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How Iran Crushed a Citizen Uprising With Lethal Force
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Fantastic episode and new podcast

youtu.be/xgCYEWW5MTc?...
The Real Story Behind Maduro’s Capture
YouTube video by The Watch Floor
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January 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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China may have reverse engineered EUV lithography tool in covert lab, report claims — employees given fake IDs to avoid secret project being detected, prototypes expected in 2028
Well, kind of.
www.tomshardware.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Putin’s Satan II missile explodes on take-off
Russia’s “Satan II” intercontinental ballistic missile exploded after crashing back to earth in yet another failed test.
www.yahoo.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The Situation, Nov. 26, 2025
“Not The Way I Wanted This To End: But I’ll take it”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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‘A new arms race’: Satellite images, maps and records reveal huge surge in China’s missile production sites | CNN
China has undertaken a massive expansion of sites linked to missile production since 2020, bolstering its ability to potentially deter the US military and assert its dominance in the region, a new CNN...
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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‘Lo and behold I found myself in a Pakistani jail’

@markurban.bsky.social reveals how he ended up in a Pakistani prison while reporting on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan

Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧

#Pakistan #Afghanistan #podcast
October 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Can Russian Monster Tanks Reclaim The Battlefield From Drones?
Porcupine or Dreadarmor with a mass of metal rods is the latest thing for stopping FPVs. How effective is it and how are drone pilots countering it?
www.forbes.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Exclusive | In Secret Meeting, China Acknowledged Role in U.S. Infrastructure Hacks
A senior Chinese official linked intrusions to escalating U.S. support for Taiwan.
www.wsj.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Taiwanese president’s security guards discovered to be Chinese spies www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Taiwanese president’s security guards discovered to be Chinese spies
Confidential information leaked to Beijing in exchange for financial gains
www.telegraph.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Oleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Armor Plates for US Army Vehicles Never Passed Required Test
An internal probe by Evraz North America found that employees at a Russian-owned steel plant in Oregon sometimes bypassed a key test meant to ensure that armor for one of the Army’s most commonly used...
www.bloomberg.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.” – Abraham Lincoln www.wired.com/story/gsa-sa...
A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale
Plans to redevelop a Northern Virginia warehouse site have long been complicated by the area’s worst-kept secret—the presence of a CIA facility. The GSA put the site up for sale anyway.
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Morale is indeed in the shitter . And our enemies rejoice …. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Inside U.S. spy agencies, workers fear a cataclysmic Trump cull
Firings and mass disruptions at the CIA could harm intelligence collection on foreign threats and future recruiting, current and former officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Active-duty Army soldier charged with selling classified info to China
An active-duty U.S. army sergeant has been charged with selling sensitive national defense secrets, according to court documents.
abcnews.go.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Chuck Pfarrer: Russia’s Secret War Against the West – Is Moscow Winning?
Pfarrer provides a critical assessment of an upcoming turning point in the war during his conversation with his Kyiv Post colleague, Jason Smart, a political scientist specializing in Russia.
www.kyivpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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My latest. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | I’m a former U.S. intelligence officer. Trump's Ukraine betrayal will have terrible consequences.
Trust is so hard to gain, and yet so easily lost.
www.msnbc.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy
To win future wars it needs new weapons, new suppliers and a new system of procurement
www.economist.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Lawfare Daily: Chris Miller and Marshall Kosloff on the Abundance Agenda’s Implications for National Security
Discussing AI supply chains.
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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MWI Podcast: DeepSeek and the US-China AI Race mwi.westpoint.edu/mwi-podcast-... via @WarInstitute
MWI Podcast: DeepSeek and the US-China AI Race - Modern War Institute
On January 20, the Chinese company DeepSeek released a new AI large language model, called DeepSeek-R1. The company was only founded a little over a year earlier, and yet this model's capability was l...
mwi.westpoint.edu
February 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Svalbard: A History and Analysis of NATO’s Potential Arctic Frontier For... youtu.be/1xLK8Y5QURA?... via @YouTube
Svalbard: A History and Analysis of NATO’s Potential Arctic Frontier Fortress
YouTube video by The Institute of World Politics
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February 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Duffel Blog's guide to making a horrific aviation accident about your politics
It is absolutely critical to work fast before all the facts come in.
www.duffelblog.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Ep 172: Eric Chewning and Tom Moore on the Warship Production Crisis | Nebulous
Eric Chewning and Thomas Moore of HII join the show to discuss America’s military shipbuilding challenges, and their potential solutions.
nebulouspodcasts.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Thread by @Charles_Lister on Thread Reader App
@Charles_Lister: NEW -- the EU has suspended all sanctions on #Syria related to air, land & sea shipping, as well as banking & energy for 12 months. A good step, following on from US actions. A...
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January 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Republican senators urge Trump to restore security details over Iran threat www.iranintl.com/en/202501265...
Republican senators urge Trump to restore security details over Iran threat
Two prominent Republican senators close to Donald Trump urged the President to rethink his decision last week to pull the security details of several former officials over what they called ongoing thr...
www.iranintl.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM