out exactly what is going on.  Until now, I think, we are treating it as a case which is going to court on Thursday,” Busingye said.

Busingye declined any comment on whether Karake was arrested because of his alleged involvement in massacres while head of military intelligence.

“I expect that anybody who is arrested must have done something one minute ago or two minutes ago.  So, I wouldn’t want to speculate at this point.  I want to wait and see what happens either from the United Kingdom government between now and Thursday or from the courtroom on Thursday,” Busingye said.

He said Rwanda enjoys good relations with the United Kingdom and the Rwandan Foreign Affairs office has had some discussions with the British Foreign Office about the arrest.  Busingye declined to say what was discussed.  

Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo protested the arrest on Twitter, saying "Western solidarity in demeaning Africans is unacceptable!" She called the arrest "an outrage."

Karake, a member of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), is one of 40 current or former high-ranking Rwandan military officials named in a 2008 Spanish indictment for alleged war crimes.

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Obama Speaks Out Against Religious Intolerance

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:52 AM

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President Barack Obama spoke out against religious prejudice Monday at a White House dinner celebrating the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Several members of the diplomatic community, lawmakers and Muslim Americans were on hand for a traditional Iftar dinner, which follows daily fasting from dawn to sunset.
Right to practice

Obama said the Iftar dinner is a reminder of "the freedoms that bind us together as Americans," including the "inviolable right to practice our faiths freely." He recognized a number of young Muslim American activists in the audience, including Samantha Elauf, who successfully won a Supreme Court case to defend her right to wear a hijab, or headscarf, after she was rejected for a sales job at a retail clothing store.
WATCH: President hosts Iftar dinner

He condemned a number of recent deadly incidents involving religion, including last week's mass shooting at an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina.  "When our values are threatened, we come together as one nation," the president said. "As Americans, we insist that nobody should be targeted because of who they are, or what they look like, who they love, how they worship.  We stand united against these hateful acts."

Refugee crisis 
Obama also recognized the refugee crisis triggered by the ongoing violent uprisings in the Middle East, as well as the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims escaping persecution in their country.

"So tonight, we keep in our prayers those who are suffering around the world, including those marking Ramadan in areas of conflict and deprivation and hunger.  The people of Iraq and Syria as they push back on the barbarity of ISIL.  The people of Yemen and Libya, who are seeking an end to ongoing violence and instability.  Those fleeing war and hardship in boats across the Mediterranean.  The people of Gaza, still recovering from last year’s conflict.  The Rohingya in Myanmar, including migrants at sea, whose human rights must be upheld," he said.

Anti-Americanism Now Russia’s Official Ideology, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:47 AM

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            Staunton, June 23 – Anti-Americanism has become part of the discourse of ordinary Russians over the last year, but senior government officials have generally been restrained in their use of such phobias.  But that has now changed, “Nezavisimaya gazeta” says, and “anti-American phobias have acquired the status of the official picture of the world in Russia.”

            In an editorial today, the paper says that Nikolay Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council and former head of the FSB, has made it so by his blunt statements in the course of the interview he gave to Moscow’s “Kommersant” newspaper this week (ng.ru/editorial/2015-06-23/2_red.html

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                Patrushev’s remarks, “Nezavisimaya” says, are “practically unprecedented” as far as a senior Russian official is concerned and thus provide clear testimony about “the level of tension” which now dominates relations between Moscow and Washington.

                As the editors note, Patrushev said that the US “very much wanted that Russia not exist at all as a country” and misquoted former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in support of the notion that in the view of Washington, Russia should not retain either the Far East or Siberia because it doesn’t make good use of them. Albright did not in fact say that.

            To claim otherwise, “Nezavisimaya gazeta” says, is to engage in talk like those who refer to “the Dulles Plan” or “the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

            Patrushev’s decision to do so, to make use of “invented citations,” is “symptomatic,” the paper says. It shows that “distrust and anger at the West and especially at the US has become for the Russian authorities the chief motivating factor” and that anything, whether it is true or not, is “suitable” for making its arguments.

            The Kremlin officials words “mark out the system of coordinates within which the Russian authorities intend to act,” the paper says. For them, “the US wants to destroy Russia. De facto this is an enemy” to be opposed rather than someone with whom one can negotiate. The Europeans are less committed to the American position, Patrushev suggests.

            “For those who support normal relations with the West, Patrushev’s comments are a warning bell,” the paper continues. They indicate that anti-Westernism and especially anti-Americanism are “not a maneuver but a strategic choice” and that Russia’s conflict with the outside world is reaching “a point of no return.”

            The West will respond, “Nezavisimaya gazeta” says. Indeed, it already has. Germany’s defense minister said yesterday that “with Russia it is better to speak ‘from a position of strength.’” Thus, the attitudes of one side lead the attitudes of the other to change and put the two into a dangerous spiral downward.

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Hacking Grounds Flights of Poland’s National Airline

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:47 AM

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Dozens of flights of Poland’s national airline, LOT Airlines, were grounded for several hours on Sunday, stranding thousands of passengers at Chopin Airport in Warsaw, after what the airline described as a computer attack by unidentified outsiders.

The airline said the attack lasted about five hours and disrupted the system that LOT uses to establish its flight plans. The airline said it canceled 10 domestic and international flights and delayed about a dozen others until it fixed the problem. Flights headed to Warsaw landed safely. Operations returned to normal on Monday.

LOT did not provide a detailed explanation of how outsiders might have penetrated its computer systems. A company spokesman said the attack might have been a denial of service attack, which typically floods a system with requests, causing its overload and failure. If confirmed, the attack would be one of the first instances in which flights were canceled or delayed because of a malicious hacking.

It is not clear, however, how such an attack might have compromised LOT’s flight operations system. Denial of service attacks typically take place over open communication networks like email, while flight operations are generally built as private networks.

During a news conference on Monday, however, the airline’s chief executive said that other airlines needed to think about such risks in the future.

“This is an industry problem on a much wider scale, and for sure we have to give it more attention,” said Sebastian Mikosz, the chief executive, according to Reuters. “I expect it can happen to anyone anytime.”

The possibility of hacking is causing greater concern in the industry as digital systems increasingly replace traditional ones. Airlines are increasingly connecting their planes, dispatch operations, airports and other systems. This interconnection makes airlines more efficient and allows a better flow of passenger and flight information. But it might potentially make the airlines more vulnerable if not properly secured.

A report by the Government Accountability Office in April found that the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States should devote more resources to cybersecurity as it moved the air traffic control network away from radar to satellite-based systems.

The report noted that airplanes were increasingly connected to the Internet and cautioned that this connection could “potentially provide unauthorized remote access to aircraft avionics systems.”

Computer problems are nothing new. This month, United Airlines grounded about 150 flights because an unidentified computer problem prevented pilots from getting their digital flight plans. And in April, American Airlines said that dozens of its flights were delayed because a bug in its company iPad software meant that pilots did not have accurate airport maps.

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NATO Members’ Defense Spending, in Two Charts

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:46 AM

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Five NATO members are expected to meet the alliance’s 2 percent target for defense spending in 2015, according to data released on Monday.  

Poland joins Britain, Estonia, Greece, and the United States as the only members of the 28-country alliance to meet the threshold.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg commended the change, but warned that total alliance spending will decline by roughly 1.5 percent this year.

Of the 28 countries, 18 are increasing their military spending in real terms, the data indicates. Still, alliance members will spend a collective total $892 billion on defense in 2015, down from $942 billion in 2014 and $968 billion in 2013.

“So we need to redouble our efforts to reverse this trend,” Stoltenberg said at a news conference on Monday. “Because we are facing more challenges, and we cannot do more with less indefinitely.”

It’ll be difficult for NATO states to suddenly begin spending more money on defense, according to Jorge Benitez, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. “It is also troubling because it means it will take a long time for NATO to fulfill the existing gaps in its defense capabilities, while in the meantime Russia’s belligerence and provocations are growing,” Benitez said.

Germany’s defense minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday that she did not see a need to boost defense spending to meet NATO’s 2 percent target, Deutsche Welle reported.

In the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and other moves in Ukraine, the biggest increases in defense spending are coming in the alliance’s easternmost countries. Lithuania will be spending nearly 30 percent more on defense compared to last year, while Poland is spending roughly 22 percent more, including purchases of missile defense gear.

The data arrives before NATO defense ministers gather this week. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has said he intends to refocus on the alliance, which needs a new “playbook” to counter irregular operations and other newer forms of warfare.

“We are looking at NATO responses that are much more mobile, much more agile, able to respond on short timelines,” Carter told reporters en route to Germany, ”because that’s how events today unfold, unlike a quarter- let alone a half-century ago.” 

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Cybersecurity issue needs attention at U.S. China dialogue

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:45 AM

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FILE - In this May 17, 2015, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shake hands prior to a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Tensions between the U.S. and China are growing over its island-building in the South China Sea and over suspicions that Beijing was behind a massive hack into a federal government server that resulted in the theft of personnel and security clearance records of 14 million employees and contractors. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - In this May 17, 2015, file photo, Chinese President Xi...

This week’s U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue will set the table for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first state visit to the United States in September. Backed by both presidents and with interagency participation at senior levels from both governments, the dialogue is built to address an array of issues, ranging from security to commercial concerns. The U.S.-China Business Councilbelieves cybersecurity tensions need to be high on the agenda.

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Our Cybersecurity Problem Has Nothing to Do With Cybersecurity

Tuesday June 23rd, 2015 at 8:43 AM

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On Wednesday, June 17, Reuters reported tersely that the White House “continues to have confidence” in the beleaguered Office of Personnel Management (OPM) chief Katherine Archuleta. This came on the heels of new information that, among other things, the devastating OPM hack may have had something to do with OPM running high-end systems coded in a semi-obsolete programming language without built-in support for modern security practices. Or that OPM gave root system access (for those that don’t speak UNIX, root is privileged system access authority) to foreign contractors in China. No matter, the White House has “confidence” in the woman that ignored a direct warning from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) cataloging key vulnerabilities in OPM systems, and who also happens to have worked as the national political director for President Obama’s re-election campaign.

It is time to dispense with the smoke and mirrors surrounding the discussion of cybersecurity. For too long, we have persisted in the delusion that cybersecurity and cyberwarfare are difficult and serious threats due to their technological novelty. We have taken refuge in fantastical fears over the looming, Hollywood movie-esque threat of catastrophic cyber-doom. Breathless articles are penned declaringthat “cyber” will “change warfare more than the machine gun.” By defining the problem solely in terms of technology, such musings suggest that the solution is technological. This suggests all we need to do is get the best technical talent on the job and things will be fine. However, while patches are issued all the time for bugs and vulnerabilities in computer systems, there is no patch or security update for systematic, glaring incompetence.

The OPM hack demonstrates that cyber-silliness may be far more damaging to American national security than even the most fevered scenario of cyber-doom. Put bluntly, the problem lies not in some esoteric computer science problem. Rather, it is a matter of continuously selecting for and rewarding incompetence. Heads have rolled in government for far lesser setbacks than the OPM hack, yet the administration evinces “confidence” in the woman that presided over the wholesale theft of millions of government workers’ sensitive information.

The fact that the White House still has confidence in Archuleta is not surprising. After all, Obama’s cyber czar is a man that boasts about his own technological illiteracy. Cyber czar Mitch Danielsbelieves that such petty little things as information technology coding and system details are a “distraction” from policy big-think. Yes, dear reader, I am not cyber-shitting you. Daniels, a man tasked to oversee computer systems of enormous complexity and importance, believes that the details of how they work are a “distraction” from his real job: thinking Big Cyber Thoughts.

Certainly no one expected Daniels to have written his own Linux kernel, and government executives obviously should not be subjected to Google-style whiteboard coding exercises to get hired. However, “[a] man’s got to know his limitations,” Clint Eastwood laconically observed in Magnum Force. As former Defense Intelligence Agency Chief Technology Officer and Joint Task Force-Computer Network Defense veteran Bob Gourley noted, Daniels ought to have regarded his own knowledge gaps as something to rectify or compensate for, not spin as a personal advantage.

OPM director Katherine Archuleta is also an unfortunate case in point. Archuleta bragged about thwarting “10 million [cyber] attacks a month,” a claim that computing professionals and cyber policy specialists greeted with open ridicule. As the New America Foundation’s P.W. Singer tweeted, this is a “[u]seless, meaningless number … My pinkie stops 10 million germ attackers every microsecond. Not a measure of health.” Archuleta’s faux-metrics notably gloss over some other numbers of interest — the amount of vulnerabilities Archuletta ignored, the age of OPM’s legacy systems, the numerical user group classification for root access (given to foreigners physically located on the home territory of a U.S. rival), and the number of up-to-date security systems, practices, and protocols that OPM did not use to protect its data.

Despite all of this, the White House is still confident in Archuleta. After the OPM hack, one shudders to think what she would have to do in order to lose the administration’s confidence. Give the Chinese and the Russians secure shell access into the nuclear command and control system computers, maybe? Subcontract out the job to fix OPM to Edward Snowden or the Islamic State’s web development team? Put the full source code of the dwindling number of National Security Agency programs that Snowden hasn’t revealed on Github and invite Iranian hackers to make a pull request?

Unfortunately, there is no patch for systematic incompetence. No amount of money, new cybersecurity authorities and organizations, or smart hackers lured away from Silicon Valley firms will compensate for the depressingly obvious realization that our government does not care about technical expertise or cybersecurity outcomes writ large and is not at all interested in accountability. We cannot simply run the policy equivalent of a software update and solve our cybersecurity problems without grappling with the disturbing nature of what Daniels and Archuleta represent — our policy elites’ tendency to cry “cyber Pearl Harbor” and nonetheless tolerate massive, systematic, and completely unacceptable levels of stupidity.

Adam Elkus is a PhD student in Computational Social Science at George Mason University and a columnist at War on the Rocks. He has published articles on defense, international security, and technology at CTOVision, The Atlantic, the West Point Combating Terrorism Center’s Sentinel, and Foreign Policy.

Photo credit: Another Believer (adapted by WOTR)

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» Pentagon chief planning for longer-term rift with Russia - Reuters
22/06/15 12:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Pentagon chief planning for longer-term rift with Russia Reuters Russia's intervention in Ukraine has put NATO allies in eastern Europe on edge and triggered a series of milit...

» Are European Companies Ignoring E.U. Sanctions On Russia? - Forbes
22/06/15 12:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Forbes Are European Companies Ignoring E.U. Sanctions On Russia ? Forbes It's been nearly a year since sectoral sanctions were slapped on Russia for its involvement in helping create ...

» Russia is deploying advanced aerial weapon systems to the Arctic - Business Insider
22/06/15 12:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russia is deploying advanced aerial weapon systems to the Arctic Business Insider In continuation of a militarizing trend, Russia will deploy advanced aerial weapons ...

» Army Reprimanded General Involved in ISIS Fight
22/06/15 12:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Maj. Gen. Dana J.H. Pittard, the Army’s former deputy commander for Middle East operations, guided a contract to former West Point classmates, officials said.

