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…sement of Hitler.” Putin has also justified the Hitler-Stalin pact on the grounds that it kept the Soviet Union out of war for a time and was in keeping with the amoral power politics practiced in that era. As for the divvying up of Eastern Europe, he repeated the hoary lie that...

…apter Twenty-Nine = The Whistle Blower Who Became an Espionage Source EPILOGUE THE SNOWDEN EFFECT Chapter Thirty The ‘War on Terrorism’ after Snowden Chapter Thirty-one America after Snowden: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Appendix A the Spies in this Book [TK] End Notes Bi...

…e quadrupling of oil prices due to the Arab Oil Embargo. Later in that decade, the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-lraq War also led to a 2.5 times spike in oil prices that, along with Federal Reserve tightening by then Chairman Paul Volcker, led to a US recession. While we think...

…” he wrote, in Human Use. He was concerned about human-made restrictions as well as technological ones, especially Cold War restrictions that threatened the flow of information so critical to cybernetic systems: “Under the impetus of Senator [Joseph] McCarthy and his imitators, t...

…was hardened by the torture he endured in the three years he spent in Egyptian prisons following the assassination of Anwar al-Sadat, in 1981, and by the savage underground war that he has fought with Egyptian intelligence agencies ever since. Zawahiri has shown a daring willingn...

…t on one trip to China arranged by Jimmy Wong. 8 Mattis, Peter. “Contrasting China and Russia’s Influence Operations.” War on the Rocks. January 2018. https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/contrasting-chinas-russias-influence-operations. 9 See Foreign Travel Paid for by a Foreign G...

… like highly specialized corporate “head- hunters,” as James Jesus Angleton described the process to me during the Cold War era. He was referring to the similar approach that cor- porate human resource divisions had with espionage agencies. Both headhunt by searching through a da...

…g guilty of transmitting American atomic secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1940's, or were they scapegoats of the cold war whose execution was a grave miscarriage of justice? That both are true is the intriguing argument of [the new book.] Woody and Mia both insisted that the R...

…onic or not. I’m not as scared of a world without American hegemony as some people are. We went through the whole Cold War period in which the U.S. was one of two superpowers. A return to a more multi-polar world in certain ways induces a fair amount of moderation among big play...

…arly 1970s, I have been a vocal and persistent opponent of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. And after the war in Lebanon, I protested the use of cluster bombs that, though lawful, unduly endanger the lives of civilians. I have never believed that my strong, general...

…pty eyesores and bulldozer bills of 2008 are symptoms of pro- investment policies founded in many countries after World War II. They did no harm when the world needed rebuilding anyhow. But I suggest that output growth slowed because of them, not despite them, after 1970 or so. |...

…that the withdrawal which the Saudi proposal demanded — every inch of territory, back to the borders before the Six-Day War — would be not only politically unacceptable, but practically impossible. In the final days of the Camp David summit, as our failure was becoming inescapab...

CNN – Quest Means Business U.S. and China Agree to Pause Trade War Robert Lawrence Kuhn, December 3, 2018 1 Host Richard Quest: Robert Lawrence Kuhn is a longtime advisor to Chinese leaders and the author of How China’s Leaders Think. How will they be interpreting the deal that...

…rators, infrastructure analysts, and information technologists, who were needed to keep the system running. Despite the warning by the threat officer, the NSA became more and more reliant on these out- siders as it reorganized to meet its new mandates for surveillance of the Inte...

…t Man, whose perennially misunderstood title is often jeered, but which defined a decade’s thinking about the post-Cold War world order and globalization. His latest book is Origins of Political Order, which traces a single story through several millennia and dozens of different...