Ken Livingstone: Stop double standards, sanction Saudis for Yemen war, kidnappings & killings
10/22/2018, 1:25:45 PMWhen we remember how rapidly the US imposed sanctions on Russia over Crimea and the Skripal poisonings, it's bizarre to watch US President Trump's reaction to the killing of journalist Khashoggi by the Saudis. ✔ The majority of Muslims have always pointed out that these individuals are just a tiny minority of their community, but concerns are growing about the increased reach of Wahhabism funded by the Saudis which has now reached three billion dollars a year and has been spent to build 1,500 mosques, 210 Islamic centres and dozens of Muslim academies and schools
"Mama Congo" and "City of Joy" show another face of the DRC [This is Culture - TMC]
10/22/2018, 1:10:14 PMIf the DRC has recently made the headlines because of conflict and political instability, two artistic projects aim to change that narrative! "Mama Congo", a series of photo-portraits and testimonies ✔ In this photo-series, we discover women who, although often described as the first victims of war and conflict, turn out to be real fighters themselves ✔ This is the question sparked by the documentary City of Joy ✔ He also doubles as the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Denis Mukwege
The Army Ordered an Unvarnished History of the Iraq War—Then Let It Languish
10/22/2018, 3:07:24 PMThe service’s chief instructed officers to research lessons from the conflict before memories faded, saying it had failed to do so after Vietnam. That was in 2013. A draft was finished in 2016. It has yet to be published. ✔ Some of the Army’s brightest officers would draft an unvarnished history of its performance in the Iraq War ✔ Otherwise I can see a lot of institutional resistance to having so much dirty laundry aired ✔ While the study isn’t an all encompassing history, he says, he considers it a solid work and hopes it is issued by Christmas
Set rules of engagement for cyber war before it is too late
10/22/2018, 12:03:51 PMundefined ✔ Imagine a celebrated politician in an operating theatre, undergoing robot-assisted surgery ✔ This month, the Pentagon submitted computerised weapons systems to authorised hacking tests and found that many could be infiltrated, even taken over, within hours
Putin to seek "clarifications" from John Bolton in Russia as Donald Trump ditches INF nuke treaty
10/22/2018, 12:03:57 PMAmid dire warnings from Russia, and allies at home and abroad, White House unilaterally ditches Cold War-era nuclear arms treaty known as INF ✔ The Trump administration has complained of Moscow's deployment of Novator 9M729 missiles near the eastern frontier of Europe -- a move many NATO allies viewed as a threat, especially in the wake of Russia's unilateral annexation of Crimea from Ukraine
Saudi investment forum website defaced by hackers
10/22/2018, 3:18:12 PMundefined ✔ The king sacked five top officials as a result of an investigation, and 18 people remain detained in connection to the case ✔ On Monday, German conglomerate Siemens chief executive Joe Kaeser became the latest high-profile name to withdraw from the forum
Opinion | Finally, bipartisan repudiation of ‘America First’
10/22/2018, 2:28:36 PMTime to rethink how we deal with Saudi Arabia ✔ Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the opening of Gulf Cooperation Council summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May 2012 ✔ Everyone has been reminded there is no modernizing of the Saudi government, just the sometimes praiseworthy and sometimes disgraceful efforts of one 33-year-old man
Brother appointed to succeed killed Afghan commander
10/22/2018, 2:32:01 PMThe brother of the powerful police commander of the southern Afghan province of ... ✔ The nomination of Razeq’s younger brother Tadeen Khan as acting police chief of Kandahar followed heavy pressure from powerful tribal elders who forced the government to overlook his lack of experience and training ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Perspective | The most bizarre essay on Saudi Arabia I have read this year
10/22/2018, 12:33:02 PMDissecting an essay that kills only straw men. ✔ Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything ✔ More importantly, Schanzer’s leap from one errant article by a non-regional expert to indicting all Middle East analysts as making a near-unanimous conclusion is an Olympian-level act of bad faith
Pakistan's Imran Khan flies into political storm in Saudi Arabia
10/22/2018, 3:49:44 PMExclusive: In his first interview with foreign media since becoming prime minister, the country's new leader talks about the 'shocking' death of Jamal Khashoggi, his country's economic problems and batting off questions about Donald Trump ✔ Imran Khan is heading for a trip to the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh – the business forum being widely boycotted by international attendees following the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the nation’s consulate in Istanbul ✔ What should happen instead is [looking at] the only way out of this quagmire in which the Americans are stuck in Afghanistan, Mr Khan says
'Must never happen again': Australia apologises to victims of state sex abuse
10/22/2018, 12:47:03 PMIN THE PRESS : IN THE PAPERS - Monday, October 22: The foreign and regional press scoff at Saudi Arabia's version of how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died... ✔ IN THE PAPERS - Monday, October 22: The foreign and regional press scoff at Saudi Arabia's version of how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died ✔ Also, it's an historic moment in Australia with a national apology to tens of thousands of victims of decades-long institutionalized sex abuse ✔ Finally, there's apparently a correlation between craving steak..
