Violent extremism constitutes a real threat to public order and safety — it’s time to cool it In the aftermath of the Charlottesville fracas between far-right and far-left protestors, which left one dead and dozens injured, America has undertaken a...
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How to Avoid America’s Coming Years of Lead
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Can Trump Be Trusted With Nukes?
America’s future is perhaps in the hands of the generals in his inner circle Having access to the nuclear “football” is the ultimate power of the American president. With it, you can kill millions inside an hour and perhaps even...
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Getting Déjà Vu From Russia’s Military Exercises, Poland Readies to Resist Putin
Moscow rattles its saber on NATO’s doorstep Right now, the Kremlin is preparing to mount major military exercises on its border with NATO. Termed Zapad — meaning West in Russian – and slated to take place in mid-September, these exercises...
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Richard Spencer and His Kook-Right Ilk are Agents of Russian Influence
Kremlin intelligence is manipulating the far-right. It’s time to push back. The weekend’s bloody chaos in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a far-right protest devolved into rioting and murder, has shaken the country and shocked the world. The bucolic college town was...
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The Tweets of August: Trump’s North Korea Calculus Underestimates China
State-run paper says China will ‘prevent’ U.S. from ‘changing the political pattern of the Korean peninsula’ Donald J. Trump has spent this week making our mounting crisis with Pyongyang worse. Having repeatedly staked his prestige and credibility – and that...
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Can the US Rely on its North Korea Intelligence?
The story of the week is the rising nuclear confrontation between Washington and Pyongyang over North Korea’s advancing nuclear missile program. Yesterday I did an interview with PRI World on the quality of our intelligence on North Korea’s nukes —...
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The Kremlin-White House Lie Machine Spins Out of Control
Moving on from DNC staffer Seth Rich, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is the next victim In my last column, I explained how the Trump administration is trying to distract the public from increasingly serious investigations of the president’s ties...
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Trump White House Colludes With Fox News to Embrace Disinformation
The Trump administration has started employing Chekist-style tactics to protect itself from KremlinGate We’re officially losing the propaganda war with Russia. This isn’t entirely news. Two years ago, I explained how the Obama administration, facing a deluge of Kremlin lies...