tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167825362024-03-08T04:24:16.210+01:00The Shadowland JournalFrom Christopher Dickey, the author of "Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South" and "Securing the City," this site provides updates and footnotes on history, espionage, terrorism, fanaticism, policing and counterinsurgency linked to Dickey's columns for The Daily Beast and his other writings; also, occasional dialogues, diatribes, and contributions from friends.Christopher Dickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16767149723698320174noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16782536.post-7956864750996194362020-06-18T11:52:00.000+02:002020-06-18T18:01:29.411+02:00Those Green-Streaked Men in the Parks are Strangers<h2 class="_6lAjh " style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; display: inline-flex; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beginning in November 2018 and well into 2019, virtually every weekend protests taking place in the name of the <i>gilets jaunes</i> were staged around the country and, especially in Paris, turned into violent confrontations with the police by groups that identified themselves as anarchists and, yes, "Antifa." </span><span style="font-size: large;">The graffiti slogans they left behind make that clear. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">On December 1, 2018, presumed members of this group broke into the Arc de Triomphe and destroyed or defaced important artifacts. Others burned banks and cafés and cars. I posted several photographs of the rioting and the police response immediately after the initial violence. Those can be found </span><a href="https://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2018/12/scenes-from-yellow-vest-revolt-in-paris.html" style="font-size: large;">here</a><span style="font-size: large;">. These I selected mainly for the graffiti, which speaks for itself.</span></div>
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<em><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Over the last few years I have written quite a few rather personal pieces, some of them exploring friendships, some of them bits of history that interested me, some of them both. I am thinking of reading some of them aloud as a sort of informal podcast. If you have a preference, let me know.<br /> <br /> They are posted here by publication date in reverse chronological order dating back to 2016, which means the subjects appear random, but one might discern certain threads that run through them.</span></strong></em><br />
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"We're entering the age of density and stress from overcrowding and squeezing," the photographer told me in 1996. "It's like the elephant metaphor."</div>
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Trapped in my apartment I pulled Joan's books off the shelf. I wanted to learn again from her meticulous observation of detail, character and setting, and her great sense of irony.</div>
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Many of us worldwide are stuck at home, which means it's the perfect opportunity to escape with a great travel book. Our first selection? Aldous Huxley's "Along the Road."</div>
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To the end, the Egyptian strongman failed to understand how his country had changed, even as a devastating personal drama unfolded within his family.</div>
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Published Feb. 25, 2020 <br />
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TIME OF ASSASSINS <br />
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The most powerful reporters—and spies—in America were haunted by the death of Mary Meyer, President Kennedy's murdered lover. They knew her well. What secrets were in her diary?</div>
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Published Jan. 21, 2020<br />
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HAMMER, SICKLE, AND SWASTIKA <br />
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The generation now quaintly known as "boomers" had grown up thinking the planet might soon be blown to hell. Now that threat was over. Or was it?</div>
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Published Nov. 09, 2019<br />
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TRAILBLAZER <br />
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Captivated by Morisot after an exhibition at the Orsay, I set about trying to find traces of her that remain in Paris today.</div>
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Published Aug. 25, 2019<br />
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DUBIOUS BATTLE <br />
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During the same summer that he wrote "The Amiable Fleas," now published in English for the first time, the American author also appears to have been gathering intel for the Agency.</div>
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Published Jul. 31, 2019<br />
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УМНИЦА <br />
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The only training she ever got as a spy was from her lover. But Elizabeth Bentley managed to manipulate the most feared secret police agency in the world—and intimidate the FBI.</div>
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Published Jul. 28, 2019<br />
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'WORSE THAN MURDER' <br />
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Even as Ethel Rosenberg was strapped into the electric chair for spying for Moscow in 1953, decrypted cables might have spared her. But they were released only decades later.</div>
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Published Jul. 06, 2019<br />
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OPINION<br />
THROWBACK <br />
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In 1987, Trump attacked Reagan's deployment in the Gulf to protect 'ships we don't own, carrying oil we don't need destined for allies who won't help.' He may still feel that way.</div>
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Published Jun. 19, 2019<br />
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OPINION<br />
GATHERING STORM <br />
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The president, born the year after the war ended, does not remember and probably does not want to know what brought it on or what it was fought to end.</div>
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Published Jun. 05, 2019<br />
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BEHIND ENEMY LINES <br />
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Secret agents—women and men—died making it possible for the Allies to storm through France. It's time to remember them.</div>
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Published Jun. 01, 2019<br />
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Schoolteachers, archeologists, linguists and mathematicians worked on the Venona project breaking unbreakable Soviet code from WWII. They were heroes. But some had deep regrets.</div>
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Published May. 26, 2019 <br />
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<br /> CLOAK & DAGGER </article><br />
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Was a top State Department aide truly a Soviet spy? Or did Richard Nixon and the right find a convenient victim?</div>
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Published May. 19, 2019 <br />
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<br /> 'NO GOOD OUTCOMES' </article><br />
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Regime change is implausible, behavior modification is unlikely. So what's left?</div>
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Published May. 17, 2019 <br />
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<br /> CLOAK AND DAGGER </article><br />
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Igor Gouzenko was a lowly Soviet cipher clerk when he turned the world order upside down in 1945. Nobody could have predicted the espionage hysteria his defection would unleash.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=4d7d42b529&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY</a></h4>
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Published May. 11, 2019<br />
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<br /> DAME OF THRONES </article><br />
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Her beauty was legendary, her fortune enormous, and he was notoriously thick. She made him emperor, but she's been written out of history as a tragic whore. She deserves better.</div>
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Published Jan. 21, 2019 <br />
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<br /> BEHIND THE THRONE </article><br />
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Given a large fortune by one lover, Harriet Howard ditched him and used it to help her new lover return to France, get elected president, and fund the coup that made him emperor.</div>
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<br /> BLINDED BY JUSTICE </article><br />
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This true story shows just how much we depend on the bravery of the few to right the wrongs of the many.</div>
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Published Jan. 05, 2019 <br />
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<br /> OH MON DIEU! </article><br />
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The Musée d'Orsay houses a work that still shocks visitors, a painting that united one of the 19th century's most controversial painters with one of its most dissolute gentlemen.</div>
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Published Dec. 31, 2018 <br />
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<br /> FIRST IMPRESSION </article><br />
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I was looking for a muse, and found in her eyes a gateway to the past, an icon for the present. Victorine Meurent was the painter's star model but remained an enigma for 150 years.</div>
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Published Nov. 24, 2018<br />
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<br /> R.I.P. </article><br />
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Christopher Dickey's father wrote the novel on which 'Deliverance' was based—and, during filming, Dickey saw Reynolds the womanizer, wit, and actor desperate to be taken seriously.</div>
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Published Sep. 07, 2018 <br />
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<br /> PARIS LIBÉRÉ </article><br />
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A newly published short story by the iconic American author, set in WWII Paris, grew out of a "moveable feast" very different from the one he had lived there in the 1920s.</div>
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Published Aug. 24, 2018 <br />
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<br /> BAD ACTORS </article><br />
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These three journalists died investigating mercenaries tied directly to an oligarch and an intelligence agency indicted by the Mueller probe in the U.S.</div>
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Published Aug. 21, 2018<br />
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<br /> COMMANDANTE PERFORMANCES </article><br />
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The Castros claimed Cuba was never into drug smuggling, then they said it quit. But their own operations were nothing compared to the ones they helped facilitate in Venezuela.</div>
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Published Jun. 02, 2018 <br />
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<br /> STAIR MASTER </article><br />
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Sacré-Coeur, the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, and the colonnade on top of the Pantheon all unlock secrets to this magical city.</div>
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Published May. 27, 2018<br />
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CLOAK & DAGGER <br />
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Richard Francis Burton was one of the great adventurers of the Victorian era, and a spy. But several weeks just before the Civil War are curiously missing from his life's account.</div>
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Published Oct. 15, 2017<br />
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ORACLE <br />
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One of the world's great adventurers—and a Resistance spy—Jacques Cousteau warned me 25 years ago that humans were reaching the point of no return on environmental destruction.</div>
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Published Jun. 04, 2017<br />
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FULL CIRCLE <br />
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It took an invasion by the U.S. to take out the bloody dictator Manuel Noriega in what was likely the most expensive and largest drug bust in history.</div>
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Published May. 30, 2017<br />
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'HALF MOAN, HALF HALLELUJAH' <br />
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What the 369th had that set it apart was strong leadership by black officers as well as white— and the best damned band in the American Army.</div>
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Published May. 29, 2017<br />
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<br /> PEEPING TOM </article><br />
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Before he was a world-famous spy and translator, Richard F. Burton was sent into the boy brothels of Karachi so the British could conquer all of India.</div>
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Published Dec. 17, 2016 <br />
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<br /> TALE OF THE COMET </article><br />
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Brave women helped downed Allied flyers escape the Germans. But more than that, they showed Hitler's white nationalists they would not surrender, would not submit.</div>
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Published Dec. 11, 2016<br />
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This is the uncorrected draft of a piece published by Rolling Stone in 1990 which appears to be unavailable on the magazine's site, at least at the moment.<br />
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Man has reached a point on this planet where he truly needs all the friendship he can find, and in his loneliness he needs all the elephants, all the dogs, all the birds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The land has changed since the elephants were here. Bill Woodley looks out from the veranda of the senior warden's house and remembers a forest of low, spreading acacia trees. Now the trees are gone. All that remains is scrub and an expanse of grass stretching toward the horizon that ends at Kilimanjaro.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was the elephants that changed the land. They devoured and trampled the trees until the earth was bare and dry and dust filled the air. Historical photographs show them moving through a desolate countryside like enormous engines of war. Twenty years ago there were 45,000 of the great rough beasts in this vast national park. But then they, too, were gone. They were decimated first by drought and then by poaching on a scale that Africa had never seen. The poison arrows of the tribes and the bolt-action elephant guns of the great white hunters gave way, in these killing fields, to Kalashnikovs and German G-3 automatic rifles firing NATO 7.62 mm ammunition at 20(ck) rounds per second. By the time Woodley was called back into action at Tsavo, perhaps five thousand elephants were left -- frightened and angry, unpredictable and dangerous.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Woodley was in England. He was 60(ck) years old. Half his stomach was gone to cancer and surgeons. His left eye was sunken and blind and the British doctors had just established there was nothing they could do for it. He was a relic of the old Kenya that almost no one outside of Kenya believed in any more. But he had served in the country's parks since the day they were established in 1948. He was part of a small elite, kin by blood and marriage and vocation, that for 25 years had dominated the great twin parks of Tsavo East and Tsavo West: 8,000 square miles in the southeast corner of the country between Nairobi and Mombasa. No one knew this land like he did. No one could hunt in it like he could. And make no mistake, Bill Woodley loved to hunt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From the time he was a child, killing Thompson's(ck sp) gazelles for dinner near his mother's shack on the Athi Plain, Woodley was enthralled by the chase. His father died when he was nine and the men Bill found to replace him were among the great white hunters of the day. Theirs was the world that we imagine when we dream of Africa, a blend of bravery and decadence, British eccentricity and fair play, adventure and freedom. It was created a generation earlier by Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Bror Blixen and Denys Finch-Hatton, who would fly their clients down to Tsavo to search out record tuskers as trophies. It was near Voi in what is now Tsavo East that Finch-Hatton crashed and burned and broke the hearts of Kenya's most famous women. Woodley learned to hunt with men who were still part of that world, and he was a natural for it. The year he was nineteen, in 1947, he went to Mozambique and personally killed ninety elephants.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"I was shooting for ivory, shooting for money, but there was no question in those days of slaughtering elephants." There were so many, then. "It was just a different situation altogether. I was doing it legally. We had licenses, and it just happened to be in Mozambique that you could shoot as many elephants as you liked."<o:p></o:p></div>
