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[In 1992 at the Direction of Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, with the assistance of Scooter Libby and Zalmay Khalilzad, among others, drafted the March 6 1992 version of the Defense Planning Guidance. This guidance became known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine, and was leaked to the NY Times who published March 8, 1992: U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP. The outrage caused the resulting 1994 Defense Plan to be significantly rewritten with substantial changes in an , The GWU's National Security Archives have published a history of the redactions and twists and turns in the formulation of this...

The sources of the Russia investigation should, as a matter of basic accountability, be established and disclosed. But no one who is not already a Trump voter cares about dubious investigatory decisions from four years ago. Nor is anyone as exercised as the president about critical things said about him on cable-TV programs. Trump has waged a low-intensity campaign against masks, for no good reason. By setting himself against them, largely on aesthetic grounds, Trump further opened himself up to charges that he doesn’t take the virus seriously — even before his illness and the White House outbreak.

Over the weekend more evidence of a manipulation in reporting by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons following an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018..... More protests in Beirut Sunday mostly peaceful during the day with thousands around the country's parliament. But later on security forces using tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets..... Protests in Hong Kong Sunday ahead of the Monday meeting between the territory's leader Carrie Lam and officials in Beijing..... Two suspected Chinese spies were expelled from the United States after they drove onto a military base in Virginia three...

Tens of thousands of teen boys and men.. were herded into Israeli operating rooms beginning in the '90s to undergo circumcisions. Years later, they recall the resulting trauma and pain, and the damage wrought on their sex lives Pavel Ok, a musician from the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi..immigrated to Israel at the age of 8. Like many other immigrants to Israel, he was not circumcised. And until the end of his high-school years, he hadn’t intended to do anything about it. .. He made the decision to have the belated circumcision during his army service... Ok was 21 when...

After facing intense backlash earlier this month for stating that he goes to the gynecologist with his teenage daughter each year to “check her hymen,” rapper T.I. defended himself this week during an appearance on the Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk.” T.I. told host Jada Pinkett Smith that he thinks a “false narrative” about his comments has been “sensationalized” — but he also defended his choice to “protect” his daughter from “the little slimy, grimy, chubby-fingered little boys who want to just come and defile and destroy the sanctity that I have.” The rapper made the initial comments during...

President Trump tweeted Friday that Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe is withdrawing his name from consideration..... Rapper A$AP Rocky and his two co-defendants freed from jail by a Swedish judge and they are able to leave the country...... In London the "Free Tommy Robinson" protest set for Oxford Circus in the center of the city starting at Noon.....

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Man, that global warming is wreaking havoc in California. Oh, wait… – Scientists have been recording daily temperatures in Los Angeles for 132 years. In all that time, they have never recorded a month of February during which the mercury did not top 70 degrees Fahrenheit on at least one day. But then 2019 came along, and the temperature in LA remained below the 70 degree level for the entire 28 days. Can there be any doubt that the “scientists” at NOAA who have spent the last decade defrauding the historic global...

Nancy Pelosi used taxpayers money to fly family members, for free, in the US Government's airplane, Air Force One, documents from the United States Air Force have revealed. Political watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained the USAF documents in July 2011, which detail expense summaries, flight manifests, copies of receipts, and Congressional correspondence.

Its Tuesday in Australia where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull survived a vote of confidence as Liberal Party caucus met just 24 hours after Turnbull backed down on part of an energy policy he announced last week. Turnbull abandoned a plan setting targets for carbon emissions opposed by many caucus members. The Liberal Party has also been reeling from defeats in recent by-elections for lower house seats in Parliament. Mr. Turnbull was able to survive a challenge from Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton winning 48-35 in the caucus meeting. A win for Turnbull but a narrow one in the context of...