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France Whines That Russia-Backed Syria Offensive Risks ‘Scattering Terrorists’ Abroad

9/13/2018, 10:02:13 AM
This is hilarious. France is threatening to bomb Syria over its upcoming offensive into al-Qaeda-held Idlib province, while at the same expressing concern some of those terrorists might find their way back to France. We're reaching unmatched levels of hypocrisy here. ✔ Thus what Paris is really whining about now is that a very small fraction of what it inflicted on Syria, might now turn around and threaten France ✔ In comments to French television, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned that his government is concerned by the Syrian military’s offensive in Idlib Province, fearing it would scatter foreign militants across the world, potentially causing serious security concerns for the West ✔ Other groups don’t have near the size of foreign fighters, but there are some



Have the 17 years we've fought an expensive war on terror been worth it?

9/13/2018, 11:17:02 AM
If the threat from Al Qaeda is just as dangerous as it was in 2001, perhaps our money would be better spent on programs that do not try to fight terrorism. ✔ After this length of time, is trying to protect ourselves from terrorist attacks a futile attempt at a false sense of security ✔ Another good question: What has President Trump done that has been more effective than the actions of his predecessors ✔ Nevell, Los Angeles Follow the Opinion section on Twitter @latimesopinion and Facebook



‘Resistance’ Runs Amok in the US Deep Throat War

9/13/2018, 11:16:35 AM
We now live in a psy-ops world. The latest Deep Throat War in Washington bears all the elements of an epic of the genre. Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward, who remains an associate editor at the Washington Post, will be released next week, on the 17th anniversary of 9/11. ✔ This, in turn, will divert attention from the fact that the former, Bush era-coined Global War on Terror has metastasized into an all-American Rebels With A Cause special, featuring support for the moderate rebels al-Qaeda in Syria, former Jabhat al-Nusra, now Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ✔ All the while, he would layer them into a vivid story – not a shadowy hagiography ✔ In House of Cards, Frank Underwood is dead – as decreed by the Netflix God



Putin attends Russia-China war games

9/13/2018, 10:13:07 AM
TSUGOL FIRING RANGE, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday attended Russia's biggest-ever war games, which involved some 300,000 troops as well as a significant conti ✔ (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, awards a Chinese serviceman at the training ground Tsugol, about 250 kilometers (156 miles ) south-east of the city of Chita during the military exercises Vostok 2018 in Eastern Siberia, Russia, Thursday, Sept



'We are not Libya': Defiant Damascus seeks new dawn

9/13/2018, 10:11:54 AM
As Syria's war draws to a close, CNN is in Damascus where markets have sprung to life and people try to restore normality. Syrians are picking up the pieces and, they say, the country will never be as it was before the war -- nor should it. ✔ For years, the red beams of tracer bullets streaked the skies of Damascus ✔ The rattle of guns and bangs of explosions were staples of the city's soundscape ✔ I want to be like any country that wants its political situation to evolve ✔ You see, people here can only afford to buy bad food, says Alaa



Spain will go ahead with sale of 400 bombs to Saudi Arabia

9/13/2018, 10:27:24 AM
Spain will go ahead with the sale of 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said on Thursday, after the deal was halted amid concerns over the Saudi role in the war in Yemen. ✔ Human rights groups including Amnesty International have denounced Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its allies in a war which the United Nations says has killed more than 10,000 people and left 8.4 million on the brink of famine ✔ This kind of weapon does not produce the same sort of bombing as less sophisticated weapons, launched a bit randomly, that create the sort of tragedy that we have all condemned ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Editors Choice Pictures | Pictures | Reuters

9/13/2018, 11:40:35 AM
Lisa Evers (foreground) and her daughter Amanda Hamilton, both of Oak Island, decorate their storm shutters before evacuating ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence in Oak Island, North Carolina. ✔ Lisa Evers (foreground) and her daughter Amanda Hamilton, both of Oak Island, decorate their storm shutters before evacuating ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence in Oak Island, North Carolina ✔ Schiller, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing of Apple, speaks about the new Apple iPhone XR at an Apple Inc product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California



Saudi-led coalition seizes main road linking Yemen's Hodeidah to Sanaa

9/13/2018, 8:48:43 AM
Yemeni forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition seized the main road linking the port city of Hodeidah to the capital Sanaa, blocking a key supply route for the Houthi group that controls both cities, military sources and residents said on Thursday. ✔ There is another more circuitous road that can still enable supplies to move from Hodeidah on the western coast of Yemen to the capital in the north ✔ The United Nations fears an attack on Hodeidah, the entry point for the bulk of Yemen’s commercial imports and aid supplies, could trigger a famine in the impoverished state where an estimated 8.4 million people are facing starvation ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Mother of slain journalist James Foley says filmmaker took their story

9/13/2018, 11:29:18 AM
Diane Foley's son was beheaded by extremists in Syria in 2014. ✔ That would be absurd and contrary to the First Amendment ✔ Photo: AP We're dealing with people's lives here, Smith said ✔ Just out of respect for another human being, I'd have thought you'd want to get it right with the family ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes



Setback for Houthis as Yemeni government forces seize key road

9/13/2018, 10:09:29 AM
Yemeni forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition seized the main road linking the port city of Hodeidah to the capital Sanaa, blocking a key supply route for the Houthi group that controls both cities, military sources and residents said on Thursday. ✔ The United Nations fears an attack on Hodeidah, the entry point for the bulk of Yemen's commercial imports and aid supplies, could trigger a famine in the impoverished state where an estimated 8.4 million people are facing starvation ✔ The foreign minister of Hadi's government, Khaled al-Yamani, accused the Houthis of trying to sabotage the negotiations



