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Trump’s Previous View of NATO Is Now Obsolete

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Mr. Trump’s about-face on NATO was only part of a day of flip flops at the White House. Within a matter of hours, the president determined that China is not a currency manipulator after all, embraced the Export-Import Bank that he once called unnecessary and suggested he might keep Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman he said he would replace after her term expired. Most striking, he pivoted 180 degrees on Russia, lashing it for supporting rogue nations after years of praising President Vladimir V. Putin.

The Russia reversal and the NATO turnabout were inherently linked, of course. As Russia appears more ominous, NATO seems more necessary. But the shift in attitude also offered one of the starkest examples yet of Mr. Trump’s evolving views on domestic and foreign policy, as the first president ever elected without political or military experience settles into the role of commander in chief.

“We must not be trapped by the tired thinking that so many have, but apply new solutions to face new circumstances, and that’s all throughout the world,” Mr. Trump said at his news conference with Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general.

The president’s support for NATO heartened Mr. Stoltenberg and European leaders who one after the other have tried to impress upon Mr. Trump the value of the alliance, especially Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany.

“In a more dangerous and more unpredictable world, it is important to have friends and allies,” Mr. Stoltenberg said at the White House on Wednesday. “And in NATO, America has the best friends and the best allies in the world.”

Mr. Trump’s campaign criticism of NATO stunned many at home and abroad, especially when he suggested conditioning America’s commitment to defend its treaty allies on whether they had met their financial obligations. Just days before taking office, he dismissed the alliance as “obsolete.” No new American president had ever come to power expressing such disdain for NATO.

Mr. Trump’s shift on NATO has been a stutter-step transition. When he hosted Mrs. May a week after taking office in January, she turned to him at a joint news conference afterward and tried to put on the record what he had told her in private. “You confirmed that you’re 100 percent behind NATO,” she told him. He did not contradict her but he did not confirm it, either.

Even as Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Europe a few weeks later to reassure allies, Mr. Trump back home pressed his case that NATO allies do not spend enough on their own defense. “Many of these countries are very rich countries,” he complained at a rally in Florida. “They’re not paying their bills. They’re not paying their bills.” When Ms. Merkel visited last month, a British newspaper reported that Mr. Trump asked her to pay back unmet defense obligations from the last 15 years, forcing the White House to deny that he actually presented her with an invoice.

Mr. Trump’s drumbeat about spending by allies may be having an effect. He is simply repeating the same grievance lodged by other presidents, including Mr. Obama. But Mr. Trump does it louder and more insistently, forcing the issue to the front of the agenda in a way that Mr. Obama’s polite nudging did not.

Only five of the 28 members of NATO met their target of spending 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense last year in accord with a 2014 agreement during Mr. Obama’s tenure, but Mr. Stoltenberg reported that the number would rise to eight by next year.

“President Trump is no different” from other presidents in complaining about allied spending, but “he has been far more aggressive in his statements and frankly, I think that’s had some effect,” said Joseph W. Ralston, a retired Air Force general and former NATO supreme allied commander.

Mr. Trump’s other main criticism of NATO appears to have had less impact. During the campaign, he said the alliance did not fight terrorism, which was not exactly the case. NATO has had troops in Afghanistan fighting terrorists since shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has provided assistance to Iraq in its own war against extremists.

Without directly contradicting Mr. Trump, Mr. Stoltenberg in his very diplomatic way reminded the president of that on Wednesday.

“Allies sent Awacs surveillance planes to help patrol American skies and we launched NATO’s biggest military operation ever in Afghanistan,” Mr. Stoltenberg said. “Hundreds of thousands of Europeans and Canadian soldiers have served shoulder to shoulder with American troops. More than 1,000 have paid the ultimate price. Our mission in Afghanistan is a major contribution to the fight against international terrorism.”

Still, he agreed “that NATO can and must do more in the global fight against terrorism.”

Mr. Trump claimed credit for turning the alliance around on terrorism. “I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change and now they do fight terrorism,” he said.

But he did not explain what change he meant and a subsequent inquiry to the White House for elaboration went unanswered. NATO created a new intelligence division headed by an assistant secretary general last year, but the idea predated Mr. Trump.

“It’s to better deal with hybrid warfare and crisis management, not just terrorism, but it will help in C.T. as well,” Alexander R. Vershbow, who served until last year as deputy secretary general of NATO, said, using initials for counterterrorism. There has been “nothing really new on terrorism beyond this.”

Still, NATO supporters welcomed the turnaround. Just this week, Mr. Trump signed ratification papers clearing the way for Montenegro to join as the alliance’s 29th member — over Russian objections — and he plans to make his first foreign visit as president to the NATO summit meeting in Brussels next month.

Mr. Ralston, the former NATO commander, said Mr. Trump’s criticisms have done some good but the president is now gaining a fuller understanding of NATO from his own team, which has considerable experience with the alliance and includes Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser. Mr. Ralston recalled that John F. Kelly, the retired Marine general who is now secretary of Homeland Security, served as his special assistant at NATO.

“The president is getting advice from different people now than he did in the campaign,” Mr. Ralston said. “These guys are very good and I’m sure they’re giving their unvarnished advice to the president and I think the president is learning from that.”

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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town was a "fabrication" to justify a US military strike, in an exclusive AFP interview.

US berates Syria at OPCW meeting on Syria chemical attack

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media during a shared news conference with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Amid a fierce dispute over Syria, the United States and Russia agreed Wednesday to work together on an international investigation of a Syrian chemical weapons attack last week.

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US berates Syria at OPCW meeting on Syria chemical attack

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Syrian authorities — "abetted by Russia's continuing efforts to bury the truth" — still possess and use chemical weapons, an American diplomat told the international chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday.

The strong comments by Kenneth D. Ward, the American ambassador to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, came amid ongoing diplomatic skirmishes over last week's deadly attack in Syria.

Ward used a hastily convened meeting of the organization's executive council to launch a withering verbal attack on Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies in Moscow.

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The meeting was called to discuss the April 4 attack on the Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun that killed nearly 90 people. The United States and other Western governments blame Assad's regime. Washington in retaliation launched missile strikes on a Syrian air base they say was the starting point for the chemical weapons attack, a move that ratcheted up tensions between the United States and Syria's ally Russia.

Russia and Syria claim the Khan Shaykhun victims were killed by toxic agents released from a rebel chemical arsenal hit by Syrian warplanes.

But Ward insisted it was a deliberate attack that amounted to "a direct affront to the Chemical Weapons Convention and, indeed, a direct affront to human decency, carried out by a State Party" to the OPCW, according to the text of his speech that was posted on the organization's website.

Syria joined the OPCW in 2013 under severe international pressure following a deadly chemical attack on a Damascus suburb. Assad's government told the organization it had a 1,300-ton stockpile of chemical weapons and chemicals used to make them. That stockpile was destroyed in an operation overseen by the Nobel Peace Prize winning-group OPCW, but ever since there have been questions about whether Assad had declared all his weapons.

"On April 4, the lifeless bodies of innocent victims, grotesquely contorted and twisted by the nerve agent sarin, tell the real story," Ward said. "Syria provided a grossly incomplete declaration to the OPCW of its chemical weapons program. Iit continues to possess and use chemical weapons."

He added that "this outrage is abetted by Russia's continuing efforts to bury the truth and protect the Syrian regime" form consequences of using chemical weapons.

Britain's Ambassador, Sir Geoffrey Adams, told the meeting that U.K. scientists have analyzed samples from Khan Shaykhun and they "tested positive for the nerve agent sarin, or a sarin-like substance."

Earlier this week, Turkish doctors also said that test results conducted on victims confirmed that sarin gas was used.

The OPCW's Fact Finding Mission for Syria is conducting an investigation and is expected to report its findings in three weeks. The organization has not revealed any details, citing the need to preserve the integrity of the probe and the safety of OPCW staff.

In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday that OPCW inspectors should visit both the Syrian air base, which the U.S. said served as a platform for the attack, and Khan Sheikhoun to get a full and objective picture.

He said Russia vetoed a draft U.N. resolution Wednesday because it failed to mention the need to inspect the area of the attack.

"We are deeply worried by our partners in the U.N. Security Council trying to evade an honest investigation into that episode," he said.

Lavrov said he emphasized the need for a wide-ranging OPCW probe during Wednesday's talks in Moscow with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, suggesting that Western nations, Russia and some regional powers could dispatch additional experts to join the investigation.

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Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed.

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Russian Disinformation Technology - MIT Technology Review

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On July 17, 2014, as passengers checked in at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, “Necro Mancer” (@666_mancer) tweeted about an unusual convoy 1,500 miles east in Ukraine. His citizen intelligence network had noticed a covered anti-aircraft missile system trundling through Donetsk on a low loader. Minutes later, half a world away in Brasilia, Vladimir Putin wrapped up a pre-dawn Russian press conference. His answer to the last question—about the Moscow Metro’s worst accident, two days earlier, which killed 24 people—was overlooked until Russian conspiracy theorists picked it up 15 months later. In the aftermath of the deadliest shoot-down in history, his words acquired a macabre resonance.

“Responsibility should always be personal,” said Putin. “There is a classic example from criminal law called a ‘shooting tragedy,’ when two hunters shoot at a bush thinking there is game there, and accidentally kill a man. Since experts cannot establish who did it, they are both set free … Investigators should expose the guilty party … and they should be held responsible, but only those specific individuals whose fault it was.” By day’s end, questions about guilt and responsibility for MH17’s downing were of global concern. International investigators would range from the official—well resourced and highly trained—to a self-organized group called Bellingcat. Using little more than laptops, open-source materials, and relentless dedication, these “citizen investigative journalists” would find the exact missile launcher, identify dozens of soldiers, and, eventually, reveal a senior Russian soldier with a key role in coördinating the missile launch.

The horror of the MH17 atrocity was peculiarly intimate: in the debris fields, stuffed toys spilled from children’s suitcases. It briefly brought Ukraine’s war into focus in a way that Russia’s misdirection over the annexation of Crimea, or their murky fight in the farthest corner of Europe, had failed to do. However, a deeper and wider war remained concealed.

Andrei Illarionov was Putin’s senior economic advisor, and personal representative to the G8 for five years, until he resigned in protest at growing corruption. Two months before the downing of MH17, he called Ukraine “an introductory chapter” in “the Fourth World War.” (Stalin’s dismal term for the Cold War was “World War Three.”) Illarionov dislikes the phrase, but he says it’s being used “by the Kremlin propaganda machine” for a war “being waged now by Russia against the rest of the world.”

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”

It took the weaponization of information in the 2016 U.S. presidential election for the Western world to start to notice. We now know of e-mails stolen from the Democratic National Committee by Russian hackers, of sophisticated botnets, of similar attacks across Europe; but the full extent of Russia’s activities is still being uncovered. Realizing that we are at war, and understanding how we can fight back, is now urgent business. The story of MH17, and Russia’s exposure, offers a grim but useful case study.

