And he does a good job of it. For your rightwing relatives who want to “Lock Her Up.” And the New York Times. Fox's Shep Smith takes apart the Uranium One conspiracy his Fox News colleagues have been relentlessly hyping pic.twitter.com/HZBlBtFvo4 — Media Matters (@mmfa) November 14, 2017
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AG Sessions’ House Judiciary Committee Testimony Live Stream
I want to thank Cheryl for putting up her congressional hearings post as I couldn’t get to it in time, but since she’s having trouble with the video embeds, I figured I’d put up a post to resolve that problem. Here’s the live feed for AG Sessions’ appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. And here’s …
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Tunnel Collapse At The North Korean Nuclear Test Site
Both Adam and Origuy have asked me about reports of a tunnel collapse at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site. Between 100 and 200 workers are said to have died. Yonhap News, which I’ve linked, is usually reliable. After the last nuclear test, which was much bigger than earlier ones, three seismic events were detected from Punggye-ri. …
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The President’s Speech on Iran and the JCPOA: Live Stream
Regardless of what the President says, Iran is in formal or technical compliance with the agreement. The result of today’s remarks will be to further muddle US strategic communication, to further irk and annoy US allies who are parties to this agreements, to irritate Iran, and to punt the whole thing to Congress. It will …
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The Nuclear Chain of Command
Donald Trump has been musing about nuclear war since the 1980s, and now he’s bringing our fears to life with his tweets against North Korea. Also, playing the role of a decisive and serious executive, he told the military back in July that he wanted to increase the US’s arsenal of nuclear weapons back to …
Paul Pillar Lets Loose On Nikki Haley
Paul Pillar is a former CIA analyst whose articles on current events are usually calm, measured, and logical. He brings his analytical skills to clarifying the issues. I highly recommend reading him regularly. I occasionally disagree with him, although I can’t recall a time when I thought he had something substantively wrong. Nikki Haley’s speech …
Strategic Effects Versus Tactical Realities: Trade Deals
As pretty much anyone who has been paying any attention to the news today is aware it appears that the DPRK has tested a much larger nuclear device. With estimates of yield around the 100 kiloton range. I’m going to leave the technical write up to Cheryl as this is her area of expertise (no …
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