» Panel to present findings on mysterious death of UN secretary general
22/06/15 12:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from intelNews.org. A panel of experts commissioned by the United Nations is about to unveil fresh evidence on the mysterious death in 1961 of UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld, who some claim was murdered ...

» McCain: Russia is Winning the Propaganda War
22/06/15 12:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: McCain: Russia is Winning the Propaganda War. by Pam Key 21 Jun 2015 89 Saturday at the 10th annual Global Security Forum (GLOBSEC) in Bratislava, said America is losing the information war on...

» New Revelations Suggest Chinese Hackers Had Inside Help
22/06/15 12:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: New Revelations Suggest Chinese Hackers Had Inside Help. The  New York Times  delivers news that will chill the bones of anyone who knows anything about system administration: Undete...

» 'Black Lives Matter' Protesters Vandalize Confederate Statue in Charleston
22/06/15 12:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters Vandalize Confederate Statue in Charleston. by Warner Todd Huston 21 Jun 2015 Charleston, SC 474 The spray-painted graffiti was discovered early on Sunday morni...

» The Real Dawn of the Age of Cyber Warfare
22/06/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . World War IV, Cyber War, digital Pearl Harbor or cyber 9/11—people talk about catastrophic scenarios in cyberspace, whereas academics and other experts point out that there is a danger in the overuse of...

» Why the next World War will be a cyberwar first, and a shooting war second
22/06/15 11:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Everything we do revolves around the Internet. Older technologies are finding themselves eclipsed by their Internet-based substitute solutions. Even technologies historically unrelated to networking (like med...

» Report: Iran Boosts Terror Activities Across Globe
22/06/15 11:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. AP BY: Adam Kredo Iran has increased its efforts to finance and carry out terrorist activities across the world and remains a top nuclear proliferation threat, according to a new St...

» Documents Reveal Ecuadorian Government Organized Protests on U.S. Soil
22/06/15 11:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. AP BY: Lachlan Markay The government of Ecuador organized protests that took place outside the building where a legal dispute between the South American nation and oil giant Chevron...

» Department Of Homeland Security Still Controls What You Read
22/06/15 11:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from MintPress News. Where Americans turn for news, U.S. intelligence agencies follow. And infiltrate. And monitor. MINNEAPOLIS — With all of the establishment media owned by just a handful of corporation...

» NATO plans 40,000-strong rapid response force in E. Europe — RT News
22/06/15 11:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RT - News. Published time: June 22, 2015 14:15 Reuters / Kacper Pempel NATO’s rapid response Spearhead Force in Europe might reach 40,000 troops, a tenfold growth from the initial 4,000-strong force ...

» European Foreign Ministers Urge Iran to Stand By Nuclear Framework
22/06/15 11:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . LUXEMBOURG—Days before a June 30 deadline, European foreign ministers urged Iran to stand by the framework nuclear deal reached in April or risk scuttling a historic final agreement. U.K. Foreign Secret...

» Al-Jazeera Journalist Detained in Berlin Has Been Freed
22/06/15 11:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: International. The Al-Jazeera journalist who was detained in Berlin on an Egyptian arrest warrant has been released from custody, a spokesman for the Berlin prosecutors' office said Monday. Stefa...

» Iran votes to ban inspectors with nuke deal deadline looming | Fox News Video
22/06/15 11:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Iran votes to ban inspectors with nuke deal deadline looming Jun. 22, 2015 - 3:19 - Parliament opposes inspections of government military sites

» Russia warns of deeper rifts with West as Europe extends sanctions
22/06/15 09:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. MOSCOW— The Kremlin lashed back at the European Union for “Russophobic” policies and warned of possible further political ret...

» U.S. won't let Russia 'drag us back to the past': Pentagon chief
22/06/15 09:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . BERLIN The United States and its allies won't let Russia "drag us back to the past", U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in an address in Berlin on Monday, as he accused Moscow of trying to re-create a Sov...

» EU launches operation against migrant smugglers
22/06/15 09:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to launch a naval operation against gangs smuggling migrants to Europe from Libya, although the mission will be...

» European police team to take on IS social media propaganda
22/06/15 09:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. LONDON (Reuters) - A Europe-wide police unit is to be set up next month with the aim of shutting down social media accounts used by key Islamic State (IS) militants to spread propagand...

» Germany plays down prospect of extraditing Al Jazeera journalist
22/06/15 09:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government on Monday played down the chances of a prominent Al Jazeera journalist held in Berlin since the weekend being extradited to Egypt, citing conce...

» Russia's Patrushev Says U.S. Engineered Ukrainian 'Coup'
22/06/15 09:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A senior Russian security official says the United States spent $5 billion on a "destabilization project in Ukraine" in order to "create an instrument to weaken Russia dr...

» EU Extends Russia Sanctions, Launches Libya Mission
22/06/15 09:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. EU foreign ministers have approved the extension of economic sanctions on Russia over its involvement in Ukraine by six months, until the end of January 2016.

» Russia Cuts $500 Million From 2018 World Cup Budget
22/06/15 09:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia has slashed more than $500 million from its official budget for the 2018 World Cup after spending cuts on hotels and infrastructure.

» Stoltenberg: NATO To More Than Double Size Of Elite Force
22/06/15 09:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on June 22 that the alliance will approve plans this week to more than double the size of its rapid-response force.

» NATO To More Than Double Size Of Elite Force
22/06/15 09:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. N ATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on June 22 that the alliance will approve plans this week to more than double the size of its rapid-response force. Speaking ahead of a ...

» Man Who Landed Gyrocopter at US Capitol Says He's Rejected Plea Offer That Included Jail Time
22/06/15 09:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Man who landed gyrocopter at US Capitol says he's rejected plea offer that included jail time

» Man Who Landed Gyrocopter at the US Capitol Rejects Deal
22/06/15 09:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Man who landed gyrocopter at the US Capitol says he has rejected plea offer that included jail

» U.S. pledges high-end equipment for NATO rapid response force
22/06/15 08:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . MUENSTER, Germany The United States said on Monday it would contribute special operations forces, intelligence and other high-end military assets to a new NATO rapid response force that aims in part to deter ...

» 3,008,9893,008,9892015-06-21Ex-CIA director: U.S. wide open to grid attack | Key Army commander
22/06/15 03:33 from Mike Nova - Google+
3,008,989 3,008,989 2015-06-21 Ex-CIA director: U.S. wide open to grid attack | Key Army commander accused of steering a contract to ex-classmates - The Washington Post Headlines Ex-CIA director: U.S. wide open to grid attack Polish Airl...

» FlashCritic: China Gets Pass from Obama on ‘Devastating’ OPM Hack to Preserve Strategic Dialogue and Summit
21/06/15 23:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. Xi Jinping / AP BY: Bill Gertz The Obama administration continues to play down one of the nation’s most damaging Chinese cyber espionage operations in order to maintain a dial...

» United States to NATO: Ditch the ‘Cold War playbook’
21/06/15 23:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter will focus on NATO issues for the next week. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) BERLIN — As NATO forces continue a slew of large-scale military exercises that have included am...

» U.S. wide open to grid attack
21/06/15 23:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WND. A former CIA director says the Obama administration hasn’t done nearly enough to protect the nation from attacks to America’s information and critical infrastructure systems. “The pr...

» Putin 'Malign Influence' in Eastern Europe
21/06/15 23:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Defense Secretary Ashton Carter termed Russian President Vladimir Putin a “malign influence” in Eastern Europe and said the Russian leader’s vow to expand Moscow’s cache of nuclear mis...