Devices of disinformation

As with the Soviets’ shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983, when 269 died, Russia’s reaction to the international outrage over MH17 was to contrive and deliver counternarratives. A buzzing and growing cloud of ever-changing claims emerged—placing the blame on a Ukrainian fighter jet, Ukrainians on the ground, or the CIA, or claiming that Putin’s private plane was the real target. Russia’s tactics, says Ben Nimmo, senior fellow in information defense at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, rely on what he calls “the 4D approach”: “Dismiss, distort, distract, dismay. Never confess, never admit—just keep on attacking.”

“The single most prevalent Russian response is to attack the critic,” he says. “They use a ‘vilify and amplify’ technique.” Critics are besmirched, sometimes in an official announcement, sometimes through proxies, sometimes through anonymous sources quoted in state media; then paid trolls and highly automated networks of bots add scale. In response, an ad hoc blend of civilians, private companies, and NGOs has evolved to cast a bright, shining light on MH17 and Russian aggression in Ukraine, Syria, and the Atlantic partnership. Exemplifying the values Italo Calvino outlined in Six Memos for the Next Millennium—lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency—their methods are in sharp contrast to the West’s generally sclerotic response to a revanchist Russia.

Nowhere is this weakness more brutally apparent than in Russia’s use of digital technology to reinforce its greatest tool of statecraft: maskirovka. The literal translation—“little masquerade”—disguises the density and importance of this elusive concept. “Military deception” misses its deep cultural roots: maskirovka involves camouflage, denial, and a deep finesse. As James Jesus Angleton, the founding counterintelligence chief of the CIA, put it, “The myriad stratagems, deceptions, artifices, and all the other devices of disinformation … confuse and split the West [with] an ever-fluid landscape, where fact and illusion merge, a kind of wilderness of mirrors.”

Disinformation confuses and splits the West with “an ever-fluid landscape ... a kind of wilderness of mirrors.”

The most powerful weapon in the maskirovka armory is disinformation, a word acquired in the 1950s from the Russian dezinformatsiya. A generation after the Cold War, the acknowledged masters of “deza” are deploying disinformation technology against the compromised immune system of liberal democracy. “And at this point,” says Andrew Andersen, a Russian-born security analyst at the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, “the West is losing.”

“The first thing you need to understand is that this is a war,” says Andersen. “This is not a joke and not a game of any kind. It’s not ‘socializing with your friends on social networks’—it’s a real war. Even those who don’t want to take part have to behave in accordance with the laws of war,” he says, alluding to Trotsky’s notorious epigram, recalled by several of the interviewees for this story, that translates loosely as: “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”

Even the name of this new style of war is contested territory. “Ambiguous,” “hybrid,” “irregular,” and “nonlinear” warfare have all been suggested. Mark Galeotti, senior research fellow at Prague’s Institute of International Relations, unpicks the issue in his new book, Hybrid War or Gibridnaya Voina? Getting Russia’s Non-Linear Military Challenge Right. He admits to still worrying at it. “The more I think about what we should be calling hybrid war,” he says, “the more I think the answer is: war.”

“The Russians have, fortuitously for them, simply stumbled on a truth of the century.”

“The Russians have stumbled on how the nature of international contestation is changing and will be fought out in the 21st century. It’s an age when direct kinetic warfare [the military’s term of art for ‘things that go bang’] is ridiculously expensive, in political but also economic terms,” he says. “Instead, war will be fought out through a variety of other means, many which are covert, ambiguous, and so on. The Russians have, fortuitously for them, simply stumbled on a truth of the century.”

Foul deeds will rise

Exactly an hour before MH17 took off, Necro Mancer tweeted a tentative identification: “It visually resembles a BUK a lot.” (Buks are a family of Russian-made mobile medium-range surface-to-air missile systems.) A Donetsk man of around 50, he spends “almost all” his free time scanning popular Russian-language social-media sites like Vkontakte (“In Contact”), known as “Russia’s Facebook,” and Odnoklassniki (“Classmates”); listening to pro-Russian channels on the walkie-talkie app Zello; and sharing civilian reports of military activities. As an additional hobby, he uses open sources to curate a list, linked in his Twitter profile, of several thousand Russian and pro-Russian dead, “because they hide them.”

“I cannot fight as a soldier, so I try to do my best,” he says of a conflict that has led to more than 30,000 casualties and millions displaced. He’s just one of many keyboard partisans in the war dominating Europe’s largest country. After the annexation of Crimea, the subsequent invasion of eastern Ukraine, and the MH17 shoot-down, the world’s scrutiny of Russian behavior in the region dwindled. Yet Ukraine—site of the continent’s first military incursion by a neighbor since Stalin subjugated Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain—is, as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work said in a speech in 2015, “an emerging laboratory for future 21st-century warfare.”

The 34-ton Buk-M1 TELAR (“transporter erector launcher and radar”), and its bodyguard of irregular troops, rolled through the southeast corner of what the Yale historian Timothy Snyder has christened the Bloodlands. Here, in living memory—between 1933 and 1945—a hellish amalgam of Nazis and Soviets (sometimes collaborating, more often at war) were responsible for 14 million civilian deaths. “During the years that both Hitler and Stalin were in power,” Snyder writes, “more people were killed in Ukraine than anywhere else in the Bloodlands, or in Europe, or in the world.”

Half an hour after MH17 took off, another Ukrainian curator, @WowihaY, tweeted that the convoy had passed through his hometown of Torez, 45 miles east of Donetsk, headed to the city of Snizhne. There, the Buk was unloaded from a white Volvo low-loader truck before continuing south under its own power. Passing through checkpoints held by Russian--backed insurgents, it set up in a field and, at 4:20 p.m. local time, fired a 1,500-pound missile 33,000 feet into the air. Carrying a high-explosive fragmentation warhead weighing 154 pounds, it nearly reached Mach 3. On board MH17 were 15 crew and 283 passengers, including 80 children in 20 family groups and a party, led by the virologist and former International AIDS Society president Joep Lange, heading for the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne.

The warhead exploded around four meters to the upper left of the airplane’s nose. Dying bodies fell “like confetti” for around 90 seconds. One female victim crashed through the corrugated roof of a house into a kitchen. Autopsies found hundreds of metal fragments in the captain’s corpse, another 120 in the first officer, and a bow-tie-shaped fragment—unique to the Buk-M1’s 9N314M warhead—embedded in one of the flight crew.

For long days, governments scrambled to negotiate access with hostile irregular forces, probably composed of what Galeotti calls “a mix of regular Russian units, ad hoc collections of nationalists and adventurers, and everything in between.” These auxiliaries, largely organized by the GRU (the Russian army’s foreign military intelligence agency), now controlled what a spokesman for investigators with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) called “the biggest crime scene in the world.” The hot sun glittered. It was summer. It was very warm.

Penetrating the smog of war

Three days earlier Eliot Higgins, a highly regarded citizen journalist, had launched his crowdfunded project Bellingcat in beta. Bellingcat would use open-source information, he promised, “to investigate, collaborate, and report on worldwide issues that are being underreported and ignored … Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Kurdistan, Nigeria, Jihadists, Shia armed groups, the U.K. phone hacking scandal, police corruption, and more.” That “and more” swiftly became the downing of MH17. Bellingcat could have been designed for the challenge. Less than six hours after the shoot-down, Higgins had found, identified, archived, uploaded, and shared a 35-second video—titled in Russian “The Murder Weapon Malaysians Snizhne”—in which the Buk, now led by a single vehicle, rumbled ominously through Snizhne. Two years later, the Dutch-led international Joint Investigation Team (JIT) would use the video in its findings.

The official investigation by the Dutch Safety Board, conducted in parallel with the JIT’s, embodied a century of hard-won knowledge about air accidents. Over 15 months, the $4.8 million investigation reconstructed substantial parts of the Boeing 777. A wealth of expertise fortifies every part of the 279-page report and its 26 appendices, showing precisely how flight MH17 was destroyed. In their effort to find out what happened—and who was responsible—the JIT’s hundreds of investigators have, among other tasks, processed 1,448 pieces of wreckage, heard over 200 witnesses, analyzed 150,000 intercepted calls as well as half a million photos and videos, and produced over 6,000 reports. Although determined to keep their powder exceptionally dry for future criminal prosecutions, last September they presented preliminary results. After noting the efforts of “research collectives like Bellingcat,” they reached an unequivocal conclusion: a Buk-M1 TELAR, armed with 9M38M1 missiles carrying 9N314M warheads, traveled from the Russian Federation into Ukraine, fired from a launch site roughly halfway between the villages of Pervomais’kyi (May Day) and Chervonyi Zhovten (Red October), and then returned to Russia.

On a shoestring budget, using social media and satellite photography, and tapping into a network of obsessives, Bellingcat’s detective work has produced impressive results. In a series of reports, participants identified the actual Buk—unit designation number 332—and its battalion in Russia’s 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade. Comparing dozens of Buks, and analyzing photos shared on Vkontakte between 2009 and 2013, they homed in on seven characteristic markers. These included exhaust deposit patterns, dents, the arrangements of cable connections to the missile erector, fonts (and spacing) on the digits, and the vehicles’ mix of hollow and spoked wheels on each side. A Bellingcat with an intelligence background developed an innovative type of “fingerprinting”: using 3-D software “to solve the problem of comparing two vehicles with perspective-distorted photos,” he noticed there were unique patterns of deformation in the protective rubber side skirts above the wheels.

Bellingcat was also the first to publicly describe the route the Buk took through Russia in late June and into and out of Ukraine before, during, and after July 17. The project has since identified several dozen soldiers associated with Unit 32406—the 53rd Brigade—by piecing together content and friend lists on Vkontakte, cross-referenced with posts on a forum for the often anxious mothers and wives of soldiers. (The murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya wrote movingly on this subject in her essay “My Country’s Army, and Its Mothers.”)

The penumbra of uncertainty

None of this cuts much ice in Russia. The Kremlin’s fog machine went into overdrive. The full panoply of Russian state media, troll farms, semi-automated botnets, and what Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov called “useful fools and silly enthusiasts” began their murky work. The Russian government’s response to the shooting down of MH17 was a charade, wrapped in a travesty, inside a miasma: a relentless campaign of abuse and deceit, trying to entangle every fact of the matter in a net of disinformation. Numerous attempts were made to hack the Dutch Safety Board. Several Bellingcats experienced spear-phishing attacks. Other targets included French and U.K. TV channels, NATO, OSCE, and the Polish, Dutch, Finnish, and Norwegian governments, as well as German political parties.

The primary “threat actor” was a cyber-espionage group called Fancy Bear (which has several names, including Tsar Team, APT28, Strontium, and Iron Twilight): Russia-based, and in all probability controlled by the GRU. As during the operations against the U.S. election last year, Fancy Bear seemed careless about disguising its activities. (FBI director James Comey, testifying to the House Committee on Intelligence in March, called the group “very noisy.”)