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"I think my favorite prey -- I better be very careful how I put this -- apart from women" -- he laughs -- "is men." He's serious. "You know what I mean. I think man is the best prey of all because he shoots back. I actually prefer hunting human beings to animals.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Mind you, a wounded elephant or a wounded lion, that's pretty exciting. The odds are fairly even. You've got to shoot very straight, because if you don't shoot straight, he's got you. And when you hunt him you know it. The same when you're after bandits, or after enemy, whoever they may be. You've just got to be better than they are."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill Woodley has always been better than they are. Since he took command of anti-poaching operations here this time his rangers have captured two men alive. They have killed eighteen, but for two months no new elephant carcasses have been found. The trade-off is direct: the lives of men for the lives of animals. But nothing between the hunter and the hunted is simple.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is spring and the rains have just begun and the war that I thought I would find in Tsavo has slowed to a halt for the moment. But there is no truce. The fight has gone on now for more than four decades. The prize, the elephant, remains the same. But over the years the poacher, the bandit, the enemy has been changing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Woodley goes into the house to make a phone call. I walk out onto the rough lawn. There is mold growing on the massive horns of a buffalo skull that leans against the veranda. A tortoise's shell on the brick ledge is cracked and its plates are peeling off. Stepping back, I can see the sleeping porch on the second floor. Mosquito nets are tied up over the beds like Victorian bonnets. On one wall a poster of Marilyn Monroe has faded in the sun. Beside it, as decoration, is a silhouette target of a human figure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He was one of the first men Woodley hunted. I have seen pictures of him taken 40 years ago, staring straight into the camera and holding before him two lethal arrows, their heads as sharp as razors, their shafts coated with poisonous resins. He is of the Kamba, a tribe that ranged the Tsavo scrub and forests for generations, taking leopard and other cats, killing the occasional elephant, living off the land until Nairobi declared it a National Park in 1948 and Woodley went to work here. Elui Nthengi knew the bush much better than Woodley, but he was easy to capture. "He is deaf," explains the old white hunter, "and he wasn't expecting to be caught. He didn't know he was in the park. He didn't even know the park existed. This was all something new. I mean, how many chaps knew this huge piece of land had suddenly become a park? It was a huge happy hunting ground."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Woodley didn't shoot Elui when he came across him near Nzima Springs in 1948. Those were more civilized times, and there was no need. Nor did he send him to jail. There was not enough evidence in Elui's camp to make a case against him. Instead Woodley enlisted his prisoner as a guide, as a tutor, and eventually, Woodley would say, as an adopted father. Together they tracked other men and Elui put him on the trail of the Waliangulu. Their name, in one of the local dialects, meant "meat-eaters." The meat they ate was elephant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first extinction at the Tsavo parks was of the Waliangulu culture. They were a unique tribe of hunters whose numbers probably never exceeded 2,000. The early colonialists of Kenya had taken little note of them. They tended to blend in with stronger tribes from the region, adopting their language and dress, betraying little of their own origins. The bond that held them together was the killing of elephants for food and ivory -- and not just what they killed, but how they killed. Their bows were enormous recurves with draw-weights of more than 100 pounds. Their arrows were long and coated with virulent acokanthera poison that made blood froth on contact. Their ability to stalk was legendary. By the time they took aim they were often among the herd, a few feet away from their targets, so close they could see the long lashes of the elephant's eye and the thin cracks in the mud on its skin. They shot for the spleen, because the poison worked quicker that way, though the pain was terrible for the animal. The best of the Waliangulu hunters could kill a hundred elephants a year. Many of the tusks they took weighed more than 150 pounds apiece.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Woodley and the other wardens at Tsavo were fascinated by the tribe -- hunting them, turning them to informers, using them to hunt others, rounding them up one by one. Then the Mau Mau rebellion began. It was the beginning of the independence struggles that swept the length of the continent and chilled the blood of the whites who had made the land their own. The numerous, industrious Kikuyu tribe, the clerks and servants and laborers held in vague contempt by the warrior-loving whites, proved to be fierce and bloody warriors themselves, rising in a wave of terrifying violence. In 1952 colonial Kenya declared a state of emergency, and Bill Woodley took the Waliangulu to war with Her Majesty's forces. The erstwhile poachers were rounded up in groups of 25 and 50 and shipped off for military service. First they were used as trackers, then as accomplices in the counter-insurgency work known as pseudo-terrorism. A tracker would make contact with a group of Mau Mau. White officers, their faces painted black, would hang back. At a signal they would all pull sten-guns from under their coats and an lay waste to the people around them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By the end of the rebellion, 95 white people had been killed, along with about 2,000 blacks helping them suppress the uprising. Of the Kikuyu insurgents, 11,500 died and 79,000 were detained. Eight years later the man the British had jailed for leading the Mau Mau, Jomo Kenyatta, became the first president of the independent republic of Kenya. Many white Kenyans left the country. But Woodley and his people, white and black, stayed on and stayed together.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I cannot talk to Elui. He can barely hear, old chap. He has a cold and he coughs and wheezes and spits phlegm as he and Woodley banter in Swahili. "He will show you where he was caught by a crocodile," says his old white friend. Then the wound from the hippo, from the rhino, and lion and leopard, on both arms, both legs. Then the place where he was bitten by a cobra. Now he is hugging himself, showing what it felt like when the python had him. "He has had a full life, this fellow," says Woodley.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The greatest of the old Waliangulu were written about in adventure books as the "elephant people" and lionized in the romance of the old Kenya even as their way of life was obliterated. A scheme in the 1950s to settle them across the Galana River from the remote eastern edge of Tsavo and use them to harvest ivory and meat and skins with guns eventually fell apart. The elephants learned to seek the safety of the park. Rifles were not the Waliangulu weapon of choice. The meat rotted and other tribes despised it. The development project was sold off and became the Galana Game and Cattle Ranch; its principal owner a Texan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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White hunters took on the Waliangulu remnants as trackers and guides, first for the rich men who came to bag trophies, then for photo safaris after all legal hunting was banned in 1977. The old men often showed the tourists the scars that showed they were hard to kill, but one by one, and only rarely from natural causes, they died. Abakuna Tise, a magnificent archer with a fine, kind, satanic face, was killed in the jaws of a hippo before it succumbed to his poison. Others were killed by crocodiles, or by diseases contracted in jails where they were serving time for poaching. They liked to drink palm wine, a few died falling from the branches of the trees while gathering their fermented sap.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By the time the present anti-poaching campaign began, the last of the great Waliangulu and Kamba hunters in Tsavo were old men. A few younger members of Elui's tribe tried to take up arms against the beasts last year, but they had none of the old skills, and none of the luck. "We killed three Kamba," says Woodley, who keeps score. "We wounded one who later died and one got back to tell the story." As fars as poaching was concerned, "that was the end of the Kamba."<o:p></o:p></div>
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The shifta started coming in the 1970s: Somali raiders, many of them soldiers left over from the bloody Ogaden conflict that ended in 1977. They are a proud, nomadic, warlike people. The consecrated colonial borders between Kenya and the nation of Somalia have never meant much to them. Somali soldiers, Somali deserters and ethnic Somalis from Kenya worked together, and by the late 1970s they were increasingly well armed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The wars among Africans have been bad for the elephant. The ends of the wars are often worse. The fighting brings in weapons and when the fighting subsides the weapons remain. The soldiers -- once the recipients of salaries and perqs and the pride of their countries -- are suddenly cut loose, often with their rifles in their hands. In the African badlands the quickest way to make money with a gun has always been to take ivory. By the 1970s the incentives for slaughter were stronger than ever. After decades of chaos and corruption ivory had become in effect one of Africa's few hard currencies. It was certainly the only form of wealth available to men in the bush that was worth anything on the world market. Out-of-work soldiers could use their guns to get ivory, and the ivory to get more guns. Meanwhile the price of this white gold was rising fast. From 1968 to 1978 it shot up from $5 to $70 a kilo. By the late 1980s it had risen as high as $150. The United Nations Environment Programme published a pair of graphs in 1989 showing the surge in the price of ivory and the surge in East Africa's arms imports. The trends are parallel, upward and steep.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bill Woodley reviewed his campaigns. "In '58" -- against the Kamba and Waliangulu archers -- "there was not a poacher left standing." In 1978 a new campaign was called for, but the arms flow to the poachers was just beginning, and many were relatively untrained ethnic Somalis. It was more of an intelligence operation, less of a shootout in the bush. "A lot of the people we caught were actually in Mombasa." But each new resurgence was rougher. "In '81 we had a new start. Not poaching, it was a form of terrorism." A Somali gang was robbing buses and raiding villages. They didn't kill anyone, but in the end most of them were killed. "There were thirteen, we killed nine and captured four." But the pressure was persistent and building and by '83, "we started getting a sort of bad crop of game wardens in Tsavo East again." The price of ivory was so high, the incentive to fight the poachers so low among the poorly paid staff in the parks that they joined in the slaughter of the elephants. And when the supply of animals dwindled the shifta turned to other prey.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To the left are the hills near Kilaguni Lodge where women in pedal-pushers and men in safari hats drink sugary cocktails and watch the antelope and buffalo wandering down to the water hole. They laugh together in German or Finnish, French, Italian, English. They toss the occasional slice of bread to Marabou storks that stand passive, bald and beggarly, near the dining terrace -- until the lunge for the bread and the fight for the crumbs. The tourists worry about the water, munch their anti-malaria pills, tuck themselves beneath their mosquito nets at night. Their days are spent in "combis," Volkswagen busses where they sit three or four abreast peering at the wildlife around them from a vantage as insulated and safe as the submarine ride at Disneyland.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To the right are the Chyulu Hills, volcanic ridges that separate Tsavo West from the smaller park of Amboseli. The road across the hills used to be well graded, but as the parks surrendered to corruption and indolence in the 1980s the mountains became harder to traverse. Rains created gulleys in the road. The passage became an ordeal. By early 1989, the guest book at the Kilaguni Lodge was filling up with remarks about the "adventurous journey from Amboseli," and expressions of relief on arriving, at last, in Kilaguni.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In April 1989, men with guns started appearing on the road through the Chyulu Hills. In one incident, two German women were wounded, one in the wrist, one through the stomach. A week later, another German woman was shot in the arm and the driver of the little bus caught a bullet in the foot. Tourists were stripped of their valuables, cameras, cash.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On July 29, 1989, Marie Ferraro of Bethany, Connecticutt, was touring the Kenya parks with a group from her state Audubon Society. As they crept over the ruts in the Chyulu Hills road they were confronted by armed men in camouflage uniforms. Later, members of the Connecticutt Audubon society would criticize the governments of both the United States and Kenya for not informing them the trip could be dangerous. But for the previous eleven months the violence in Kenya's parks had been escalating, and not all of it on the Chyulu Hills road. In August 1988 three rangers had been killed in a shootout near Meru and the Kenyan government announced that henceforth its park staff could shoot to kill suspected poachers. Within three months, thirty men had been shot in confrontations with rangers and police. Yet the attacks on tourists continued to mount. A Dutch vacationer was shot in the chest traveling in Meru National Park in September 1988. Two French tourists were killed when they surprised a group of poachers on another back road in Meru in July 1989. The body of a young British woman, Julie Ward, was found burned and mutilated in the Masai Mara; two Americans on a horseback safari were pulled off their animals and beaten there. On the road through the Chyulu Hills the combis often traveled with armed guards riding shotgun, literally, in the front seat. But somehow none of this had made enough of an impression on the folks from Connecticutt to warn them off.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the men in the road stopped Marie Ferraro's combi caravan and opened fire, the 50-year-old lady from Bethany was turning to talk one of her companions. The bullet cut through her head, as Bill Woodley put it, "from ear to ear."<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Kenyan government was stunned by the speed with which safaris and hotel reservations were cancelled now that an American was the victim. The local press tried to blame the country's bad rap on the international media. New York City was infinitely more dangerous than the Kenyan parks, they insisted. But no one listened. The Connecticutt Audubon Society knows the risks in New York City, and its members don't go there to relax. Now nobody was going to Kenya either.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the violence went on, and the headlines grew worse. In September 1989 a group of shifta killed George Adamson, a former white hunter, game warden and lion fancier. At 84 he was still living with his prides in the bush of Kora, working on returning lions to the wild, TK years after his late wife Joy had published the best-selling "Born Free." He lived as close to the animals and as far from man as he could get -- except for those people who came to admire his work and his lions. The shifta, who often passed near his refuge, were unwanted and despised. Adamson blamed them for "killing ten of my lions and my wife" in years past. "The Somalis are the most destructive people on earth," he said. "They've turned their own country into a desert and will do the same in Kenya."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Press accounts made the moment of Adamson's death as wild and eccentric as his life. He was rushing to the rescue of one of his drivers and an 18-year-old German girl who was staying with him. They had been on the way to meet a visiting airplane when shifta shot out their tires, broke the legs of the driver with a crowbar and, as the British press said discreetly, started "roughing up" the young woman. Adamson "felt very protective to the girls who used to visit the camp," one of his friends later told the papers. With the wheel of his Land Rover in one hand and his pistol in the other, Adamson charged the shifta and the automatic rifles, dying in a hail of bullets. Two of his assistants who were with him in the car were killed as well. Their names did not figure in the international press.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The international news dispatches dealt only with the killing of white men and women. But the shifta were raiding African villages as well. The local press reported them stealing anything they could find, raping women and boys, abducting bearers for their ivory, murdering those who stood against them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Late on the night of June 7, 1989, the shifta hit the village of Kasakini, at the eastern edge of the Galana Game and Cattle Ranch. They were looking for Abakuna Gumundi, a 66-year-old Waliangulu. He was one of the best of the tribe's elephant hunters in the old days, was captured by Woodley, worked for a while as a tourist hunter's tracker, and was now retired to lead the life of a village elder statesman and a master of herbal potions. Abakuna had been speaking out against the shifta. Now seven of them surrounded him with their automatic rifles and a potion of their own. They gave him the choice of meeting his ancestors with his head blown off, or drinking the poison. The old man chose the poison. Within minutes the last of the great Waliangulu hunters was dead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The airplane was screaming -- the stall indicator blasting out its alarm as we banked so hard and so low over the small herd of elephants that the machine seemed to pivot on its wing. At the controls was Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a donnish Briton who has made a career documenting the decline of the African elephant. Beside him sat Stephen Gishangi, the present warden of Tsavo East. We had taken off a few minutes before from the little airstrip at Voi. Near the site where Denys Finch-Hatton used to park his biplane there now sat two Kenyan army Hughes 500 helicopters mounted with 7.62 mm doorguns. Light, quick and quiet, they are the least talked about and most effective weapon the parks have in the current campaign. Gishangi had seen them in action and remained vaguely amazed by the spectacle. "Against these poachers you just call them. Puff! Puff! Puff! Ten are dead. Easy job." Gishangi told of a Hughes 500 that took out three men trying to hide behind the trunk of an enormous baobab tree. It circled in on them as easily as an enormous wasp closing in on hapless aphids. "Dangerous things," says Gishangi with a hint of awe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We were on our way to the Galana Game and Cattle Ranch. Gishangi was about to go on vacation and wanted to say goodbye to his neighbors at the far side of the park. Douglas-Hamilton was flying for research, for fun, and for me, at a reasonable price. We were flying low and slow, sometimes only 35 or 40 feet off the ground. As a reflex we were looking for signs of shifta: perhaps the thin ribbon of smoke from a cooking fire, the mutilated corpses of elephants. Often you can smell the carcasses before you see them, even from the air. The poachers try to hide their kills from the vultures. If not, the heavy-winged scavengers circle like a slow-wheeling whirlwind, gorging on these enormous mountains of offal until they can no longer fly, then littering the area with their own corpses. The spiral of scavengers is like a beacon for park rangers. But even when the corpses are hidden from vultures, the smell of a dead elephant below is unmistakable to the pilot-hunters. When the animals' guts are opened by scavengers they spill mounds of undigested leaves and grasses onto the earth. The stench is unique: rotting meat, rotting vegetation, sickening and sweet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This morning, for mile after mile, the only signs of life looming ahead in the arid landscape had been enormous termite hills. Made from the same red clay that covered the elephants' bodies, they looked from a distance like the elephants themselves. Then suddenly we spotted the real thing, a couple of old tuskers and a few young -- survivors of the massacre. They trumpeted a warning, then ran from the sound of the plane that spiraled above.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When we arrived at the Galana Ranch we found David Taylor, the manager, struggling to fix the filter of the swimming pool. The green scum on the surface suggested nobody had made this effort for quite a while. Tourists had long since quit coming. The TK square mile Galana Ranch, recently seized by the government, was falling rapidly into disrepair. Taylor, hail and hearty in his white shirt and shorts, was just biding his time until something else came along. He was happy to have company.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, David knew something about that. "One of our people was used by the police to track him." Seems they got lucky. Their truck had a flat tire and they had to stop for the night. In the morning when the tracker from Galana got up to look around he saw a thread of smoke rising from a cooking fire not far away. The police moved in and started blasting away indiscriminately. Golo Ore, armed with an AK-47, went down on the ground in a classic rifle-range pose. "He died in the shooting position with his finger on the trigger," says Taylor. "No one wanted to go near him." For what seemed like hours the police froze, sure that Golo Ore wouly rise and shoot if they approached too closely. Such was his legendary cunning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This was a side of the shifta I had not yet heard about. But here on the Galana Ranch they were as common as lions. In years past there had been a modus vivendi worked out. Occasionally, by design as well as accident, there were meetings at remote watering holes between shifta and members of the ranch staff. As long as the shifta did not interfere with ranch operations, the ranch would not interfere with them. But slowly the shifta had grown bolder, come closer. David Taylor had met Golo Ore himself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was a quiet evening in November 1988. As the sun set there had been a small herd of elephants bathing in the river below the manager's house, just beyond the little aloe-plant border of the neatly trimmed lawn. The shifta seemed far away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"I was sitting right in tha chair and they came in the back door," said Taylor, taking us inside to look at the scene of the action. "I was watching a video and around the corner came a rifle barrel. They said put your cigarette out and I put it out." He sat down in the big overstuffed club chair to demonstrate. "And I put my hands up here": flat on the arms, plainly visible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Absolutely." As they walked Taylor up the road toward the ranch offices he realized he had forgotten his cigarettes. They let him go back to get them. "And they asked, 'How are your kids?' And I said how did you know I have kids? They said, 'Oh, we know all about you.'<o:p></o:p></div>