» US rebuffs Israel’s last-ditch bid for nuclear constraints in Iran accord
21/06/15 23:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Israel’s National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen was invited to join two top US officials for dinner in Washington on June 15 to try and make Israel’s case for amending the disastrous nuclear accord...

» Polish airline cancels flights after hacker attack
21/06/15 23:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's LOT airline has been forced to cancel around 10 foreign and domestic flights after hackers attacked its computers. Airline spokesman Adrian Kubicki said the hacker attack ...

» Rash of bottle bombs against Israelis in Jerusalem
21/06/15 23:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Rash of bottle bombs against Israelis in Jerusalem DEBKA file June 21, 2015, 11:26 PM (IDT) Three Palestinians bottle bomb attacks in Jerusalem Sunday night: Several were lobbed at a bus in the northern Jerus...

» 5 facts that explain cyber warfare
21/06/15 23:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from [Untitled]. America has spent decades and trillions of dollars building up the greatest military force the world has ever seen. But the biggest threat to national security these days comes from not from ai...

» 2015-06-21Hacking attack grounds 1,400 passengers at Warsaw airport
21/06/15 23:16 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-06-21 Hacking attack grounds 1,400 passengers at Warsaw airport Hacking attack grounds 1,400 passengers at Warsaw airport | News | DW.COM Sunday June 21 st , 2015  at  9:50 PM 1 Share Around 1,400 passengers were grounded at Warsaw'...

» Report: US Needs New Small Nuclear Bombs
21/06/15 21:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense One - All Content. The United States should develop new low- yield, tactical nuclear weapons to deter countries from seeking nuclear weapons of their own, a new think-tank report says. It also also...

» Hacking attack grounds 1,400 passengers at Warsaw airport | News | DW.COM
21/06/15 21:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Around 1,400 passengers were grounded at Warsaw's Frederic Chopin airport Sunday, after hackers attacked ground computer systems used to issue flight plans. A spokesman for state-run airline LOT, Adrian Kubic...

» Authorities Investigating Website, Purported Manifesto Connected to Dylann Roof
21/06/15 21:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: U.S.. Authorities are investigating a website that contained a purported manifesto that they believe to be connected to Dylann Roof , the alleged gunman accusing of killing nine people inside a h...

» TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com - Page2RSS
21/06/15 21:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. 21 Jun 2015 15:38 AP Top News at 6:35 p.m. EDT Latest on church shooting: Coroner says autopsies completed 6:30 p.m. Charleston County Coroner Rae Wooten says the autopsi...

» Argentine President Stepping Away From Gov't Role After Term
21/06/15 21:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: International. President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina won't seek another office when her second term ends Dec. 10, defying recent speculation she might run for congress. With the passage of th...

» America Wrestles Anew With Gun Violence
21/06/15 21:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. WASHINGTON— America’s latest horrific act of gun violence is forcing Washington to wrestle anew with the easy availability of deadly weaponry in a nation that constitutionally...

» Islamic State plants explosives at UNESCO World Heritage Site
21/06/15 21:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TORONTO STAR | NEWS | WORLD. CAIRO—Members of the Islamic State group have planted explosives in the ruins of the ancient central Syrian city of Palmyra, a monitoring group said Sunday. The U.K. base...

» 12 People Shot, 1 Killed At Block Party « CBS Detroit
21/06/15 21:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CBS Detroit. DETROIT (WWJ/AP) — Police are investigating a fatal shooting that took place at a block party on Detroit’s west side on Saturday night. Detroit Police Chief James Craig is calling ...

» Detroit Police Chief Craig calls Detroit shooters 'urban terrorists'
21/06/15 21:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . By Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press 8:25 p.m. EDT June 21, 2015 Detroit Police Chief James Craig urrged people in the community to come forward with information. Detroit Police Officer Jency Payne, exams t...

» Obama’s ancestral homeland in Kenya had lots of hope, but got little change
21/06/15 21:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Barack Obama Okoth, a student at Senator Barack Obama Primary School in Kogelo, Kenya, takes notes on June 17. President Obama is visiting Kenya next month, and many wonder whether he will return to his fathe...

» AP Top News at 1:55 p.m. EDT
21/06/15 16:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 1:55 p.m. EDT Songs, prayer accompany 1st service at church since shooting CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The congregation at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal ...

» Pentagon chief to push U.S. allies to ditch 'Cold War playbook'
21/06/15 15:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . <iframe src="//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-W9SLGS" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe&amp...

» Charleston church shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
21/06/15 15:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Wikipedia - Recent changes [en]. "2015 Charleston shooting" redirects here. For the shooting by a North Charleston police officer, see Shooting of Walter Scott . Charleston church shooting The Emanuel Afri...

» FBI director criticized for saying Charleston church shooting is NOT an act of terrorism
21/06/15 15:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Director James Comey has been criticised for saying that he doesn't believe the murder of nine people was an act of terrorism According to Comey, the lack of political motivation for th...

» Prisoner accused of killing New Orleans police officer caught, authorities say
21/06/15 15:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . A 24-hour manhunt in New Orleans has ended after police arrested a prisoner who is accused of fatally shooting a veteran police officer who was transporting him in a police vehicle on Saturday. Daryle Ho...

» Obama’s hard lessons - The Washington Post
21/06/15 15:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . President Obama speaking Thursday about the church shooting in Charleston, S.C. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) In a speech at a California fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee last week , President Obam...

» Dylann Roof: FBI probes website and manifesto linked to Charleston suspect
21/06/15 14:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Photographs on website show shooting suspect at civil war era sites Former stepmother says 21-year-old was affected by ‘internet evil’ Related: Charleston shooting echoes a pa...

» Attack Gave Chinese Hackers Privileged Access to U.S. Systems
21/06/15 14:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Undetected for nearly a year, Chinese intruders executed a sophisticated hack that gave them “administrator privileges” in government networks. Their ultimate target: information on anyone ...

» VIDEO: China's brand new islands
21/06/15 14:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. China has been building new islands in the South China Sea to the alarm of its neighbours.

» Al Jazeera Journalist Detained in Germany
21/06/15 14:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Responding to an Egyptian arrest warrant, the authorities detained Ahmed Mansour at Berlin’s Tegel airport.

» 750,000 British men want to have sex with children: Shock new abuse statistics
21/06/15 14:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. A shocking analysis by the National Crime Agency reveals that about one in 35 adult males poses a potential risk of being a child abuser or of seeking out child sex images online.

» Greece, the front line of Putin's new cold war: As 'Grexit' looms, a leading historian argues the imperialist Russian leader sees a chance to swoop
21/06/15 14:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Putin is offering the region the carrot of a lucrative gas pipeline and other incentives to draw countries like Greece and Turkey away from the West.

» Catholic priests exorcise the entire country of Mexico as it seeks to drive out demons causing drug crime and violence
21/06/15 14:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Priests including Spanish exorcist Father José Antonio Fortea gathered at a cathedral in San Luis Potosí for an elaborate closed-door ceremony designed to drive demons out of Mexico.

» Ahmed Mansour: Germany detains al-Jazeera journalist 'on Egyptian warrant'
21/06/15 14:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Qatari network calls for immediate release of Egyptian-British broadcaster, taken into custody at Berlin Tegel airport by police citing Interpol request Ahmed Mansour, a promi...

» Bomb kills nine Afghan children, 10 adults; key district falls in north - Reuters
21/06/15 14:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. The Nation Bomb kills nine Afghan children, 10 adults; key district falls in north Reuters KABUL A roadside bomb killed at least 19 Afghan civilians including nine children in a southe...

» Police: Attackers shoot 10 people at child's birthday party in Detroit - CNN
21/06/15 14:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. CNN Police: Attackers shoot 10 people at child's birthday party in Detroit CNN (CNN) Attackers fired semiautomatic weapons at a child's birthday party in Detroit, killing one person an...

