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Controversial Israeli cyberattack firm NSO adds Lieberman ally to its arsenal - Business

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Sharon Shalom, a former chief of staff at the Defense Ministry under then Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, has joined Israeli cyber-surveillance and spyware company NSO, as an outside consultant dealing with global policy.
NSO has recently been in the headlines due to charges that its technology has been used to commit abuses against human rights activists and journalists worldwide.
Shalom stepped down from his post at the ministry in August after three years in the job. He remained at his post for eight months after Lieberman's resignation, despite the animosity between his former boss and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Shalom had followed Lieberman from the foreign ministry, where he occupied a similar position. 
As a confidant of the Yisrael Beiteinu chairman, Shalom was involved in the so-called straw companies case around a decade ago. The police claimed at the time that millions of shekels were laundered through a company called M.L.1, managed by Shalom, and that those funds were subsequently channeled to the firm's owner, Lieberman’s daughter Michal Lieberman. However, no charges were filed in the wake of the investigation.
NSO, which specializes in mobile applications, is among the world’s largest and most active cyberattack companies. In February 2019, company founders Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavi, together with the European private equity fund Novalpina, bought the company back according to a market value of $1 billion.
The company is known among other things for developing the Pegasus spyware, which targets and accesses information in cellphones. Rights groups have condemned the sale of its powerful technology to dictatorships, alleging its use against innocent civilians and opposition figures around the world.
Because of the nature of its work, NSO must get Defense Ministry approval in order to export its products. In leaving a job at the ministry and taking up a post at this company, Shalom is crossing the line, as it were, from the supervisor to the supervised, following a long tradition in Israeli government and industry.

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Earlier this month it was reported that Brig. Gen. Ariella Ben-Avraham, Israel’s chief military censor, was in advanced negotiations to join NSO, and has asked to resign her post.
NSO is thus currently waging legal wars on several fronts, from California to Cyprus to Israel. Amnesty International has asked the Tel Aviv District Court to suspend the firm’s export license after phones belonging to its own activists were hacked. The court recently said it would hear the case in camera, granting a Defense Ministry request for secrecy.
In December 2018, the Montreal-based Saudi Arabian dissident Omar Abdulaziz filed a lawsuit in Israel against NSO, claiming its technology had helped the Saudi government listen in on his conversations with the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a friend of Abdulaziz. And in October, Facebook sued NSO in San Francisco for allegedly hacking into WhatsApp, the popular messaging platform owned by the U.S. social-media giant. Facebook suspended the Facebook accounts of NSO employees, whereupon they countersued the California-based company.
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“In 2004, everybody raised an eyebrow when I presented my plan for land and population swaps. Last night, President Trump adopted my plan in its entirety, and the idea of land and population exchanges became an integral part of a comprehensive strategic plan of the president of the United States,” Yisrael Beiteinu chief Avigdor Lieberman wrote on Facebook.
Lieberman really does have a good reason to claim credit for this “achievement” because Donald Trump’s plan really does mention the insulting possibility that the so-called triangle of Arab communities in the center of the country may become part of the envisioned Palestinian state.
Lieberman’s stamp can be seen clearly not only in diverting the diplomatic direction. Lieberman is the person behind the three elections rounds in less than a year. If it weren’t for his opposition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would probably now be enjoying immunity from prosecution in the corruption cases against him. Lieberman is the kingmaker, the executioner, the balance of power.
Lieberman looks as if he has taken on the mission of eliminating Netanyahu politically. It’s hard to imagine how the efforts led by Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan party could succeed without being synchronized with Lieberman. “Standing on principle, a systematic doctrine and patience pay off, and I have patience in all other matters, too,” Lieberman added on Facebook.
He has certainly demonstrated all of the above facing at least two of the tribes that President Reuven Rivlin mentioned: the Arab Israelis and the ultra-Orthodox, the Haredim. “Without loyalty there is no citizenship,” he tells the Arabs. His latest steps against the ultra-Orthodox can be described as the beginning of an attempt to make their citizenship rights conditional – in the spirit of “without military service there is no citizenship.”
As long as Lieberman focuses his battle against Israeli Arabs, he is attacked from the left. When he began coming out against the ultra-Orthodox, he was branded a new liberal hope. But both the Arabs and the Haredim know how dangerous he is. A few weeks ago, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said: “There are many, many gentiles here, some of them communists, hostile to religion or haters of religion. They aren’t Jews at all but gentiles. Then they vote for parties that incite against the Haredim and religion.”
After the harsh responses to this, Yosef explained that he wasn’t referring to all the immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Yosef was referring to the immigrants from the former Soviet Union who are not Jews based on Jewish law and who immigrated as the grandchildren of Jews based on the Law of Return. But we can’t ignore Yosef’s fury and what it has in common with the Arab Israelis’ anger.