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When they got to the office, Taylor was told to open the safe and the shifta took about 40,000 Kenya shillings, or $2,000, in unclaimed wage packets. "Then they said, 'Lock the door again in case the thieves come in the night.'"<o:p></o:p></div>
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Golo Ore had two specific objectives that night. He wanted the money from the safe and he was looking for two assistant managers who normally worked distant corners of the ranch. The poaching there had become so commonplace and open that the shifta took to killing elephants near the dirt roads, where there was no choice for the staff but to report them. That brought in units of the GSU, the government's paramilitary security police. But they had no transportation and demanded assistance from the ranch staff. The shifta knew the assistant managers had been helping the GSU, and now they had come to find them. Fortunately, they were both away at the time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The shifta had left radio intact in Taylor's house, knowing it was his only means of contacting the outside world, and knowing he would call the police as soon as they had left. "You call up the GSU. They're just a bunch of women," said Golo Ore. "We don't worry about that." The shiftas had taken some pocket money from Taylor when they seized him. Golo Ore ordered them to give it back. "Count it," he said. All the money was there. The expression on Golo Ore's face was lost in the darkness and Taylor did not want to look too closely. The shifta's words were choked off by coughing for a few moments, "like a real mega-smoker's cough," as Taylor remembered. Then the shifta disappeared into the night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back inside his house, he saw, the men who had been left behind had had a party for themselves. Against Golo Ore's orders, they had capped off the evening with some pilfering, but they took the kinds of things that would serve a man in Mombasa or Mogadishu, not in the bush of Tsavo and Galana: a tape recorder, suede loafers with leather soles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As it happened, Taylor didn't call the GSU right away. He had no way of knowing if the shifta were still around, moving as silently beyond the windows of the house as they had been when they first arrived. "I got smashed on vodka," he said. The next day, and now, it seemed like an odd, sinister dream. He was alive, unharmed. And when you talk about the late Golo Ore and his men, Taylor feels he has to admit "it was a real gentlemanly organization -- in its way."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Again the stall indicator screams as we bank hard and circle. But this time the elephant beneath us is dead. There is not much of it left, not even the smell. A few bones, some deflated skin, and the ears, spread like the wings of a gray angel next to the shattered skull. "This one is from January," says Gishangi. An anti-poaching operation had been mounted in the escarpment below and surprised a group of shifta. They abandoned their camp and their kills. None of the shifta were confirmed dead, although their chances of survival were remote in that wilderness after losing all their supplies. "One of them left behind a diary," said Gishangi. Bill Woodley had told me about the same captured chronicle. "Nice reading," he had said. The writer was educated. The result was "sort of biblical."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Among the musty files of the Tsavo offices the next day a rough carbon copy was found of the translation. Having heard so much about the evil that shifta do, I thought I'd read a missive from the devil. But Woodley, who loved the humanity of his human prey, was right. Smoothe out the typist's errors, and the story the elephant killers tell is of men lost, lonely and afraid in a strange land. The savage names of the places visited sound mystical, mythical: "We were at Shakaji Valley, and went to Wildena," it begins, on January 1, 1990. "We saw Orormo herdsmen living in the valley. This was 20 days after we left Kulbiyow." The translator tells us that "the writer starts a lovely story about a member of them who had fallen in love with a girl, namely Hiyo Hursan." But the translator has kept that tale for himself and it doesn't appear in my copy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two days later they knew they were lost. "We saw a cattle herdsboy. Wonderfully enough, we failed to understand the language the young boy was using yet he managed to make us understand that the place we were at was Tiltila. Every one of us blamed the other when the boy told us that we were in Tiltila. Then we took another road leading to Weldena. We got astray and lost the direction. We decided to rest. After resting for some time, we sent two men to bring us any information on the area we were at at the time. They came back with no information at all. We started our journey immediately after the two men came back ... We didn't eat for two nights, while we also spent the third night without eating. Because of hunger, some of us failed to walk. Among those who failed to walk was Ali Shooa...<o:p></o:p></div>
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Daphne Sheldrick, chatting in her garden, is the perfect picture of an English matron. She wears a loose, flowery dress. Her graying hair is sensibly coiffed. Her eyes are glacially blue. The only discordant notes are the fact that her feet are bare and her garden, stretching out for miles beneath the porch of her house, is the Nairobi Game Park. The warthogs that trot down the path in the late morning are, for the most part, known to her by name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Daphne was born in Kenya. Her father was a farmer and she "grew up in the bush," she says. Every holiday was spent "on safari under canvas" and the farm itself "was like a national park because game was everywhere." She was given her first orphaned animal, a little antelope, when she was three. "Animals have been my life," she says. To date she has raised 23 buffaloes, nine rhino and eight elephants. Yet Daphne, who mothered so many beasts, was also the great love of some of the great hunters and wardens.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She was the conscience and inspiration of at least three of the most important men in the history of Kenya's Parks. Her brother, Peter Jenkins, built up Meru in the 1950s, and has been called back to rebuild it again in the last two years. Her first husband was none other than Bill Woodley. ("My senior wife," he still calls her.) Her second husband was Bill's boss, David Sheldrick, who served as warden of Tsavo East for twenty-seven years. The men were a tight-knit group. "My brother and Bill were the first to join the Kenya national parks in 1948," says Daphne. "It was through Pete that I met Bill and through Bill that I met David." In the 1950s the three men worked and partied together and, when the opportunity or necessity arose, they hunted together as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"I think there is definitely a hunting instinct in the male," says Daphne. "Young boys go through that phase and then after a bit it falls off, you know. In some it never does, of course. They stay hunters all ther lives." Personally, Daphne finds this rather repellent. "I have never had a desire to kill anything. Not even a fly. It seems to have passed us [women] by, fortunately." She laughs, as jovial as mother nature. "But I mean, little boys are always killing things, aren't they?"<o:p></o:p></div>
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Often by herself at Tsavo, Daphne went about raising her two daughters and her orphans. "You are never lonely if you are involved with animals," she says. "I had my four-legged family to cope with and the garden to make, you know. I think if you come from pioneering stock you can always busy yourself."<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1976 David Sheldrick was removed as warden of Tsavo East. In 1977 he died. By then, the poaching had begun at industrial levels, and the number of orphan elephants was multiplying fast. Only a handful could be saved and put in Daphne's care at the house outside Nairobi.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Elephants, of all the animals I have kept, are the most human. They really are. And certainly in these babies you find the traits you see in your own human babies. You know, they are a little bit possessive. They are a little bit naughty. They are a bit competitive. They sulk, you know. If one thinks the other is getting a bit more than he gets, then there is a tantrum."<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is just noon and four enormous infants are marching up for their daily mud-bath. They are irresistibly cute. Less than two years old, they are big as cows and playful as puppies, sliding and slipping and sliming each other in the greasy red clay, spraying water everywhere, even kicking a ball around the yard. A small group of invited tourists from British Air are plainly delighted by the spectacle. Daphne points out little Dika, who saw his entire herd slaughtered by poachers near the Taita Hills between Tsavo East and West. Another baby, brought to the orphanage by a Japanese film crew, was orphaned when his mother ate glass and batteries among the vegetable garbage in back of the Amboseli Lodge. Two more, Ndume and Malaika, apparently had lost their parents already when they wandered into cultivated fields near Mount Kenya and were set upon by farmers who beat the infant elephants senseless. By the time Ndume was brought to Nairobi he was unconscious and required a saline drip inserted in his ear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Each orphan is accompanied by a keeper who is paid about $100 a month from a private foundation to live with the big babies day and night. The infants must be fed every three hours, around the clock, for four years. The keepers walk with them in the bush, sleep with them in their little stalls. The men are intended to replace the families the elephants have lost. "There's a lot of psychology in raising elephants, so you have to be careful so they don't grow up with a lot of hangups." At first the keepers are required to snuggle with the infant elephants in the straw. "As the animal settles down," says Daphne, "we can put the keeper on a sort of little bed hung from the roof."<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a hard edge to Daphne Sheldrick's sentimentality -- a moral absolutism about the rights of animals to live and die in the wild -- of a kind that has fueled the debate over the future of the elephant for much of the last century. Before anyone knew the word ecology, the elephant was an irresistible symbol: "This gigantic freedom, clumsy and magnificent, that still lives at our side," as Romain Gary put it in his 1956 novel "The Roots of Heaven." Gary put his finger on an aesthetic imperative. The animal has an elemental magnificence as it moves through the landscape that any modern man from the closed world of cities and industries must respond to with a tremendous rush of excitement. For the environmentalists of the last twenty years, many of whom started their rise to prominence by fighting to save the whales, it was natural to defend the leviathan of the land, and exploit its symbolic potential. Like the blue whale, the elephant was said to be threatened with extinction and the decline in its numbers across Africa was so breathtakingly steep -- from Tk to TK in the last 20 years -- that this seemed a plausible scenario.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But there was never, in fact, much likelihood that the elephant would disappear completely from the continent. Zimbabwe and South Africa, especially, have had well-managed programs which allowed elephants to thrive and multiply on the land available. Small numbers were killed selectively to prevent overpopulation from devastating the parks, and the proceeds from the sale of their tusks were used to mollify the local populations that had to live close to the animals. Government-controlled income encouraged them to defend the animals rather than kill them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With the limited elephant populations of Southern Africa prospering, a worldwide ban on ivory trading was sought in 1989 not so much to save the elephant in the wild as to save it in the wilds of East Africa. The debate among the 105 members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was passionated and furious. The southern Africans argued that their successful programs were being put in jeopardy to try to make amends for East Africa's negligence, corruption and indifference in the 1970s and '80s. But Zimbabwe's programs held little promise for Kenya in its war against the well-trained shifta with their automatic weapons. The elephants of Meru and Tsavo were not slaughtered by irate local tribesmen, they were cut down in industrial quantitities by a clandestine industry almost as ruthless and well-organized as the international drug trade. To stop that trade the market price of ivory had to be driven down so low that poaching wouldn't be worth the risk, and the only way to do this, as it turned out, was a total ban.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Elephant experts in government and wildlife organizations are well aware of these realities, but in public debates the argument still tends toward absolutes. The threat of total extinction is a more compelling subject than competition for tourist revenues among African dictatorships, which is the essence of the African concerns.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Daphne Sheldrick and a few others take the absolutism still further: simply because Africans are Africans and elephants are elephants there is no justification for killing the animals. The beasts are so magnificent and men so ignorant and venal that almost any effort to manage the elephants will end in disaster. The scientific "culling" of herds will be corrupted, and serve to cover the international trade in poachers' ivory. Politicians will surrender to demands for the elephants' land from growing human populations. Social upheaval will end the elephants' prospects for survival even where they prosper now, as in Kruger Park in South Africa. "I can't see why they should be any different than any other country in Africa," says one Kenyan conservationist. "You know they are not always going to have 1,000 white men in Kruger."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Projects such as the Sheldrick orphanage and the research of Cynthia Moss and Joyce Poole in Amboseli tend to magnify the humanity -- the magnificence -- of the elephant race still more. Moss has given every one of the more than TK elephants at Amboseli a name in order to count them and keep track of them, she says, but in the process of course she humanizes them. "I cannot help but love and admire Tuskless," Moss writes in her book "Elephant Memories" (p. 188). "She is smart and brave, inventive and gutsy, and at the same time she has to be one of the sweetest-natured animals I have ever known." They are fascinated by the elephants' matriarchal society, and by the parallels with the human life cycles. The gestation period of the mothers, the development of the young and the coming of puberty all take place at a stately, human pace. Elephants are not ready to strike out on their own until they become, literally, teenagers of 14 or 15. Their social habits are sometimes disturbingly like those of people. They mourn their dead, for instance, frequently visiting the dying place of relatives, sometimes carrying away the tusks of killed elephants and hiding them, as if somehow they knew what was going on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Recent reasearch into communication among elephant individuals and herds suggests that indeed they do know more about what happens around them than was previously imagined. As whales use shortwave ultrasonic sounds to communicate long distances beneath the sea, elephants appear to use longwave infrasonic sounds, inaudible to humans, to communicate vast distances over land.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"The messages that have gone out about the human species amongst the elephant society must be pretty condemning," says Sheldrick. "Just about every elephant alive has lost loved ones and family and seen the most terrible things."<o:p></o:p></div>
