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In the news, Sunday, October 7, 2018


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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website

S-400s don’t solve India’s geostrategic dilemma
The 2018 India-Russia summit may have turned out to be one for the ages. The stakes superficially centered on whether India would seal the acquisition of five S-400 missile defense systems from Russia for $5.43 billion.    The deal was clinched immediately after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin finalized their get-together in New Delhi. Negotiations started in 2015. The S-400s will be delivered in 2020. Modi hopes Russia would help India develop its space program – which includes New Delhi possibly sending Indian astronauts into space by 2022. He emphasized Russia has always “stood shoulder-to-shoulder with India in the energy sector and our goals.”

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from The Hill
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, newspaper in Washington, D.C.

FBI’s smoking gun: Redactions protected political embarrassment, not ‘national security’
"There is now a concrete storyline backed by irrefutable evidence: The FBI allowed itself to take political opposition research created by one party to defeat another in an election, treated it like actionable intelligence, presented it to the court as substantiated, and then used it to justify spying on an adviser for the campaign of that party's duly chosen nominee for president in the final days of a presidential election. And when, nine months later, the FBI could not prove the allegation of collusion between Trump and Russia, unverified evidence was leaked to the media to try to sustain public support for a continued investigation. That means the redaction of Footnote 43 had more to do with political embarrassment than with national security. And that should concern us all."

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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