Activists: Turkey beefing up its troops in Syria's Idlib

9/13/2018, 9:06:34 AM
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists are reporting that new military reinforcements have arrived to beef up Turkish observation points inside Syria's last rebel bastion Idlib as a Syria ✔ The reinforcements come during a lull in government and Russian bombings of rebel locations on Idlib's southern edge ✔ 11, 2018 photo, Turkey-trained Syrian opposition fighters of the 'National Army' group formally known as Free Syrian Army, train in a camp in the Turkish-controlled northwestern city of Azaz, Syria ✔ has warned that a battle will spark a humanitarian catastrophe



Analysis | 5 things to know about Russia’s Vostok-2018 military exercises

9/13/2018, 10:24:01 AM
China is participating in these mass-scale maneuvers. What does that mean? ✔ In addition to Russian forces, Chinese and Mongolian forces will participate in the exercise on Russian territory ✔ Dmitry Gorenburg is a senior research scientist in the Strategic Studies division of CNA and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University



Slavic Countries Produce Great Video Games, But Russia Is Lagging Behind, Why?

9/13/2018, 8:13:43 AM
As their budgets have equalized with those of blockbuster movies, video games have likewise become a notable source of cultural influence. Meme phrases such as “the cake is a lie” (Portal), “war, war never changes” (Fallout), and “I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee” (TES5: Skyrim) have become as recognizable as any movie one-liners, at least the Gen X and younger crowd. ✔ Another great Ukrainian success was  Cossacks , which might have been the first real time strategy game to feature hundreds of units operating smoothly on standard PCs – a stark contrast to Age of Empires II, which could support a maximum of no more than 125 units on the computers at that time without lagging



Novichok suspects will speak TODAY, says Kremlin-funded Russia Today

9/13/2018, 8:53:33 AM
The men, who used the aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov to travel to the UK allegedly smuggling nerve agent in a James Bond-inspired perfume bottle, have spoken to RT. ✔ Its editor Margarita Simonyan tweeted: 'Spent an evening with Petrov and Boshirov ✔ 6pm: They travelled to Waterloo station, where they were seen between 6pm and 7pm ✔ The Kremlin has also accused NATO of expanding westwards and threatening Russian national security



Before ratification

9/13/2018, 8:28:40 AM
undefined ✔ Many do not think it is timely to invest so heavily in North Korea as it is not certain how much South Korea can actually benefit from it as well ✔ The government should also seek to convince the people that economic cooperation with North Korea is really worth it



EU backs ICC after US questions court's legitimacy

9/13/2018, 9:32:41 AM
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's top diplomat says the bloc remains a staunch supporter of the International Criminal Court despite U.S. condemnation of the tribunal. ✔ BRUSSELS (AP) The European Union's top diplomat says the bloc remains a staunch supporter of the International Criminal Court despite U.S. condemnation of the tribunal ✔ EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Thursday that we will continue to fully and strongly support the ICC and its work



Looking for needle in Gwangju Biennale's haystack

9/13/2018, 8:28:37 AM
undefined ✔ Whether you live in North (Korea) or South, you cannot live without the ideological issues and that has been hitting me very hard, Muhn said ✔ This is the very first opportunity for South Koreans and others to see North Korean art in full spectrum, the only country in the world that still creates Socialist Realism paintings ✔ For more information, visit www.gwangjubiennale.org or call 062-608-4114



America’s gaping McCain-shaped hole

9/13/2018, 10:29:55 AM
undefined ✔ He represented something we idealised about America ✔ His party, Georgia Dream, dominates every layer of government ✔ Instead of being the west’s democratic gateway to Eurasia, Georgia threatens to become a vector in the opposite direction ✔ Were his grave not so fresh, McCain might already be turning in it



10 Things to Know for Today

9/13/2018, 10:39:51 AM
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. HURRICANE FLORENCE CREEPS CLOSER TO CAROLINA COAST ✔ Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1 ✔ WHO BREES SAYS CAN BE BETTER THAN HIM The Saints' quarterback, third on the NFL's career passing yards list, believes Browns rookie Baker Mayfield can be an even better player than him



Settlement reached in family separation cases: More than 1,000 rejected asylum seekers to get second chance if court approves

9/13/2018, 8:09:07 AM
The agreement is designed to undo some of the damage done by the Trump administration's deeply unpopular “zero-tolerance” policy. ✔ People gather to protest President Trump’s immigration policies at Logan Square in Philadelphia, Saturday, June 30, 2018 ✔ Today’s agreement, if approved by the court, will provide much needed relief to these parents and their children and will ensure that their asylum claims are properly considered by federal officials, said the statement



Major New Movie 'Active Measures' Brings Rabid Anti-Russianism to the Silver Screen

9/13/2018, 11:49:34 AM
If you believed Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons, this movie is for you. If you're an ideologue on an anti-Russian bender, you'll find this movie intoxicatingly pleasant. But if you want a real dose of reality about the troubling Trump-Russia scandal "Active Measures" has nothing for you except an object lesson in how mass deception is done. "The President is a puppet of Vladimir Putin!" That sums up the revelations of the blockbuster movie "Active Measures." It recently debuted at theaters in New York and Los Angeles. ✔ At one time he was the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs ✔ But the ultimate impact of all the words is to mislead the audience to a conclusion that is at odds with the truth ✔ It offers a perfect opportunity to witness highly polished political misinformation in action



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