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from The Baghdad Post-E "Iraq news"
Newspaper · Media/News Company
President Donald Trump is prodding his military advisers to agree to a more sweeping retaliatory strike in Syria than they consider prudent, and is unhappy with the more limited options they have presented to him so far, White House and other administration officials said, according to Wall Street Journal. In meetings with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Mr. Trump has been pushing for an attack that not only would punish the Syrian regime but also exact a price from two of its international patrons, Russia and Iran, a White House official said. This comes amid rising tensions as the Western powers are seeking a major strike in Syria in response to Assad atrocities. The US, the UK and France are leading the push to hit Assad and his allies hard in the war-torn Syria.
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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
The US, UK and France have bombed three government sites in Syria in an early morning operation targeting chemical weapons facilities, they say. The move is a response to a suspected chemical attack on the town of Douma last week which killed dozens. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he condemned the Western strikes "in the most serious way".
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from The Duran
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE, Extreme Right, Propaganda
News & Media Website in Nicosia, Cyprus
The Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov has responded sternly to the US-led strike on Syria, promising that such actions ‘will not be left without consequences.’
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The NSA Wants a Skeleton Key to Everyone's Encrypted Data
Encryption can protect personal data from government intrusion, which means the government wants the key to break it. If the executive agencies have their way, the NSA will have a record of every lock combination in use by every company—a skeleton key, if you will, to gain access to your digital home, papers, effects, and aspects of your person without warrant or probable cause—effectively mandating that companies hand over skeleton keys to the locks that they provide to their users, at any time: what they call “exceptional access.” This is this Trojan horse that the NSA means to use to gain access to your private data even when it is encrypted.
Asset Forfeiture Isn't about Crime. It's about the Money. This Is How We Can Tell.
Heavy police opposition to asset forfeiture restrictions in Minnesota is revealing, and shows the kind of push-back that happens in every state considering reform.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.Allied Strikes Hit Three Key Syrian Targets, Pentagon Explains
Secretary of Defense James Mattis says ‘Assad regime did not get the message last year’ that chemical weapons are off-limits
Amazon Cronyism in the Pentagon Harms National Security
Putting all of the Dept. of Defense's computer data on one cloud environment creates an irresistible target for hackers
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from NATO
Government Organization in Brussels, Belgium
Statement by the North Atlantic Council on Actions taken against the use of chemical weapons in Syria
In the North Atlantic Council today the United States, France and United Kingdom briefed Allies on their joint military action on 14 April. They briefed that a significant body of information indicated that the Syrian regime was responsible for the attack against civilians in Douma on 7 April, and that their military action was limited to the Syrian regime’s facilities enabling the production and employment of chemical weapons. The three Allies emphasized that there was no practicable alternative to the use of force.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
A statement has been released on the official website of the Greek Orthdoox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East in regard to the attack carried out against Syria early this morning by the U.S., the U.K., and France. The statement, condemning the attack on behalf of the Greek Orthodox, Syrian, and Melkite patriarchs of Antioch, comes on the heels of His Beatiitude Patriarch John X's personal statement condemning President Donald Trump's threats of military action.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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