» Saudi Arabia tells citizens to ignore latest WikiLeaks release
21/06/15 14:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. 61,000 leaked cables give rare insight into kingdom’s habit of buying influence and monitoring dissidents Saudi Arabia has warned its citizens to ignore thousands of its diplo...

» Russian Opposition Activist Attacked on Campaign Trip
21/06/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Russian opposition activist who works with Navalny hospitalized after attack on campaign trip

» Senior Israeli politician's wife Judy Mozes apologises for 'racist' joke about President Obama
21/06/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - News RSS Feed. The wife of a senior Israeli politician has apologised for making a “racist” joke about President Obama.

» Man Accidently Shoots Himself During Gun Safety Class
21/06/15 14:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Man accidently shoots himself in leg during gun safety class at Florida pawn shop

» Greece Offers New Deal Ahead Of Crunch Meeting
21/06/15 14:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. A protester waves a Greek flag during an anti-austerity pro-government rally in front of the parliament building in Athens

» BREAKING NEWS: Forty people injured after chemical leak at swimming pool
21/06/15 14:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Scores of people - including a three-year-old child - were taken to hospital after the pool at Wild Duck Holiday Park in Belton, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was evacuated.

» Putin Rebuilding the Iron Curtain in His Typical ‘Hybrid’ Fashion
21/06/15 14:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, June 20 – Many people continue to carry with them an image of the iron curtain as consisting of barbed wire, concrete blocks, raked earth, and KGB guards. Th...

» В США после стрельбы в Филадельфии ранены семеро, в том числе двое детей - Газета.Ru
21/06/15 14:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Полит.ру В США после стрельбы в Филадельфии ранены семеро, в том числе двое детей Газета.Ru В Филадельфии, штат Пенсильвания, произошла стрельба на вечеринке, в результате чего ран...

» Kremlin denies talks of Greece loan ahead of IMF payment deadline
21/06/15 14:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. A Kremlin spokesperson has denied any discussion of financial aid between Russian President Vladimir Putin Putting and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras .

» Iran Lawmakers Vote To Ban Access To Military Sites, Nuclear Scientists
21/06/15 14:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Iran's parliament has voted to ban access to military sites and scientists as part of a future deal with world powers over its contested nuclear program.

» Доплывшего по реке до границы с Азербайджаном пингвина вернули в Тбилиси - Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ
21/06/15 14:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Комсомольская Правда в Украине Доплывшего по реке до границы с Азербайджаном пингвина вернули в Тбилиси Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ Птица вместе с остальными животными покинула зоопарк...

» In Alleged Online 'Manifesto,' Accused Church Killer Details Hate
21/06/15 14:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. He called himself the "Last Rhodesian," a self-declared "white nationalist" who sympathized with apartheid-era southern Africa, and the antebellum period in the United States, when slaver...

» Иванов назвал фальстартом намерение Явлинского участвовать в выборах президента - Газета.Ru
21/06/15 14:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Иванов назвал фальстартом намерение Явлинского участвовать в выборах президента Газета.Ru Глава администрации президента России Сергей Иванов прокомментировал сообщения о том, ...

» Greek debt: 'Insane' not to reach an agreement in EU's crisis talks
21/06/15 14:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. The head of Greece’s largest bank has said that it would be “insane” if the country did not reach an agreement at emergency talks on Monday.

» Washington fears losing Greece to Moscow
21/06/15 14:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. US worries about political fallout from deeper crisis and potential Russian influence on Nato member

» Carter to Discuss New European Defense Posture
21/06/15 14:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will visit Europe this week to urge NATO allies to adapt to a new kind of threat from Russia in the east and Islamic State to the south. He is to meet wi...

» Will Putin Lead Russia to Glory or Disaster? (Op-Ed)
21/06/15 14:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Just like previous Russian rulers, what Putin may actually be doing is setting Russia up for yet another catastrophic setback, writes columnist Mark N. Katz.

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21/06/15 14:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from United States Defense and Military Forces - News - Times Topics - The New York Times. 69478 Search 69,478 Articles: Al Qaeda Denies U.S. Strike Killed Key Jihadist in Libya By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI It was the...

» 69479Search 69,479 Articles:
21/06/15 14:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from United States Defense and Military Forces - News - Times Topics - The New York Times. 69479 Search 69,479 Articles: We’re Back! By PATRICK CHAPPATTE America deepens its footprint in Iraq once more. June 19...

» Jun. 10, 2015
21/06/15 14:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from United States Defense and Military Forces - News - Times Topics - The New York Times. Jun. 10, 2015 Defense Sec Ashton B Carter announces during gay and lesbian pride event at Pentagon that military has ex...

» Jun. 19, 2015
21/06/15 14:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from United States Defense and Military Forces - News - Times Topics - The New York Times. Jun. 19, 2015 Military jury recommends that Marine Sgt Lawrence Hutchins III, who has twice been convicted of murdering...

» AP Top News at 9:38 a.m. EDT
21/06/15 13:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 9:38 a.m. EDT CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Members of a historic black church returned to their sanctuary Sunday, perhaps united like never before, and will hea...

» AP Top News at 5:42 a.m. EDT
21/06/15 13:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 5:42 a.m. EDT Shootings' emotional burden looms over Sunday sermons CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Members of a historic black church will return to their sanctua...

» AP Top News at 1:26 a.m. EDT
21/06/15 13:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TheUnion local.com | TheUnion.com. AP Top News at 1:26 a.m. EDT Italian prosecutors seek to indict Bank of China, 297 people ROME (AP) - Italian prosecutors are seeking to indict 297 people and the Bank of...

» Window on Eurasia
21/06/15 13:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. Window on Eurasia Putin Rebuilding the Iron Curtain in His Typical ‘Hybrid’ Fashion Staunton, June 20 – Many people continue to carry with them an image of the iron curtain as consisting o...

» Greece is now officially a part of Russia's big new gas plan - Business Insider
21/06/15 13:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Greece is now officially a part of Russia's big new gas plan Business Insider Reuters/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Greek Pri...

» Russia to US: Prove you went to the moon - WND.com
21/06/15 13:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. WND.com Russia to US: Prove you went to the moon WND.com The Moscow Times said Markin and Russia's government were “not contending that [America] did not fly [to the moon] and simply ...

» Russia and Greece consider collaborating to circumvent Western sanctions - Los Angeles Times
21/06/15 13:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Los Angeles Times Russia and Greece consider collaborating to circumvent Western sanctions Los Angeles Times As Russia and Greece each endure strained relations with the rest of Europ...

» Lithuania to become first country to arm Ukraine against Russia - Ukraine Today
21/06/15 13:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Ukraine Today Lithuania to become first country to arm Ukraine against Russia Ukraine Today The move came as US Senator John McCain, during a trip to Kyiv, piled more pressure on the ...

» A new look at how Russians view Russia and the West - Business Insider
21/06/15 13:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider A new look at how Russians view Russia and the West Business Insider Pew Research recently did some digging around in Russia to find out how Russians view their own c...

» Senate Passes, Then Blocks, Military Bill
21/06/15 13:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > United States Defense and Military Forces. The lawmakers’ action was seen as the first battle in a spending fight that could end in a government shutdown this fall.

» Chinese Espionage: Was the OPM “Hack” Not a Hack, but Treason?
21/06/15 13:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from rss. I'm in this — Kurt The Chinese don't have to hack our government systems if they can find American traitors to unlock the gate for them. And this is precisely what might have happened in the case of t...

