Ukraine Spy Chief’s Wife Poisoned: Reports

Reports out of Ukraine say that Marianna Budanova, the wife of Ukraine’s intelligence chief spy chief Kyrylo Budanov, has been hospitalized after being poisoned. “Unfortunately this is true,”  a source in Ukraine’s Defense

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Gaza Is Not Entebbe

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For those of us who’ve long despised Benjamin Netanyahu for so many things, from his odious corruption to his opportunistic alliance with far right extremists (and many things in between), his brutal

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Tunnel Rats Redux

Stephen “Shorty” Menendez has a piece of advice for Israeli troops faced with clearing out Hamas tunnels in Gaza: Don’t. Don’t volunteer to go down there. You will never get over it.

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The Spies of Hamas

The was a time many years ago that I’d drive past a soccer stadium in South Vietnam looking for a chalk scratch on the wall.  Horizontal meant that my net of spies

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The Perilous Path of Assassinations

I would be remiss in letting September pass without noting the car-bomb assassination of Orlando Letelier along Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., 47 years ago this month. The September 21, 1976 murder of Letelier, a

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