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US Missile Defense North Korea was just reminded how it could ruin the United States: The Pentagon plans to spend almost $18 billion to develop, produce and support its new interceptor to stop incoming nuclear missiles from North Korea or Iran, the first major defense procurement award of the Biden administration, according to newly released figures. ... The interceptors are designed to crash into and destroy incoming missiles from an adversary such as North Korea or Iran. They would be installed on missiles based in Alaska. Each of the 31 interceptors is estimated to cost about $498 millio...

Opinion: WaPo Elides China’s Military Threat, Then Offers No Solution Commentary On May 1, the Editorial Board of The Washington Post finally, at first glance, somewhat-kind-of recognized a military threat emanating from Beijing. The Board cooly noted a “series of incremental escalations by Chinese forces in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea,” that are “substantially advancing a strategy for establishing its dominance in East Asia and forcing Taiwan’s surrender.” The Post (WaPo) noted China’s “trawlers” that are “believed to be” under military control and recently �...

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ksuadminApril 27, 2021 6 The growing attention to information control in the United States, the greatest example of which was the overthrow of Donald Trump by Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, led the Washington Post to compile a list of “gatekeepers,” the new custodians of information. In addition to the aforementioned social media platforms, he listed, in order: Google and Apple app stores, which cut TikTok in India. Cloud providers like AWS, Amazon, which shut down the social network Parler and, previously, WikiLeaks. Payment services like PayPal, which also shut down WikiLeaks and ot...

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