» Firing of Goldenzweig: Putin’s Suppression of Journalists Continues
21/06/15 13:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from rss. Though Russian President Vladimir Putin has a carefully-crafted image as a Christian champion, his suppression of journalists is just one of many examples that he is in the same mold as Communist lead...

» Suspect sought in killing of New Orleans police officer
21/06/15 13:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Danny Monteverde, WWL-TV, New Orleans 7:30 p.m. EDT June 20, 2015 New Orleans Police Officer Daryle Holloway, a 22-year veteran of the force, was killed by a suspect who had been handcuffed in the back seat o...

» 3,004,3913,004,3912015-06-20Was racist manifesto written by Dylann Roof? - CNN Video | “The themes
21/06/15 13:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 3,004,391 3,004,391 2015-06-20 Was racist manifesto written by Dylann Roof? - CNN Video | “The themes don’t indicate that this person is spending a lot of time to do research,” said O’...

» 2015-06-20"A federal law enforcement official close to the investigation
21/06/15 13:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-20 "A federal law enforcement official close to the investigation said the FBI is aware of the website linked to Roof and is reviewing it. The official spoke on condition of an...

» 2015-06-20Ohio 911 caller describes self, kills arriving officer - CNN.com | Cincinnati
21/06/15 13:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-20 Ohio 911 caller describes self, kills arriving officer - CNN.com | Cincinnati police officer shooter planned ‘suicide by cop’ - NY Daily News - 6.20.15 Times Topics - The Ne...

» 2015-06-20US: Iran's sponsorship of global terror is 'undiminished' PressTV
21/06/15 13:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-20 US: Iran's sponsorship of global terror is 'undiminished' PressTV-‘ | Access to Iran military sites forbidden’ | Children raped, castrated, thrown into fires in South Sudan:...

» 2,999,5652,999,5652015-06-19» The FBI has no idea how many hate crimes happen in America each
21/06/15 13:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,999,565 2,999,565 2015-06-19 » The FBI has no idea how many hate crimes happen in America each year 19/06/15 13:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks AP Top News at 11:48 a.m. EDT Fri...

» 2015-06-1912:16 PM 6/19/2015 - U.S. National Security and Military News Review: Terrorists were
21/06/15 13:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-19 12:16 PM 6/19/2015 - U.S. National Security and Military News Review: Terrorists were a lot more active last year. Here is how much and why. 19/06/15 11:04 from National Sec...

» Russia in Review
21/06/15 13:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - The US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism. June 12, 2015   Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent...

» Was racist manifesto written by Dylann Roof? - CNN Video
20/06/15 22:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Was racist manifesto written by Dylann Roof? Newsroom | Source: CNN Added on 5:04 PM ET, Sat June 20, 2015

» Charleston suspect Dylann Roof’s alleged manifesto discovered online
20/06/15 21:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Metadata associated with this image indicates it was taken on May 11. This photo of suspected killer Dylann Roof … A website surfaced Saturday featuring a racist and rambling manifesto and dozens o...

» Purported Dylann Roof manifesto reviewed by FBI
20/06/15 17:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The historic black church where nine people were killed will re-open for a Sunday service, and the FBI said it was reviewing a manifesto purportedly written by the suspected gunm...

» Charleston shooting: Dylann Roof 'wanted a race war'. How many Americans want the same? - Americas - World
20/06/15 14:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . But just how prevalent is this brand of racism? And how many others might feel the same way as Roof? The problem is it's really hard to say. There are 784 hate groups operating in the United States, according...

» Children raped, castrated, thrown into fires in South Sudan: UN
20/06/15 08:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Times of Israel. JUBA, South Sudan — Warring forces in South Sudan have carried out horrific crimes against children, including castration, rape and tying them together before slitting their thro...

» Three people arrested at Turkish border for chemical smuggling worth $2.5 million
20/06/15 08:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Hurriyet Daily News. ARTVİN - Doğan News Agency Print Page Send to friend » Share on Facebook Two smugglers of Georgian origin have been arrested at Turkey’s northeastern border for at...

» Middle East Updates / Putin reaffirms Russia's support for Syria's Assad - Middle East Updates - - Haaretz Daily Newspaper
20/06/15 08:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . For Thursday's updates click here Latest updates : 4:29 P.M. Putin reaffirms Russia's support for Syria's Assad President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia's support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad on Friday an...

» Israeli critically injured in shooting attack in West Bank
20/06/15 08:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Times of Israel. An Israeli man was in critical condition and another moderately injured after a shooting attack in the West Bank Friday afternoon. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and ...

» PressTV-‘Access to Iran military sites forbidden’
20/06/15 08:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from PressTV Media RSS. A senior Iranian commander has reaffirmed that the Islamic Republic will not allow access to or inspections of its military sites under a potential nuclear agreement with six world power...

» Israeli man killed in West Bank terror attack
20/06/15 08:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Times of Israel. An Israeli man who was critically injured Friday afternoon in a shooting attack in the West Bank succumbed to his wounds later Friday. He was named as Danny Gonen, 25, from the central...

» Saudis said set to build 16 nuclear reactors with Russian help
20/06/15 08:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Times of Israel. Saudi Arabia and Russia reached an agreement on Friday under which Riydah is reportedly to build up to 16 nuclear reactors under Moscow’s supervision, further bolstering ties bet...

» Wikipedia releases warning on Turkey’s censorship, monitoring
20/06/15 08:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Hurriyet Daily News. ISTANBUL Print Page Send to friend » Share on Facebook Wikipedia’s Turkish edition warned its users with a banner on top of its homepage that “access to this content i...

» US: Iran's sponsorship of global terror is 'undiminished'
20/06/15 08:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Times of Israel. WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks before the deadline for a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran, the US State Department’s annual report on terror activity noted that ...

» Opposition battles collection of medical records in Turkey
20/06/15 08:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Full Feed. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party, speaks to the press before a meeting in Ankara, June 15, 2015. (photo by Getty Images/Adem Altan) Author:&#...

» Putin, Erdogan meet face to face, but don't see eye to eye
20/06/15 08:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Full Feed. Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, June 13, 2015.  (photo by REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin)...

» Oren: Obama may reach out to Islam because 2 Muslim father figures abandoned him
20/06/15 08:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Times of Israel. In an op-ed published Friday, Kulanu Knesset member and former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren speculates that President Barack Obama’s relentless outreach t...

» Russia in Review - Harvard
19/06/15 21:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Latest Publications. Media Feature June 19, 2015 Belfer Center Programs or Projects : The US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Russia in R...

» FBI Director: This Is a "Difficult Time" in Law Enforcement
19/06/15 18:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. In Baltimore talk, FBI director urges police to bridge gap with communities they protect

» U.S. State Department: Terror Attacks, Deaths Up Sharply In 2014
19/06/15 18:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A U.S. State Department report says terrorist attacks worldwide went up by more than one-third and fatalities surged by 81 percent in 2014.

» Deaths Caused By Terrorist Attacks Rise By 81%
19/06/15 18:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. The rise of Islamic State leads to a 35% jump in terror attacks, along with a sharp increase in fatalities, claims the US.

» Mysteries Remain in Cyberattack on US Government
19/06/15 18:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management says as many as 4 million federal employees may have had their personal information stolen in a major cyber attack that began in 2014. The hackers ...

» AP Top News at 11:48 a.m. EDT
19/06/15 14:12 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 The latest on church shooting: Mayor discusses death penalty 11:40 a.m. Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. says that though he's not a pro...

» Russia 'will co-operate with West'
19/06/15 14:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is open to continuing economic co-operation with the West, despite sanctions.