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Fighting this cyber-espionage is CrowdStrike’s Dmitri Alperovitch (in 2013, one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators under 35). He was the lead computer security consultant on the DNC hacks and has been instrumental in identifying major Chinese and Russian hacking groups. Alperovitch grew up in Russia until his family moved to the United States in 1995. Like many people of Russian origin, he has strong feelings about disinformation. “The power of cyber,” he says, “isn’t the ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ scenario—which we’ve been talking about for 25 years now and hasn’t happened. The real power is in information.”

Alperovitch thinks Russia gets “the true nature of the battlefield” in a way the West does not: “They’ve been thinking about this for a very long time—it actually goes at least as far back as the Tsarist era in the 1860s, when they created one of the first modern intelligence agencies, the Okhranka.” After the 1917 revolution, when the Bolsheviks opened the Okhranka’s archives, “they were shocked to discover how infiltrated they were and how much disinformation had weakened their movement,” he says. “They modeled the KGB on the successes of Okhranka. So they didn’t invent it—they stole it.”

To sunlight we can now add another powerful disinfectant: global, peer-to-peer, open-source investigation.

The highest-ranking Soviet-bloc defector to the West—Lieutenant General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former chief of Romania’s espionage service—has exposed even deeper roots. In a book he recently coauthored, Disinformation, Pacepa cites the Marquis de Custine, Russia’s Tocqueville, who wrote in 1839: “Everything is deception in Russia.” Custine quotes a distinguished and well-traveled Russian diplomat quietly confessing, “Russian despotism not only pays little respect to ideas and sentiments, it will also deny facts; it will struggle against evidence, and triumph in the struggle!” The tsar, and then Lenin, banned Custine’s work.

The U.S. diplomat George Kennan, whose “Long Telegram” to the U.S. State Department shaped the Cold War and NATO, so admired Custine that he wrote a book about him in 1971. Kennan thought that much of Custine’s analysis still rang true: “the neurotic relationship to the West; the frantic fear of foreign observation; the obsession with espionage; the secrecy; the systematic mystification; the general silence of intimidation; the preoccupation with appearances at the expense of reality; the systematic cultivation of falsehood as a weapon of policy; the tendency to rewrite the past.” (Among Putin’s methods, not least is the effort to ban history books as part of “the war of memories.”) Kennan called Russians “one of the world’s greatest peoples,” but he retained a clear-eyed mistrust of their leaders. 

Expectation in the air

“Answer in kind!” commands Edward Luttwak, the eminent if colorful military strategist and historian. Speaking from Moscow, he suggests that we respond aggressively to the global hacking of truth. “There are ample opportunities to hit back,” he says, “but nobody is using them.  There are a thousand stories here, openly circulated.” (He shares one picked up in the Beluga caviar bar from two billionaires the previous night.) Putinism can be likened to the Golden Horde “in advanced Mongol form,” he says. “It’s not just the Great Khan who must have billions of dollars: now the companions of the Court must also be multibillionaires.” He suggests using these stories “to ‘disassemble’ Putin.”

To sunlight we can now add another powerful disinfectant: global, peer-to-peer, open-source investigation. On the day Bellingcat opened for business in 2014, Russia began an artillery bombardment from within its own borders, using its own equipment and soldiers. It still lies about the barrage, as it does about most of its actions in Ukraine. Last December, Bellingcat fired back a salvo of truth: an interactive map showing hundreds of artillery strikes on Ukraine made from Russian territory. Open-source investigation was also used by Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a recent, virally shared video that exposed the scale of Russian corruption. Bolstered by drone footage documenting the leadership’s spoils, the facts brought out tens of thousands in protests across Russia.

Earlier this year, Bellingcat identified the man who called the instrument of MH17’s destruction “my Buk-M.” In several tapped phone calls released by SBU (Ukraine’s secret service) and the JIT, he was called Sergey Petrovsky. But Bellingcat uncovered his real identity: Sergey Dubinsky, a veteran of Russia’s wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya. The calls begin as MH17 passengers are embarking: Dubinsky can be heard coördinating several still-unidentified people as they head to the launch site. Calling himself “Bad”—from his call sign, “Bad Soldier”—Dubinsky would later prove his identity to a skeptical user on a forum by confirming he owned a black Peugeot 3008: Bellingcat found a dash-cam video showing a black Peugeot 3008 leading the missile-launcher convoy east of Donetsk. Bellingcat also found evidence of Dubinsky acknowledging that he was indeed the voice on the recordings. Instrumental in smashing apart the lives of others, -Dubinsky responded to the Bellingcat reports with an e-mail to the BBC, sent from his home in Russia, that was openly contemptuous, describing his “Homeric laughter.”

Today, at any one time, facts keep a city of several hundred thousand people safely in the air. Most of those air dwellers carry smartphones equipped with the GPS technology that Ronald Reagan accelerated into civilian use in response to Russia’s shoot-down of KAL Flight 007. Perhaps we could gain something similar from MH17: a better global positioning system, this time for information. If it is to work, it is unlikely to be entirely technological.

John Pollock has written for MIT Technology Review about the role of social media in the Arab uprisings (“Streetbook,” July/August 2011) and that of civilians in the Libyan information war (“People Power 2.0,” March/April 2012).

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U.S. Takes Sharper Tone on Russia’s Role in Syria

Thursday April 13th, 2017 at 11:57 AM

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In Moscow, Mr. Tillerson came away from a two-hour meeting with Mr. Putin — the first such face-to-face session of the Trump administration — without reaching agreement on facts involving the chemical weapons assault in Syria or Russian interference in the American election. And sharply diverging from the meeting of the minds between the United States and Russia that Mr. Trump frequently aspired to when he was campaigning, there was no visible warming of the relationship.

“There is a low level of trust between our countries,” Mr. Tillerson told reporters at a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov. “The world’s two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship.”

The most immediate casualty of the clash was Russia’s decision last week to suspend a communication channel, set up in 2015, to share information about American and Russian air operations over Syria to avoid possible conflict. Mr. Lavrov said on Wednesday that “we’re willing to put it back into force” if Washington and Moscow can resolve their differences.

Further punctuating the Syria dispute, Russia on Wednesday vetoed a Western-backed resolution at the United Nations Security Council that condemned the chemical weapons attack. It was the eighth time in the six-year-old Syrian civil war that Russia, one of the five permanent Security Council members, had used its veto power to shield the government in Damascus. But in a possible sign of Russia’s isolation on the chemical weapons issue, China, the permanent member that usually votes with Russia on Syria resolutions, abstained.

The vote came the day after Mr. Trump spoke by phone to President Xi Jinping of China, whom he hosted last week at a summit at his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Palm Beach, Fla. White House officials said they credited the relationship between the two leaders that was forged during the visit, and the conversation Tuesday evening, with helping to influence China’s vote.

The day began with harsh words from Mr. Trump toward Mr. Putin, whom he had once praised effusively.

“I really think there’s going to be a lot of pressure on Russia to make sure that peace happens, because frankly, if Russia didn’t go in and back this animal, we wouldn’t have a problem right now,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network, referring to Mr. Assad. “Putin is backing a person that’s truly an evil person, and I think it’s very bad for Russia. I think it’s very bad for mankind. It’s very bad for this world.”

Later, after a meeting at the White House with Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, Mr. Trump went out of his way to praise the military institution, which he called a “great alliance,” and to express disappointment with Russia.

Asked whether it was possible that Syrian forces could have launched the chemical attack without Russia’s knowledge, Mr. Trump said: “It’s certainly possible; I think it’s probably unlikely.”

“I would like to think that they didn’t know, but certainly they could have. They were there,” Mr. Trump said of the Russians during a 30-minute news conference at the White House.

Even as they have intensified their criticism of Russia for backing Mr. Assad, other senior Trump administration officials, including Mr. Tillerson and Jim Mattis, the secretary of defense, have been careful to say there is no consensus that Moscow had foreknowledge that the Assad government planned to launch a chemical assault.

“Right now, we’re not getting along with Russia at all — we may be at an all-time low in terms of a relationship with Russia,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday. Still, he held out hope that the United States and Russia could come to terms, suggesting that Mr. Tillerson’s talks with Mr. Putin had gone better than expected.

A quick détente seemed a remote possibility, given the level of tension surrounding the aftermath of the Syrian chemical weapons attack. On Tuesday, the White House accused Mr. Putin’s government of covering up evidence that Mr. Assad had been responsible for the sarin assault, which was launched from a base where Russian troops are operating.

Mr. Putin shot back that the charge was fabricated and accused the administration of Mr. Trump, who American intelligence agencies believe benefited during the election campaign from Russian cyberattacks intended to embarrass his Democratic rival, of fabricating the evidence to create a fake confrontation.

Amid the rift with Russia, Mr. Trump made a striking reversal on NATO, saying the alliance had transformed into an effective one since he took office.

“I said it was obsolete; it’s no longer obsolete,” Mr. Trump said, standing beside Mr. Stoltenberg.

Mr. Trump attributed his change of heart to unspecified transformations within NATO, which he said were a direct response to criticism he had leveled that the alliance was not doing enough to combat terrorism.

“I complained about that a long time ago,” Mr. Trump said, “and they changed.”

It was not clear what the president was referring to; NATO forces have been fighting alongside the United States in Afghanistan for more than a decade, an effort focused on combating terrorist groups including the Taliban.

Still, the turnabout drew praise from some lawmakers who had been concerned with Mr. Trump’s previous stance.

“Without NATO, the Soviet Union would be quarterbacking half of Europe today and Putin knows it,” said Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska. “NATO is the most successful military alliance in human history. This was the right decision.”

His comments came hours after a senior White House official said the Trump administration had supported the admission of Montenegro into NATO this week, in part to counter the influence of Russia in the small Balkan nation. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the official cited “credible reports” that Moscow had backed a plot for a violent Election Day attack there last fall.

Mr. Trump on Tuesday signed the paperwork allowing Montenegro to enter NATO, two weeks after the Senate approved the move in a March 28 vote. The country’s admission, White House officials said in a statement, should signal to other nations aspiring to join the alliance that “the door to membership in the Euro-Atlantic community of nations remains open and that countries in the western Balkans are free to choose their own future and select their own partners without outside interference or intimidation.”

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China's Split With Russia on Syria signals warmer Xi-Trump ties

Thursday April 13th, 2017 at 11:46 AM

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Ting Shi and Jennifer Epstein

China's abstention from a United Nations resolution condemning the chemical attack in Syria is the most significant sign yet of warmer ties between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump after they met last week.

China, which has since 2011 joined Russia to veto six UN Security Council resolutions on Syria, abstained from a vote Wednesday on a US-led proposal criticizing last week's chemical weapons attack. The move left Russia -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chief ally -- as the only veto-wielding council member to oppose the resolution.

