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Latest News Articles – January 26, 2017
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From James Harkin (Webmaster & Editor of LindseyWilliams.net). Here is a summary of articles of interest from around the world for this week. Please LIKE the Lindsey Williams Online Facebook Page to see stories posted daily regarding the current...
President Trump Pushed Japan for Closer Ties to Russia During Their Summit
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Click here for reuse options! The president wants Russia and Japan to work together to resolve a dispute over islands near Japan. During President Donald Trump’s weekend with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the president pushed for closer relations...
National security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned late Monday night, following reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. His departure...
North Korea test-fires missile, apparently challenging Trump
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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — In an implicit challenge to President Donald Trump, North Korea fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in its first such test of the year. North Korean state media said leader Kim Jong Un was at the site to observe the...
US Defense Secretary Embarks on Damage Control Mission to East Asia
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On his first official trip to South Korea and Japan this week, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is expected to reassure allies made nervous by President Donald Trump’s criticisms of “free rider” nations that do not pay their fair share of mutual defense...

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The poison in Britain’s Labour Party

A few years ago, there was some legitimacy to the claim that some supporters of Israel were cynically engaged in hasbara when they conflated criticism of Israel with antisemitism. In 2009, the Israeli filmmaker, Yoav Shamir, released his documentary...
Attention to the Unseen

War in Context currently serves as an archive, chronicling post-9/11 news, analysis, and commentary from 2002 until 2018. At my new website, Attention to the Unseen (which I launched in February, 2018), I look at the world through a wider lens. Along...
We have become enslaved by our impatience

If someone wanted to create a parody of cable news, it would be hard to satirize the form more effectively than to cast Wolf Blitzer as the lead character in a goofy show called The Situation Room, where all news all the time is breaking news. The irony...
A history of hype behind Cambridge Analytica

Nigel Oakes, the founder of Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, SCL Group, once described his work in this way: “We use the same techniques as Aristotle and Hitler. We appeal to people on an emotional level to get them to agree on a functional level...
Facebook employees feel increasingly responsible for the world’s problems

At an all-hands meeting for Facebook employees at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park on Tuesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg didn’t show up. Fielding questions for just 30 minutes was the company’s deputy general counsel, Paul Grewal...

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The consequences of Durand’s border blunder continue to shape world politics | War in Context

The consequences of Durand’s border blunder continue to shape world politics Rafia Zakaria writes: By the year 1871, British officials stationed in India had learned to ride elephants. This was in fac...
War in Context | … with attention to the unseen

It is a crisis some scientists believe has similar proportions to climate change, but it gets much less coverage: Microbes are disappearing from our bodies. You may have heard that trillions of microb...

Why we’re post-fact | War in Context

Why we’re post-fact Peter Pomerantsev writes: As his army blatantly annexed Crimea, Vladimir Putin went on TV and, with a smirk, told the world there were no Russian soldiers in Ukraine. He wasn’t lyi...