Meet The Woman Who Is Proudly Russia’s Troll-In-Chief
10/22/2018, 12:33:15 PMMaria Zakharova has revolutionized what it means to be a Russian diplomat — in real life and online. “She’s like Marmite: Some people love her and some people hate her.” ✔ One such briefing, in late May, exemplified the approach that has made her a star ✔ The same people who talk about human rights in public easily toss around human lives behind closed doors, she said ✔ I was not ready for all that, for the cynicism and roughness ✔ Alberto Nardelli contributed reporting to this story
Analysis | Democracy is in crisis in Latin America. Brazil may be the next trouble spot.
10/22/2018, 12:02:40 PMDemocracies are falling into disarray, and the U.S. isn't helping any. ✔ A man yells after listening to Brazil’s anthem during a rally for presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, of the far-right Social Liberal Party, in Rio de Janeiro on Oct. 21 ✔ The military has greater leverage The armed forces remain key players in getting coups started and keeping autocrats in power
Japan’s prime minister, a Trump buddy, now tries to cozy up to China’s president
10/22/2018, 2:40:59 PMXi and Abe will hold their first bilateral meeting in more than seven years this week. ✔ By Anna Fifield and Anna Fifield Beijing bureau chief ✔ China is already Japan’s largest trading partner and more than 30,000 Japanese companies operate here, pumping more than $3.3 billion in direct investment into the country each year and the market is only becoming more attractive
You can file a lawsuit from your phone with ‘swipe right to sue’ app
10/22/2018, 3:49:49 PMDoNotPay helps US users claim $16 million in disputed parking tickets, according to app founder ✔ Israel launched raids against targets in the Gaza strip in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian territory that caused damage in a southern city, the Israeli army said AFP/Getty 7/50 16 October 2018 Ecuador has issued a list of rules to Julian Assange, the famous resident of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
US pushing world to another Cuban missile crisis, Russian MP says
10/22/2018, 3:49:43 PM'Back then we were lucky to avoid an exchange of nuclear strikes, and only God knows what all this may end up in now' ✔ - US President Donald Trump said Friday, October 19, 2018, that he found credible Saudi Arabia's assertion that dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi died as a result of a fight AFP/Getty 3/50 19 October 2018 A Palestinian youth runs past a rolling burning tire during clashes with Israeli forces following a demonstration after the weekly Friday prayers, in the centre of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron AFP/Getty 4/50 18 October 2018 Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States, leave Guatemala City
Malaysia Airlines plane tyres EXPLODE mid-takeoff sparking fresh crisis for airline
10/22/2018, 1:22:45 PMMALAYSIA Airlines is facing fresh criticism after one of its aircraft's tyres exploded during take-off. ✔ Flight MH387’s landing gear blew up moments before flying from Shanghai Pudong International Airport ✔ Images of the shredded tyres have been uploaded to social media, showing the full extent of the damage ✔ They were also faced with enormous boulders that left them battered and bruised before they finally threw in the towel
Two 'unstable' OPEC nations may decide whether oil takes another run at $100 a barrel
10/22/2018, 3:25:27 PMThe oil market is focused on falling Iranian oil exports and Saudi-led supply hikes, but Nigeria and Libya could play an outsize role in setting crude prices as they head into high-stakes elections. ✔ Abdullah Doma | AFP | Getty Images Members of a brigade headed by field commander Salah Bogheib and loyal to Khalifa Haftar -a retired general and former chief of staff for Moamer Kadhafi- hold up their guns as they fight alongside Libyan army troops against Islamist gunmen in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi ✔ During a political transition, militants might resume attacks on oil infrastructure, which caused Nigeria's output to plunge by about 400,000 bpd in early 2016
Trump-Russia investigation to be reopened if Democrats win Congress
10/22/2018, 3:49:34 PMDemocrats may also push for release of US president's tax returns ✔ Catalonia's national day, the 'Diada' commemorates the fall of Barcelona in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714 and the region's subsequent loss of institutions and freedoms AFP/Getty 42/50 10 September 2018 An Indian man makes his way through floodwaters from the overflowing Panchanai River in Siliguri
Investors pull $1bn out of Saudia Arabia’s stock market as fallout from Jamal Khashoggi death deepens