The vote shows that China's president appears intent to build on the rapport Trump says the two leaders established in their first meeting at the US leader's Florida resort. His unilateral decision to launch almost 60 cruise missiles on a Syrian airbase in retaliation for the attack has raised concerns in Asia about a similar strike against North Korea, a Chinese ally.

Shi Yinhong, a foreign affairs adviser to China's cabinet and director of Renmin University's Center on American Studies in Beijing, called the abstention a gesture of "considerable goodwill" to Trump. China has opposed military action against Assad's government since Syria's civil war began, urging a political solution instead.

"It shows Xi desires to have a good relationship with Trump, but it could come at the expense of undermining ties with Russia," Shi said. "It's a signal of willingness to cooperate more on the international stage, especially on North Korea's nuclear program."

Trump's conversations with Xi played a role in China's decision to abstain, according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. In a statement explaining the vote, China's UN ambassador, Liu Jieyi, said that parts of the resolution required revision, without elaborating.

Trump told reporters he's pushing Xi to pressure North Korea to abandon development of nuclear weapons and missiles capable of striking the US, a program that has also alarmed American allies in Japan and South Korea. Tensions are mounting amid evidence that North Korea is ready to conduct a sixth nuclear bomb test in defiance of UN sanctions.

"President Xi wants to do the right thing," Trump said at a White House press conference Wednesday with Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. "I think he wants to help us with North Korea."

Influential Grandchildren

Both the White House and China's state media have touted the personal bond forged during the roughly 18 hours the two leaders spent together last week, including when Trump's five-year-old granddaughter demonstrated her Chinese language skills for Xi. The senior administration official credited Trump's grandchildren with having a big impact on the relationship.

Trump's threats to challenge China on trade, North Korea and Taiwan risked upending the sensitive diplomatic balance between the world's two largest economies. Chinese officials worked for weeks behind-the-scenes to build ties with Trump and his family, before a February phone call between the two leaders in which he reaffirmed long-standing US policy on Taiwan. That led to last week's summit.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published earlier Wednesday, Trump said he offered to ease trade pressure on China in exchange for help dealing with its unruly neighbor. China helped North Korea fight a US-led coalition to a stalemate in the Korean War and remains the isolated nation's principal trading partner.

Trade, Security

"You want to make a great deal? Solve the problem in North Korea," Trump said, noting such a solution would be "worth having" a trade deficit with China. In the same interview, he said his administration wouldn't formally accuse the country of manipulating its currency to gain a trade advantage, retreating from a core campaign promise.

China opposes even limited US military action against its ally and neighbor, which risks dragging both sides into a broader conflict and send refugees clambering toward its border. In a call with Trump on Wednesday, Xi reaffirmed China's belief that talks were the only way to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, according to state media.

The US sent an aircraft carrier battle group into the area this week amid speculation that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un might conduct another nuclear test to mark his grandfather's birthday on Saturday. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said during an appearance on ABC's "This Week" that the strike on Syria sent a message to Pyongyang, while adding that the administration had "no objective to change the regime in North Korea."

Oil Embargo

The Communist Party-affiliated Global Times newspaper has indicated a willingness in the Chinese government to support stronger measures against North Korea. The Trump administration is considering tougher economic sanctions, including an embargo on oil supplies to North Korea, flight bans, cargo interception and punishment on Chinese banks doing business with North Korea, Reuters reported Thursday, citing unidentified US officials.

Zhou Qi, the director of Tsinghua University's National Strategy Institute in Beijing, said it was logical for China to do more to curb Kim's nuclear program if actions were taken within the UN framework.

"The willingness to cooperate with the new US government has been quite overt," she said. "There's plenty of cooperative space between Washing and Beijing as long as Kim continues to pursue its nuclear program."

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13/04/17 09:20 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from russia helping trump - Google News. The Guardian 'Great chemistry': Trump abandons China criticism as Russia ties suffer The Guardian “We're not getting along with Russia at all,” Trump said on Wednesday a...

» Who are the new jihadis? - The Guardian
13/04/17 09:19 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from crime and terror link - Google News. The Guardian Who are the new jihadis? The Guardian From the other side, I have been accused of disregarding the link between terrorist violence and the religious radica...

» How Donald Trump came to love NATO - CNN
13/04/17 09:19 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Donald Trump - Google News. CNN How Donald Trump came to love NATO CNN Trump's newfound enthusiasm for NATO brings him into alignment with a long-standing bipartisan consensus in Washington, exemplified by...

» Bill Straub: Trump's tent didn't expand the GOP electorate; it's white voters who are the difference - KyForward.com
13/04/17 09:19 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from analysis of trump electorate - Google News. KyForward.com Bill Straub: Trump's tent didn't expand the GOP electorate ; it's white voters who are the difference KyForward.com The list is long but any fair a...

» Trump administration shifts rhetoric on Russia - KTVU San Francisco
13/04/17 09:18 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin and American political process - Google News. KTVU San Francisco Trump administration shifts rhetoric on Russia KTVU San Francisco WASHINGTON (KTVU/BCN) - President Donald Trump switched his rhetoric...

» Spicer, Bannon Critics Okay with Anti-Semitic Sharpton and Ellison - American Thinker
13/04/17 09:18 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Abedin has to resign - Google News. American Thinker Spicer, Bannon Critics Okay with Anti-Semitic Sharpton and Ellison American Thinker Spicer's remarks have met with calls from House Minority Leader Nanc...

» China's Split With Russia on Syria Signals Warmer Xi-Trump Ties - Bloomberg
13/04/17 09:18 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump russia ties - Google News. Bloomberg China's Split With Russia on Syria Signals Warmer Xi- Trump Ties Bloomberg China's abstention from a United Nations resolution condemning the chemical attack in S...

» Alleged Plot, Coming Trial In Montenegro Reads Like a Thriller - NPR
13/04/17 09:18 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from organized crime and intelligence - Google News. NPR Alleged Plot, Coming Trial In Montenegro Reads Like a Thriller NPR The tiny Balkan country of Montenegro may be best known for its stunning coastline on ...

» Trump and China: Master diplomat or paper tiger? - CNN
13/04/17 09:17 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Donald Trump - Google News. CNN Trump and China: Master diplomat or paper tiger? CNN Trump's statement came days after he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. The two then sp...

» Trump declares US-Russia relations may be at 'all-time low' - SFGate
13/04/17 09:17 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump russian ties - Google News. SFGate Trump declares US- Russia relations may be at 'all-time low' SFGate WASHINGTON (AP) — Laying bare deep and dangerous divisions on Syria and other issues, President ...

» Trump's Tilt to China Spells Trouble for Putin - PJ Media
13/04/17 09:16 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin Trump - Google News. Trump's Tilt to China Spells Trouble for Putin PJ Media The Democrats in their unremitting (and increasingly self-destructive) zeal to prove Trump has been colluding with Russia ...

» Trump's Syria Strike Was Constitutional - National Review
13/04/17 09:16 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump as danger to National Security - Google News. National Review Trump's Syria Strike Was Constitutional National Review The Framers gave presidents broad powers to take the lead in matters of national ...

» Putin risks Trump wrath with cluster bombs attack in Syria - Daily Mail
13/04/17 09:16 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from putin and trump - Google News. Daily Mail Putin risks Trump wrath with cluster bombs attack in Syria Daily Mail This is the shocking moment Vladimir Putin risked the wrath of Donald Trump after dropping cl...

» Reaching Out to the Voters the Left Left Behind - New York Times
13/04/17 09:16 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump electorate - Google News. New York Times Reaching Out to the Voters the Left Left Behind New York Times As the last election demonstrated, the compact geographical distribution of Democratic voters w...

» Ex MI6 chief suggests Trump may have borrowed Russia money - Daily Mail
13/04/17 09:15 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump russian money - Google News. Daily Mail Ex MI6 chief suggests Trump may have borrowed Russia money Daily Mail A former MI6 chief has accused President Donald Trump of borrowing Russian money at the h...

» All the President's Flip-Flops - The Atlantic
13/04/17 09:15 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin and American political process - Google News. The Atlantic All the President's Flip-Flops The Atlantic Subscribe to The Atlantic's Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in Americ...

» Police warn organized crime, including the Hells Angels, has infiltrated the medical marijuana market - CBC.ca
13/04/17 09:15 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from organized crime and intelligence - Google News. CBC.ca Police warn organized crime , including the Hells Angels, has infiltrated the medical marijuana market CBC.ca An RCMP report obtained by CBC-Radio Can...

» Ex-MI6 chief says Donald Trump may have borrowed money from Russia to keep his empire afloat - Mirror.co.uk
13/04/17 09:15 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from donald trump russia - Google News. Mirror.co.uk Ex-MI6 chief says Donald Trump may have borrowed money from Russia to keep his empire afloat Mirror.co.uk The President came to power pledging to build bridg...

» FBI's Comey: People 'confused' by bureau's actions last year - ABC News
13/04/17 09:10 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Trump FBI file - Google News. FBI's Comey: People 'confused' by bureau's actions last year ABC News FILE - In this March 20, 2017, file photo, FBI Director James Comey, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washing...

» Can FBI Director James Comey Untangle the Trump-Russia Allegations?
13/04/17 08:39 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» Interview: Richard Dearlove—I spy nationalism
13/04/17 08:09 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Richard Dearlove: “The deterioration of European politics… is a far more serious problem for the UK” than terrorism ©Cate Gillon/Getty Images Richard Dearlove frowned at the coffee pot ...

» Ex MI6 chief suggests Trump may have borrowed Russia money
13/04/17 07:31 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Sir Richard Dearlove accused Donald Trump of borrowing Russia money in 2008 Helped keep his businesses afloat when others in the west wouldn't lend to him As Trump's 'bromance' with Put...

» News Reviews and Opinions: Ex-MI6 chief accuses Donald Trump of secretly borrowing from Russia to keep his property empire afloat during the financial crisis Wednesday April 12th, 2017 at 7:12 PM
13/04/17 07:28 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from News Reviews and Opinions. Ex-MI6 chief accuses Donald Trump of secretly borrowing from Russia to keep his property empire afloat during the financial crisis Wednesday April 12th, 2017 at 7:12 PM Ex-MI6 ch...

» Ex-MI6 chief accuses Donald Trump of secretly borrowing from Russia - Google Search
13/04/17 07:27 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Ex-MI6 chief accuses Donald Trump of secretly borrowing from ... The Sun - 13 hours ago A FORMER MI6 chief has accused Donald Trump of secretly borrowing from Russia to keep his property empire afloat during ...

» Ex-MI6 chief accuses Donald Trump of secretly borrowing from Russia to keep his property empire afloat during the financial crisis
12/04/17 19:12 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from The Sun. Bombshell accusation from ex-spymaster Sir Richard Dearlove comes as rumours continue to swirl about the president’s past business dealings with Moscow A FORMER MI6 chief has accused Donald ...