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Israel is the only country in the world that belongs more to its potential citizens than to a 20-percent bloc of citizens who were born here. An American Jew who hasn’t yet been born is more of a master in Israel than an Arab citizen who was born here as is ancestors were.
Once can understand the frustration of Arab citizens who are subjected to loyalty tests by a newcomer. What lets Lieberman and the other immigrants (like me) have this feeling of immediate ownership is the identity that is linked to the definition of the state. Now Lieberman is suggesting that we put the Haredim’s link to the state in question.
Understandably, they are furious. The secular Jewish identity is a derivative of the traditional Jewish existence that has been preserved for many centuries mainly through Jewish communities sharing a belief in God and practicing similar religious rules and rituals. Now there is an attempt to underestimate the religious component and role in the Jewish-Israeli identity. Moreover, this move is being carried out by Lieberman, who also represents those who are questionably Jewish based on Jewish law.
The Haredim often cooperate with the Arab legislators in the Knesset. Last week the Central Elections Committee voted to ban MK Heba Yazbak from running in the election next month. The MKs from the ultra-Orthodox parties voted in support of the ban. The Haredim must understand that this fantasy of Israel without Arabs, in the Knesset and outside it, often overlaps with the fantasy of Israel without the Haredim. And at the center of this dangerous congruence stands Lieberman.
Liberman helped hundreds of ultra-Orthodox obtain military exemptions -- report

