The Russian disinformation campaign leading up to the 2016 American presidential election was bigger in scope and coordination than reported earlier, according to new analysis from the American cybersecurity company Symantec, reported by the tech site Gizmodo. Twitter released a data set of reportedly Russian-controlled disinformation actors totaling 3,900 accounts and 10 million tweets in...
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Introducing the Deep State Guide to the 2020 Democrats
No matter how it turns out, the 2020 election will be a turning point for the United States’ position in the world. President Trump has broken with decades of U.S. foreign policy based on multilateral alliances, free trade agreements, and military intervention. He has scorned the intelligence agencies and largely jettisoned the inter-agency process that...
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Maria Butina’s Gun Has a Whiff of Smoke
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago–meaning last week–President Trump avowed there was no collusion between his presidential campaign and Russian state agents. And one of his most loyal allies on Capitol Hill agreed. Then came Thursday’s plea agreement from Maria Butina, the Russian graduate student who insinuated herself into Republican circles with...
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Pentagon Prepared to Retaliate Against Russia for Election Cyber Attacks
From the reliable Center for Public Integrity: The existence of such a plan means that America is more fully integrating offensive cyber attacks into its overall military planning systems, a move likely to make cyber combat more likely and eventually more commonplace, sometimes without first gaining specific presidential approval. Cyber attacks are now on a...
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Intel Wars: The Battlespace Over Syria, as Seen Through Israeli Eyes
A detailed report from Haaretz diplomatic correspondent Amos Harel recreates the incident last month in which Russian anti-aircraft forces shot down one of their own planes, amidst an Israeli attack on Iranian targets in Syria.