» Ex-MI6 chief accuses Donald Trump of secretly borrowing from Russia to keep his property empire afloat during the ... - The Sun
12/04/17 19:12 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Sun Ex-MI6 chief accuses Donald Trump of secretly borrowing from Russia to keep his property empire afloat during the ... The Sun A FORMER MI6 chief has accused Donald Trump of se...

» Tillerson's Moscow Meeting Is a Reminder of How Dangerous Russia Is - Fortune
12/04/17 19:11 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia international behavior - Google News. Fortune Tillerson's Moscow Meeting Is a Reminder of How Dangerous Russia Is Fortune It has challenged Western norms and global security with Crimean annexation,...

» Trump Says It's Likely Russia Knew of Syrian Gas Attack in Advance - New York Times
12/04/17 19:11 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times Trump Says It's Likely Russia Knew of Syrian Gas Attack in Advance New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that Russia likely knew of the Syrian g...

» Britain's U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft - Google Search
12/04/17 17:03 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Syria chemical attack: Sarin gas was used in Khan Sheikhoun strike ... The Independent - 6 hours ago Britain's UN Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told the UN Security ... for a sarin attack on Khan Sheikhoun on 4 ...

» britain syria un security council - Google Search
12/04/17 17:02 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Russia blocks UN Security Council condemnation of Syria attack Reuters - 1 hour ago Britain's U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told the Security Council that samples taken from the site of the April 4 attack h...

» Dept. Of Defense / James Mattis Press Conference on President Trump's Actions, Russia & North Korea - YouTube
12/04/17 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Streamed live on Apr 11, 2017 LIVE: Defense Department Briefing From The Pentagon on Russia, North Korea and China (4/11/2017) James Mattis press conference On President Trump's Actions - UN Security Council ...

» Trump says NATO the 'bulwark of international peace and security - YouTube
12/04/17 16:35 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Apr 12, 2017 Trump says NATO the 'bulwark of international peace and security' during a joint press conference with visiting NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. SOUNDBITE

» Tillerson and Putin Find Little More Than Disagreement in Meeting
12/04/17 16:16 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Mr. Tillerson reiterated the American view that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Russia’s chief Middle East ally, was responsible for the chemical weapons assault in northern Syria on April 4 that le...

» WATCH LIVE: Secretary of State Tillerson joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov - YouTube
12/04/17 16:10 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Streamed live 3 hours ago Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds a joint news confernece with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

» Rex Tillerson Sergey Lavrov Vladimir Putin Joint Press Conference 4/12/2017 video - YouTube
12/04/17 15:49 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Apr 12, 2017 Rex Tillerson Sergey Lavrov Vladimir Putin Joint Press Conference 4/12/2017 video

» trump and fbi - Google Search
12/04/17 15:05 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . FBI Reportedly Got Court Order To Monitor Trump Adviser's ... NPR - 1 hour ago During the 2016 presidential campaign the FBI obtained a secret warrant to monitor the communications of Carter Page, who was the...

» Putin Meets With Tillerson in Moscow
12/04/17 15:03 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow on Wednesday as tensions between the two countries continued to escalate over the American military strike in Syria, R...

» Tillerson meets with Putin amid deepening tensions over U.S. missile strikes in Syria
12/04/17 14:52 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . (Reuters) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on April 12, acknowledging "sharp differences" with the Kremlin. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets Russia...

» Tillerson meets with Putin amid...
12/04/17 14:52 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Tillerson meets with Putin amid deepening tensions over US missile strikes in Syria Washington Post  - ‎2 hours ago‎ MOSCOW — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held his f...

» Trump says he has ‘confidence’ in FBI Director Comey but it’s ‘not too late’ to fire him
12/04/17 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free...

» 'It's not too late' to get rid of FBI...
12/04/17 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. 'It's not too late' to get rid of FBI Director James Comey, Trump says ABC News  - ‎4 hours ago‎ President Trump is doubling down on the unsubstantiated wiretapping claims aga...

» Amid doubts and recriminations, Putin meets with Tillerson
12/04/17 13:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Ukrainian investigators ca...

» Is Stephen Bannon getting pushed out? The latest signs point to Yes.
12/04/17 13:18 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Stephen K. Bannon. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) THE MORNING PLUM: Washington is abuzz with chatter about President Trump’s latest comments concerning his chief ideologist, Stephen K. Bannon, which suggest ...

» Trump: Jim Comey saved Hillary Clinton's life - YouTube
12/04/17 13:09 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Apr 12, 2017 President Donald Trump on the obstacles to staffing his administration, FBI Director James Comey and former national security advisor Susan Rice.

» Trump Expresses Confidence In FBI Director
12/04/17 13:04 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from The Daily Caller. 5588859 President Trump offered up a mixed review of FBI Director James Comey in a new interview with Fox Business. Trump told the business network’s Maria Bartiromo that he st...

» (UPDATED) James Comey Helped Elect Donald Trump, But Could He Now Be His Greatest Foe? – The Moderate Voice
12/04/17 11:56 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moderate Voice. There is little doubt that American intelligence agencies have long believed that Donald Trump’s inner circle and perhaps the man himself aided and abetted Russian efforts to thro...

» Americans are concerned by Trump’s Russian links
12/04/17 11:03 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from The Guilfordian. Ian Penny , World & Nation Editor • April 7, 2017 • The Trump administration is suspected of having ties to Russian politicians and business leaders. Photo Courtesy of Wiki...

» Sessions Is Wrong to Take Science Out of Forensic Science
12/04/17 10:52 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» US-Russia relations fray; Trump backs NATO expansion; Low public support for Syria strike; Army dusts off hypersonic arty concept; and just a bit more...
12/04/17 10:47 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense One - All Content. About that carrier strike group: Japan’s navy will exercise with the U.S. ships “in a display of military power aimed at deterring the North Korean regime from furthe...

» ‘No Doubt’ Syria Behind Chemical Attack, Mattis Says
12/04/17 10:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense One - All Content. He did lay pressure on Russia to pull their support for Assad. “This is Russia putting their name on the line. So it’s not a question of how long that alliance has la...

» Tillerson, Lavrov to hold joint presser after meeting - YouTube
12/04/17 09:14 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Apr 12, 2017 Leland Vittert reports from Washington, D.C.

» Мама,я лётчика люблю (Группа "Экспресс").avi - YouTube
12/04/17 08:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on May 29, 2012 Видео ряд на песню "Мама я лётчи...

» Trump administration unveils intelligence discrediting Russia’s claims on chemical attack in Syria
12/04/17 07:42 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . The Trump administration took the unusual step Tuesday of unveiling intelligence discrediting Russia’s attempts to shield its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, from blame in last week’s dead...

» Rex Tillerson meets Sergey Lavrov for...
12/04/17 07:00 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from tillerson - Google News. Rex Tillerson meets Sergey Lavrov for 'frank exchange' Daily Mail  - ‎9 minutes ago‎ Tillerson hammered Russia on Tuesday, saying in a statement that Russia had 'f...

» Russia's Lavrov warns US over Syria in heated talks
12/04/17 06:40 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . The two top diplomats are sitting down together in Moscow on Wednesday for what are expected to be painstaking talks after a chemical attack in northwestern Syria plunged the old Cold War enemies to a new low...

» UK's Daily Mail to pay Melania Trump damages over modeling claims
12/04/17 06:28 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» How Syria is shuffling Trump-era politics - CNN
12/04/17 05:35 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CNN How Syria is shuffling Trump-era politics CNN (CNN) The missile strike launched by President Donald Trump on an Assad regime airfield last week did little to change the deadl...

» Tillerson carries Syria stance to Moscow as Trump administration speaks for West - Reuters
12/04/17 05:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Reuters Tillerson carries Syria stance to Moscow as Trump administration speaks for West Reuters LUCCA, Italy/MOSCOW U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson carried a unified messa...

» The Trumps' war for nepotism - Washington Post
12/04/17 05:33 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post The Trumps' war for nepotism Washington Post Donald Trump's political career is all about rewriting the political rule book — taking long-standing norms that the ...

» Don't count on Russia to get rid of Assad - Washington Post
12/04/17 05:33 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post Don't count on Russia to get rid of Assad Washington Post Philip Gordon is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2009 to 2013 he was assistant...

» Tillerson brings tough line to Moscow over Russia's backing for Syrian regime - Washington Post
12/04/17 05:32 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post Tillerson brings tough line to Moscow over Russia's backing for Syrian regime Washington Post MOSCOW — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Russia on Tuesd...

» He steals credit, describes the average as superlative, invents history and spins conspiracy theories - RollingStone.com
12/04/17 05:32 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. RollingStone.com He steals credit, describes the average as superlative, invents history and spins conspiracy theories RollingStone.com Donald Trump has falsely claimed, among ot...

» Tillerson Warns Russia on Syria, Saying Assad Era Is 'Coming to an End' - New York Times
12/04/17 05:32 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times Tillerson Warns Russia on Syria, Saying Assad Era Is 'Coming to an End' New York Times Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, right, at a meeting in Lucca, Italy, on...

» Trump Isn't Wrong on China Currency Manipulation, Just Late - New York Times
12/04/17 05:31 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times Trump Isn't Wrong on China Currency Manipulation, Just Late New York Times President Trump and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Fl...

» Sessions tells prosecutors to bring more cases against those entering US illegally - Washington Post
12/04/17 05:30 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post Sessions tells prosecutors to bring more cases against those entering US illegally Washington Post Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors acr...

» Trump administration says new evidence discredits Russia's claims on chemical attack - Washington Post
12/04/17 05:30 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post Trump administration says new evidence discredits Russia's claims on chemical attack Washington Post The Trump administration broadened its assault on Russia's mi...

» FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page - Washington Post
12/04/17 05:29 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page Washington Post The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of ...

» Trump's Directive Will Lift Hiring Freeze, as It Asks Agencies for Cuts - New York Times
12/04/17 05:27 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times Trump's Directive Will Lift Hiring Freeze, as It Asks Agencies for Cuts New York Times Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, during a meeting with Presid...

» Oladipo lifts Russ-less Thunder over Wolves, 100-98 - FOXSports.com
12/04/17 05:26 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. FOXSports.com Oladipo lifts Russ-less Thunder over Wolves, 100-98 FOXSports.com MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — With Russell Westbrook sitting out for the first time this season, Oklahoma Cit...

» White House accuses Russia of Syria chemical attack 'cover up' - Reuters
12/04/17 04:55 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Reuters White House accuses Russia of Syria chemical attack 'cover up' Reuters WASHINGTON/MOSCOW President Donald Trump's administration accused Russia on Tuesday of trying to sh...

» FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page
11/04/17 20:14 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campai...

» FBI Trump Investigation - Google Search
11/04/17 20:14 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter ... Washington Post - 59 minutes ago The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the ... adviser to presidential candidate Don...

