Russia Is Drifting Into the Great Unknown (Op-Ed) - by Ivan Sukhov: "The resignation of former Russian Railways head Vladimir Yakunin made headlines in recent days and probably does indicate a reshuffling within the powerful inner circle of the ruling elite — an intensifying "backroom scuffle among bulldogs" as some observers have termed it. And while that skirmish might destabilize the current system to some extent, it does nothing to shed light on what future awaits this country. The Russian people have no idea toward which port the ship of state is sailing, much less whether it is a worthwhile destination. This is a fairly typical situation for the so-called "post-Soviet period of transition" — a condition in which both the point of origin and the ultimate destination remain obscure."
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Russia Is Drifting Into the Great Unknown (Op-Ed) - by Ivan Sukhov:
The resignation of former Russian Railways head Vladimir Yakunin made headlines in recent days and probably does indicate a reshuffling within the powerful inner circle of the ruling elite — an intensifying "backroom scuffle among bulldogs" as some observers have termed it. And while that skirmish might destabilize the current system to some extent, it does nothing to shed light on what future awaits this country.
The Russian people have no idea toward which port the ship of state is sailing, much less whether it is a worthwhile destination. This is a fairly typical situation for the so-called "post-Soviet period of transition" — a condition in which both the point of origin and the ultimate destination remain obscure.
The Russian people have no idea toward which port the ship of state is sailing, much less whether it is a worthwhile destination, writes columnist Ivan Sukhov.
A Russian man had to leave his job at the U.S.-owned Cargill grain terminal in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia after writing a homophobic comment below a company news story about a gay pride parade.
Health Officials Probe 2nd Plague Case at Yosemite Parkby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
California health officials are investigating a second possible case of plague in less than a month in another tourist who fell ill after visiting Yosemite National Park. The California Department of Public Health said Tuesday the case occurred in a patient from the U.S. state of Georgia who visited Yosemite, the Sierra National Forest and surrounding areas in early August. “Warnings issued in California regarding plague were useful all the way across the country in Georgia. Those warnings helped the patient get the prompt medical attention necessary to recover from this illness,” said Karen Smith, director and state health officer for the department. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is testing the person to confirm "the presumptive positive case," officials said. Authorities announced on August 6 that a child from near Los Angeles who visited Yosemite in mid-July tested positive for plague. She was treated and has since recovered. Plague is an infectious bacterial disease that is carried by squirrels, chipmunks and other wild rodents and their fleas. When an infected rodent becomes sick and dies, its fleas can carry the infection to other warm-blooded animals or humans. After evidence of the plague was discovered, health officials closed two park campgrounds in Yosemite National Park. Crane Flat Campground - where the infected child and family were staying - reopened last week after authorities treated it for four days with an insecticide. Park officials have also closed Yosemite's Tuolumne Meadows Campground through Friday so authorities can fumigate the area after two dead squirrels were found to be carrying the plague. Authorities said the risk to humans is low despite the presence of the plague in wild rodents at both campgrounds over the past two weeks. Yosemite National Park, located in northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains, is the third-most visited of America's national parks, and one of the oldest.
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Russia and China on Thursday launched the second phase of their largest joint naval exercise to date against the backdrop of increasingly frequent military exercises conducted by NATO and Russia.
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Expansion of Suez Canal will double the ships passing through
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Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, was killed Wednesday in St. Louis, Missouri when he pointed a gun at two white policemen as they were serving a search warrant on a house. Officers deployed tear gas into the crowds after a protest broke out.
Officials: Extreme Cyanide Levels in Waters Near China Blastby webdesk@voanews.com (Joyce Huang)
Cyanide levels more than 350 times the acceptable limit have been found in waters close to the site of recent deadly explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, officials said Thursday. The city's drinking water, however, remained safe, Deng Xiaowen, director of Tianjin's environmental monitoring center, told a media briefing aimed at easing public concerns. "At present, all cyanide-contaminated waste waters are kept within the blast site." he said. The...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies launched 29 air strikes on Wednesday against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, according to the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations.
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Adam S. Cohen Named Special Agent in Charge of Buffalo
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog) FBI Director James B. Comey has named Adam S. Cohen as the special agent in charge of the Buffalo Field Office. Mr. Cohen most recently served as the section chief for the FBI's Counterterrorism Internet Operations Section. In this capacity, he oversaw ... and more » |
Reflections on Intelligence by fredslibrary
Title: Reflections on Intelligence
Author: R.V. Jones
Jones, R. V. (1989). Reflections on Intelligence. London: Heinemann
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Date Posted: August 20, 2015
Drawing on his long experience in intelligence the author examines the ethical problems that intelligence activity can create. He explores each of the topics under consideration—official secrecy, security, deception, command—in the light of his extensive direct experience in decades when technical developments like radio interception and satellites have revolutionized intelligence-gathering. He proposes a doctrine for the guidance of intelligence officers of “minimum trespass” which parallels the military doctrine of “minimum force”. Professor Jones also wrote Most Secret War[1], Future Conflict and New Technology[2], Instruments and Experiences[3], and The Wizard War[4].
As a young man during WW II, Jones was the director of Technical Intelligence for the British RAF. His book The Wizard War covers this period. He left service postwar to become a university professor in Scotland. During the Korean War he was recalled to serve again in the government.
This book is the culmination of a lifetime’s thinking about the uses and practice of intelligence and is a series of essays rather than a narrative. He also fills in the gaps of some of the stories in his earlier works which could not be filled earlier because of security concerns or out of concern for the personal safety of former British agents still living in Germany.