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Avigdor Liberman has become the biggest critic of the ultra-Orthodox political establishment since he refused last year to join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, citing insurmountable differences with the Haredi parties.
Liberman’s subsequent election campaigns have included strong, relentless criticism of the ultra-Orthodox and their elected politicians.
The disagreement has focused primarily on a bill regulating the draft of ultra-Orthodox men to the army — Liberman demands that more seminary students be compelled to enlist, denouncing much of the Haredi community as “draft dodgers,” while the ultra-Orthodox parties demand that a law that partially passed in the Knesset several years ago face significant revisions before being advanced further.
But an exposé published Monday indicates that while he was serving as defense minister between 2016 and 2018, Liberman’s office generously granted exemptions from military service to many ultra-Orthodox men, primarily those with well-connected relatives.
Hundreds of young men, including sons of politicians, rabbis and other prominent figures, obtained the exemptions after ultra-Orthodox lawmakers contacted Liberman’s office, the Haaretz daily reported Monday in a lengthy piece, citing sources familiar with the events.
Liberman’s office denied the claims, which come a month before national elections and could dent his credentials as a secularist hero battling for equal sharing of the burden of military service between the various Israeli communities.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the jailing of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with an army recruitment order in Jerusalem on January 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The ultra-Orthodox community has historically enjoyed blanket deferrals from the army in favor of religious seminary studies, and many in the community shun military service, which is mandatory for other Jewish Israelis. However, there is opposition to the arrangement from many in the broader population who want the ultra-Orthodox to help shoulder the burden of defending the country.
Monday’s report said a key player in handing out the exemptions was Liberman’s close associate and adviser on matters related to the ultra-Orthodox, Avi Abuhatzeira.
“The [ultra-Orthodox] Knesset members or their aides would contact Abuhatzeira by direct call, a message or an email, and he would immediate come on board to help,” one source was quoted as saying. “It was routine, nobody concealed it.”
Another source said that Abuhazeira “was exactly like a member of the ultra-Orthodox parties.”
Liberman’s office dealt with those matters on a daily basis as part of his close cooperation with ultra-Orthodox politicians, the report said, adding that in total there were hundreds of such cases.
In addition to the case-by-case requests, the report also said hundreds of members of the extremist Jerusalem Faction, which has waged a campaign against enlistment and has staged hundreds of often-violent demonstrations on the matter, were granted sweeping exemptions during Liberman’s tenure. It did not explain how this process worked or who requested these exemptions.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot, the head of the Shin Bet security service and other senior defense officials in the army’s Tel Aviv headquarters on November 11, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
The other requests — occasionally even filed directly to Liberman — came from all Haredi MKs from both the Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) parties, and from both the Hasidic and the Lithuanian factions that make up UTJ.
Sources said many of the exemptions would not have been possible to obtain without Liberman’s intervention, including some handed out using false medical documents.
Abuhatzeira and Liberman’s office mainly took care of those matters via contact with the deputy commander of the Meitav military unit in charge of welcoming new recruits and sorting them into their bases or military branches, the report said. Sources were quoted as saying those contacts were held in breach of rules and without proper approval.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said it would investigate the matter and that if meetings were held without approval, “that is a problem.”
Abuhazeira commented that he had received many requests for exemptions from all Israeli communities and had dealt with them “seriously.”
Liberman’s office said the former defense minister “never intervened in any case related to exemptions from the military, in any form.” It said all requests were handled professionally and without his personal involvement.
Israel’s current political deadlock can be traced back to political wrangling over the enlistment of yeshiva students. In May, less than two months after voters appeared to give Netanyahu a mandate to form a new government, coalition talks collapsed. The sticking point was a draft law obligating ultra-Orthodox men to participate in Israel’s mandatory military draft. Ultra-Orthodox parties wanted to soften the text of the law, while Avigdor Liberman and his secular right-wing Yisrael Beytenu insisted he would not join the government unless the law was passed in its current form. Israel heads to its third national election in under a year on March 2.
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6 Turkish troops, 13 Syrian soldiers killed in north Syria | KECI