» Donald Trump has 'HUMILIATED' Russia - ex-ambassador says Putin 'miscalculated' President - Express.co.uk
11/04/17 20:11 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump and putin - Google News. Express.co.uk Donald Trump has 'HUMILIATED' Russia - ex-ambassador says Putin 'miscalculated' President Express.co.uk The former British ambassador to the US claims Russia ha...

» Trump and Putin Hit the First Bump in the Road—and It's Called Syria - The National Interest Online
11/04/17 20:10 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump and putin - Google News. The National Interest Online Trump and Putin Hit the First Bump in the Road—and It's Called Syria The National Interest Online If part of Tillerson's mission was to lay the g...

» Left's New Claim: Trump and Putin Orchestrated Syria Attacks as Distraction - Fox News Insider
11/04/17 20:10 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump and putin - Google News. Fox News Insider Left's New Claim: Trump and Putin Orchestrated Syria Attacks as Distraction Fox News Insider On "Fox & Friends" today, David Brody of CBN News ...

» No need for conspiracy theories. The truth about Trump and Putin is damning enough. - Chicago Tribune
11/04/17 20:10 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump and putin - Google News. Chicago Tribune No need for conspiracy theories. The truth about Trump and Putin is damning enough. Chicago Tribune MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell led off his show Friday nigh...

» Trump's White House takes combative posture toward Putin - Politico
11/04/17 20:09 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump and putin - Google News. Politico Trump's White House takes combative posture toward Putin Politico “ Trump had a kind of affinity for Putin based on partially seeing in him the kind of leader that h...

» Trump and Putin - Google Search
11/04/17 20:07 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Trump's White House takes combative posture toward Putin Politico - 1 hour ago “ Trump had a kind of affinity for Putin based on partially seeing in him the kind of leader that he aspired to be and beca...

» Tillerson brings tough line to Moscow over Russian backing for Syrian regime
11/04/17 19:08 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . (The Washington Post) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, this week as relations between the U.S. and Russia are at the lowest point in decades. What you ne...

» Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson.. Air Mail - YouTube
11/04/17 16:14 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Sep 26, 2012 Another clip from Ella's 1961 Canadian telecast. Air Mail Special.

» Ed Klein: What Putin Tells His Shrink - Newsmax
11/04/17 16:05 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump psychological profile - Google News. Newsmax Ed Klein: What Putin Tells His Shrink Newsmax From time to time, the CIA's Russian analysts update their psychological profile of Vladimir Putin. Here is ...

» Trump's Syria policy diverges depending on who you hear from
11/04/17 15:52 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Politics. Thomson Reuters The Trump administration has in recent days sent highly conflicting signals about whether it supports regime change in Syria and what its red line would be for taking further mili...

» Five reasons why US intelligence believes Assad used chemical weapons on his own people — Quartz
11/04/17 15:50 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . The Trump administration has “clear and consistent” information leading it to believe that the Syrian government bombed its own people with sarin nerve gas last week, senior intelligence officials...

» Trump's relationship with Russia was confusing enough. Then Syria happened - The Guardian
11/04/17 15:47 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump russian candidate - Google News. The Guardian Trump's relationship with Russia was confusing enough. Then Syria happened The Guardian Where any other presidential candidate would have carefully avoid...

» Ten years after killing, a bizarre mob story continues - NorthJersey.com
11/04/17 15:47 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from organized crime and intelligence - Google News. NorthJersey.com Ten years after killing, a bizarre mob story continues NorthJersey.com A battle is also shaping up between in state Appellate Court , where t...

» Trump administration says Russia helping Syria cover up sarin attack - USA TODAY
11/04/17 15:47 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump and russia - Google News. USA TODAY Trump administration says Russia helping Syria cover up sarin attack USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday there is overwhelming evidence that Syria ...

» Thinking About Vice President Pence, Bill O'Reilly - Martins Ferry Times Leader
11/04/17 15:46 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Anthony Weiner - Google News. Odessa American Thinking About Vice President Pence, Bill O'Reilly Martins Ferry Times Leader Fox News under Roger Ailes produced some great journalism and some low-rent behav...

» Opinion: Only one winner will emerge from White House infighting: Donald Trump - MarketWatch
11/04/17 15:44 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Donald Trump - Google News. MarketWatch Opinion: Only one winner will emerge from White House infighting: Donald Trump MarketWatch The so-called New Yorker contingent is led by two Goldman Sachs alumni — N...

» Dem rep: What if Trump and Putin coordinated on the Syria strike to cover up their other collusion? An error occurred. - Hot Air
11/04/17 15:44 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump and putin - Google News. Hot Air Dem rep: What if Trump and Putin coordinated on the Syria strike to cover up their other collusion? An error occurred. Hot Air In which the “wag the dog” crankery on ...

» Russian Spies' Go-To Tactics For Entangling People: Bribery And Blackmail - NPR
11/04/17 15:43 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from organized crime and Russian intelligence - Google News. NPR Russian Spies' Go-To Tactics For Entangling People: Bribery And Blackmail NPR As congressional and FBI investigators in Washington explore potent...

» Right-Wing Media Attempt To Absolve Trump Of Alleged Russia Ties After Strike On Syrian Regime Airbase - Media Matters for America
11/04/17 15:43 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump russian ties - Google News. Media Matters for America Right-Wing Media Attempt To Absolve Trump Of Alleged Russia Ties After Strike On Syrian Regime Airbase Media Matters for America Right-wing media...

» The Latest: Tillerson meets with US Embassy staff in Moscow | Election 2016 Live
11/04/17 15:13 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from rapidcityjournal.com - RSS Results in news/national/govt-and-politics of type article. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on U.S. meetings with world leaders on the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria ...

» Russian Spies' Go-To Tactics For Entangling People: Bribery And Blackmail
11/04/17 14:32 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . As congressional and FBI investigators in Washington explore potential ties between President Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian intelligence services' meddling in the election, they're searching for one parti...

» New Cold War? Former Russian military chief's chilling warning to the West | World | News
11/04/17 14:08 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Cell Phone For Senior Citizens. The chilling admission comes as Vladimir Putin refused to meet US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his trip to Moscow this week. Tensions have continued to boil over ...

» Commentary: Why the Trump-Russia investigation may continue for years
11/04/17 13:54 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» Commentary: Why Assad used chemical weapons
11/04/17 13:44 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» Monitor says Syria drops barrel bombs despite U.S. warning; Syria denies
11/04/17 13:21 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» The Latest: McCain: America can stop both IS and Assad
11/04/17 13:12 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . BEIRUT — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 7:10 p.m. U.S. Senator John McCain says stopping Syrian President Bashar Assad’s “murderous rampage” does not preclude A...

» Don’t count on Russia to get rid of Assad
11/04/17 13:08 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . By Philip Gordon By Philip Gordon April 11 at 10:05 AM Philip Gordon is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2009 to 2013 he was assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian aff...

» Why the Russians Aren’t Likely to Break With Assad
11/04/17 12:59 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» US Official: Russia knew Syrian chemical attack was coming - Europe
11/04/17 12:29 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Gale feed. US Official: Russia knew Syrian chemical attack was coming WASHINGTON — The United States has concluded that Russia knew ahead of time that Syria would launch a chemical weapons attack las...

» "Detention centres" for LGBT citizens reported in Chechenya
11/04/17 11:58 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . According to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta , Chechen authorities have set up a series of camps or prisons where gay men have been killed or tortured before being made to leave the republic. Last week it...

» Merkel calls on Trump to work with Russia on Syria
11/04/17 11:47 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from AMN – Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز. (TASS) German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on US President Donald Trump in a phone conversation on Monday to continue the Syrian settlement under the UN auspices and ...

» Russian General Staff Warns Against New US Missile Strikes on Syria
11/04/17 11:37 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Sputnik International - Breaking News & Analysis - Radio, Photos, Videos, Infographics. Militants are preparing a provocation against the Syrian government. "Militants are delivering toxic chemica...

» Black smoke rising from Moscow's Vnukovo airport
11/04/17 11:26 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Reuters photographer at Moscow's Vnukovo airport said on Tuesday there was black smoke rising from a part of the airfield where planes are parked. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is...

» Gunman at large after southwest Houston shooting, attempted robbery
11/04/17 11:15 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Police investigate a shooting in a southwest Houston park that left one man injured Tuesday. (Metro Video) Police investigate a shooting in a southwest Houston park that left one man injured Tuesday. (Metro V...

» Tillerson: Russia Must Choose Between Assad, US - YouTube
11/04/17 10:59 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Apr 11, 2017 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday Russia must choose between aligning itself with the U.S. and like-minded countries, or embracing embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad...

» Secretary of State Tillerson Arrives in Moscow - YouTube
11/04/17 10:54 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Apr 11, 2017 U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in Moscow to meet with Russian officials about the Syrian civil war. (April 11)

» U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson lands in Moscow - YouTube
11/04/17 10:52 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Published on Apr 11, 2017 Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's arrives in Moscow carrying a unified message from world powers denouncing Russian support for S...

» G7 powers meet Middle Eastern allies in bid to isolate Syria's Assad - The Globe and Mail
11/04/17 10:49 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. G7 powers meet Middle Eastern allies in bid to isolate Syria's Assad The Globe and Mail The Group of Seven major global powers were joined by Middle Eastern allies on Tuesday in a push to isol...

» Russia Should End 'Hypocrisy' Over Syria, French Foreign Minister Says - U.S. News & World Report
11/04/17 10:48 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. U.S. News & World Report Russia Should End 'Hypocrisy' Over Syria, French Foreign Minister Says U.S. News & World Report France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault arrives to attend a bilater...

» Russia, Before Tillerson Visit, Says Worried USA May Attack North Korea - U.S. News & World Report
11/04/17 10:48 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. U.S. News & World Report Russia, Before Tillerson Visit, Says Worried USA May Attack North Korea U.S. News & World Report Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a meeting with U...

» Rex Tillerson just gave Russia an ultimatum - Business Insider
11/04/17 10:48 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Business Insider Rex Tillerson just gave Russia an ultimatum Business Insider Rex Tillerson Angelino Alfano US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday arriving at a ceremony at the Sant'Ann...

» Top issues on the table as Tillerson heads to Moscow amid escalating war of words - ABC News
11/04/17 10:46 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Top issues on the table as Tillerson heads to Moscow amid escalating war of words ABC News It's the highest-level visit of a Trump administration official to Russia, and it could not come at a...

» US, Allies Look to Persuade Russia to Abandon Syria's Assad - Fortune
11/04/17 10:46 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Fortune US, Allies Look to Persuade Russia to Abandon Syria's Assad Fortune The Group of Seven major global powers were joined by Middle Eastern allies on Tuesday in a push to isolate Syrian P...

» Rex Tillerson gives Russia stark choice in Syria conflict - CBS News
11/04/17 10:46 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. CBS News Rex Tillerson gives Russia stark choice in Syria conflict CBS News Last Updated Apr 11, 2017 9:11 AM EDT. Hours ahead of his first scheduled trip to Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Re...