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But elephants do not blame men when men allow them to die on their own. In 1970 when David Sheldrick was the warden at Tsavo East and there were more than 45,000 elephants there ravaging the woodlands and devastating the terrain, he refused to allow any of them to be killed. Other officials who argued that a limited culling might help save the herds in the long run were distrusted by Sheldrick. As Daphne puts it, "under the guise of cropping them, they would have had the lot. Such was the greed of the regime." Two years later, after devastating drought, 9,000 of the Tsavo elephants died of starvation and thirst. But Daphne insists that David was right. The destruction and the regeneration of the land is part of a natural cycle that Tsavo's 8,000 square miles can support. Elephants die quickly and relatively wuietly when they have no food or water because their digestive systems are not very efficient. When men cull the population they wipe out whole elephant tribes at a time, leaving the other elephant families intact to breed effectively, and allowing the numbers to increase. When elephants die of drought, only the strong survive, many of the young and the females die, and reproductive rates decline. "Natural selection is a very powerful tool genetically," says Daphne. "At times like that nature eliminates any bad genes in the community so you are left with very strong stock and that is how you get a better race."<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Just about two kilometers down the road -- so many elephants. They come and they eat maize and beans. They come in your shaba and they eat everything." The bartender had a gaunt face with brown, protruding teeth and a hint of conspiracy in his voice. From behind him on the wall of the Bar Bhisanda in the town of Mwatate black-and-white photographs of Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi, the only two presidents Kenya ever had, looked out on the clientele. There was little for them to see or hear through the flyspecked glass of their frames. It was the middle of a Tuesday afternoon and conversation stopped when the Rolling Stone photographer and I walked in. The only sound was from a corner where an old man, too drunk to notice the white strangers, was pressing money into the hand of a young girl.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am trying to coax a little information from the man serving the Tusker beer. I am looking around for a little help. Perhaps another patron would like to join in. But a heavy-set man in a leisure suit listens in silence from his table near the window. A young, rakish local leans against the bar to hear. He has the easy confidence of a dope dealer behind designer dark glasses. But he says nothing. No one is going to help the bartender talk, and his voice is fading.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Elephants are a politically sensitive subject in the Taita Hills, a reserve of agricultural land that juts in between Tsavo East and Tsavo West. No one is sure what the government in Nairobi wants. There is no process of decision-making visible to the people, only a succession of decrees, and those are often contradictory. For years Nairobi seemed to tolerate wholesale poaching and a thriving illegal ivory trade. Now it has cracked down with draconian penalties, shooting to kill suspected poachers wherever they are found, burning a pile of TK tons of ivory worth TK dollars to demonstrate its seriousness about stopping the trade, talking about the elephants facing extinction. Yet here in Taita there seems to be no shortage. The animals have been attracted by the corn the farmers grow and by the Hilton Hotel where they can take shelter in the protection supplied for tourists.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Woodley tells me one farmer has been killed here by elephants in the last year. Black rangers and wardens tell me three people are dead and another lies badly wounded in the hospital at Voi from separate incidents. Another senior park official wonders at the irony of shooting men to save the elephants. "You know, it's funny. We are protecting them all over, but they are killing people." The head of the African Wildlife Fund in Nairobi has mentioned a project to build a long electric fence aimed at keeping the elephants out of the farmers' plots of land, their shabas, and away from their crops. But now I am in the Taita Hills and no one wants to talk. Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi are looking down from the walls.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The senior staff had left the hospital at Voi by the time we got there. But Americans and Europeans rarely visit this rambling, run-down building on a back road near the main entrance of Tsavo East. An ambulance, missing its tires, sits on blocks outside the front door. A faint smell of sweat and sickness assaults us as we mount the steps. Tourists do not pass by here on their way to see the animals in the park. A secretary, surprised by our presence, obligingly ushers us to the place where the man wounded by an elephant is convalescing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A young nurse translates as Gilbert Moanyasi, 45, tells his story. He is a herdsman who was grazing a small group of cattle near Sagala, south of Voi, when he came across a field of corn that had been ravaged by elephants. Many of the stalks were down and the ears were just lying on the ground ready to be gathered. He was picking them up to give to his herd when he saw, about 500 yards away from him, that one of the elephants was still nearby. Its raised trunk and flapping ears, its screams of warning, terrified Moanyasi and he turned, trying to run. But now young elephants, babies, seemed to be all around the field. The big one was coming straight at him, and fast. As he heard her crashing near him he fell down and rolled on his back, hoping she would lose sight of him, or interest. But she stopped only inches away and plunged her tusks into his body, once, twice, driving them through the flesh and bone like a carving knife through gristle, then pulling away and leaving, at last. Even as he tells the story, Moanyasi's eyes roll up in his head as if he sees the enormous, angry beast standing over him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Leakey is perhaps the most well known figure in the country, and certainly the most well known outside. The son of a world-famous paleonotologist, he became a world-famous scientist in his own right. For the last several years he had served in a public capacity as director of Kenya's museums and privately as head of the Kenya Wildlife Society (TK). Raising funds for his various projects he has traveled the world, given countless interviews and speeches, written several books(TK) and his autobiography, One Life. "Volume One," Leakey's friends in Nairobi started calling it after his appointment was announced as head of the nation's parks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Leakey was given the job when the situation was at its most desperate. His well-meaning predecessor, Perez Olindo, had failed to rein in corruption or curtail the elephant slaughter, even after implementing the shoot-to-kill policy in September 1988 and eliminating 30 suspected poachers in three(TK) months. The tourists had started dying, the parks were emptying. At stake was $350 million(TK) a year in revenues, the single greatest source of foreign exchange the country has. Leakey publically attacked the mismanagement and corruption of the Kenya TKTKTKT and the ministers responsible. "I had called a spade a spade on the issue," as he put it. Then one day in April 1989, President Daniel arap Moi declared that Richard Leakey would head up a newly restructured Kenya Wildlife Service.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"I heard about it on the radio," he says, in shirtsleeves behind his desk at the headquarters building, just at the entrance to the Nairobi Park. He smiles ruefully and looks oddly boyish despite his hefty frame and TK years. A shock of straight blonde hair, constantly pushed back, is constantly dropping across his forehead. "It was a presidential decision. I wasn't sure I wanted it. I'm still not sure I want it."<o:p></o:p></div>
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That uncertainty, of course, is his greatest strength. In a nation where most people feel limits on what they say, and can't afford the consequences of government displeasure, Leakey can take his job and shove it any time he wants. "Brazen and bully," is the way he describes the required attitude. "I gained an international position and am respected within and beyond Kenya for my work with fossils. There is nothing I want except to get the job done. I'm not trying to get anywhere. I have no hidden agenda with this job. I don't need the job. If it is inappropriate for me to continue as director I can leave now."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Leakey's mission, now that he has accepted it, is to save the elephants, save the parks, save tourism in Kenya and thereby, in a real sense, as he sees it, save the country. That this has become a white man's burden in a black man's country is a fact few talk about openly, but no one forgets. Leakey's smoothe answer to the question of racial sensitivities: "I think there is a genuine feeling that the white Kenyans have played so little role, this country is perfectly willing to let anyone of any color be Kenyan." But in a nation still burning with memories of its colonial heritage and disappointed with the realities of the independent present, having a white dynamo suddenly imposed in a government dominated by subservient blacks is a politically delicate situation for all concerned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"What Richard has done is not done by anybody else in the civil service," says Perez Olindo, his predecessor. "Whether he can continue to call press conferences and things like that with the existing presidential regulations on how to deal with the press is anybody's guess. Whether you can say that the measurement of successful wildlife management is reflected in the issue of press statements is an opinion. I cannot say anything. But the record will show for itself." When Olindo speaks about such things today he wraps his arms around his chest as if suffering from a chill. "It is not an easy job. It is a very difficult job. I wish Richard the best of luck and all success."<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Leakey plan is, to say the least, ambitious. To clean up the department he is dismissing as many as 500 of its 4000 employes. He has raised the entrance fees to the parks from $4.00 to $10.00 a day and initiated a program to distribute 25 per cent of increased revenues to the people living near them in order to improve education, health care and other community projects. The goodwill engendered should help both animals and tourists. But the positive effects will have to be felt quickly, since Leakey has simultaneously done away with the oft-abused system of compensating local farmers for destruction wrought on their fields and herds by wildlife.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the international level, Leakey was a key figure in the successful fight to impose a world-wide ban on the international ivory trade in 1989. It effectively broke the African market within six months as the laws of fashion as well as of governments came into play. Under the barrage of international publicity wearing ivory bangles or buying little white trinkets came to seem as immoral as sporting a leopard stole or eating porpoise steaks. After six months the price of a kilo of ivory had dropped from a high of more than $70 to less than $5.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But success, measured in renewed elephant populations and a revived tourist trade, will take years to achieve and expenditures the likes of which the parks have never seen. At present, the operational budget of the Kenya Wildlife Service(TK) is about $10 million a year. Leakey wants that increased to $30 million. Over the long term he hopes to raise $200 million to $250 million from international lending organizations like the World Bank to rebuild the parks' badly deteriorated infrastructure. But to gain the time to raise that money he has to pass the short-term test: "Just to keep things together," he says, the parks must raise between $5 million and $8 million right away, mostly from private sources. "Call it a war chest if you like."<o:p></o:p></div>
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In fact, Leakey's fund raisers in Europe and the United States are reminiscent -- stylistically if not politically -- of America's erstwhile efforts to supply the Contras or Jonas Savimbi. Before attentive audiences of well-heeled wildlife lovers he presents his wish list for non-lethal aid: spare parts for aircraft, Land Rovers, mobile radio units, specialized night surveillance equipment, tents and web belts and -- at a cost of almost $1 million -- a nebulous category described simply as "anti-poaching equipment." Leakey denies that the private donors are being asked to supply guns or ammunition, but as with other combat units, money saved on non-lethal equipment can always be spent on the lethal stuff. By the spring of 1990, Leakey was well on the way to creating an independent fighting force for the Wildlife Service. Around Nairobi the group is called "Leakey's Army": 300 young rangers and 20 officers being trained in counterinusrgency tactics by special units of the GSU at Magadi, southwest of Nairobi. Among the officers are Bill Woodley's two sons, the first white Kenyans to hold such positions in any Kenyan military unit since independence. The rangers come from different stock. As Woodley described them: "They are just taken from the bush. Their only ingredients are good health, ability to walk and inability to speak English. If they speak English that means they have been educated. Once they are educated they are spoiled. We need the tough chaps. If we are going to fight Somalis they are going to have to be tough people."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fair enough. But by the time I saw Leakey the continuous satanization of the Somalis was beginning to bother me. They were men, after all. Many were coming from a godforsaken country ravaged by internal and external wars with one of the world's most horrendous human rights records. Earlier this year there were reports of TK,000 people being slaughtered as Tk villages were razed. These provoked barely a ripple of world concern -- certainly nothing like the fierce emotional debates about the fate of East Africa's elephants. But I was leary of the foreign devil theory as a whole. After a couple of weeks in Tsavo I was no longer even sure what a Somali was. One heard of the shifta as Somali bandits, ethnic Somalis, Kenyan Somalis, Somali Somalis, Orormo tribesmen who went to Somalia and came back, called Wardei (Golo Ore among them). About thirty such people had been killed under Perez Olindo. Another sixty had died under Leakey, always with the justification that an invasion, of sorts, was under way. But was this really true?<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Of the people that have been killed in these incidents over the last 11 months in Tsavo and Meru something like 98 per cent are people whose features are clearly of Somali origin," said Leakey, whose background in human paleontology, one assumes, would give him a certain expertise in such typing. "These people don't carry passports and ID cards. But I have personally inspected most of the people who have been killed and I am satisfied that the ones who have died are Somalis, whether you are saying Somali nationals or Kenyan nationals of that tribe. There is a lot of cross-border cooperation, families live on either side. There is also the impression that they do get help from other tribes. They have friends, but more often they get help because if they don't get the help they shoot."<o:p></o:p></div>
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But, Dr. Leakey, whatever the crimes of these poachers, isn't there a moral dilemma in killing men to protect animals?<o:p></o:p></div>
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"It depends," he says. "If you are only doing it to protect animals one would have to say, indeed, it is a moral question. If you were shooting armed combatants in an engagement where the country was very insecure and she is being threatened with economic sabotage, then I think it is a very different issue. I would argue strenuously that to protect Kenyan wildlife is to protect Kenyan economics, and we simply cannot tolerate men with AK47's and G3's shooting up our elephants and tourists. The implications of allowing them to do that will be the collapse of the Kenyan economy. If Kenya's economy collapses all hell will let loose."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Killing men to protect animals to attract the vacation dollars of the combi crowd has become, quite simply, a matter of national security. Seems odd, doesn't it? But, then, between the hunter and the hunted, nothing is simple.<o:p></o:p></div>
Christopher Dickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16767149723698320174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16782536.post-22909392106833877042020-04-20T11:40:00.000+02:002020-04-20T11:48:14.584+02:00Essays about Joan Didion on California, John Gregory Dunne on Patriotism, China and the WHO, MBS and COVID-19, and Trump's HCQ Guru<!-- --> <!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreviewText" style="display: none; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; max-height: 0px; max-width: 0px; mso-hide: all; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden;">They were the most important literary couple of their generation. Joan lives on, an icon. John should be remembered as well.</span><!--<![endif]--> <!-- --> <br />
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Joan Didion's California, John Gregory Dunne's 'Spectator Patriotism'</h1>
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<tr> <td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 18px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 0; text-align: left;" valign="top"><img data-file-id="4914553" height="640" src="https://mcusercontent.com/cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d/_compresseds/17e7d241-5c4f-4405-9b97-9707ecd591fb.jpeg" style="border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="359" /><i>Still locked down. Doing a lot of reading from my bookshelves and my computer archives. And it struck me that before reading about Joan Didion in my latest piece for the Beast, maybe one should read something about her husband, John Gregory Dunne, whom she adored, and who inspired some of her greatest work.</i><br />
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<strong>Spectator Patriotism (First publishe</strong><strong>d October 11, 2005)</strong></div>
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On or about Dec. 30, 2002, which was a day after we'd had dinner in New York and a year to the day before he died of a heart attack, John Gregory Dunne put a floppy disk in an envelope and dropped it off at the Manhattan apartment where I was staying. As happens, I misplaced it in my travels after that, and only last weekend did I find it and read the digital newspaper clippings he'd pulled together, which he'd talked about with so much excitement at our dinner.</div>
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John was interested in patriotism. He was fascinated by the real substance of it, which he saw as diametrically opposed to what he called "the spectator patriotism" exploited by the Bush administration as it went looking for wars. There was something (it took a while for John to put his finger on it) in the fact that several people he knew had children on active duty: historian Doris Kearns had a son, John himself had a nephew, I had a son. We had people we loved in uniform doing what they saw, and we understood, imperfectly perhaps, as their duty to defend the values and the dreams that are the United States of America. But why were there so few from this circle of acquaintances if the cause was so great?</div>
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John would rage. He was articulate and funny then and always, but such was his passion that I remember him as almost inchoate when he talked about the bastards who wouldn't end their Global War on Terror, which was conceived in rhetoric and dedicated to their reelection, yet would send America's sons and daughters on futile errands of suffering and slaughter. John said he was going to write a book about patriotism, but he had a novel to finish first, and then he died.</div>
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John's wife of almost 40 years, Joan Didion, has written a breathtaking book about John's death, and the illnesses of their only child, who died in August, and the experience of grief. Joan's book, called "The Year of Magical Thinking," has been reviewed widely and well, as it should be. (<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=bf0b090a5a&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Robert Pinsky in the </a><em><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=77a141b628&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">New York Times</a> </em>pointed out, rightly, that it is "not a downer" and parts of it are actually quite funny.) Joan sent me the galleys last summer -- Joan and John have been our friends since we met in El Salvador in 1982 -- and I read Joan's book then in a single sitting, lost in a salt sea of emotion and memory. It is a great, great book.</div>