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey hit targets in northern Syria, responding to shelling by Syrian government forces that killed at least six Turkish soldiers, the Turkish president said Monday. A Syrian war monitor said 13 Syrian troops were also killed.
Also, Syrian activists said airstrikes in the country's northern, rebel-held region killed at least nine civilians on Monday.
The exchange between Ankara and Damascus came hours after a large Turkish military convoy entered the northwestern province of Idlib, the last rebel stronghold in Syria. It is likely to further increase tensions between the two neighboring countries as such direct clashes have been rare and could also cause friction between Moscow and Ankara, which have sought to coordinate their actions in Syria.
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Earlier, Turkey's National Defense Ministry said the Turkish forces were sent to Idlib as reinforcement and were attacked there despite prior notification of their coordinates to the local authorities. It said Turkish forces responded to the attack, destroying targets. Four Turkish soldiers died at the scene while two others died later in hospital. Seven Turkish troops were wounded.
Speaking to reporters before departing for a visit to Ukraine, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkish artillery hit some 46 targets in Syria. Erdogan said Turkish warplanes were also involved and claimed that there were between 30 and 35 casualties on the Syrian side but offered no evidence.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to reporters before departing for a visit to Ukraine, in Istanbul, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)
"Those who test Turkey's determination with such vile attacks will understand their mistake," Erdogan said. He said Russia was told that Ankara would not stand for any "situation where we are prevented" from responding to Syrian assaults.
"It is not possible for us to remain silent when our soldiers are being martyred," Erdogan said.
The exchange occurred near the Syrian flashpoint town of Saraqeb, according to the the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group. It added that Turkish troops shelled Syrian army positions in three provinces, killing eight soldiers in Idlib, three in Latakia province and two in the Hama region.
However, Syria's state news agency SANA said government forces captured two new villages on the way to Saraqeb. It added that as Syrian troops were chasing insurgents, four Turkish soldiers were killed and nine wounded triggering a Turkish retaliation — but it claimed there were no casualties among Syrian troops.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Turkey had failed to notify the Russian military about troop movements overnight in Idlib and that the Turkish troops got hit by Syrian fire that was directed at "terrorists" — a reference to al-Qaida-linked militants — west of Saraqeb.
The Russian military, which controls the airspace over Idlib province, said the Turkish aircraft never entered Syria's airspace during Monday's attack. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian military remains in "constant contact" with Turkish counterparts in Syria.
The escalation comes amid a Syrian government offensive into the country's last rebel stronghold, located in Idlib and parts of the nearby Aleppo region. Turkish troops are deployed in some of those rebel-held areas to monitor an earlier cease-fire that was agreed to but that has since collapsed.
Relations between Turkey and Syria have deteriorated sharply since Syria's civil war began in 2011. Syria accuses Turkey of undermining its security by allowing thousands of foreign fighters to come battle the Syrian army. Idlib province is currently dominated by al-Qaida-linked militants.
With Russian backing, the Syria government has been on the offensive since December to capture and reopen a strategic highway held by the rebels since 2012. The offensive ignored a cease-fire deal brokered late last year between Russia and Turkey. The deal has since collapsed.
Syrian government forces captured the key Idlib town of Maaret al-Numan from the rebels last Wednesday, and have now set their sights on Saraqeb. The strategic highway passes through both towns.
Opposition activists did not say who was behind the airstrikes that killed nine civilians in rebel-held parts of northern Syria. The nine were on a minibus carrying people fleeing the violence near the village of Kfar Naha in Aleppo province, according to the Observatory and Baladi news, an activist collective. Four children, three women and two men were killed, according to paramedics.
The province of Idlib is home to some 3 million people, many of them displaced from other parts of Syria in earlier bouts of violence. The United Nations has estimated that about 390,000 Syrians have been displaced there over the past two months — 315,000 in December and 75,000 in January.
Turkey already hosts 3.5 million Syrian refugees, and the current wave of violence in Idlib has raised concerns of a new surge in displaced civilians fleeing toward the Turkish border.
What is Putin’s plan? - The Washington Post