» Putin says Russia weathering sanctions, lectures West
19/06/15 14:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin boasted on Friday that Russia had found the "inner strength" to prevent sanctions causing a deep economic crisis, and told th...

» Nato shows its sharp end in Polish war games
19/06/15 14:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Spearhead brigade rehearses rapid response to military tactics embraced by Moscow

» IS Starts Digging Trenches, Cuts Off Fuel to Northern Syria
19/06/15 14:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Opposition activists in Syria say Islamic State extremists are digging trenches around their de facto capital of Raqqa and ordering civilians to stockpile food and essentials in preparati...

» Pentagon Announces New Press Secretary
19/06/15 14:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: Top Stories. Pentagon announces Bloomberg TV correspondent at press secretary

» Former Moscow Times Publisher Allowed Back to Russia
19/06/15 14:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Maxine Maters, a former publisher of The Moscow Times and a Dutch national, was given permission by a court Thursday to return to Russia.

» Greek Leader, Pressuring E.U. Lenders, Cozies Up to Putin in Russia
19/06/15 14:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Russia. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras shared a stage with President Vladimir V. Putin at an annual economic forum in St. Petersburg.

» Vladimir Putin Speaks on Russian Economy at St. Petersburg Forum
19/06/15 14:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Russia. Neil MacFarquhar, the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times, is providing real-time updates on President Vladimir V. Putin’s speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

» Saudi Arabia, Russia sign nuclear power cooperation deal - Reuters UK
19/06/15 14:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters UK Saudi Arabia, Russia sign nuclear power cooperation deal Reuters UK The Saudi atomic and renewable energy body has already signed nuclear cooperation deals with countries a...

» Clinton breaks with Obama on trade, despite supporting deal as secretary of state
19/06/15 14:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Now Playing Tax hikes coming if Hillary Clinton is elected After being coy for weeks on her position, Hillary Clinton on Thursday clearly broke with President Obama on his trade push -- despite having support...

» How Russia's most advanced military equipment stacks up against NATO's hardware
19/06/15 14:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Politics. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin Russian servicemen march during the Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square May 9, 2014. Russia celebrates the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany during World War Two on Ma...

» The Feds bust Medicare fraud scheme
19/06/15 13:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Business Insider. This week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and local law enforcement in 17 different US cities arrested 243 individuals for an alleged $...

» The FBI has no idea how many hate crimes happen in America each year
19/06/15 13:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . By J. Richard Cohen June 19 at 10:20 AM J. Richard Cohen is a civil rights lawyer and president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. A white man and apartheid admirer walked into a black church Wednesday night...

» Fmr. Rep. West Attacks Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures
19/06/15 12:33 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. Allen West / AP BY: Emma-Jo Morris Former Congressman and Army Colonel Allen West said in an interview Wednesday that America must act decisively to put down hostile foreign actors,...

» 2,982,9612,982,9612015-06-16Iran likely to score concession on nuclear deal | Putin’s Missile
19/06/15 12:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,982,961 2,982,961 2015-06-16 Iran likely to score concession on nuclear deal | Putin’s Missile Announcement Draws Muted Response | » Vladimir Putin Says 40 New Missiles Will Be Added...

» 2015-06-17RAF Scrambled As Russians Stray Near NATO Drill - 17/06/15 15:38 from Mike Nova
19/06/15 12:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-17 RAF Scrambled As Russians Stray Near NATO Drill - 17/06/15 15:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks Review   From The Major News Sources »   Puti...

» 2015-06-178:53 PM 6/17/2015 - U.S. National Security and Military News Review
19/06/15 12:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-17 8:53 PM 6/17/2015 - U.S. National Security and Military News Review U.S. National Security and Military News Review us national security  |  national security  |  us militar...

» 2015-06-18» Manhunt follows attack on historic black South Carolina church
19/06/15 12:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-18 » Manhunt follows attack on historic black South Carolina church - Reuters 18/06/15 08:23 from Google News - Top Stories - World News Review World News Review »   New U.N. r...

» 2015-06-18Senate Passes Defense Bill Over White House Objections
19/06/15 12:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2015-06-18 Senate Passes Defense Bill Over White House Objections Senate Passes Defense Bill Over White House Objections Thursday June 18 th , 2015  at  7:43 PM Radio Free Europe / Rad...

» 2,993,3082,993,3082015-06-18» Salman Seeks a Russian Safety Net in Case Saudi-US Collaboration
19/06/15 12:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Mike Nova - Google+. 2,993,308 2,993,308 2015-06-18 » Salman Seeks a Russian Safety Net in Case Saudi-US Collaboration Fails to Oust Assad 18/06/15 22:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks Mike Nova's Share...

» Informant claimed $47m for clues on MH17 downing over Ukraine
19/06/15 12:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from intelNews.org. A German investigator, who is probing the downing of a civilian airliner over Ukraine nearly a year ago, says that an informant has claimed a multimillion reward for information pointing to ...

» German parliament may sue government to access British spy files
19/06/15 12:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from intelNews.org. A German parliamentary committee investigating spying operations may take the German government to court in order to force it to give up secret documents on Berlin’s intelligence cooperation...

» Cuban Intelligence Following Reconciliation with the US
19/06/15 12:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. By William Tucker Chief Correspondent for In Homeland Security Nearly a year after floating the idea, the Obama administration instructed the State Department to remove Cuba from the ...

» Migrants at Sea: A Growing Humanitarian Crisis
19/06/15 12:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. By Dr. Melissa Schnyder Associate Professor of International Relations at American Public University Seeking Human Security In recent years, Europe’s refugee crisis has become an incr...

» Syrian Kurds Surround ISIS in Tal Abyad
19/06/15 12:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. By William Tucker Chief Correspondent for In Homeland Security The Islamic State has held territory along the shared Syria-Turkey border for some time, but since the Kurdish breakout ...

» NATO goes for 'biggest' military boost since Cold War
19/06/15 12:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. The NATO secretary general says the Western military alliance is carrying out its "biggest" military reinforcement since the Cold War in what it calls an attempt to tackle the rising se...

» Khodorkovsky Says Putin Fabricated Conflict With West As Distraction
19/06/15 12:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has no short-term solution and is part of a fabricated conflict with the West to distract everyday Russians from corruption and incompetence, a prominent cri...

» Kaliningrad, Moscow's Military Trump Card
19/06/15 12:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. Russia is pouring troops and weapons - including missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads - into its western exclave of Kaliningrad at such a rate that the region is now one of Eur...

» NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg Unveils Biggest Build-Up Since Cold War
19/06/15 12:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said the alliance was increasing its pressure on Russia by massively boosting the deployment of troops and military assets in Eastern Europe ...

» Russian State Assets Seized in Europe Over Yukos Case
19/06/15 12:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. Moscow has protested the seizure of Russian government assets in France and Belgium - a move taken to enforce a multi-billion-dollar judgment in a lawsuit filed by shareholders of Yukos...

» Senate Advances Defense Authorization Bill
19/06/15 12:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. The sweeping measure contains a 2016 pay raise for troops, military retirement overhaul, and controversial funding moves             

» Israel Goes on Offensive Against Anti-Occupation Boycotts
19/06/15 12:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. Israeli defense companies led by Elbit Systems are girding for global protests of their products, trade partners and subsidiaries as their government wages a high-profile pushback agai...

» Israel To Consolidate Cyber Spending, Ops
19/06/15 12:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. TEL AVIV — The Israeli military aims to consolidate cyber-related investment, training and planning for defensive and offensive operations under a unified Cyber Command to be stood up ...

» China Orders Ships Adapted For Military Use
19/06/15 12:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. China's government has passed new guidelines requiring civilian shipbuilders to ensure their vessels can be used by the military in the event of conflict, state-run media said on Thurs...

