U.S. Intelligence Agencies Prepare To Pull Back From Africa

The opening ceremony of a joint military exercise between African and Western nations in Burkina Faso in February.Credit...Laetitia Vancon ...
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Russia Puts The Squeeze On Belarus Over Energy Supplies

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka attend a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Co...
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Angolan Court Seizes Assets Of Africa's Richest Woman Isabel dos Santos

Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, speaks to journalists before being sworn in as chief executiv...
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Kim Jong Un: North Korea Ending Nuclear And Missile Test Moratoriums

In this picture released today by North Korean Central News Agency, Kim Jong Un can be seen smiling during a party conference in the North ...
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Britain Floated NATO Membership For Russia In 1995

First Russian President Boris Yeltsin Daily Mail: Secret plan to bring Russia in from the cold and make it an 'associate member'...
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In A Phone Call Ukraine President Zelenskiy And Russian President Putin Talk About Natural Gas And Prisoner Deals

Putin and Zelenskyy held face-to-face talks in Paris on December 9 [Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin/Sputnik via Reuters] Al Jazeera: Russia, Ukr...
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China Steps Up Its Warship Building Program

China launches its sixth Type 055 destroyer as its overseas ambitions increase. Photo: Handout SCMP: China steps up warship building pro...
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Are These The 3 Worst Foreign Policy Disasters Of The 2010s?

Daniel R. DePetris, Foreign Policy: The 3 Worst Foreign Policy Disasters of the 2010s Will Washington be able to dodge similar mistakes...
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Is The U.S. And Russia Entering A New Nuclear Arms Race?

An Avangard missile test launch in 2018. Source: TASS Henry Meyer and Jake Rudnitsky, Bloomberg : Putin’s Hypersonic Nuclear Missile Stir...
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Did Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Violate US Sanctions On Venezuerla?

Erik Prince testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on security contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan on Capitol...
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Lockheed Martin Delivered 134 F-35 Jets In 2019

F-35 Reuters: Lockheed Martin hits 2019 F-35 delivery target of 131 jets Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) said on Monday it has reached it...
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Wikileaks: CIA Is Able To Restrict The Use Missiles To A Specific Region

(Click on Image to Enlarge) Reuters: CIA devised way to restrict missiles given to allies, researcher says LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) ...
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Subsidies for Foxconn weaken Trump's objections to China's many subsidies

I was taken aback by this summary of the lead story on the home page of The Washington Post  website Monday evening: Initial U.S.-China tr...
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The Pentagon Is Preparing To Fight The Wrong War

David Axe, Daily Beast: This Is What War Looks Like in 2029 America has the most military hardware of any country—but experts say the na...
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 30, 2019

From left, protests in 2019 in Paris, France, in Baghdad, Iraq, and in Hong Kong. Stephane de Sakutin, AFP; Khalid al-Mousily, REUTERS; Dan...
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Gallup Poll: Obama And Trump Tied For Most Admired Man

The Hill : Obama, Trump tied for most admired man: Gallup President Trump and former President Obama have finished 2019 tied as the &quo...
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