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On Jan. 15, Putin proposed reorganizing the government to give more power to the Russian Duma — the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia. Once these reforms are clarified, Putin says it’s necessary to have a “vote of the citizens on the whole packet” of constitutional changes.
It’s tempting to view Putin’s actions as a mere contemporary authoritarian maneuver, designed to extend power beyond his presidential term, which ends in 2024. Like Nur-Sultan Nazarbayev, who stepped away from the presidency but remains a power broker in Kazakhstan, Putin could retain power from a new position.
But looking into Russia’s past gives important clues about the proposed political changes. In particular, Russia’s tsarist period has many precedents of liberal reform from above. This is what historians traditionally identified as forms of “enlightened despotism” — rulers who retain absolute power, but use it to the advantage of their subjects.
Is Putin planning his own legacy?
Academics and journalists alike have called Putin a contemporary Russian “tsar.” An article in The Economist, for instance, said Putin may be “preparing to rule forever.” Calling the Russian president a monarch is inherently a misnomer — but this does evoke Putin’s own appreciation for Russia’s past. Putin has often shown great appreciation for Russian history, regularly citing intellectuals from the past, including Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Solovyov and the far more controversial Ilya Ilyin.
After having been in power in one way or another for over 20 years, Putin may be seeking his exit strategy, and legacy shopping in the process. And enlightened despotism, born out of Russia’s tsarist past, is one legacy he could be striving for.
How Russia’s enlightened despots fostered change
During the tsarist period, the Russian people believed their autocratic tsar or emperor’s power was absolute — these leaders had the divine right to lead the country.
Russian rulers used the term “autocrat” (samoderzhets), which in the Russian original reads as equivalent to holding the country entirely in one’s will. In practical terms emperors were not only in control — they also knew better than the masses what the country needed. This meant there was no need for a participatory political system.
Right alongside absolutism, the gesture of autocratic leaders moderating their own power is also a well-patented one in Russian history and Russian political theater. Because of the absolute power that many Russian tsars enjoyed, the few who even envisioned the possibility of greater freedoms for their people tended to leave behind a positive legacy: Russians viewed them as “enlightened.”
And a little goes a long way in the collective memory. “[L]ike the sun, like the moon, I shall present your image to future ages, I will elevate and praise you” wrote the great Russian poet Gavrila Derzhavin about Catherine the Great, Russia’s best-known enlightened despot, who ruled from 1762 to 1796. Her patronage of science and the arts, and the code of laws that freed the Russian nobility from their obligation of government service, helped label Catherine as a moderate in her historical afterlife — despite her occasionally ruthless treatment of those who disagreed with her.
Other Russian emperors have also been assigned this label. For instance, despite all the wars he fought and all the lives lost in the building of St. Petersburg, Peter the Great — who ruled from 1682-1725 — is revered even today for his efforts to westernize Russia, which involved putting into effect the Russian Table of Ranks, a formal list of governmental positions that expanded participation in public service beyond the hereditary nobility.
The 19th-century Romanovs alternated between tyrannical and progressive. Of the more liberal tsars, Alexander I is remembered for giving Poland a very progressive constitution, even though he eventually decided that Russia was not ready for one. Alexander II earned the moniker the “tsar liberator” for freeing the Russian serfs by imperial edict in 1861 without any bloodshed. Years later, Russia’s last emperor, Nicholas II, experimented with creating a constitution and a congress.
A little reform goes a long way
As these historical examples suggest, despite consistent absolutism and perhaps because of it, Russia also has a tradition of enlightened despotism — and autocrats willing to share some power.
Many historical milestones in Russia have happened from above. One instance of attempted changes from below was the 1825 Decembrist revolt. A series of gentry officers fought for a constitution, the liberation of the serfs and greater political representation — at least two of the three changes that Putin is proposing to enact now.
The rebellion was short-lived; Nicholas I crushed it brutally. The Decembrist ringleaders were hanged, and although history has not remembered Nicholas fondly, the movement failed to produce meaningful political change.
Is Putin giving a little to keep a lot?
Putin’s gesture of democratization fits precisely within Russia’ historical tradition of autocrats giving a little, so that they may still retain the reins of power. Even as he called for greater participation, Putin was behind the Russian government tendering its resignation. The Russian Federation now seems to be embarking upon a major political shakeup.
Participation may increase because of the greater power afforded the representative Duma, but the process to achieve this is inherently non-participatory in nature. As Dennis Diderot wrote in a letter to Catherine the Great, even the most enlightened despotism, “takes from the nation the right to deliberate, the right to desire and not to desire, and the right to be opposed — even to what is right and good for it.”
Implicit in Putin’s actions is the notion that he alone knows best — like the tsars of old — and will always be the one making the final decisions. The symbolism of the Russian government tendering its resignation in response to the president’s wish for constitutional change merely underscores how much of Russia’s political system lies in one man’s hands.
For better or worse, it is a uniquely Russian kind of legacy.
Ani Kokobobo is associate professor and chair of the Slavic Department at the University of Kansas. Follow her on Twitter @ani_kokobobo.
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4 Russian Special Forces Officers Killed in Syria – Reports

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At least four members of Russia’s special forces have been killed in Syria on Saturday, the investigative website Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), which monitors Russian military activity, has reported.
Makeshift memorials said that the four FSB Special Operations Center officers were killed on the same day “while performing special tasks in the Syrian Arab Republic,” photographs of the memorials posted by the CIT on Sunday showed.
The Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Special Operations Center was established by then-FSB chief Vladimir Putin as a domestic and international counterterrorism outfit in 1998.
The CIT, which said it had been investigating the FSB unit’s role in Syria, noted that it could not independently verify online reports of the officers’ deaths.
The Baza Telegram channel reported that the four officers “fell into the hands of militants” after their vehicle had hit a landmine near the northern city of Aleppo.
“They were later found shot to death,” Baza, which has links in Russia’s security services, reported Monday. 
According to social media posts cited by the CIT, the Special Operations Center officers were killed by mortar fire.
Neither the FSB nor the Defense Ministry have officially confirmed or denied reports of the four officers’ alleged deaths yet.
Russia was reported to have officially confirmed 116 personnel deaths in Syria as of last spring. Moscow does not acknowledge the deaths of private military contractors, whose activities are illegal under Russian law.
Corruption in America: How the US became the center of global kleptocracy