» Senior U.S. official says Russia knew about Syrian chemical attack in advance - Chicago Tribune
11/04/17 10:43 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from us russia syria - Google News. Chicago Tribune Senior U.S. official says Russia knew about Syrian chemical attack in advance Chicago Tribune The United States has made a preliminary conclusion that Russia ...

» Trump taunts North Korea on Twitter, says U.S. will 'solve' fight - New York Daily News
11/04/17 10:43 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. New York Daily News Trump taunts North Korea on Twitter, says U.S. will 'solve' fight New York Daily News Trump kicked off his Tuesday morning by firing off foreign policy tweets about North K...

» Donald Trump says North Korea is 'looking for trouble' - Yahoo News
11/04/17 10:42 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Yahoo News Donald Trump says North Korea is 'looking for trouble' Yahoo News Donald Trump has said North Korea is "looking for trouble" and warned the US would "solve the proble...

» Syria strike follows Washington's failed foreign-policy playbook - Washington Post
11/04/17 10:38 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Washington Post Syria strike follows Washington's failed foreign-policy playbook Washington Post “There's a playbook in Washington that presidents are supposed to follow,” then-President Obama...

» Clinton woman killed in crash near Mason City - Bloomington Pantagraph
11/04/17 10:38 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from clinton - Google News. Bloomington Pantagraph Clinton woman killed in crash near Mason City Bloomington Pantagraph MASON CITY — An 18-year-old Clinton woman has been killed in a single-car crash near Mason...

» Trump warns China on North Korea: Help solve the problem or 'we will' - Fox News
11/04/17 10:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump - Google News. Fox News Trump warns China on North Korea: Help solve the problem or 'we will' Fox News President Trump on Tuesday said North Korea “is looking for trouble” and vowed to get the murder...

» Syria's Government 'Coming to an End,' Tillerson Warns Before Russia Trip - New York Times
11/04/17 10:33 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. New York Times Syria's Government 'Coming to an End,' Tillerson Warns Before Russia Trip New York Times Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, right, at a meeting in Lucca, Italy, on Tue...

» US NSA spying on Pakistan's mobile networks: WikiLeaks - The Siasat Daily
11/04/17 10:33 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from nsa contractor - Google News. The Siasat Daily US NSA spying on Pakistan's mobile networks: WikiLeaks The Siasat Daily “But a classified 2010 legal certification — approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surv...

» G-7 nations reject new sanctions against Russia in Syria crisis - Los Angeles Times
11/04/17 10:32 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Los Angeles Times G-7 nations reject new sanctions against Russia in Syria crisis Los Angeles Times The Group of Seven industrialized nations on Tuesday urged Russia to pressure the Syrian gov...

» Obama heading to Germany in May to talk democracy with Merkel - Politico
11/04/17 10:32 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Politico Obama heading to Germany in May to talk democracy with Merkel Politico Former President Barack Obama plans to reemerge on the international stage in late May, sitting down wit...

» Theo Walcott's scandalous admission - ESPN FC (blog)
11/04/17 10:32 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. ESPN FC (blog) Theo Walcott's scandalous admission ESPN FC (blog) The ESPN FC crew have all the latest analysis from the fallout at Arsenal. Craig Burley certainly doesn't hold b...

» Obama To Meet With Merkel In Germany In Late May - Daily Caller
11/04/17 10:31 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from nsa contractor - Google News. Obama To Meet With Merkel In Germany In Late May Daily Caller The publication based its claims on a trove of documents leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and said they w...

» P7250141 - YouTube
11/04/17 10:20 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Uploaded on Jul 26, 2010 Ella's Fitzgerald's first movie appearance singing "A Tisket a Tasket"

» The Latest: Tillerson Arrives in Moscow - U.S. News & World Report
11/04/17 10:17 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. U.S. News & World Report The Latest: Tillerson Arrives in Moscow U.S. News & World Report U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in Moscow to meet with Russian officials about the S...

» In Moscow, Tillerson seeks to move Russia away from Syrian alliance - Washington Post
11/04/17 10:17 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Washington Post In Moscow, Tillerson seeks to move Russia away from Syrian alliance Washington Post MOSCOW — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Russia Tuesday to urge Moscow to back a...

» U.S. Accuses Russian Email Spammer of Vast Network of Fraud
11/04/17 10:15 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Despite Russian news media reports to the contrary, American officials said Mr. Levashov played no role in attempts by Russian government hackers to meddle in the 2016 presidential election and support the ca...

» Steve Bannon Throws His Worst Insult at Jared Kushner
11/04/17 10:11 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Yahoo Style. From Marie Claire It was a shocking move when President Trump appointed former media executive Steve Bannon to the National Security Council back in January. And it was just as shocking to lea...

» Trump warns China on North Korea: Help solve the problem or 'we will'
11/04/17 10:03 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . President Trump on Tuesday said North Korea “is looking for trouble” and vowed to get the murderous regime of dictator Kim Jong-Un under control with or without China’s help. Trump sent the ...

» San Bernardino school shooting - where is North Park School, who is Cedric Anderson and what happened?
11/04/17 09:40 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from The Sun. AN eight-year-old boy was shot and killed by a crazed gunman who opened fire in a classroom murdering his estranged teacher wife and hitting one other child in the cross fire. Cedric Anderson, 53,...

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11/04/17 09:38 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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11/04/17 09:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . cedric A word meaning king of all the land. A word meaning a super sexy , totally cool person . A word meaning a genius. That guy is such a cedric. #king #sexy #genius #sedric #sedrick #cedrick

» Accused San Bernardino Shooter's Facebook Fawning Disguised Homicidal Rage - NBCNews.com
11/04/17 09:31 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from cedric anderson - Google News. NBCNews.com Accused San Bernardino Shooter's Facebook Fawning Disguised Homicidal Rage NBCNews.com At the start, the photographs, the Facebook postings, the video — it all lo...

» cedric anderson - Google Search
11/04/17 09:27 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . San Bernardino School Shooting: Man Kills Wife Then Himself; 1 of ... KTLA - 14 hours ago Her husband, the shooter, was identified as Cedric Anderson of Riverside, also ... Without saying anything, Anderson q...

» San Bernardino School Shooting Leaves 3 Dead, Including Student
11/04/17 09:23 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . While the couple had been estranged, friends and family had not told the police about any previous violence between the couple, Chief Burguan said. Mr. Anderson did have a criminal record, including domestic ...

» Putin says expects 'fake' gas attacks to discredit Syria's Assad
11/04/17 09:22 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» Tillerson faces tough talks in Moscow amid increased tensions
11/04/17 09:20 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» Tillerson carries Syria stance to Moscow as Trump administration speaks for West
11/04/17 09:16 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . By Steve Scherer and Andrew Osborn | LUCCA, Italy/MOSCOW LUCCA, Italy/MOSCOW U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson carried a unified message from world powers to Moscow on Tuesday, denouncing Russian support ...

» The Russian and Iranian ties that the U.S. can’t seem to break
11/04/17 09:07 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» In Moscow, Tillerson seeks to move Russia away from Syrian alliance
11/04/17 09:06 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . (Reuters) U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters on April 11 at a meeting of Group of Seven foreign ministers in Moscow that the U.S. hopes Russia will abandon its support Syrian President Basha...

» Russia Risks Irrelevance in Mideast With Syria Policy, Rex Tillerson Warns
11/04/17 08:12 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . LUCCA, Italy — Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said on Tuesday that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia must end his alliance with the government of Syria , and that the reign of that country̵...

» Russia News Review: Russia Risks Irrelevance in Mideast With Syria Policy, Rex Tillerson Warns
11/04/17 08:11 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from 1. Digests from mikenova (32 sites). Moments before traveling to Moscow, the secretary of state said that President Vladimir Putin of Russia must end his alliance with the government of Bashar al-Assad. Ru...

» UK and US push for new Russia sanctions rejected by European allies at G7 meeting
11/04/17 07:32 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Britain and America have failed to win immediate support from European allies for new sanctions on Russia following the chemical weapons attack in Syria . Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spearheaded the drive...

» Is Russia Testing Trump? - The New York Times
11/04/17 07:00 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Again in January, Russia moved troops near the border with Belarus, designed to pressure Belarus to accept an increased Russian military presence on its territory. And in March, the Kremlin ordered the incorp...

» Russia ‘has secretly opened Nazi-style prisons where hundreds of gay men are held and some murdered,’ local reports claim
10/04/17 16:28 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from The Sun. Chechyna has reportedly opened its first prison camp where men are 'tortured or killed' because of their sexuality GAY men are allegedly being put into concentration camp-style prisons in Rus...

» At least two dead, two others wounded in shooting at San Bernardino elementary school, police say
10/04/17 16:14 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . A helicopter view shows students leaving North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, Calif. on April 10. (Reuters) A helicopter view shows students leaving North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, ...

» How the Tumultuous ’90s Paved the Way for Putin’s Russia
10/04/17 16:07 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story . Yet the Clinton administration praised Yeltsin for promoting democratic and market reforms. Clinton had a soft spot for “Ol’ Boris,” whom he considered a bulwark against Russia’s Commu...

» U.S. Moves Have 'Potential to Blow Up,' Says Ian Bremmer
10/04/17 16:03 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
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» US-Russia Relations Post Military Strikes in Syria - Bloomberg
10/04/17 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from us russia syria - Google News. Bloomberg US - Russia Relations Post Military Strikes in Syria Bloomberg Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, discusses market reaction and U.S. - Russia rela...

» Rouhani urges Saudi Arabia to stop interfering in Yemen and Syria - APA
10/04/17 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Yemen Saudi Arabia Iran - Google News. APA Rouhani urges Saudi Arabia to stop interfering in Yemen and Syria APA Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has took Saudi Arabia responsible for darkened relations bet...

» The Early Edition: April 10, 2017 - Just Security
10/04/17 16:00 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump as danger to National Security - Google News. The Early Edition: April 10, 2017 Just Security Drop support for Assad or face further corrosion of US-Russia relations, Trump officials demanded of Russ...

» Donald Trump aide Sebastian Gorka 'tried to partition Libya into three by drawing map on a napkin' - The Independent
10/04/17 15:59 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Donald Trump - Google News. The Independent Donald Trump aide Sebastian Gorka 'tried to partition Libya into three by drawing map on a napkin' The Independent One of Donald Trump 's closest aides reportedl...

» The Note: The split on Syria strategy - ABC News
10/04/17 15:59 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. The Note: The split on Syria strategy ABC News THE BIG STORY: Can he stay or should he go? The split between top Trump administration officials on the question of whether regime change is the ...

» Why is Trump's intervention in Syria different from all other interventions? - Washington Post
10/04/17 15:59 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Washington Post Why is Trump's intervention in Syria different from all other interventions? Washington Post The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts has been following the debate about P...

