Sometimes it takes a friend to tell you the truth about yourself. Lets hope our leaders hear it.

'The Journal investigation found that a shadowy supply chain exists for Starlink hardware that has fed backroom deals in Africa, Southeast Asia and the United Arab Emirates, putting thousands of the white pizza-box-sized devices into the hands of some American adversaries and…

We are suing the Biden Administration. More on this effort by our Exchange Foundation, together with the Knight Institute, in the coming days, but briefly: despite all their rhetoric about the urgent need to defend democracy, it is Team Biden that recently tried to pull off one…

BREAKING:

A decision was just taken to launch a NATO mission for Ukraine

The news was broken by Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, saying
it doesn't mean NATO is entering the war, but that NATO's coordinating, training & planning capabilities will now be used to help 🇺🇦

Our director Sam Dunning is visiting Edinburgh during the week of the 15th of April.

Exact dates not set, but for any members of The University of Edinburgh interested in discussing these issues, which affect >hundreds of university members, do get in touch

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❗Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on Americans, at home and abroad

A joint investigation by The Insider, 60 Minutes, and DER SPIEGEL.

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#UAE state security resorts to #CCPChina tactics of torture and false confessions.

Notorious prisons disappear people. The threat of solitary confinement is not a trivial matter.

Being tied and blindfolded kills a person. This is a shame on humanity.

The #UAE attempts to whitewash their repression has not gone down well with their prospective newspaper The Telegraph

My interview with Rosa Silverman explaining how the UAE is seeking to rewrite its culture of repression through Guinness World Records #worldrecord

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/2…

THREAD: Chinese students and professionals are being subjected to surveillance, threats and other forms of intimidation for criticising the CCP while on British soil. I highlight some of their voices in my new story The Guardian on transnational repression: theguardian.com/global-develop…

Ukrainians put 8,000 cellphones connected to microphones on 6-foot poles around the country to detect incoming Russian drones. They detected 84/84 and shot down 80 of them with AA guns. Cost: $500ea

--- Gen James B Hecker, Commander US Air Forces, Europe
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كشف معتقلو قضية #الإمارات84 خلال الجلسة الثامنة أن إدارة سجن الرزين كانت تعمل على إجبار المعتقلين على الاستماع للأغاني بصوت عال جدا طوال اليوم خاصة في فترات الراحة والنوم، وثم يتم استجوابهم وتصوير اعترافاتهم تحت الإكراه والإرهاق النفسي ومن يرفض يعاقب بالسجن الانفرادي.

Story by Jack Malvern The Times and The Sunday Times with my comments

Guinness World Records working with Autocratcs to reward them for their repression. UAE Police honored....

What next? Award for most prisoners tortured in Abu Dhabi? Most executions in a week?

People never learn

Guinness World Records offers to help you set a record if you pay them. They don't care if you're a police force in the UAE or the Egyptian military. thetimes.co.uk/article/guinne…

My team has documented the entire Russian missile manufacturing base. That is 28 key ballistic, cruise, hypersonic and air defence missile producing plants associated with four corporations of Roscosmos, Almaz-Antey, Tactical Missiles and Rostec

The link is in the first comment

.Isaac B. Kardon & I have a new piece today on an important, emerging trend in the international security environment: More & more countries are engaging in security cooperation/assistance from *both* the United States and China. Why? 1/n
foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

🚨 🇫🇷 🇦🇪 Intelligence Online can reveal that a former French special forces officer is creating a new elite unit for the Emirates of at least 3,000 foreign recruits based on the model of the French Foreign Legion. ⬇️

Trump's allies are selling out Ukraine in exchange for Russian backing in the election. 1/

Foreign state control of British news organisations to be outlawed in bid to ‘block’ UAE takeover of The Telegraph lbc.co.uk/news/foreign-s…

While it shouldn’t have taken this long to get here, this is a victory for the UK.

The defence of democracy depends upon free media.

There is no place for government interference.

Make no mistake, #UAE DP #MansourBinZayed ’s attempt to £ The Telegraph is now dead. Good.

Foreign state control of British news organisations is to be outlawed, in a move by Rishi Sunak to block the attempted UAE-takeover of The Telegraph

Find out more ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…