Reuters - Russia Begins Missile System Delivery to Syria, Warns West on Peace Talks - "Russia FM Lavrov said Moscow had started delivering S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Syria, warned West of trying to undermine effort to end 7-year conflict." https://t.co/1QATAgfF67pic.twitter.com/codqDLWbL2
What do the Kavanaugh hearings reveal about many of our top law schools, professors, judges and former clerks? A self-interested blindness, where every incentive works in favor of those with the most power.
U.S. intelligence official called #Netanyahu’s comments [on #Iran] "somewhat misleading. First, we have known about this facility for some time, and it’s full of file cabinets and paper, not aluminum tubes for centrifuges” https://t.co/4azL2VdF2v
Here’s our story: #Ecuador made Julian Assange councillor at its embassy in Moscow on 19 Dec 2017, days before secret plan to smuggle him from London to #Russiahttps://t.co/9Bd17clYDX
New Prime Minister, Same Old S*** - US Threats Haven’t Led Pakistan to Restrict Taliban - J.P. Lawrence - Stars & Stripes - "US criticism finds support among Afghans who charged in recent weeks that Pakistan continues to aid militants in the country." https://t.co/RdoSP1AQHUpic.twitter.com/hErv4f6hLZ
It was a passionate tirade against not following traditional Senate rules. He was speaking to his colleagues more than anyone else and trying to warn them that the way things were going they were ruining the Senate and probably the country and they would not be proud of it at the end of their lives. That they are not the House and they have special responsibilities. Exactly against the type of thing McConnell et. al. are doing now to ram the Kavanaugh hearing and vote through. And what they were doing then trying to pass a half-assed mess of a bill without following rules and working with those across the aisle. I wonder if supposed dear friends like Jeff Flake and Lindsay Graham are going to betray him and make him roll over in his grave by going along with McConnell's ram- it-through-plan for the Kavanaugh hearing without a murmur? I wish some reporters would bring that up with them, try to nudge their consciences.
By Jane Meyer @ The New Yorker for Oct. 1 print issue, online now
80,000 votes in 3 states put Trump in the White House. Now a meticulous analysis of online activity during the campaign makes a powerful case that cyberattacks by Russian hackers and trolls were decisive: https://t.co/5v1s6pCuYvpic.twitter.com/1XJkmckku6
[....] For Mr. Trump’s advisers, the biggest risk at the United Nations General Assembly this year is the reverse of what it was last year: not that he will be dangerously undiplomatic, but that he will be overly enthusiastic about engagement with wily adversaries.
