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    Giuliani Says He’s Prepared to ‘Do Demonstrations’ at Trump’s Impeachment Trial
    Jan01

    Giuliani Says He’s Prepared to ‘Do Demonstrations’ at Trump’s Impeachment Trial

    JIM WATSON at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...

    North Korea Warns That It Will Unveil a New Strategic Weapon Soon
    Jan01

    North Korea Warns That It Will Unveil a New Strategic Weapon Soon

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the Trump administration of dragging its feet in nuclear negotiations and warned that his country will soon show a new strategic weapon to the world as it bolsters its nuclear deterrent in face of “gangster-like” U.S. sanctions and pressure. The North’s state media said...

    What Repatriation of French General Might Do for Franco-Russian Ties
    Jan01

    What Repatriation of French General Might Do for Franco-Russian Ties

    French President Emmanuel Macron hopes the repatriation of the body of General Charles-Etienne Gudin, who was killed in Russia more than two centuries ago, could play a symbolic role in his diplomatic courting of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Gudin, one of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s favorite generals, succumbed to gangrene three...

    Crimean-Based Blogger Deported to Ukraine After Critical Social-Media Posts
    Jan01

    Crimean-Based Blogger Deported to Ukraine After Critical Social-Media Posts

    A Yalta-based blogger who initially supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea but then later wrote critical posts about officials has been deported to Ukraine.Yevhen Gayvoronskiy was taken by officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and Migration Service to Ukraine’s border in the Luhansk region, said Refat Chubarov,...

    Thoughts on a New Year
    Jan01

    Thoughts on a New Year

    We’ve come down to the final day of 2019 and the last day of the second decade of the 21st century. At TPM this was a challenging year – a lot of change, negotiating our first collective bargaining agreement, some substantial management reorganization of how the operation runs and a lot of grinding work (batting out single after single) to...

    Golden Dukes Announced!
    Dec31

    Golden Dukes Announced!

    It’s the lucky 13th anniversary of the Golden Duke Awards. And the winners are in! We return with an especially august panel of judges for 2019: Erin Ryan, Talia Lavin, Susie Bright, Jeet Heer, Jim Newell. And in a new innovation, 2477 TPM members have cast their ballots for new Members’ Choice award. Big surprise for 2019: Members...

    Crimean-Based Blogger Deported To Ukraine After Critical Social-Media Posts
    Dec31

    Crimean-Based Blogger Deported To Ukraine After Critical Social-Media Posts

    A Yalta-based blogger who initially supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea but then later wrote critical posts about officials has been deported to Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Collins ‘Open To Witnesses’ In Impeachment, Says McConnell And Warren Not Being ‘Impartial’
    Dec31

    Collins ‘Open To Witnesses’ In Impeachment, Says McConnell And Warren Not Being ‘Impartial’

    Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Monday expressed an openness to calling witnesses in the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. But she refused to go into detail about how she might act during the trial. The House of Representatives has approved two articles of impeachment against Trump, first for abusing his power by pressing...

    What U.S. Intelligence Thought 2020 Would Look Like
    Dec31

    What U.S. Intelligence Thought 2020 Would Look Like

    In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook. George W. Bush was reelected president of the United States. And American intelligence analysts consulted with hundreds of experts across five continents to try to predict what the world would look like in 2020.The result, a 119-page report by the National Intelligence Council titled “Mapping the Global...

    Parnas Presses Court To Let Him Share Newly Available iPhone, Doc Evidence With Congress
    Dec31

    Parnas Presses Court To Let Him Share Newly Available iPhone, Doc Evidence With Congress

    Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas has asked a federal judge for permission to share newly available evidence in his case with congressional impeachment investigators. Parnas has long sought to share evidence in his case with Congress. He and others have been charged with a conspiracy to funnel foreign money into American campaigns, but...