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RE-ENGAGING RUSSIA: With the corona virus already infecting over a million people and severely impacting the global economy, there is a new recognition of a need to reduce global tensions, what John Feffer has called a coronavirus truce. The situation… https://t.co/lOVPFdFA8f bl

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Confirmation Bias: Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out and value information that confirms pre-existing beliefs while discarding information that proves these ideas wrong. The independence of the intelligence community was intended to offset… https://t.co/Ss9lBRtqcK bl

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Putin Lived, Putin Lives, Putin Will Live: Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he agrees with the provisions of Russia's Constitution barring a president from seeking a third consecutive term in office. Putin became Russia's president on… https://t.co/RFuxGHl1Ar bl

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Taking the Hype out of Hypersonic: Didn't Roger Stone say it is better to be notorious than anonymous? Kim Jong-il said that everyone was talking about him, so he must be doing something right Putin 2018 Avanguard This whole hypersonic thing is a… https://t.co/xWfZ0yeUPq bl

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Failure of Maximum Pressure on Iran: It is not over until its over, but at least for the moment, it appears that the "Maximum Pressure" policy towards Iran has more or less failed. Not that any other policies have been notably successful, To review… https://t.co/dI71LITtiq bl

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None Dare Call it Genocide: On 24 November 2019 the PBS Newshour Weekend edition reported on a performance reenactment reimagining the largest slave uprising in American history. The organizer was artist Scott Tyler, known professionally as Dread… https://t.co/eY9OSERfCE bl

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Sanctity of Borders: The international system since the end of the Second World War has been founded on the equal legal sovereignty of states, non-interference in internal domestic affairs, and the preservation of existing territorial boundaries. Of… https://t.co/EFZ3kSZYF2 bl

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10 Megadeaths From Victory ??: Trumps' Nuclear Threat at one time the word "psychic numbing" was in current usage and I think it presently describes the general attitude towards Trump "oh, it is just Donald running off at the mouth again" it is very… https://t.co/VBFDj7z38D bl

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Migrants? or Refugees?: I would not open windows into men's souls. When interviewed, these poor wretches espouse various reasons for their journey in the wilderness: Economic opportunity is one, which makes them migrants. A well founded fear of… https://t.co/0R5ZiZHZNI bl

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Gaza Body Count: Al Mezan Center for Human Rights documentation showed that from the start of the Great Return March protests on 30 March 2018, by 26 October 2018 at least 222 Palestinians had been killed in the Gaza Strip. Of the total fatalities,… https://t.co/qYp5DAicbs bl

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Save the J. Edgar Hoover Building: The J.Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters defines the agency, and should be preserved for posterity. More than any other structure in Washington, it is a monument to the turbulent 1960s. The "Brutalist" style of the… https://t.co/hejX2NPaFV bl

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This is the Last Chance to Solve North Korean Issues: Last June, President Trump and North Korean leader Kim, Jung-Un had a summit in Singapore regarding the denuclearization of North Korean nuclear weapons that can reach the U.S. mainland. However,… https://t.co/dzFxwTjdgq bl

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Make America Great Again - Really: At the end of the Twentieth Century, America was the sole global superpower, leading a world of peace. Its leadership had ended centuries of European warfare and led to the collapse of the totalitarian Soviet Union.… https://t.co/Bp3pBVmTwK bl

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Franco-German superfighter to be combat-ready in middle of 21st century: France and Germany solidified a future partnership in defense strategy focused on jointly building a fighter aircraft to replace Germany's Eurofighters and France's Rafale… https://t.co/okkQMxf97h bl

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B1-B Lancer Completes Target-Seeking Long-Range Missile Test: A US Air Force B-1B supersonic bomber test-fired two sensorized missiles developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide enhanced surface attack options.… https://t.co/JcR2lWbRWT bl

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a wonderful family: "I am a superstitious man If some unlucky accident should befall him [my son] If he should get shot in the head by a police officer If he should hang himself in his jail cell Or if he is struck by a bolt of... https://t.co/xSlcnKdAmT bl

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Novichok and its chemists: Novichok, meaning "new guy," "newcomer, or "novice," depending on the translation, the group name for deadly nerve agents created in the Soviet Union in the Seventies and developed into the early Nineties. Deployed in… https://t.co/QmYJMyeeWe bl

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US Navy's F-35C 'at risk' of missing 2018 IOC declaration: The US Navy's F-35C has been scheduled to reach initial operational capability (IOC) in 2018 since at least 2013. The odds of that happening appear increasingly low. In order for the Navy to… https://t.co/8FnViPewQI bl

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MHz D.C. News Channels Going Off-Air April 1, 2018: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Washington - MHz Networks will end its broadcast and cable distribution of their international news channels in the Washington, D.C. market on March 31, 2018. The move… https://t.co/j9b6hnj59q bl

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a conspiracy so immense: The Cambridge Analytica connection could turn out to be massive. The idea that they have been "banned from Facebook" is silly, since even modestly competent tradecraft could set up shell companies that Facebook would not… https://t.co/IAC8mEgvYR bl