Ret. Adm. James Stavridis has a long history of failing to disclose his financial ties to the defense industry when writing columns about defense spending and procurement.
He's at it again, this time with a series of columns on cyber war in Bloomberg.
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This wildly speculative tweet was made possible by ISW’s corporate sponsors that include one of the world’s largest weapons companies.
Read for more on ISW. nonzero.substack.com/p/neocon-propa
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NEW: #Russia accused #Ukraine of conducting a drone strike against the #Kremlin on May 3.
Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience & set conditions for a wider societal mobilization.
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Constructive criticism by Nathan.
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OK, ISW is becoming a major problem in the media ecosystem. This assessment is just a hunch from their mapping team (one that I disagree with), and yet their role in providing maps will see this (bad) opinion laundered as fact by many journalists who print what they say verbatim. twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/…
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NYT’s bringing an appropriate level of unseriousness to their coverage of the coronation.
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Last night, national security adviser Jake Sullivan delivered a keynote on the Middle East at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy.
It was long and perhaps the clearest articulation yet of a pretty rudderless approach to the Middle East.
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“Under their façade of commitment to global democracy, Applebaum and Goldberg display a typical contempt for the actual opinions of people across the non-Western world, including in democracies like Brazil, India and South Africa,” writes
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NEW | Applebaum & Goldberg: Truth attended by a bodyguard of lies
In the Atlantic writers’ latest attempt to frame the war as a global struggle between good and evil, they cut too many corners to ignore.
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Global firms cash in on a dictator's fantasy while local tribal members face EXECUTION in Saudi Arabia for saying no.
are building 's #TheLine while local tribal members face death.
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“One of the previously unreported subpoenas to the Trump Organization sought records pertaining to Mr. Trump’s dealings with a Saudi-backed professional golf venture known as LIV Golf, which is holding tournaments at some of Mr. Trump’s golf resorts.”
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“27 per cent of all states — and 29 per cent of the world economy — are subject to sanctions.”
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Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition.
The price tag could have exceeded $150,000.
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With each passing day, the gap between each other’s interpretation of ‘consensus’ on Taiwan grows more apparent and irreconcilable, reports .
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"When Allyn asked who would take over [NPR's] account’s handle, Musk apparently replied with 'National Pumpkin Radio' along with a fire emoji and a laughing emoji."
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"[Despite likely US] opposition, de-dollarization will persist, as most of the non-Western world wants a trading system that does not make them vulnerable to $ weaponization or hegemony," writes . "It’s no longer a question of if, but when."
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“The obvious question is: What are these former officers bringing to the table in exchange for six-figure paydays?” --
on the news that nearly 450 retired brass got jobs with foreign govts over the last decade.
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"This unwillingness to hold America’s supposed 'friends' accountable for illegal meddling leaves the U.S. vulnerable to influence attacks from all authoritarian actors, whether friend or foe," writes .
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It was in late March that Silicon Valley decided that it's no longer shameful to accept massive investment dollars from Saudi Arabia.
Why does everyone seem to think that's okay? And why do they not want to talk about it?
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Who destroyed the unipolar moment. Launched two wars on a credit card. Lied to the American people and the world about why we were going to war. Destroyed American credibility. Thousand of dead American soldiers and Iraqi civilians....but go on
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Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan at ANU. Strikes a rather grim tone. The FM says intense competition between the US and China has almost completely obliterated strategic trust and created a “dysfunctional” relationship, raising the risk of catastrophic conflict 1/
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Twitter lawyers, how is this legally okay? Isn’t this false advertising or something? This is literally a lie.
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Former CIA George Beebe on what the leaks are telling us about the current state of the war and the prospects for Ukraine prevailing, like Biden, Blinken, Austin, Milley, etc., have been assuring us for months.
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A sense of reservation about anti-China decoupling remains strong among South Koreans, despite their soaring unfavorability of China.
Biden and US officials need to take that into account, writes
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“Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a prominent China hawk and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, placed a financial bet worth up to $45K against a Taiwanese company whose stock is often affected by U.S.-China tensions,” reports .
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Jack on Bluesky dropping hard truths about public companies like (old) Twitter.
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The Pentagon is partnering more and more with private investors.
That comes with thorny ethical concerns.
I look at the Pentagon's newly launched Office of Strategic Capital, where some wear two hats—working for the DOD while holding private sector jobs.
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excuse me, i will not let this libel that i was somehow cool in junior high stand
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People in this #BlockTheBlue pressure campaign are losers and goons. They're the cool kids from junior high who worked to exclude we nerds from cool kid events, plus the losers who joined in to gain cred. The elite-only verification system sucked, been criticizing it since 2018. twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic…
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“Israel is “the new Iowa” for GOP politicians, said Joel Rosenberg, who attended as a reporter for the Christian news organization Trinity Broadcasting Network.”
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Weapons manufacturers speak bluntly when talking to their shareholders.
Here's AeroVironment's CEO telling investors "we expect to capitalize on opportunities directly related to this conflict [in Ukraine]..." fool.com/earnings/call-
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Acknowledging US injustices makes this apologia from stronger. But few critics are demanding a different hegemon—they want specific reforms and general democratization.
Saying “so you want Chinese domination!” is a way of evading the critique.
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The "Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins" has some thoughts on the debt owed to the west by the Global South.
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I had a great conversation with on the Unregistered podcast. We covered many big US–China disputes but the best part is we dug into the history a bit. That’s particularly important when so many on both sides insist on the unchanging nature of the supposed enemy.
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Is China a threat to you?
@jwdwerner is on #Unregistered
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In the “democracy vs autocracy” competition, retired US military officers chose autocracy.
Over half of senior retired US military officials seeking DoD approval to work for foreign governments went to work for the UAE.
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