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Critics of President Donald Trump frequently use the word “kleptocracy” to describe his leadership, administration, and imprint on American policy writ large.
Before 2016 — before Trump’s election and presidency flipped assumptions about America’s liberal democratic project on its head — the word, which literally means “rule of thieves,” was mostly only used by academics and foreign policy wonks.
Thanks to Trump’s reign, though, “kleptocracy” is having an unprecedented moment.
It’s not hard to see why. As Vox’s Zack Beauchamp argued in 2017, “Trump’s kleptocratic instincts” share significant overlap with post-Soviet dictators and autocratic strongmen elsewhere, from his nepotistic corruption to his insistence on targeting opponents with all the levers of power at his disposal — as seen most obviously in his attempt to strong-arm a foreign government into trying to investigate a political rival.
All of that is, of course, true: Trump’s illiberalism, and his predilection for inserting and expanding corruption wherever he can, is hardly a secret.
But this administration is merely the culmination of the US’s decades-long slide toward becoming the center of modern kleptocracy. The US has become the world’s greatest offshore haven, allowing the crooked and the criminal to launder and stash their ill-gotten gains across the country — money ransacked from national treasuries and prone populations abroad.
For despots and their families, human traffickers and gun runners, there’s no better friend than the US, at least when it comes to hiding their finances from prying eyes, both at home and abroad.
All told, the US has become the key cog in the machine of modern kleptocracy worldwide, allowing illiberal regimes everywhere to flourish — and threatening America’s democratic experiment in the process.

How US states became masters of the shell game

The biggest single provider of anonymous shell corporations in the world isn’t Panama or the Cayman Islands. It’s not the financial secrecy stalwart Switzerland, or a traditional offshore haven like the Bahamas.
It’s Delaware. And the main reason is federalism.
Thanks to the US’s federal structure, company formation remains overseen at the state level, rather than in Washington.
So if you’re a budding autocrat interested in a bit of easy money laundering, you don’t turn to federal officials in Washington. Instead, you look to state officials in Dover, Cheyenne, or Reno to help construct anonymous shell companies to funnel and clean your illegitimate money.
And these states have taken full advantage. Since there are no regulations in the US requiring that shell companies identify their true owners — known as “beneficial owners” – American states have been under no compunction to try to peel back who may be behind the anonymous shell companies mushrooming across the country.
These states and their constituents are raking in fees — at last check, Delaware made some $1.3 billion annually from its company formation industry — so whenever, say, a human trafficker or extremist network sets up an anonymous company in Wilmington or Laramie or Carson City, they have little incentive to try to figure out who may be behind the companies.
Unsurprisingly, the anonymous company industry has been staggeringly profitable for these states. The revenues that Delaware, which pioneered targeting corrupt officials as potential clients for its anonymous shell company industry, continues to make represent about a quarter of the state’s annual budget.
Nevada, which actively marketed itself as the “Delaware of the West” in the early 1990s, directly linked company formation fees to funding teachers’ salaries. And Wyoming, which invented the limited liability company (LLC) in 1977, has been only too happy to capitalize on allowing shell companies to flourish in the state, generating millions of dollars for its general budget — yet another small state all too willing to participate in this “race to the bottom.”
All you need is 15 minutes, a bit of money — Delaware offers packages for around $100, pocket change for the crooked and corrupt racing to the state — and a willingness to conceal your identity, and an anonymous American shell company can be yours. It’s easier than getting a library card.
And what better way to purchase American real estate, perfectly anonymously — which almost all of the US (outside of a few major metro areas) continues to allow — than via an anonymous American shell company?
The criminal and corrupt of the world have taken notice. “Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout, the most prolific illicit arms dealer of the past few decades, used anonymous American shell companies to smuggle missiles and rocket launchers to rebels in Colombia.
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who once joined Indonesian dictator Suharto and Serbian genocidaire Slobodan Milošević among the ranks of the world’s most corrupt leaders, relied on a network of anonymous shell companies in Wyoming to plunder Ukraine.
Even the ongoing impeachment saga in the US hinges in large part on anonymous Delaware shell companies, which Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian-born bag-men used to funnel foreign funds into American elections.
For the world’s warlords, criminals, and autocrats, there’s no gift finer than an anonymous American shell company.
Of course, other places — territories like the Cayman Islands or the Isle of Man, or countries like Panama or St. Kitts and Nevis — have sprouted their own anonymous shell company industries. (Many of which are, perhaps unsurprisingly, specifically modeled on their American precedents.)
But what separates the US is the sheer magnitude of operations. At last check, some 2 million companies were formed annually in the US, a greater pace than any other country or jurisdiction.