» US, China to Establish Military Dialogue - Voice of America
19/06/15 11:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Voice of America US, China to Establish Military Dialogue Voice of America The United States and China signed an agreement Friday to establish an army-to-army dialogue mechanis...

» In White House's Iraq debate, military brass pushed for doing less - Washington Post
19/06/15 11:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. BizPac Review In White House's Iraq debate, military brass pushed for doing less Washington Post As President Obama was weighing how to halt Islamic State advances in Iraq, som...

» Hank Paulson says China risks 'real damage' to economy - Financial Times
19/06/15 11:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Financial Times Hank Paulson says China risks 'real damage' to economy Financial Times The Chinese government risks “real damage” to the economy if it does not hasten reform of...

» War with China is 'inevitable' - NEWS.com.au
19/06/15 11:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. NEWS.com.au War with China is 'inevitable' NEWS.com.au Tensions between the two military superpowers have been increasing due to a cluster of tiny islands in the South China Se...

» China has taken up Russia's deepest fear - Business Insider
19/06/15 11:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Business Insider China has taken up Russia's deepest fear Business Insider China has been systematically shutting out Western ideals from research centers, school curriculums, ...

» Former CIA Chief Says Government Data Breach Could Help China Recruit Spies - Wall Street Journal
19/06/15 11:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Wall Street Journal Former CIA Chief Says Government Data Breach Could Help China Recruit Spies Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who once led the Nat...

» Military sexual assault reform plan fails again - Military Times
19/06/15 11:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Military Times Military sexual assault reform plan fails again Military Times Military leaders have argued that separating sexual assault cases from the rest of For the second ...

» Iran nuclear talks face impasse on military site inspections - USA TODAY
19/06/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. USA TODAY Iran nuclear talks face impasse on military site inspections USA TODAY Germany and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -— the USA, Brita...

» Dropped by the U.S. Military, Colt Goes Bankrupt - Daily Beast
19/06/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Daily Beast Dropped by the U.S. Military , Colt Goes Bankrupt Daily Beast After decades arming American soldiers, first with the Vietnam era M16 and later the modern M4 rifles ...

» China Not So In Love With Russia After All - Forbes
19/06/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Forbes China Not So In Love With Russia After All Afterall Forbes The Ukrainian military has been locked in an on-again, off-again bloody battle with pro-Russian forces in at l...

» SOROS: The US needs to befriend China or all hell is going to break loose - Business Insider
19/06/15 11:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Business Insider SOROS: The US needs to befriend China or all hell is going to break loose Business Insider As an note near the end, Soros adds that the US would only be justif...

» Military clearance OPM data breach 'absolute calamity' - NavyTimes.com
19/06/15 11:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Charleston Post Courier Military clearance OPM data breach 'absolute calamity' NavyTimes.com Anxiety is spreading among defense officials and the military community that the re...

» Foreign Groups Fear China Oversight Plan - New York Times
19/06/15 11:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. New York Times Foreign Groups Fear China Oversight Plan New York Times BEIJING — A remarkable assortment of foreign organizations set up shop in China in the decades after its ...

» Western Business Stands Up to China - New York Times
19/06/15 11:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. New York Times Western Business Stands Up to China New York Times While international human rights groups often protest China's attempts to restrict freedoms of its people, for...

» Canada government websites taken down in cyber attack - The Guardian
19/06/15 11:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. The Guardian Canada government websites taken down in cyber attack The Guardian Several Canadian government websites and servers were taken down in a cyber attack on Wednesday,...

» Advocates: Gay troops need military culture change - Military Times
19/06/15 11:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Advocates: Gay troops need military culture change Military Times On Sunday, leaders from the advocacy group GLAAD held a military roundtable as part of their Southern Stories ...

» Salman Seeks a Russian Safety Net in Case Saudi-US Collaboration Fails to Oust Assad
18/06/15 22:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. Saudi King Salman is not sure that the US will last the course in their joint effort to topple Bashar Assad. He sent his son to Moscow with generous incentives for Putin to provide him with a sa...

» Russia and Saudi Arabia ink nuclear energy deal, exchange invites — RT News
18/06/15 22:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RT - News. Published time: June 18, 2015 20:58 Edited time: June 18, 2015 22:43 President Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the deputy crown prince and defense minister of Saudi Arabia, meeti...

» Saudi deputy crown prince visits Russia - Al-Arabiya
18/06/15 21:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Al-Arabiya Saudi deputy crown prince visits Russia Al-Arabiya Rassi said there was an agreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia on maintaining legitimacy of Yemeni President Abd Rabbu...

» Russian ambassador: If Sweden joins NATO, there will be 'consequences' - Business Insider
18/06/15 21:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Russian ambassador: If Sweden joins NATO, there will be 'consequences' Business Insider Russia's ambassador to Sweden has warned the country of the potential military...

» Thatcher admired 'fine' Red Army troops and Lenin portrait
18/06/15 21:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Memoirs of former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher enthuse over Kremlin’s orderliness, its chandeliers – and homage to communist revolutionary When the Iron Lady went to Moscow for the fune...

» If Greece and Russia feel humiliated, that’s something Europe cannot ignore | Natalie Nougayrède
18/06/15 21:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. As Tsipras and Putin ratchet up the rhetoric, Europe should try to offer answers, but not full mea culpas Listening to the news these days, you’d assume that the politics of humiliat...

» If Greece and Russia feel humiliated, that's something Europe cannot ignore - The Guardian
18/06/15 21:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Guardian If Greece and Russia feel humiliated, that's something Europe cannot ignore The Guardian Listening to the news these days, you'd assume that the politics of humiliation h...

» США могут выделить Украине $300 млн в качестве военной помощи - Газета.Ru
18/06/15 21:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. АМИ Тренд США могут выделить Украине $300 млн в качестве военной помощи Газета.Ru Американский сенат большинством голосов одобрил поправки к проекту военного бюджета, предусматрива...

» Sanctions And Their Impact On Russia
18/06/15 21:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Russian spokesmen at home and abroad regularly tell us that sanctions are a failure and that the government does not care about them. Diplomatic reports also suggest that Pu...

» Russia talking with US on assigning blame for Syria gas attacks - Reuters
18/06/15 21:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Reuters Russia talking with US on assigning blame for Syria gas attacks Reuters The United States gave Russia a draft United Nations Security Council resolution to study six weeks ago...

» Greek Leader's Visit To Russia Spurs Talk Of Alternative Loan Deal
18/06/15 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A top Russian official has declined to say whether his country is going to lend money to Greece, ahead of a meeting between the Greek and Russian leaders June 19.

» Georgian Flood Cleanup Uncovers 19th Victim
18/06/15 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Volunteers, cleaning up after devastating floods in Tbilisi, have found the body of a 25-year-old woman. Meanwhile the head of the zoo was questioned over an escaped tige...

» What is the US strategy in Iraq to defeat ISIS?
18/06/15 21:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from VOAvideo's YouTube Videos. From: VOAvideo Duration: 01:41 Host Carol Castiel speaks with Congressman Ed Royce, a Republican from the state of California and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Commit...

» How can the US make the Iraqi government be more inclusive?
18/06/15 21:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from VOAvideo's YouTube Videos. From: VOAvideo Duration: 01:17 Host Carol Castiel speaks with Congressman Ed Royce, a Republican from the state of California and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Commit...

» How should the US re calibrate its strategy on Syria?
18/06/15 21:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from VOAvideo's YouTube Videos. From: VOAvideo Duration: 02:06 Host Carol Castiel speaks with Congressman Ed Royce, a Republican from the state of California and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Commit...