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The Government Has Known About the Vulnerabilities That Allowed Russia’s Latest Hack For Decades—and Chose Not to Fix Them Slate 12/18/2020 Fred Kaplan © Provided by Slate SolarWinds Corp banner hangs at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the IPO day of the company in New York, U.S., October 19, 2018 Reuters/Brendan McDermid//File Photo The most stunning thing about Russia’s latest hack of 1,800 computer networks—including those of at least six federal agencies, ...

by William Hawes / December 17th, 2020 Now that Joe Biden will be America’s next president, it might be worthwhile to take a closer look at some of the choices for his cabinet, White House staff, and national security positions. There are some real crazies here, as we shall see. As we dig deeper and deeper, what emerges is a network of people whose views can quite literally be defined as fascist. This is not to deny that in many ways Trump and his administration were worse than many of these ...

“The Last Platoon” from Bing West, Outstanding Novel of Afghanistan Share This: In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine  Bing West was born to be a Marine. When he was just two years old, his two uncles were in the Marine Corps and fought on Guadalcanal. Later, his family allowed a baseball team of Marines to use the attic of their Dorchester, Massachusetts home as a kind of clubhouse.  There they’d be able to talk among themselves about ...

Ryan Grauer: The Austin ‘problematique’ By Ryan Grauer © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette President-elect Joe Biden has nominated retired Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III to be his secretary of defense. Gen. Austin is a decorated officer whose remarkable 41-year career in uniform included service as the vice chief of staff of the Army and commander of Central Command. In addition, he is only the sixth African American general to earn a fourth star. Nevertheless, Gen. Austi...

Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 15:05 IST Rajnath Singh-headed DAC cleared proposals worth Rs 28,000 crore. Of these, Rs 27,000 crore worth of proposals will be sourced from Indian industries. Rajnath Singh&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspIANS Key Highlights The crucial meeting will be headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Three serving military chiefs and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat will also be there CDS Rawat had recommended Air Defence Command to secure ...

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Vijay Diwas celebrations held across country Vijay Diwas celebrations held across country Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU/SRINAGAR, Dec 16: The Army and Ex-servicemen today celebrated Vijay Diwas in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country and paid homage to soldiers who laid down their lives in the 1971 India-Pakistan war. Lieutenant Governor, Union Territory of J&K, Manoj Sinha paid tribute to the martyrs, who laid down their lives for the Nation during the 1971 war. The day commemorat...

On 20 January 2021, when he takes the oath of office, President Joe Biden will be dealt the worst hand of any president since Franklin Roosevelt. The COVID-19 pandemic is surging to record proportions and, worse, has been politicized. The nation is intractably divided politically with escalating tensions over race not seen since the 1960s. The economy is struggling. And relations with China and Russia are at their lowest point since the bad old days of the Cold War. Against this background, whi...

December 14th, 2020 in Podcast. Closed President-elect Joe Biden speaks after the Electoral College formally elected him as president, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. (AP photo) The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Electoral College decisively confirmed Joe Biden on Monday as the nation’s next president, ratifying his November victory in an authoritative state-by-state repudiation of President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede he h...

Another grim milestone: More than 300,000 people have died from the novel coronavirus in the U.S. so far. Its an awful marker in what NPRs Will Stone calls "a generational tragedy — one still unfolding in every corner of the country — that leaves in its wake an expanse of grief that cannot be captured in a string of statistics.” COVID is America’s leading cause of death this month, outstripping even cancer and heart disease, reports the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the...