Tax Haven, USA

Still, it’d be too facile to blame the US’s collapse into a mecca of offshore secrecy on the states alone. While Washington hasn’t been able to capitalize (or crack down) on anonymous shell companies spreading like fungus across the country, Congress recently figured out another way to accelerate America’s evolution into a corrupt official’s best friend: taxes.
Specifically, a tax loophole big enough to welcome as many cheats, crooks, and criminals as you’d like.
While the US has been busy over the past decade making headlines for slapping debilitating fines on foreign banks actively participating in money laundering, all while prying open offshore jurisdictions like Switzerland, a lesser-known transformation has taken root in the US.
After all, all that dirty money the US targeted elsewhere — in Latvia, in Estonia, in Germany — had to find a new home somewhere. Why shouldn’t it be America?
The US opening its arms to a flood of shady foreign money might seem counterintuitive, given the US’s previous role (thanks to things like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) as a leader in the fight against corruption. But while the US targeted dirty money — and those enabling its flow — abroad, it simultaneously rejiggered its own finance-sharing regulations to try to attract much of that same money, turning the US into a behemoth in the world of tax havens.
This isn’t technically a new phenomenon: In 1984, Time magazine described the US as the “largest and possibly the most alluring tax haven in the world.” The Tax Justice Network, a UK-based anti-offshore advocacy organization, traces America’s transformation into a financial secrecy haven even further back, to the early 20th century.
But what really kicked things into overdrive was a law passed in 2010, under the Obama administration: the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). This law all but assured the US’s role as a giant magnet for suspicious finance.
On its face, FATCA reads like a basic, multilateral approach to financial transparency. A range of US allies had already enacted something called the Common Reporting Standard, which allows governments to share information on foreign nationals who open bank accounts in other countries. According to the Obama administration, FATCA did much the same — and as such, the US didn’t need to join the Common Reporting Standard.
But there was one hitch: Whereas FATCA forced foreign governments to reveal American accounts abroad, the US was under no compunction, legal or otherwise, to share information on non-Americans opening up accounts in the US proper. So while the US would gain deep, detailed information on where Americans were opening bank accounts abroad, Washington was not going to reciprocate for governments elsewhere.
It didn’t take long for those tracking financial transparency to realize the bait-and-switch that had happened — and what it portended for where dirty money would suddenly start flocking to.
“Washington’s independent-minded approach risks tearing a giant hole in international efforts” at financial transparency, one analysis read, describing the result as a “disaster.” Bloomberg summed up the result in 2016, saying that the US — before Trump ever set foot in the White House — had become the “leading tax and secrecy haven for rich foreigners,” with some referring to the US as “the new Switzerland.”
Little surprise, then, that the Tax Justice Network, which described FATCA as “only slightly better than useless,” now ranks the United States second worldwide in its annual Financial Secrecy Index, just behind Switzerland. Thanks to measures like FATCA, they wrote, the US now accounts for nearly a quarter of the global market in offshore financial services.