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But it was John's 1989 memoir, "Harp," that I picked up to read again yesterday, trying to understand a little better the meaning of the newspaper stories on that long-lost floppy disk, and I wound up searching out on the Web the essays John wrote for The New York Review of Books about wars and soldiers and, yes, patriotism, in the two years after Sept. 11, 2001.... <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b872a02193&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">(MORE)</a></div>
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This is from today in The Daily Beast: <br />
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Christopher Dickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16767149723698320174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16782536.post-72664261869539732652020-04-19T15:42:00.000+02:002020-04-19T15:42:11.120+02:00John Gregory Dunne, Magical Thinking, and Spectator Patriotism<span style="font-size: large;">This piece was published originally as a Shadowland column for Newsweek online, Oct. 11, 2005, but I cannot find a current link for it, so am posting the text from my hard drive:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> On or about Dec. 30, 2002, which was a day after we’d had dinner in New York and a year to the day before he died of a heart attack, John Gregory Dunne put a floppy disk in an envelope and dropped it off at the Manhattan apartment where I was staying. As happens, I misplaced it in my travels after that, and only last weekend did I find it and read the digital newspaper clippings he’d pulled together, which he’d talked about with so much excitement at our dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> John was interested in patriotism. He was fascinated by the real substance of it, which he saw as diametrically opposed to what he called “the spectator patriotism” exploited by the Bush administration as it went looking for wars. There was something (it took a while for John to put his finger on it) in the fact that several people he knew had children on active duty: historian Doris Kearns had a son, John himself had a nephew, I had a son. We had people we loved in uniform doing what they saw, and we understood, imperfectly perhaps, as their duty to defend the values and the dreams that are the United States of America. But why were there so few from this circle of acquaintances if the cause was so great?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> John would rage. He was articulate and funny then and always, but such was his passion that I remember him as almost inchoate when he talked about the bastards who wouldn’t end their Global War on Terror, which was conceived in rhetoric and dedicated to their reelection, yet would send America’s sons and daughters on futile errands of suffering and slaughter. John said he was going to write a book about patriotism, but he had a novel to finish first, and then he died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> John’s wife of almost 40 years, Joan Didion, has written a breathtaking book about John’s death, and the illnesses of their only child, who died in August, and the experience of grief. Joan’s book, called “The Year of Magical Thinking,” has been reviewed widely and well, as it should be. (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/the-year-of-magical-thinking-goodbye-to-all-that.html" target="_blank">Robert Pinsky in the </a><i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/the-year-of-magical-thinking-goodbye-to-all-that.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> </i>pointed out, rightly, that it is “not a downer” and parts of it are actually quite funny.) Joan sent me the galleys last summer -- Joan and John have been our friends since we met in El Salvador in 1982 -- and I read Joan’s book then in a single sitting, lost in a salt sea of emotion and memory. It is a great, great book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But it was John’s 1989 memoir, “Harp,” that I picked up to read again yesterday, trying to understand a little better the meaning of the newspaper stories on that long-lost floppy disk, and I wound up searching out on the Web the essays John wrote for The New York Review of Books about wars and soldiers and, yes, patriotism, in the two years after Sept. 11, 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> John is mordant and funny. He grew up in a wealthy Irish Catholic family in Hartford and went to Princeton with Donald Rumsfeld, among others. When he graduated he wanted, somewhat diffidently, to try his hand at writing. But fresh out of his elite college, John was still uncomfortable with his family’s immigrant background, and very uneasy with the idea of Stanford Business School (which is what his family wanted for him). So he went into the U.S. Army as an enlisted man. As he wrote in “Harp,” “What I wanted most in life was to be an Episcopalian. What I became was a PFC in a gun battery in Germany.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was the 1950s. Neither John nor the United States was in a shooting war. He was a clerk, and the only death he saw was from a traffic accident during a drill. But his life changed. “Had I not been drafted, I almost surely would have remained what I had become – the quintessential Princeton prig.” (One does think of Rumsfeld.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the enlisted man’s Army, John learned what it was to be an outsider, alien to the world of relative privilege in which he grew up, and he would write about outsiders not quite like himself for the rest of his life. By the late 1980s, when John wrote “Harp,” he would cite the Duke of Wellington’s dictum that the armies that defeated Napoleon were composed of “the mere scum of the earth.” John lauded “the subversive brilliance” of “From Here to Eternity” because James Jones “understood that an army is predicated on class hatred; patriotism is only a convenient piety (‘all stuff, no such thing,’ Wellington said).”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But 15 years later, I think John’s sense of patriotism was more complex. He was looking for something “without tricks or hurrah,” as he described a U.S. Marine’s memoir of World War II in the Pacific. That campaign -- so long, so bloody, so deeply rooted in race-hate, fanaticism and atrocity -- commands so little of our attention when compared with the relatively more civilized war in Europe. But the Pacific offers so many more lessons for the present and the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“When the country is once again unexpectedly at war,” John wrote for The New York Review of Books about four months after 9/11, “the campaign in the Pacific is the model to keep in mind. It was a war of hate as this will be. The kamikazes were primitive precursors of those more technically sophisticated suicide pilots who crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing more people in half an hour than the Divine Wind did when it sank and damaged over four hundred ships off Okinawa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Patriotism is abroad in the land; in print and on the airwaves, men who were not inclined to serve as PFCs or platoon leaders in Vietnam talk about ‘taking out’ not only Osama bin Laden but any number of foreign leaders. Those who preen about ‘taking out’ have all the bravado of [an Ivy League lieutenant in a Marine mortar unit on Okinawa during the last days of WWII] who peed in the mouths of Japanese corpses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“At a memorial service ten days after the WTC tragedy, I ran into a friend, another old Marine who had enlisted after Pearl Harbor and served in the Pacific,” John wrote. “Many of the mourners were wearing lapel flags or red, white and blue ribbons. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘patriotism is easy. It’s the war that’s hard.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A year later, as the invasion of Iraq approached, John was focusing his rage like sun through a magnifying glass. His targets were the armchair war-lovers in and around the Bush administration who seemed somehow unsatisfied with the Afghan victories and already wanted more war to satisfy whatever it was they thought America should be. By the time John reviewed “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles,” the page was starting to burn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who would not themselves dream of volunteering – or of encouraging their children to do so,” John wrote, noting that only one of the 535 members of Congress had “an enlisted son in the Iraqi combat zone.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“For interns at the <i>The Weekly Standard</i> or <i>National Review,</i> where the martial instinct finds its most insistent voice … the military ‘career path’ is not widely seen as a plausible future,” John railed. These “people with a fondness for the military search their memories and Rolodexes for someone wearing the colors other than the maid’s son or a limo driver’s daughter.” To defend their notion of a national cause they might cite “the historian’s son, the novelist’s nephew, the sons of both a retired columnist in San Francisco and a newsmagazine correspondent in the Middle East, the top aide to a senior Democrat, the conservative pundit’s boy,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As John made sense of this small constellation of families in his circle who had children in harm’s way, including mine and his, he realized they could not and should not obscure the fact that these new wars were going to be waged, as the old ones were, mostly by people who had come from the powerless classes. Writing about football-star-turned-Army-Ranger Pat Tillman, whose example was used by former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan as proof that “in this war, not only the sons of the poor are enlisting,” John asked “Who was the second NFL player to enlist?” (Tillman served in Iraq, then Afghanistan, where he was killed by friendly fire in April 2004.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Those digital newspaper clippings that John dropped off at my apartment a few days after Christmas 2002 were all about the American military as it had become: a force of volunteer professionals and reservists who were trying to make sense of their lives now that the peace dividends of the 1990s were supplanted by the open-ended wars of the new millennium. “In many cases, the reserves and the [National] Guard offer a kind of military welfare, a second job with medical benefits and PX privileges for people unable to support themselves and their families with only one paycheck,” John wrote in May 2003. “The gamble is that any call to active service will be brief, and that their home-front jobs will be waiting for them when they return.” After the gamble in Iraq, of course, all bets were off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I do not know what John would have said in his book about patriotism. He did not know himself. “There are those of us for whom words have no meaning until they are down on paper,” he wrote on the first page of “Harp.” But I can guess from what he did put in print that he believed we, the people of the United States, should be entirely committed to a war or we should not engage in it at all. Yes, sacrifices should be shared. Yes, the sons and daughters of the rich as well as the poor should be put in harm’s way. Yes, taxes should be raised; gasoline should be rationed. Yes, we should fight to win, and as quickly as possible. And, no, Americans should not be called on by coddled elites to fight gruesome wars spawned by grandiose academic theories, then exploited by political cynics for electoral convenience. John might not have said it this way, but as I write the words on paper myself, it strikes me that true patriotism is about one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christopher Dickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16767149723698320174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16782536.post-60768622887522256922020-03-25T10:00:00.001+01:002020-03-25T10:00:57.273+01:00From BC (Before COVID-19) to the Roaring 2020s<!-- --> <!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreviewText" style="display: none; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; max-height: 0px; max-width: 0px; mso-hide: all; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden;">I've mostly been editing stories by our great world news team. (If you're not a Daily Beast member, sign up!) But I did write one pretty good essay.</span><!--<![endif]--> <!-- --> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">COVID-19 is already reported to have killed more than twice that number [1,000 killed by SARS and MERS respectively]. With its potent mix of characteristics, this virus is unlike most that capture popular attention:<b> It is deadly, but not too deadly. It makes people sick, but not in predictable, uniquely identifiable ways…the new virus may be most dangerous because, it seems, it may sometimes cause no symptoms at all….</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Harvard epidemiology professor <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/marc-lipsitch/"><span class="s2" style="color: #dca10d;">Marc Lipsitch</span></a> is exacting in his diction, even for an epidemiologist. Twice in our conversation he started to say something, then paused and said, “Actually, let me start again.” So it’s striking when one of the points he wanted to get exactly right was this: “I think the likely outcome is that it will ultimately not be containable.” … Even with the ideal containment, the virus’s spread may have been inevitable. Testing people who are already extremely sick is an imperfect strategy if people can spread the virus without even feeling bad enough to stay home from work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lipsitch predicts that within the coming year, some 40 to 70 percent of people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. But, he clarifies <i>emphatically</i>, this does not mean that all will have severe illnesses.</b> “It’s likely that many will have mild disease, or may be asymptomatic,” he said. As with influenza, which is often life-threatening to people with chronic health conditions and of older age, most cases pass without medical care. (Overall, about <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586318/"><span class="s2" style="color: #dca10d;">14 percent</span></a> of people with influenza have no symptoms.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lipsitch is <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-coronavirus-isnt-contained/"><span class="s2" style="color: #dca10d;">far from alone</span></a> in his belief that this virus will continue to spread widely. The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that the most likely outcome of this outbreak is a new seasonal disease—a fifth “<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section11.html"><span class="s2" style="color: #dca10d;">endemic</span></a>” coronavirus. With the other four, people are not known to develop long-lasting immunity. If this one follows suit, and <b>if the disease continues to be as severe as it is now, “cold and flu season” could become “cold and flu and COVID-19 season.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One nasty coronavirus side effect seems to be that it makes government officials forget how to act. Like the bug itself, this epidemic of shaky leadership is spreading quickly around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As with Covid-19, the clumsiness began in China, where authorities spent the contagion’s early days denying anything was wrong. They got their act together soon enough, enacting drastic quarantine measures, but too late to stop the disease. By then, the World Health Organization had caught China’s overly optimistic attitude. It still won’t call the virus a pandemic, though it increasingly walks and quacks like one. The WHO’s desire to mollify China, a major donor, and avoid a panic have <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25vYXZpcnVzLXdoeS10aGUtd2hvLXdvbi10LWNhbGwtY292aWQtMTktYS1wYW5kZW1pYz91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0yMDAyMjcmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNoYXJldGhldmlldw/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00C821a8a52&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNGeXMYtbzju7t7uiIwa6MEbYlYxuw" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25vYXZpcnVzLXdoeS10aGUtd2hvLXdvbi10LWNhbGwtY292aWQtMTktYS1wYW5kZW1pYz91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0yMDAyMjcmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNoYXJldGhldmlldw/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00C821a8a52" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">outweighed its need to protect public health</a>, writes <strong>Therese Raphael</strong>. It’s got to get its priorities straight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">President Donald Trump too has overindulged in coronavirus denialism, with optimistic promises his health agencies, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvdS1zLWlkZW50aWZpZXMtZmlyc3QtY29yb25hdmlydXMtY2FzZS13aXRob3V0LXRpZXMtdG8tb3V0YnJlYWs_dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX3Rlcm09MjAwMjI3JnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zaGFyZXRoZXZpZXc/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Bb45eda2b&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNEAW01U8LIVlIRQilisEMcmklYjpA" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvdS1zLWlkZW50aWZpZXMtZmlyc3QtY29yb25hdmlydXMtY2FzZS13aXRob3V0LXRpZXMtdG8tb3V0YnJlYWs_dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX3Rlcm09MjAwMjI3JnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zaGFyZXRoZXZpZXc/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Bb45eda2b" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">events</a>, almost immediately contradict. He had a chance to get everybody singing from the same hymnal last night in a news conference, in which he could have reiterated that the disease isn’t the end of the world, while also urging Americans to prepare. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvdHJ1bXAtY29yb25hdmlydXMtcHJlc3MtY29uZmVyZW5jZS1hZGRzLXRvLXBvbGl0aWNhbC1yaXNrcz91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0yMDAyMjcmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNoYXJldGhldmlldw/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Ca16acf2f&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNGbmzdHV2bvuVySYwVtmRbDuFCaBg" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvdHJ1bXAtY29yb25hdmlydXMtcHJlc3MtY29uZmVyZW5jZS1hZGRzLXRvLXBvbGl0aWNhbC1yaXNrcz91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0yMDAyMjcmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNoYXJldGhldmlldw/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Ca16acf2f" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Instead, he rambled and ranted at his enemies</a> and gave Vice President Mike Pence the keys to Virus Busters HQ while immediately undercutting his authority, writes <strong>Jonathan Bernstein</strong>. It was not reassuring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The administration <em>does</em> seem closer to embracing reality, at least, <strong>Max Nisen</strong> writes. But its messages remain too mixed, and there’s <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25vYXZpcnVzLXRydW1wLXMtdG90YWxseS1wcmVwYXJlZC1wbGVkZ2Utd2lsbC1iZS1wdXQtdGVzdD91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0yMDAyMjcmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNoYXJldGhldmlldw/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B02c1d190&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNFLks7XHblyNwRZOOO5Edl0WBOJoQ" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25vYXZpcnVzLXRydW1wLXMtdG90YWxseS1wcmVwYXJlZC1wbGVkZ2Utd2lsbC1iZS1wdXQtdGVzdD91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0yMDAyMjcmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNoYXJldGhldmlldw/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B02c1d190" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">still not enough action being taken</a>. The disease will quickly test Trump’s claims it’s all under control.