State Dept. Layoffs Hit Russia and Ukraine Analysts
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my great friend James Osyf launched his Congressional campaign today and what a great story he has. Watch the video at jamesosyf.com
Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a’ that,)
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an’ a’ that.
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
It’s coming yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man, the world o’er,
Shall brothers be for a’ that.
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and followingthe roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n Devotion
Its Robbie Burns Night
I recently spoke with Michael Smerconish on CNN about the national security considerations of a TikTok ban. I discussed the hypocrisy of Congress targeting TikTok while neglecting regulations to secure phone companies, and raised concerns about data collection and covert manipulation of news.
It’s alarming that Speaker Johnson is letting the GOP’s isolationist wing cashier one of his best committee chairs.
regjeringen.no For the first time, Norwegian F-35s fly with sustainable fuel News Date: 10.01.20251 Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Climate and Environment Minister of Defense Bjørn Arild Gram (Sp) and Minister of Climate and Environment Andreas Bjelland Eriksen (Ap) invite the press to a celebration and technical day about sustainable fuel in Norwegian F-35 fighter jets at Ørland Air Station on Wednesday, January 15. Photo: Onar Dignernes Aase/The Armed Forces
how lovely
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has joined Elon Musk in allowing disinformation to flourish on his platforms in order to gain Donald Trump's favor. It’s about to get very ugly on Facebook.
Hegseth’s snarly dismissal of JAGs as people who place their promotions above our warfighters is really disgusting.
What the Post investigation of facial recognition shows is bad police work, not that the technology should not be used. It is one tool, not dispositive.
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Dan Byman sat down with Charles Lister to explain what is going on in Syria, who the major players are, and more on today's @lawfare.bsky.social Daily. Watch their conversation here:
@MiddleEastEye: Charles Lister, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, says the explosion of hundreds of pagers commonly used by Hezbollah was an attack that “would seem to suggest that Israel was either baiting Hezbollah into forcing the issue, or into starting it itself”. https://t.co/bwYMKJ9
What sort of grades does the Biden administration deserve for the way it’s dealt with the Middle East? Brian Katulis at the Middle East Institute gives a less than rosy assessment, to say the least. www.mei.edu/publications...
How Donald Trump might tackle the Middle East in 2025
->Middle East Institute | #Fascist #ConvictedFelon | More info from EcoSearch
Listening to Ian Moss(former State CT), Shiraz Maher (ICSR) @icsr.bsky.social and Charles Lister at an Middle East Institute event in San Francisco on ISIS repatriation
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Jeffrey Lewis (@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social) calls my new novel A CAPITAL CALAMITY "a Jane-Austen-meets-Dr-Strangelove comedy of DC manners... It's very very funny--and serious." www.amazon.com/Capital-Cala...
"Democrats said Gabbard's visit with Assad, the Syrian dictator, helped legitimize a leader accused of war crimes who has served as a proxy and host for Russia and Iran..."
apnews.com/article/gabb...
No vetting at all, no background checks, and then blanket security clearances for all.
Agencies holding national security sensitive material are presumably thinking very hard right now about what material they're going to leave behind in the files on Jan 20...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The Alabuga Drone Plant: A Case Study of Key Relationships Enabling Iranian Support for Russian Military Production
On 8 November, Iran Watch published this case study about the Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ), an industrial campus in Russia’s Tatarstan region
www.iranwatch.org/our-publicat...
Palo Alto tops revenue and profit estimates on steady cybersecurity demand - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/palo-alto-tops-revenue-and-profit-estimates-steady-cybersecurity-demand-4760901
