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…other hand, did not engage in “dangles” or even attend diplomatic receptions. They had no reason, other than a sinister one, to meet with a member of the Russian intelligence service. Furthermore, unlike CIA officers, who, like Nicholson, are often posted in neutral countries whe...

…ngist-controlled, side of Beirut. On several occasions, I helicoptered back with Habib or his deputy, Morris Draper. In one instance, I accompanied Draper into a meeting with Arik. In what I imagine had become a familiar, and frustrating, part of the US mediation mission, he pres...

the interview would be a journalistic coup. For me, it was a risk. He was a famously combative questioner, a bit like Sam Donaldson at White House briefings, or Jeremy Paxman and John Humphreys in Britain. On the night of July 13, I drove to the television studio in Tel Aviv. Mi...

…id. “He’s on the program. It’s his program.” Pivoting from Trump himself, Bannon plunged on with the Trump agenda. “Day one we’re moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s all in. Sheldon’—Sheldon Adelson, the casino billionaire, far-right Israel defender, and Trump suppo...

…since there was no direct air connection, meant finding the first flight out through London. But before we left, Nava phoned again, almost sputtering in fury. She told me that she’d just received a call from Aliza Goren, Rabin’s media spokesperson. “Does Ehud know about the Yedio...

…aid Arik seemed to hoping that the Phalangist milita would go into the overwhelmingly Muslim western side of Beirut. At one point, he was even considering an Israeli attack. Fortunately, given the Phalangists’ record of violence bordering on savagery during the Lebanese civil war...

… hate and enmity.” In this holy month of Ramadan full of blood on Muslim territories, let’s try to identify who are the ones who know well how to kill. As the Syrian death count clicks every day to come close to 2,000, the Turkish-Kurdish death count does not stop, already over 4...

…d be brought around, presidents have believed for generations, life would be so much easier. The United States wasn't alone in this illusion -- the Israelis, Arabs, Europeans, and Russians felt the same way. Like the Wall Street banks, Syria was then, as it is now, judged as sim...

Though no one claimed responsibility, there was no shortage of suspects. During and since the civil war, Gemayel had at various times been at odds with a whole array of enemies or rivals: Muslim militias, the PLO, other Maronite factions and, of course, the Syrians. But I think f...

…ooking at USA Inc. as a public corporation, the financials are challenged - Excluding Medicare / Medicaid spending and one-time charges, USA Inc. has supported a 4% average net margin’ over 15 years, but cash flow is deep in the red by negative $1.3 trillion last year (or -$11,0...

…l of the Bastille was 18 months away; the flight and death of the King five years off. Paris would soon see a time when one riot a year felt like peace. You can’t miss in Jefferson’s letter, and in the others he exchanged with Madison that winter and the following spring, his ins...

small-government, home-schooling, antiliberal, gold-standard, pro-death-penalty, anti- Muslim, pro-Christian, monetarist, anti-civil-rights political movement in the United States. Bob Mercer is an ultimate quant, an engineer who designs investment algorithms and became a co-CEO...

…awyer, Jack Goldberger, told Page Six that the Florida state attorney concluded the cops had looked at evidence from a "one-sided perspective." He added that Epstein had passed an extensive lie-detector test in which he was grilled about underage girls. Epstein's New York lawyer...

34 Sing, one of San Francisco’s six major community organizations representing Chinese immigrants, became the first major Chinese group to fly the flag of the PRC on its building. Then a second Tong declared its fealty to Beijing, and a competition broke out between the PRC and...

thresholds in one or more transactions: {i} 15% of the Principals’ original KUE holdings to any single buyer (or affiliates of that buyer) or (ii) 33% of the Principals’ original KUE holdings in the aggregate. 14.20. Drag-Along Right A "Drag-Along Transfer’ means a sale or othe...