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The real poster child for irresponsible coronavirus leadership must be Iran, though, writes <strong>Bobby Ghosh</strong>. Its deputy health minister, who was caught feverishly sweating on camera even as he tried to downplay the disease, infected who knows how many people all by himself. The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvaXJhbi1jYW4tdC1iZS10cnVzdGVkLXRvLWNvbnRhaW4tdGhlLWNvcm9uYXZpcnVzP3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00C65245e37&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNEI7ZOu6O0dyw1vwie3bks_c1xSRg" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvaXJhbi1jYW4tdC1iZS10cnVzdGVkLXRvLWNvbnRhaW4tdGhlLWNvcm9uYXZpcnVzP3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00C65245e37" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">regime has been too blithe about the illness</a>; and given how widely Iranians travel throughout the region and the world, this carelessness is a global health problem. It probably won’t be the last.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Further Dubious Virus Response Reading:</strong> Hong Kong’s stimulus seems designed more to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjYvY29yb25hdmlydXMtaG9uZy1rb25nLWJ1ZGdldC1wYWNrcy1sZXNzLXB1bmNoLXRoYW4tc2luZ2Fwb3JlLXM_dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX3Rlcm09MjAwMjI3JnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zaGFyZXRoZXZpZXc/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B2fa25499&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNHPgLfL_tcXC6FIk7vyXj2EFyw7Lw" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjYvY29yb25hdmlydXMtaG9uZy1rb25nLWJ1ZGdldC1wYWNrcy1sZXNzLXB1bmNoLXRoYW4tc2luZ2Fwb3JlLXM_dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX3Rlcm09MjAwMjI3JnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zaGFyZXRoZXZpZXc/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B2fa25499" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">boost already overinflated property values</a> than to fight virus effects. — <strong>Andy Mukherjee</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Markets in Coronavirus</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stocks spent another day being <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjYvYXNpYS1zdG9ja3MtcG9pbnQtdG8tY2F1dGlvdXMtc3RhcnQtb24tdmlydXMtZmVhcnMtbWFya2V0cy13cmFwP3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B7ecc2312&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNFccXaPgAC73SJS5301qVRIo0S7dw" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjYvYXNpYS1zdG9ja3MtcG9pbnQtdG8tY2F1dGlvdXMtc3RhcnQtb24tdmlydXMtZmVhcnMtbWFya2V0cy13cmFwP3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B7ecc2312" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">slapped</a> around by coronavirus headlines. All told in this sell-off, the major indexes have lost more than 10%, the technical definition of a “correction,” with the pain intensifying after news California is <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25iYy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMi8yNy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLWlzLW1vbml0b3JpbmctODQwMC1wZW9wbGUtZm9yLXRoZS1jb3JvbmF2aXJ1cy5odG1s/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B99eec2f7&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNElR3InalBFFJf7am4Nopw_StQKCQ" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25iYy5jb20vMjAyMC8wMi8yNy9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLWlzLW1vbml0b3JpbmctODQwMC1wZW9wbGUtZm9yLXRoZS1jb3JvbmF2aXJ1cy5odG1s/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B99eec2f7" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">monitoring</a> 8,400 people for the disease. This <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25hdmlydXMtbWFya2V0cy1yYW5kb20td2Fsay1tYXktZ2V0LWZhci1tb3JlLWJ1bXB5P3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Ba6c6d884&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNEGJOt3Dyl9L0rpVVePHu9cVwsLdw" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25hdmlydXMtbWFya2V0cy1yYW5kb20td2Fsay1tYXktZ2V0LWZhci1tb3JlLWJ1bXB5P3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Ba6c6d884" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">volatility is just going to be the norm</a> for a while, writes <strong>John Authers</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">John says these market declines are still orderly, but you can bet a certain president of the United States doesn’t feel that way. He probably agrees with <strong>Narayana Kocherlakota</strong>’s call for the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvZmVkLWlzLWxvc2luZy1pdHMtY3JlZGliaWxpdHktdG8tY29yb25hdmlydXM_dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX3Rlcm09MjAwMjI3JnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zaGFyZXRoZXZpZXc/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B97ceefc3&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNEfrYtRFeLJbmUkiY6r86M6GrFUUg" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvZmVkLWlzLWxvc2luZy1pdHMtY3JlZGliaWxpdHktdG8tY29yb25hdmlydXM_dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX3Rlcm09MjAwMjI3JnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zaGFyZXRoZXZpZXc/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B97ceefc3" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Federal Reserve to cut rates immediately</a> to fight the virus’s effects on sentiment and economic activity. It risks losing credibility otherwise, Narayana writes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ordinarily a rate cut, or simply the promise of one, would be enough to turn markets around. But in this case it would provide only temporary support, warns <strong>Jim Bianco</strong>. The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25hdmlydXMtd2hlbi13aWxsLXRoZS1zdG9jay1tYXJrZXQtYm90dG9tP3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Cadd9dd8b&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNHi6VKgfdBl_oMkGRgHfirekQyldg" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25hdmlydXMtd2hlbi13aWxsLXRoZS1zdG9jay1tYXJrZXQtYm90dG9tP3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Cadd9dd8b" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">market won’t truly bottom</a> until it finally stops responding to negative news quite so negatively. And it won’t do <em>that</em> until we have a better handle on the scope of the crisis. And that could take a while.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Further Virus-Market Nexus Reading:</span></strong></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pandemic anxiety has turned <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvdXRpbGl0eS1zZWN0b3ItcHJpY2VkLWZvci1jb3JvbmF2aXJ1cy1wYW5kZW1pYz91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0yMDAyMjcmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNoYXJldGhldmlldw/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Bdeafc5f0&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNFO_0IIx514IcqkZFcqmQle4OairQ" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvdXRpbGl0eS1zZWN0b3ItcHJpY2VkLWZvci1jb3JvbmF2aXJ1cy1wYW5kZW1pYz91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0yMDAyMjcmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNoYXJldGhldmlldw/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00Bdeafc5f0" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">safe-haven utilities stocks</a> as expensive as tech stocks. — <strong>Liam Denning</strong></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: large;">European <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25hdmlydXMtbWFya2V0LXJvdXQtaXMtYWJvdXQtbW9yZS10aGFuLXRoZS1wYW5kZW1pYy1yaXNrP3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B2c1f2c94&source=gmail&ust=1582962509441000&usg=AFQjCNEAMItYl59pj7jih-Kif6vvVLEHSg" href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/19565097.17995/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9vcGluaW9uL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMjAtMDItMjcvY29yb25hdmlydXMtbWFya2V0LXJvdXQtaXMtYWJvdXQtbW9yZS10aGFuLXRoZS1wYW5kZW1pYy1yaXNrP3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV90ZXJtPTIwMDIyNyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2hhcmV0aGV2aWV3/57d81a462ddf9c086134ea00B2c1f2c94" style="background-color: bisque; border-bottom: 1px solid black; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">companies were on shaky ground</a> even before the virus, setting the stage for a market rout. — <strong>Chris Hughes</strong></span></li>
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Christopher Dickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16767149723698320174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16782536.post-92141387849398798882020-01-21T20:57:00.000+01:002020-01-21T20:57:57.318+01:00Affairs of State<!-- --> <!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreviewText" style="display: none; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; max-height: 0px; max-width: 0px; mso-hide: all; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden;">Recent articles, from the assassination of Soleimani to the mysterious murder of JFK's mistress.</span><!--<![endif]--> <!-- --> <br />
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Among those haunted by the memory of President Kennedy's murdered lover, Mary Meyer, were the most powerful reporters—and spies—in America. What secrets were in her lost diary?</div>
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Published Jan. 21, 2020 <br />
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=f0da1839ac&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">This Is Trump's Benghazi Moment: 'It Doesn't Really Matter'</a></h3>
<br /> OPINION<br /> NO JUSTIFICATION </article><br />
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He railed at Hillary over her "What difference does it make?" snap. But the president's impatience on Iran and Soleimani led to his own insouciance about some serious matters.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=2dc0e29a72&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY</a></h4>
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Published Jan. 15, 2020 <br />
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=156fd01dd0&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Nuclear Threats From Iran and North Korea Grow by the Day</a></h3>
<br /> DOUBLE TROUBLE </article><br />
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By blowing away Soleimani, Trump wanted to show he is not a paper tiger. But his "disproportionate" actions may push North Korea and Iran to step up nuclear cooperation.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=70b3eed88b&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">DONALD KIRK, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=2200fe4d63&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY</a></h4>
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Published Jan. 06, 2020 <br />
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=75cd4870b3&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Iraq Tells Trump GTFO After Soleimani Strike</a></h3>
<br /> WAKEUP CALL </article><br />
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Iran says it is done with the nuclear deal, Iraq's parliament voted to kick U.S. troops out of the country—and Trump is threatening a "disproportionate" response.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=62c13d0dc9&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">ERIN BANCO, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=6764b7a8bd&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=0527e0fe7c&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">ASAWIN SUEBSAENG</a></h4>
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Published Jan. 05, 2020 <br />
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=d630279e6a&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Why Obama, Bush, and Bibi All Passed on Killing Soleimani</a></h3>
<br /> HELL NO </article><br />
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The Iranian general was in American crosshairs before. But nobody could begin to be sure what would come next if Soleimani were killed, and no scenario looked good.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=3c784a5952&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=a9b4767668&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">NOGA TARNOPOLSKY, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=2998ecc9ea&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">ERIN BANCO, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=f65179cff6&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">BETSY SWAN</a></h4>
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Published Jan. 03, 2020 <br />
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=606ddf9500&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">U.S. Braces for Iran 'Counterpunch' After Soleimani Is Slain</a></h3>
<br /> 'REAL JEOPARDY' </article><br />
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The consequences may not come quickly or directly. But they could be enormous.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=7d9b0f6df5&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=e7c04b51e8&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">ADAM RAWNSLEY, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=75d63e2446&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">ERIN BANCO</a></h4>
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Published Jan. 03, 2020 <br />
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=6c90a1cec5&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Saudis Put Khashoggi Murder Behind Them With a 3-Day Rave</a></h3>
<br /> OPINION<br /> BEHEADINGS AND CIRCUSES </article><br />
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knows how to keep his people happy by eliminating—and sometimes terminating—opposition. Trump must be envious.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=ee335ba86a&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY</a></h4>
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Christopher Dickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16767149723698320174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16782536.post-10207224595492030892019-12-24T23:23:00.001+01:002019-12-24T23:23:37.022+01:00From Paris on Christmas Eve Morning<!-- --> <!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreviewText" style="display: none; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; max-height: 0px; max-width: 0px; mso-hide: all; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden;">Here's hoping your holidays are filled with amazement and delight.</span><!--<![endif]--> <!-- --> <br />
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Every Day Has a New Dawn.</h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=e6a5800c12&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Trump's Afghan Policy? Talk Tough, Then Just Pull the Plug</a></h3>
<br /> OPINION<br /> DOWN THE DRAIN </article><br />
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However the Afghan war ends, it's not going to smell like victory.</div>
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Published Dec. 17, 2019 <br />
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=11c8fedabe&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Trump, Afghanistan and the Lies Behind the Never Ending War</a></h3>
<br /> OPINION<br /> MADMAN THEORY </article><br />
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There may be a reasonable way forward in Afghanistan—and Trump may even have signed on to it—but on all sides the people who need to believe him simply don't trust him.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b2ca2ceca2&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Who Needs NATO?</a></h3>
<br /> BRAIN DEAD </article><br />
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Trump and Macron are both right: NATO as we've known it is obsolete; NATO as it stands with Trump as president of its greatest power is, yes, brain dead.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=87a55b5299&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Nikki Haley Has a 'But Her Emails' Problem</a></h3>
<br /> EXCLUSIVE<br /> 'CAN'T FIND MY PASSWORD' </article><br />
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Newly released emails suggest that in 2017 the then-ambassador lost her password for classified communication, and so she used a different system.</div>
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Notes on Cause and Effect: Trump, Russia, Ukraine, Venice, and Hong Kong</h1>
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<em><span style="font-size: 18px;">One of the core purposes of reporting is to understand cause and effect. The actions we write about almost always are re</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">actions to events that have gone before. But the truth of the matter is not always easy to discern as people try to impose their own one-sided narratives on known facts, or invent their "facts" altogether.<br /> <br /> The stories we've published about world news over the last few days were all reported with an eye to understanding why we see what we see happening in various corners of the world:<br /> <br /> It's much easier to understand the way Donald Trump thinks and acts, for instance, if one knows about his longstanding connections to alleged Russian mobsters.</span></em></div>
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<strong>ВОР В ЗАКОНЕ</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b20d969962&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About the Alleged Russian Mobsters in Trump World's Orbit...</strong></a></span></div>
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<strong>The impeachment investigations will have as constant background Trump's most important and long lasting connections to Russia—through alleged mobsters.</strong></div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=c03a0a2b2f&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>MICHAEL WEISS, </strong></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=836f85d145&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>CASEY MICHEL</strong></a></div>
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<br /> <em><span style="font-size: 18px;">Russian state media crowing over impeachment are less interested in the fate of the U.S. president than they are in the demoralization and weakening of Ukraine.</span></em></div>
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<strong>'TRUMP UNCHAINED'</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b1b641e1ae&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Russia Can't Get Enough of Impeachment Hearings</strong></a></span></div>
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<strong>Vladimir Putin could not possibly envision a sweeter gift than Ukraine falling away from the West into the welcoming—albeit bloodied—hands of the Kremlin.</strong></div>
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<br /> <em><span style="font-size: 18px;">The presence of the extreme nationalist right in Ukraine, including white supremacists and neo-Nazis, cannot be ignored, even if efforts by members of the U.S. Congress to get the Azov Battalion declared a foreign terrorist organization play into the hands of Kremlin propagandists.</span></em></div>
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<strong>WOLFSANGELS</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=5ed22cc259&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Ukraine's Anti-Russia Battalion: Heroes or Nazi Terrorists?</strong></a></span></div>