[1] Jones, R. V. (1978). Most Secret War. London: Hamilton [LCCN: 78310842]
[2] Jones, R. V. (1981). Future Conflict And New Technology. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University [LCCN: 81084775]
[3] Jones, R. V. (1988). Instruments And Experiences: Papers on Measurement And Instrument Design. New York: Wiley [LCCN: 87022183]
[4] Jones, R. V. (1978). The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939-1945. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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August 20, 2015, 9:12 PM (IDT)
Young Alawis are deserting the army and fleeting the country in despair from what they see as Bashar Assad’s losing battle. Iran too is sidelining the Syrian ruler.
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As Obama fights for congressional approval of the Iran nuclear deal, Khamenei keeps the document moving around regime institutions without showing any sign of intending to endorse it.
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Tehran grabs the diplomatic initiative for ending the Syrian war, racing for a conclusion before Assad’s army and Hizballah buckle and Syria sinks into anarchy. Saudis, Turks and Jordanians offered extravagant lures to stay out.
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Tehran has scooped Turkey and the US on the Kurdish issue by engineering a moonlight flit from their northern Iraqi bases and command centers to Iran, thus grabbing control of the central Kurdish issue.
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Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond is likely to reopen the embassy in Tehran on Sunday, in a significant indication of warming Western relations with Iran.
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Top art gallery directors in Russia denounce vandalism by Orthodox Christian activists who attacked a Moscow art exhibition.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- According to Polish lore, a Nazi train loaded with gold, artworks and weapons vanished into a mountain at the end of World War II, as the Germans fled the Soviet advance. Now two men claim they know the location of the mystery train and are demanding 10 percent of its value in exchange for revealing its location....
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Two men have reportedly handed themselves in to Thai police after being suspected of involvement in the Bangkok bombing earlier this week that killed 20 people.
The global nuclear watchdog has rejected claims Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site suspected of being used to develop atomic weapons.
The UN will allow Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site suspected of being used to develop nuclear arms.
German prosecutors have charged an employee of the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, identified only as Markus R., with passing classified documents to both the CIA and Russian agents.
Britain plans to reopen its embassy in Tehran, a report said Thursday, nearly four years after protesters stormed the compound in one of the most dramatic diplomatic upheavals in Iran since the early days of the Islamic Revolution.Read full article >>
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will resign tonight, officials have said - paving the way for early elections on 20 September.
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Archive footage shows Iranian protesters entering the British embassy in 2011, marking the beginning of a cooling in the republic’s relationship with the UK. On Thursday the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said the UK embassy in Tehran will formally reopen at the weekend. The Iranian embassy will also reopen in London marking the improvement in relations between the two nations
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Donald Trump calls his Republican rival Jeb Bush ‘unelectable’ during a press conference in Derry, New Hampshire on Wednesday. Trump later speaks at a town meeting where he again takes aim at his rival, accusing Bush’s audience at a nearby rally of likely being asleep. Poll averages continue to show Trump leading Bush, 24.8% to 11.2%, among Republican primary voters
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Sir Kim Darroch will take over in Washington in January next year after spending three years advising the Prime Minister on security issues
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Thai police: 2 men seen on video turn themselves in
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Pakistan Media Reports US Blocks Military Aid Paymentby webdesk@voanews.com (Ayesha Tanzeem)
The United States is reportedly blocking a military aid disbursement because Islamabad allegedly has made insufficient headway fighting the Haqqani terrorist network, according to a Paskistan newspaper. The Dawn newspaper says U.S. officials determined a counterterrorism offensive that began last June in North Waziristan has not damaged the feared group. If the Obama administration does not certify to the U.S. Congress that Pakistan’s military operations have significantly...
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A South Sudanese journalist has been shot dead, three days after President Salva Kiir threatened to kill reporters who “work against the country." Unidentified gunmen killed Peter Moi of The New Nation newspaper late Wednesday near the paper's offices in Juba. Colleagues say it appeared to be a targeted attack, as the attackers did not take Moi's money or cell phone. There was no immediate comment from police or the government. On Sunday, Kiir told reporters in...
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Jimmy Carter Due for Treatment of Melanoma on His Brain
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SIGIRE, Iraq (Reuters) - When Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called a ceasefire with Turkey two years ago, residents of the village of Sigire slaughtered a sheep to celebrate what they believed was the start of a new era of peace.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday he wanted summit talks with German and French leaders next week on how to curb Russian "aggression" and force Moscow to comply with a February peace plan for east Ukraine.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German prosecutors said on Thursday they had charged a former employee of the BND foreign intelligence agency with treason and suspect he gave secrets to both the United States and Russia up until last year.
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Political uncertainty hung over Iraq's Kurdistan region on Thursday after President Massoud Barzani's mandate expired without rival factions reaching an agreement to extend his term.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday dismissed Western criticism over the sentencing of an Estonian police officer to 15 years in prison for espionage, a case that adds to tensions in Moscow's strained ties with the West.
Afghan Vice President Dostum Vows To 'Clear' Northern Province Of Militantsby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has vowed that Afghanistan's volatile northern Faryab Province will soon be fully "cleared" of Taliban and other militants, as he leads an ongoing security operation in the area.
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IAEA Director 'Disturbed' By Report On Iranian Nuclear Inspections by support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
The head of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says he is "disturbed" by a report suggesting his organization has given responsibility for nuclear inspections to Iran.
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Politically driven show trials are a lamentable tradition from Soviet times. But trials staged under Russian President Vladimir Putin have produced a new genre -- the defendant's defiant and impassioned closing speech.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond is likely to reopen the embassy in Tehran on Sunday, in a significant indication of warming Western relations with Iran.
Protesters rampaged through the compound in 2011, precipitating a diplomatic break.
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