» US election 'hacking': Russian arrested in Spain amid talk case linked to presidential campaign - ABC Online
10/04/17 15:58 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump and russia - Google News. ABC Online US election 'hacking': Russian arrested in Spain amid talk case linked to presidential campaign ABC Online ... her friend locked in a room for two hours while the...

» Russia Slams UK for Lack of Global Influence and Diplomatic Understanding - Newsweek
10/04/17 15:58 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Newsweek Russia Slams UK for Lack of Global Influence and Diplomatic Understanding Newsweek Russia has called into question British diplomatic relevance and U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnso...

» 'They're a global navy': US admiral says Russian naval activity in Europe exceeds Cold War levels - Business Insider UK
10/04/17 15:58 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia influence in Eastern Europe - Google News. Business Insider UK 'They're a global navy': US admiral says Russian naval activity in Europe exceeds Cold War levels Business Insider UK BERLIN (Reuters) ...

» Security guard shot behind San Luis Hotel in Galveston | khou.com - KHOU
10/04/17 15:58 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Gunman in Houston - Google News. KHOU Security guard shot behind San Luis Hotel in Galveston | khou.com KHOU A security guard was shot behind the popular San Luis Hotel in Galveston overnight. Security gua...

» Awkward meeting puts 'friendship' to test - NEWS.com.au
10/04/17 15:58 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from russia in syria - Google News. NEWS.com.au Awkward meeting puts 'friendship' to test NEWS.com.au Speaking in Italy before a meeting of G7 Ministers that is expected to lead to an ultimatum for Russian Pres...

» Iran calls on Syria to ensure Trump 'regrets his attack' - Daily Mail
10/04/17 15:57 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from russia in syria - Google News. Daily Mail Iran calls on Syria to ensure Trump 'regrets his attack' Daily Mail Iran has called on Syria to 'make Americans regret their attack' after Russia warned Donald Tru...

» Iran's Strategy to Sabotage World Trade - theTrumpet.com
10/04/17 15:57 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Yemen Saudi Arabia Iran - Google News. Iran's Strategy to Sabotage World Trade theTrumpet.com This was at a time when most commentators were focusing on the Houthi rebellion as an attempt to take over land...

» Western Leaders Seek Syria Message for U.S. to Give Russia - Bloomberg
10/04/17 15:56 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from russia in syria - Google News. Bloomberg Western Leaders Seek Syria Message for U.S. to Give Russia Bloomberg Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations called a special meeting on Syria following U.S...

» The real reason Hillary Clinton lost the US election - Quartz
10/04/17 15:54 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from clinton trump debate - Google News. Quartz The real reason Hillary Clinton lost the US election Quartz Five months after the US presidential election, pundits and analysts are still working to understand t...

» How the Tumultuous '90s Paved the Way for Putin's Russia - New York Times
10/04/17 15:54 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia influence in Eastern Europe - Google News. New York Times How the Tumultuous '90s Paved the Way for Putin's Russia New York Times Conradi starts with Gorbachev's reforms, the fall of the Soviet-back...

» Russia's Foreign Ministry says US strike on Syria an aggressive act - Reuters
10/04/17 15:43 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from russia in syria - Google News. Reuters Russia's Foreign Ministry says US strike on Syria an aggressive act Reuters MOSCOW Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday that the missile strike on ...

» G-7 ministers aim to press Russia to stop backing Assad - Chicago Tribune
10/04/17 15:42 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Chicago Tribune G-7 ministers aim to press Russia to stop backing Assad Chicago Tribune U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson steps off his plane at Pisa Military Airport in Pisa, Italy, on Su...

» John McCain Says US Urgently Needs Syria Strategy as Top Officials Disagree on Assad - Newsweek
10/04/17 15:42 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Newsweek John McCain Says US Urgently Needs Syria Strategy as Top Officials Disagree on Assad Newsweek Senator John McCain has said the U.S. needs a clear military strategy in Syria after top ...

» Suspect Killed In Overnight Police Shooting In Fremont - CBS San Francisco Bay Area
10/04/17 15:42 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from police officers shootings - Google News. CBS San Francisco Bay Area Suspect Killed In Overnight Police Shooting In Fremont CBS San Francisco Bay Area FREMONT (CBS SF) – One person died in an officer involv...

» Trump still can't buy a vote of confidence - Washington Post
10/04/17 15:41 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Washington Post Trump still can't buy a vote of confidence Washington Post President Trump's strikes against the Syrian government earned the support of the American people and improved views ...

» Scores of cyber attacks tied to CIA tools, Symantec says - CNET
10/04/17 15:41 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from cyberattacks - Google News. CNET Scores of cyber attacks tied to CIA tools, Symantec says CNET The hacking tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency may have been involved with at least 40 cyber attack...

» After attack on Syria, Tillerson vows to defend 'innocents' - PBS NewsHour
10/04/17 15:41 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from tillerson - Google News. PBS NewsHour After attack on Syria, Tillerson vows to defend 'innocents' PBS NewsHour SANT'ANNA DI STAZZEMA, Italy — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used a visit Monday to a ...

» Kremlin, angry at Syria missile strike, says Putin won't meet Tillerson - Yahoo News
10/04/17 15:40 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Yahoo News Kremlin, angry at Syria missile strike, says Putin won't meet Tillerson Yahoo News FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson makes a statement about the situation in Syria, ...

» Trump's Syria strikes do not amount to a coherent policy - Washington Post (blog)
10/04/17 15:37 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Washington Post (blog) Trump's Syria strikes do not amount to a coherent policy Washington Post (blog) As he is wont to do regarding President Trump, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) got carried away,...

» New Polls: Trump's approval rating on the rise following Syrian strike - NH1 News
10/04/17 15:36 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from polls - Google News. NH1 News New Polls : Trump's approval rating on the rise following Syrian strike NH1 News The President's approval rating is up three percentage points from March 29, when 40% question...

» Tillerson vows US will target anyone who harms 'innocents' - New York Post
10/04/17 15:35 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from tillerson - Google News. Tillerson vows US will target anyone who harms 'innocents' New York Post “We rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere...

» Is THIS the Russian programmer who 'hacked' the election? - Daily Mail
10/04/17 15:35 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from us elections - Google News. Daily Mail Is THIS the Russian programmer who 'hacked' the election ? Daily Mail This is the first picture of Pyotr Levashov, an alleged Russian cyber spam kingpin held in Spain...

» 4 key truths about President Trump - Washington Post
10/04/17 15:35 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump - Google News. Washington Post 4 key truths about President Trump Washington Post Donald Trump has been president for 80 days, and he's now taken part in perhaps the most solemn presidential duty the...

» G7 ministers look to persuade Russia to abandon Syria's Assad - Reuters
10/04/17 15:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Reuters G7 ministers look to persuade Russia to abandon Syria's Assad Reuters LUCCA, Italy Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialised nations met in Italy on Monday, l...

» G7 Leaders Talk Syria in Italy, Push for Sanctions on Russia - Breitbart News
10/04/17 15:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from russia in syria - Google News. Breitbart News G7 Leaders Talk Syria in Italy, Push for Sanctions on Russia Breitbart News Group of Seven foreign ministers are sitting down in Italy for their first roundtab...

» DIANE DIMOND: Congress should recognize security threat ... - Examiner Enterprise
10/04/17 15:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from russian organised crime in us - Google News. DIANE DIMOND: Congress should recognize security threat ... Examiner Enterprise Dear Lawmaker: Remember that old movie “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Ar...

» Syrian government negotiating Nusra in southern Damascus for evacuation deal - AMN Al-Masdar News (registration)
10/04/17 15:34 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from nusra front - Google News. AMN Al-Masdar News (registration) Syrian government negotiating Nusra in southern Damascus for evacuation deal AMN Al-Masdar News (registration) ... al-Sham –formerly known as al...

» Boris Johnson: Russia could face more sanctions over Syria - BBC News
10/04/17 15:33 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. BBC News Boris Johnson: Russia could face more sanctions over Syria BBC News Further sanctions will be considered against Russia over the "appalling" behaviour of the Syrian regime, ...

» Baytown PD: Suspect in shooting death of Harris County deputy committed suicide - CW39
10/04/17 15:33 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from police officers shootings - Google News. CW39 Baytown PD: Suspect in shooting death of Harris County deputy committed suicide CW39 Prior to working with the Harris County Sheriff's Office, Greenwood worked...

» The US strike on Syria carries convenient victories for both Putin and Trump - Business Insider
10/04/17 15:30 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Business Insider The US strike on Syria carries convenient victories for both Putin and Trump Business Insider Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he arrives for a meeting with ...

» Russia bans pictures depicting Putin as a 'gay clown' - Alive For Football
10/04/17 15:29 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Alive For Football Russia bans pictures depicting Putin as a 'gay clown' Alive For Football It is now illegal in Russian Federation to distribute any images that depict President Vladimir Puti...

» Police: Gunman who killed Houston deputy killed himself - KXAN.com
10/04/17 15:29 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Gunman in Houston - Google News. KXAN.com Police: Gunman who killed Houston deputy killed himself KXAN.com BAYTOWN, Texas (AP/KXAN) — Police say a man who fatally shot a Houston -area deputy constable outs...

» Police: Fatal shooting of Cook County judge may have been attempted robbery - Chicago Tribune
10/04/17 15:29 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Chicago Tribune Police: Fatal shooting of Cook County judge may have been attempted robbery Chicago Tribune Cook County Judge Raymond Myles was killed and a woman was wounded in ...

» Rolling Stone: The Speculation Over Trump-Russia Ties Is Becoming A Case Of Mass Hysteria - Townhall
10/04/17 15:29 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from trump and russia - Google News. Townhall Rolling Stone: The Speculation Over Trump - Russia Ties Is Becoming A Case Of Mass Hysteria Townhall Yet, out of the ashes, there's Matt Taibbi, who while he's prob...

» Tillerson issues warning to Syria, Russia during G7 summit - New York Daily News
10/04/17 15:28 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from tillerson - Google News. New York Daily News Tillerson issues warning to Syria, Russia during G7 summit New York Daily News Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued a thinly veiled warning against Syria and...

» Former US ambassador to Syria predicts more chemical attacks - The Hill
10/04/17 15:28 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. The Hill Former US ambassador to Syria predicts more chemical attacks The Hill The last person to serve as U.S. ambassador to Syria predicts that Syrian President Bashar Assad will try to use ...

» G-7 ministers seek unity in bid to press Russia over Assad - Washington Post
10/04/17 15:28 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Washington Post G-7 ministers seek unity in bid to press Russia over Assad Washington Post LUCCA, Italy — Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations met Monday to try to ...

» The Trouble With Trump's Big Syria Flip-Flop and Flyweight China Summit - Huffington Post
10/04/17 15:25 from Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks
mikenova shared this story from Google News. Huffington Post The Trouble With Trump's Big Syria Flip-Flop and Flyweight China Summit Huffington Post The Navy guided missile destroyer USS Porter launches a Tomahawk cruise missile at a Syr...