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In 2014, almost anyone who wanted to fight the Russians in Ukraine was more than welcome. But today one volunteer battalion is accused of white-supremacist terrorism.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=15319399a7&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>ANNA NEMTSOVA, </strong></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b62e62c21c&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>CHRISTOPHER DICKEY</strong></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <em><span style="font-size: 18px;">Despite Russia's denials, damning evidence continues to accumulate about the Kremlin's complicity in the downing of a passenger jet flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in 2014.</span></em></div>
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<strong>DAILY CONTACT</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=cc79520e9d&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Unearthed Audio Ties Rebel Suspects in MH17 Crash to Moscow</strong></a></span></div>
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Dutch investigators release damning audio that connects Russian authorities to the rebels suspected in the 2014 shootdown of a Malaysian jet with 298 people on board in Ukraine.</div>
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<br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">On other fronts: </span></strong><br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18px;"><em>Much of the Hong Kong coverage the world sees has focused on telegenic flames, clouds of teargas, bricks thrown and shots fired. But the make or break moment may actually come at the ballot box next weekend—if elections are allowed at all.</em></span><br /> </div>
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<strong>SIEGE MENTALITY</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=fd91dc26b3&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Will Ballots or Bullets Decide Hong Kong's Elections?</strong></a></span></div>
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Blood has been shed on Hong Kong streets and a university is under siege. But even the "black bloc" at the vanguard of the protests is looking toward the Nov. 24 vote.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=046e418a26&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>BRENDON HONG</strong></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <em><span style="font-size: 18px;">This story, which ran in our <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=84fdfbb834&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">travel section</a>, tells you why climate change and the full moon are not the only culprits in the destruction of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.</span></em><br /> </div>
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<strong>HELL OR HIGH WATER</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=22489426e0&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Corruption That Flooded Venice</strong></a></span></div>
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La Serenissima has long struggled with flooding as it sank deeper and deeper, but the recent crisis has been exacerbated by all too familiar corruption.</div>
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The Berlin Wall Fell Over a Weekend, 30 Years Later We're Still Trying to Cope with the Consequences</h1>
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<img data-file-id="4476297" height="300" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d/_compresseds/e3b2fd31-6d1e-4890-9815-1e45857156fd.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 300px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><em><strong>Mike Pompeo was in Germany serving with American forces there when the Berlin Wall came down. It seems he has no illusions about the Soviet threat back then, or the threat posed by Vladimir Putin today. This is what he had to say in <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=a6e7f4cae4&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">a speech in Berlin on Friday</a>: </strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><em><strong>Yet Pompeo's boss, on whose behalf he lies and deceives whenever he deems it necessary, is talking about going to Moscow to hang out with Putin on "Victory Day" next May.<br /> <br /> "Today, Russia – led by a former KGB officer stationed in Dresden ‒ invades its neighbors and slays political opponents. It suppresses the independence of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Russian authorities, even as we speak, use police raids and torture against Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians who are working in opposition to Russian aggression. In Chechnya, anyone considered 'undesirable' by the authorities simply disappears."</strong></em></span></div>
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<br /> <span style="font-size: 18px;"><em><strong>There is something wrong with this picture.<br /> <br /> My comments on MSNBC on Saturday: </strong></em><br /> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://us.wildmoka.com/c/clip/7FlqGL&source=gmail&ust=1573405784565000&usg=AFQjCNEx_yrw97jZ1f7n4GLZXECVEvQp6w" href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=e294e9953e&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><em><strong>http://us.wildmoka.com/c/clip/7FlqGL</strong></em></a><br /> <br /> <strong><em>At The Daily Beast we ran several stories about the Fall of the Wall which I invite you to read, watch, and share.<br /> <br /> Among them is an essay that I wrote this week, but should have written 30 years ago: </em></strong></span></div>
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HAMMER, SICKLE, AND SWASTIKA</h3>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=4d46f685ec&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The Night the Cold-War World Turned Upside Down</a></strong></span></h3>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: 18px;">This vivid context by Andrew Nagorski:</span></em></strong><br />
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THE GREAT ESCAPE</h3>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=87b4bdda9a&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The Berlin Wall and the Collapse of Communism in Five Acts</a></span></strong></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><em><strong>And this provocative 2014 essay about the impact of November 1989 on one Vladimir Putin: </strong></em></span><br />
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COLD WAR</h3>
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In 1989, as East Germany collapsed around him, a KGB spy in Dresden named Vladimir Putin came to some hard conclusions that would later inform his bellicose geopolitics.</div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: 18px;">We also ran several great photographs by the redoubtable Turnley twins:</span></em></strong><br />
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REUNION</h3>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=fd84ad8d6d&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The Fall of The Wall as Captured by Peter and David Turnley</a></strong></span></h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=8171fe61aa&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">PETER TURNLEY</a></h4>
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<em><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">And we embedded this slide show that has even more of their extraordinary pictures: <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=30618ca832&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/369238488</a></span></strong></em><br />
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Trump's Syrian Oil Shakedown, Plus News of Russia, Spies, ISIS, and More</h2>
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<img data-file-id="4429861" height="400" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d/images/a54f81ac-a014-4262-b4b4-898a06068558.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /><span style="font-size: 18px;">Good morning USA, and welcome back to Standard Time. I have never decided whether I prefer Standard or Daylight Savings time, but making the switch always seemed to me to be rather silly, and since there is a two week delay between the changing of the clocks here in Paris and the spring forward or fall back in the States, things can get confusing.<br /> <br /> Here on the Continent, the European Parliament has voted to end the twice-a-year change as of 2021, if the Council of Europe agrees. Hard to imagine it will not, since a query to the public generated 4.6 million replies and 84 percent wanted to do away with the bi-annual clock changes. But under the new rules each member state can decide what kind of "standard" time it wants, and some may choose to remain on "daylight." That could get problematic.<br /> <br /> Still, the question of how we "keep time" (a curious locution if you think about it) and how we perceive time has always fascinated me. This is a piece I wrote for Newsweek several years ago which, I am happy to see, is still available on line: <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=1480164ddd&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">"Turning to God's Time'"</a><br /> <br /> ****<br /> <br /> I mentioned last week that I would be writing about Trump's Syrian oilfield shakedown. And so I did:</span><br />
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'SO VALUABLE'</h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=51dfea0e9e&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?</a></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">In an appearance on MSNBC Saturday morning, I discussed the issue further, along with questions about whether the danger of ISIS as increased, Trump's efforts to roll back the clock on Russian interference in the 2016 elections by squeezing allied intelligence services, and the difference between the crimes of an average citizen and the highest crime that a president can commit: abuse of power. This is the link: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://us.wildmoka.com/c/clip/75r69v&source=gmail&ust=1572869341752000&usg=AFQjCNHxmrj-ZO4KtXP0E67S5nbBl2U71A" href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=aaabbb5ae8&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px;">http://us.wildmoka.com/c/clip/75r69v</span></a><br />
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RETURN TO 'RIGHTEOUSNESS'</h3>
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The faithful followers of Osama bin Laden and his successor are not mourning the demise of the Islamic State's leader. They're hoping to recruit his fighters.<br /> <br /> RITA KATZ<br /> <br /> </div>
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ALL I WANT FOR XMAS</h3>
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Britain is set to hold its first December general election for almost a century with both of the main parties touting their most radical populist messages.<br /> <br /> NICO HINES<br /> <br /> </div>
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LEGACY OF BRUTALITY</h3>
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Paramilitaries trained and funded by the CIA in Afghanistan commit summary executions, village-wide roundups, and other atrocities, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.</div>
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MALTESE TEASER</h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=88e946d30b&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Bill Barr's Josef Mifsud Conspiracy Story Is Plain Dumb</a></h3>
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Mifsud's deep connections with Putin's foreign policy establishment and his glowing appraisals of Russia's role in global affairs show Barr has barked up the wrong tree.<br /> <br /> AMY KNIGHT<br /> <br /> </div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=c9e348e509&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The Russians Really Think Putin Deserves Nobel Peace Prize</a></h3>
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MAN ON HORSEBACK</h3>
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THE SPIES LEFT OUT IN THE COLD</h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=cd4e8baf41&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Here's How the KGB Knew You'd Be a Traitor</a></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">The president knows great television when he sees it, and he was enthusiastic about the images he was watching from the White House situation room Saturday night.</span><br /> </div>
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NO RELIABLE INFORMATION'</h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=4a7e0f4198&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Russia: Trump Baghdadi Victory Lap Nothing But 'Propaganda'</a></h3>
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The Russian Defense Ministry also disputed claims that Russia provided access to U.S. air units entering airspace it controls.</div>
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'IT WAS HIM'</h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=f6866d98a2&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">'Whimpering' ISIS Boss Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Killed: Trump</a></h3>
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Trump said the elusive leader of the terrorist group detonated his suicide vest once forces closed in, killing himself and three of his young children.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=bc88589616&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">SPENCER ACKERMAN, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=61c9c9b1a7&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">ALLISON QUINN, </a></h4>
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RED DEAD REDEMPTION</h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=dc12cd07bf&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The Kurds Spotted Baghdadi. The U.S. Abandoned Them Anyway.</a></h3>
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Notes and Commentary on the Betrayal of the Kurds</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><img data-file-id="4397373" height="238" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d/images/e9bdb4e1-fbc9-4ec5-9b47-8b04e6c0aebb.png" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 238px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 300px;" width="300" />Greetings from rainy Paris where every so often one of the classic Citroen "Traction Avant" sedans from the 1930s and '40s comes racing down the street, a flash from the past that trails the scent of Gauloises and pastis like this one a couple of days ago on the Rue Royale...<br /> <br /> On a more serious note:<br /> <br /> The U.S. betrayal of the Kurds who led the fight on the ground that destroyed the "Caliphate" of the so-called Islamic State was long anticipated, and not really a surprise. But U.S. President Donald Trump's final/not-final decision to green-light a massive Turkish incursion and open the way to ethnic cleansing was a stunning picture of "statecraft" born straight out of his gut. His bluffing and bullying could not compensate for his ignorance addressing an extremely delicate situation, which is why he reversed course so many times, and continues to do so.<br /> <br /> I should mention that I was greatly helped in my reporting over the last couple of weeks by the many very well informed friends and contacts I saw at the <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=3d9cecc3fe&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Beirut Institute Summit in Abu Dhabi</a>, the spectacular project of Raghida Dergham and Prince Turki al-Faisal which has become, to my mind, the best conference of its kind in the region.<br /> <br /> These appearances and columns are listed in reverse chronological order:<br /> <br /> My commentary in a conversation with Brian Williams on his MSNBC show The 11th Hour —<br /> <strong><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=73fe05e7d9&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Dickey: Syria Crisis only worsens Europe's frustration with Trump</a>.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">These are some of the articles for The Daily Beast that I wrote or edited about events in Syria:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>'THE SUM OF THINGS'</strong></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=3d6edba6c5&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The Kurds Died Defeating ISIS. Trump P*ssed on Their Graves.</a></strong></span></h3>
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He blames those he betrayed as if they were servants who failed him.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=3686e23224&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY</a></h4>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b1c9a6cabe&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">U.S. Surveillance Turns Away From ISIS—and to Its Own Troops</a></span></strong></h3>
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With the remaining American forces retreating under fire, their eyes in Syrian skies are focused on protecting themselves.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=d7c4c63b90&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">SPENCER ACKERMAN, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=d6555bcd87&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY</a></h4>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12px;">ROTTEN</span></strong></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=114686a1fe&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The U.S. Spoiled a Deal That Might Have Saved the Kurds</a></strong></span></h3>
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Forsaken by the U.S. and under attack by Turkish troops, the Kurds are turning to Russia for help. The last time they tried to do so, the Americans worked to talk them out of it.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=f3e2f9575f&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, </a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=dd7cbbf063&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">SPENCER ACKERMAN</a></h4>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">I would also recommend this from early in the crisis:</span> <br />
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The Kurds are not entirely defenseless. They've been preparing for what they had long anticipated—a possible betrayal by their closest ally, the United States.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">And this from my colleague Spencer Ackerman today:</span><br />
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As the Pentagon scrambles to keep pace with Trump's Syria tweets, its final outpost in the Syrian desert is a base in search of a purpose.</div>
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<em><span style="font-size: 18px;">But the crisis in Syria was not the only event we covered. These stories by some of my colleagues also are well worth reading:</span></em><br />
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Hongkongers are adopting small-scale actions to keep the protest movement from stalling, among them a rating system for business for or against the uprising.</div>
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The old guard is threatened, a new force is ascendant, and citizens increasingly are caught up in the violence.</div>
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<em><span style="font-size: 18px;">And then there was this story of outrageous insensitivity in the Oval Office:</span></em><br />