10/22/2018, 3:49:54 PMSell-off is one of the biggest since the Middle Eastern kingdom opened up its markets to direct foreign investment in 2015 ✔ Continuous rainfall has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Siliguri and surrounding areas, affecting road travel and daily life AFP/Getty 44/50 9 September 2018 Participants wave flowers as they march past a balcony from where North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un was watching, during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang
PIERS: Abuse makes Trump stronger and Dems are heading for disaster
10/22/2018, 1:49:27 PMPresident Trump is winning. There is simply no other way to fairly interpret the fact that he’s just hit a new high in his approval rating. He’s officially more popular than Barack Obama was . ✔ This endless hysterical cacophony has made Trump ever more popular with his base and the GOP More significantly, as this poll suggests, it’s also begun to move moderates with no particularly animated view of Trump more to a place of tolerating him ✔ So once again, I can only advise the Democrats to stop their ridiculously self-defeating state of perpetual Trump outrage and work out how they’re actually going to beat him
Saudi investment site 'hacked with ISIS poster of Khashoggi being executed'
10/22/2018, 3:52:49 PMTHE website of a Saudi Arabian investment conference was hacked and replaced with a picture of the country’s ruler about to chop off Jamal Khashoggi’s head. The three-day Future Investment Initiati… ✔ Khashoggi is kneeling in front of the royal, wearing a cape, as if he was one of captives murdered in the notorious waves of executions by ISIS terrorist Jihadi John ✔ Saudi Arabia's annual investment event was until recently the hottest ticket in business and finance anywhere on the planet ✔ After weeks of vehement denials, the kingdom claimed the journalist was killed in a brawl and fist fight inside the consulate
Analysis | The Finance 202: Saudi Arabia faces mounting congressional backlash
10/22/2018, 12:10:35 PMBut don't bet they'll follow through on their rhetoric. ✔ The other would be to change the criteria that help establish whether a country is engaging in competitive devaluation of its currency ✔ #TNYcartoons A post shared by The New Yorker Cartoons (@newyorkercartoons) on Oct 21, 2018 at 2:32pm PDT BULL SESSION Central Americans in caravan cross into Mexico from Guatemala: Thousands protest in London demanding second Brexit vote: Listen to an ice shelf melting:
'Davos in the desert' website is hacked
10/22/2018, 3:28:10 PMTop executives and officials have distanced themselves from the Future Investment Initiative, due to begin in Riyadh on Tuesday, over the killing of dissident journalist Khashoggi. ✔ Media powerhouses like Bloomberg, CNN and the Financial Times have also pulled out and on Saturday, Australia withdrew its representatives, saying it was 'no longer appropriate' to attend, due to the Khashoggi affair ✔ After weeks of vehement denials, the kingdom's assertion on Saturday that the journalist was killed in a 'brawl and fist fight' inside the diplomatic comppound - without revealing the whereabouts of his body - was met with scepticism around the world
Gen. Stanley McChrystal: Why I threw out my painting of Robert E. Lee
10/22/2018, 2:47:57 PMThe author of "Leaders: Myth and Reality" talks about what makes leaders great, and why our assumptions about leadership are flawed ✔ Washington crossing the Delaware, as painted by Emanuel Leutze (top), and by Mort Künstler (bottom) ✔ Coco Chanel spent a number of years in an affair with a Nazi senior officer ✔ Stanley McChrystal, Jeff Eggers and Jay Mangone (Portfolio Penguin), in hardcover, eBook and audio book formats, available via Amazon
Saudi leaders apologize for Khashoggi killing; report of body-double emerges
10/22/2018, 1:09:44 PMSaudi King Salman and Prince Mohammed have called the son of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi to express condolences for the death of his father, the Saudi Press Agency said Monday. ✔ Jubeir said Saudi authorities have been working with Turkish investigators on the case ✔ lies by the Saudis, but told the Post he was unwilling to cancel a lucrative arms deal with the Saudis ✔ The kingdom, Trump said, would simply make the purchase from Russia or China ✔ OZAN KOSE, AFP/Getty Images Fullscreen Last SlideNext Slide
Analysis | The Daily 202: Generic Democrats in Midwest faring better than more fiery liberals in Sun Belt
10/22/2018, 1:21:26 PMMichigan governor’s race shows the left’s willingness to rally behind anyone with a “D” after their name in 2018. ✔ Jeffrey Smiley is recovering after suffering at least one gunshot wound inside the Kandahar governor’s compound, Dan Lamothe reports ✔ Video captures the moment a small plane with a student pilot on board made an emergency landing in the middle of traffic on Interstate 8 in Southern California ✔ https://t.co/UygC2BQoQy pic.twitter.com/L8hTPqLfeL ABC News (@ABC) October 22, 2018
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