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…, December 2014 “The sides noted that Russia and China had a common approach to the key problems of regional and international security and expressed readiness to counteract ‘color revolutions... Russia and China suffered the biggest losses during WWII and should be resolutely...

Saudi Arabia. When Saudi Arabia wanted American forces removed from the kingdom, for example, Qatar was eager to compensate by hosting a more robust American command presence in the region. The Arab uprisings and subsequent GCC intervention in Bahrain have turned the tables, mak...

Secret Agent | 27 later say that the NSA experts who examined the documents that he had stolen were “totally incapable.” In any case, in February 2009, Snowden not only had a career- damaging “derog” in his file but faced an internal investigation of his suspicious computer act...

Debt Level: Why Will It Continue to Rise? Answer Part 1: Notional Social Security “Trust Fund” Surpluses Likely Turning Into Deficits Owing to Aging Population Social Security Cumulative Real Operating Surpluses / Deficits, 1982-2037E Cumulative Surpluses Projected Cumulative...

from the massacre was that the mix of Jewish settlers, some of whom felt they were on a messianic mission to resettle all of Biblical Israel, and restive Palestinians who wanted sovereignty and control over their own lives was potentially toxic, for both sides. Ideally, the proce...

Article 2. The New York Post The storm in Syria Amir Taheri April 16, 2011 -- Yesterday was supposed to be the first day of what Syrian despot Ba shar al-Assad had dubbed "social calm"; he hoped his mixture of promises and repressive measures would silence the pro-democracy up...

Middle East Affairs, and four years later the United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte. “Why are you so strident,” Shamir asked me, only half-jokingly, after ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read th...

Entitlement Spending: Observation from Previous Slide e Clearly, lower interest rates have allowed Americans to borrow more and save less. But given the high correlation between rising entitlement income for beneficiaries and declining savings rates, one might also wonder if Ame...

…orfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Criminal Division (AFMLS) e Counterterrorism Section, Criminal Division (CTS) e National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) e Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division (OIA) U.S. State Department e Bureau of Economic and Business A...

…uses law merely to justify political instructions from the ex- ecutive branch, making a mockery of due process and international conceptions of the rule of law. 4. History revised: A number of countries have un- dertaken a refashioning of history to buttress the legitimacy and a...

… begin arriving. As we weighed our final decision, I held a series of high-level meetings in Washington: with Panetta, national security adviser Tom Donilon, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama himself. Though not explicitly saying we were ready to attack, I left no doubt that...

…ddressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Ambassador Jeffrey, a former assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor, is author of the new Institute study Moving to Decision: U.S. Policy toward Iran. Ambassador Pickering served in numerous key posts a...

… time he arrived © in Moscow, it had evolved, deliberately or not, but necessarily, into © a mission of disclosing key national secrets to a foreign power. In the end, such conjectures about Snowden’s motives matter less than that he was helped, consciously or not, by others wit...

…r broader range of sectors in Western societies, ranging from think tanks, universities, and media to state, local, and national government institutions. China seeks to promote views sympathetic to the Chinese Government, policies, society, and culture; suppress alternative views...

…he most important part of the story. The NSA, after all, furnishes communications intelligence to the © president, his national security advisers, and the Department of © Defense, intelligence that is supposedly derived from secret sources in adversary nations. If these adversar...