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The president had hoped to surprise the family of dead British teen Harry Dunn with a meeting with the woman who killed him. "And they weren't ready for it," he admitted.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2003 I was asked to speak at Clemson University, James Dickey's alma mater, about his work as a poet and mine as a journalist. The speech was adapted afterward into this essay published by the Clemson University Press, but, I fear, no longer available on line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am re-posting now as we enter a new phase of war in the Middle East, the result of so many bad decisions that were apparent 16 years ago exacerbated, now, by the miscalculations of the current administration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My apologies for the format. I hope to re-post shortly as a PDF.</span></div>
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<br />Christopher Dickeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16767149723698320174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16782536.post-82499948451399810522019-10-04T11:24:00.000+02:002019-10-04T12:20:46.709+02:00Three weeks ago I talked about the death of Western democracy with Brian Williams on MSNBC. The situation today is worse.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Three weeks ago I was talking with Brian Williams off camera on <i>The 11th Hour</i> about witnessing the death of democracy in Europe and the United States. He asked me to repeat my thoughts on air: a grim picture. It must have struck a nerve, with more than a quarter million views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I noted at the time that we were seeing some pushback against the populists in Europe. Since then, the British Supreme Court and the U.S. House of Representatives have tried to restore some order, but resurrecting democratic norms is going to be a long struggle against bitter, potentially violent adversaries who claim to speak in the name of "the people."</span><br />
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<strong>The last few days have been busy, watching everything from Greta Thunberg's meltdown over, well, the global meltdown, to the growing heat turned on Donald Trump because of his obsessive efforts to drag foreign leaders into the U.S. 2020 election campaign, and at the same time rewrite the history of 2016.</strong><br />
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This is what I had to say about Thunberg on France 24:<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=7ca4c24fc4&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"> https://youtu.be/AAzKUrXXshQ</a><br />
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And this is some of what I had to say about Trump's antics. It's a point I have made before. Trump has never believed in the rule of law, only the rule of lawyers: <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=f9303f29ee&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/3t1OZhGwrOk</a><br />
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Anna Nemtsova and Adam Rawnsley and I worked on a long story about Trump and Rudy Giuliani—who has gone from being America's Mayor to Trump's craven and crazed consigliere—and the longstanding ties both men have to some very shady Ukrainian characters in "Little Odessa" a.k.a. Brighton Beach, Brooklyn: <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=87b0eb5c82&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-rudy-giuliani-connections-to-sam-kislin-and-ukraine-corruption-go-back-decades?ref=author</a><br />
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We marked the anniversary of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an act I am sure Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman regrets, but probably more for the way it was carried out than because a thorn in his side was removed. People are working hard, still, to find out what Trump knew and when he knew it about the butchering of Khashoggi—and how Trump managed to excuse it. That becomes apparent in the article and the conclusion is clear enough: MBS won. <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=30a2a1cb29&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-treacherous-ties-to-a-murderous-prince?ref=author</a><br />
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Below, downstairs at Harry's New York Bar on Rue Daunou in Paris. I don't know what Mathilde and Vashima were shaking up, but they looked like they were having fun.<br />
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TO WAR OR NOT TO WAR</h1>
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<img data-file-id="4299449" height="265" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d/images/ae0f70ab-f46b-4ef4-83a3-9d9d2523853d.jpeg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: 265px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 300px;" width="300" />Back in Paris ... Among the major world news stories of the last week, I wrote about the aftermath of the attack on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure, a hit claimed by the Houthis using Iranian missiles and drones. It was a clear act of war and the veil of deniability was mighty thin, but both the Saudis and Trump quickly realized they were in no position to respond in kind. So they took the opportunity afforded by Iran's denials to stall, if not indeed to hide, behind a bodyguard of lies.<br />
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Another big story involved <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=dc3ebba9dc&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Trump's alleged efforts to extort Ukraine</a>, pushing its new president to "investigate" a bogus narrative about Biden abusing power. How perfect. An abuse of power to create charges of an opponent's abuse of power. Anna Nemtsova reported in an exclusive that Ukraine would only look into this if it received a formal request from the American government.<br />
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And then there were the global demonstrations demanding action to address climate change, with 16 year old Greta Thunberg taking the lead as a kind of messianic figure. We published <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=88d3b11345&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Barbie Nadeau's elegant profile of Thunberg</a> and the role Asperger's Syndrome has played in developing her charisma as well as her focus on the issues. (In passing, I could not help but wonder if Joan of Arc had such a condition.) We also re-posted my long, intimate profile of Jacques Cousteau, a great celebrity half a century ago whose prophecies about environmental destruction, unfortunately, went unheeded.<br />
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Finally, I hope everyone will read this extraordinary article in Esquire by my sister, Bronwen Dickey, about the struggle to identify the dead at the U.S.-Mexico border: <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=cefc1e8e73&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">The Remains</a>.<br />
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<strong>My appearance Saturday on MSNBC summed up my thoughts on the prospects for war with Iran:<br /> <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=0b84c1b899&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/csdickey/status/1175701685647400961?s=20</a></strong><br />
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<strong>My September 16 column about the risks or war:</strong> <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">DANCE OF DEATH</span></strong></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=6835c0825d&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">We're a Lot Closer to War Than You've Been Told</a></strong></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Published 09.16.19 [<em>Note: This article is available only to Daily Beast members, but I would encourage you to join if you have not already done so. No other paywall is less expensive or a better value.</em>] </span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">An attack on Saudi oil facilities threatens the global economy and practically dares the U.S. to retaliate. If that weren't dangerous enough, Trump is president.<br /> <br /> <strong>—————————————————</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>My September 20 essay on the utility of lies to address issues of war and peace in the Middle East: </strong></span><br /> <br /> THE TWILIGHT ZONE OF 'TRUTH'</div>
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<strong><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b69b2810ad&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Can Trump Lie His Way Out of War With Iran? Yep.</a></strong></h2>
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The president's lies got us into this mess that threatens war, global recession—and his re-election. But the use of "deniability" is something he understands very well.<br /> <br /> <strong>And finally, my long highly personal profile of Jacques Cousteau:</strong><br /> </div>
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ORACLE</h4>
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One of the world's great adventurers—and a Resistance spy—Jacques Cousteau warned me 25 years ago that humans were reaching the point of no return on environmental destruction.<br /> <br /> </div>
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Some Disturbing Predictions About Oil, War, and Democracy</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=1449145354&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Trump Wanted to Boast About His Own 'Camp David Accords'</a></strong></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=88e9941295&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">How could Trump snatch a declaration of victory from the jaws of de facto defeat in the Taliban peace deal? That was the question.</a></span></h3>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=5fd97f3675&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Putin's Murderous Mole Hunt</a></span></strong></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=e15fbd804f&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The Russian daily Kommersant on Tuesday published the name and biography of a man living under his own name with his wife and children near Washington, D.C.</a></span></h3>
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With Brian Williams on Friday night, we were discussing off camera the disaster that is Boris Johnson and I told him I thought we were witnessing the death of democracy in Britain, potentially in much of Europe, and indeed in the United States. When the segment began, <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=a555373cc2&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">he asked me to expand on that theme</a>.<br />
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The following morning with Phililp Mena, after news broke about the drone attacks on the enormous Saudi refinery at Abqaiq, I reflected on <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=5f0654ab80&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Trump's world of trouble</a>.<br />
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And I then wrote this column: <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=f4bc1c60f9&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">As Saudi Arabia Burns, Pompeo Blames Iran—and Trump Makes a Lame Claim About Killing Bin Laden's Son</a></span></strong></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=c65ffb851a&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">From Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan and North Korea, Trump's tough guy credentials are being tested big time by the world of troubles he has helped to create.</a></span></div>
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By Sunday afternoon, it was obvious to me that we are fast approaching disaster in the Middle East, but much of the press has failed to focus on the gravity of the situation. So I <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=3ae27bca4f&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">minced no words in my conversation with Kendis Gibson</a>. We are looking at the very real possibility of a new Middle East war and global recession. </td> </tr>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">Thanks to Sami Yousafzai and Erin Banco, we were able to take a long hard look at the "peace" deal Trump is trying to pull off in Afghanistan.<br /> <br /> The Taliban use what's probably a more accurate term. They talk about an American "evacuation."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">We're also following the raucous wreck that is British politics.<br /> <br /> Nico Hines wrote this spot-on story about Boris Johnson's notorious duplicity doing him in:</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=576e414e6c&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Opposition parties deal Boris Johnson another blow as they refuse to grant him the power to call an election because they don't trust him to stick to his word.</a></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">And I wound up talking about that raucous wreck on MSNBC's Hardball: </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">Parliament votes against Boris Johnson's no-deal Brexit and snap election <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=c7bd5fd4e8&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/parliament-votes-against-boris-johnson-s-no-deal-brexit-and-snap-election-68202053967</a></span></div>
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Wrote this with Anna Nemtsova:<br /> <br /> <br /> <strong>HOMICIDAL</strong></h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=9014ba39e2&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The CAR Murders: A Critical Cold Case in the New Cold War</strong></a></h2>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=6558181315&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Evidence mounts that shows three Russian journalists investigating the mysterious Wagner mercenaries in Africa were set up by some of the same people who attacked U.S. elections.</strong></a></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">Plus -<br /> <br /> My appearance Sunday morning on Joy Reid's MSNBC show talking with her and Lawrence Wilkerson about the way the world views the epidemic of mass shootings in the United States. I noted that Europeans have been appalled at the peculiar American culture of gun violence since slavery times, and in the present day are dumbfounded by the delusional idea that putting more guns on the streets makes anyone safer.<br /> Here's a link: <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=eb93feb1e5&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/rampant-shootings-make-countries-issue-u-s-tourism-warnings-67974725700</a><br /> <br /> On Saturday, I was on MSNBC speaking with Jo Ling Kent about Iran and the context for any negotiations between Trump and the mullahs going forward. This is a Dropbox link, which I hope will work: <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=257c02b962&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.dropbox.com/s/nvlyzv0p04wn9of/Christopher%20Dickey%20831.mp4?dl=0</a><br /> If not, you can find it on my Facebook page.<br /> <br /> Among the stories I edited were these very informative ones about the situation in Hong Kong: </span><br />
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COUNTERREVOLUTION</h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=349235411c&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Inside Beijing's Toolbox to Crush Hong Kong</a></h2>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=f20bca3e36&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The Chinese Communist Party is betting it won't have to send tanks to end the revolt. It's got the cops, surveillance, and even a replacement "international city" in the works.</a></h3>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=42ca66bb6c&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">BRENDON HONG</a></h4>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=83bac6e249&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Hong Kong Protests Rage, Defying Beijing Crackdown</a></h2>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=7346bebda6&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Beijing's playbook might work within mainland China, but in Hong Kong every move by the government to suppress the uprising has backfired.</a></h3>
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It's been a busy few days, and I walked by Trump Tower several times on my way from 30 Rock to my pied-à-terre. At one point a stopped for a selfie there with the heavily armed NYPD. Ten years ago, when I wrote <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=cd1681ecd9&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><em>Securing the City</em></a>, I never imagined so many resources would have to be deployed to protect a character like Donald Trump.</div>
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Whenever possible I like to break away from the news cycle to explore some corner of history—especially the history of France in the middle of the 19th century.</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=42027658c7&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Searching in Paris for the Woman Who Launched Impressionism</strong></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=027d3fa549&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Captivated by Morisot after an exhibition at the Orsay, I set about trying to find traces of her that remain in Paris today.</a></div>
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<strong>CHRISTOPHER DICKEY</strong><br /> <br /> <img data-file-id="4207373" height="450" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d/images/099e8b8f-6250-4f43-9ad8-afb08f91d9cd.png" style="border: 0px; height: 450px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 1022px;" width="1022" /><br /> <br /> <strong>But most of the last few days was taken up by the G7, with several appearances on MSNBC. This was one of the first: <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=a41ea5368e&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.facebook.com/christopher.dickey/videos/10157585457571810/</a></strong></div>
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Then there was the unexpected visit to Biarritz, site of the summit, by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b763e879d9&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Donald Trump Upstaged at G7 By Foreign Minister of Iran</strong></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=95f44bceb3&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">The previously unannounced visit of Javad Zarif may help calm the escalating dangers of war between the U.S. and Iran, but not for long.</a></div>
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<br /> <strong>I had to explain several times why Russia never belonged in the G8. Here with Chris Matthews and Bret Stephens on "Hardball": <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b24967cf0e&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">https://t.co/93mPPP0yja</a></strong></div>
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<strong>Wrapping up on "The 11th Hour," I suggested Trump knows the G7 club would blackball him if it could: <a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=047fd1d445&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/dickey-trump-treated-g7-like-a-club-he-knows-he-should-be-blackballed-from-67514949629</a></strong></div>
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And published this column, which covers some of the same ground:</div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=b82fb26dea&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>With Trump as a Member, What's the Point of the G7 Club?</strong></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cd958756682fb1d614fa7ad4d&id=5d3565b698&e=c6ffce72ab" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;">Members of the Group of Seven are supposed to be democracies committed to human rights. Trump and his dictator envy make a mockery of that.</a></div>
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