The looming backlash

The US’s development into the world’s leading offshore haven — one recent estimate placed the total offshore wealth in the US at $800 billion, if not more — was the result of a series of clear, concerted decisions from policymakers across the country.
The Trump administration, of course, has further cemented America’s role as a pioneer in the world of offshoring (and helping roll back the US’s anti-corruption safeguards along the way). But Trump inherited a country that was already drowning in illicit funds, pilfered loot, and blood-soaked finances first swiped by authoritarian and autocratic governments and networks elsewhere.
When it comes to the US’s role as a massive laundromat for dirty money, the Trump administration is simply continuing a trend years in the making.
But that doesn’t mean that trend will continue in perpetuity. Ironically, Trump’s bombast and transparent corruption has already spurred unprecedented momentum in Congress toward finally cleaning up some of these American offshore vehicles and policies. For instance, the House passed a bill late last year that will finally eliminate anonymous shell companies from coast to coast.
Several of the top 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have also put anti-kleptocracy measures at the heart of their foreign policies, and worked to highlight the threats the US’s role as an offshore mecca plays not only to national security, but to global stability writ large.
(Trump’s latest brush with war, following America’s strike against Iranian figures in Iraq, only highlighted the link; Iranian officials relied on anonymous American shell companies, and anonymous American real estate purchases along the way, to spend years skirting sanctions and generating millions in revenue.)
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who represented Delaware in the US Senate for more than three decades, has publicly broken with his state’s track record as an offshore epicenter and called for the US to finally eradicate anonymous shell companies.
Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2018 specifically linked “the struggle for democracy… with the struggle against kleptocracy and corruption,” and has called for everything from an end to anonymous perpetual trusts, which allow trust owners to effectively hide their finances in perpetuity — perhaps the next frontier in American offshoring, as South Dakota has so gleefully illustrated — to expanding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
And Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently issued the most comprehensive anti-kleptocracy plank any American candidate has ever authored. Her proposal runs the gamut of recommended fixes, from barring shell company formation to eliminating anonymous real estate purchases to expanding data collection for cross-border financial flows. Warren’s plan even specifically targets Americans — such as accountants, realtors, and lawyers — who offer the services the crooked and corrupt of the world take advantage of in the US.
It’s far too early to say that the worst days of America’s pioneering role in the world of offshoring is over. But there’s a swelling awareness of the unending damage the anonymous shell companies in Nevada and Delaware, anonymous real estate purchases in New York and California, anonymous trusts in South Dakota, and tax havens across the country have caused — and of how Trump, cresting a wave of rising authoritarianism, is a harbinger of what’s in store if action isn’t taken soon.
Casey Michel is a writer based in New York, whose work has been featured in Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the New Republic, among others. Find him on Twitter @cjcmichel.
A new blueprint for Russia-West relations

Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The Interpreter.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was – for Vladimir Putin – one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the 20th century. Since the tumultuous 1990s, Russia has re-emerged as an important global actor, albeit with inherent state weaknesses, including, but not limited to, how Moscow is governed and how the Russian economy can revitalize itself and avoid the perils of the resource curse. Russia has had 30 years or so to sort itself out, and Putin has worked during this period to consolidate the state by centralising power.
Today, Russia is clinging to global relevance, thanks largely to the traditional measures of state power: nuclear weapons, geographical landmass, military might, and a permanent UN Security Council seat. Nonetheless, Western governments continue to frame relations with Russia in an us-versus-them dichotomy. The 2017 US National Security Strategy outlines plans to “secure peace through strength” in the face of a “revisionist Russia” – firmly drawing a line in the sand and classing Russia with the rising China threat.
Australia, for is part, sends a rather mixed Russia message in its 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper.  While designating Russia a nuisance actor in the international community with its “coercive and aggressive actions in Ukraine”, Canberra then deems it an important player in building a collaborative region through the East Asia Summit (EAS). Indeed, the government notes the EAS has “the right membership” – including Russia in the list – and “the right mandate”.
Influence – not
imperialism –
appears to be what
drives Russia today.
In a multipolar world
order, Putin’s Russia
seeks influence as
a viable and
legitimate pole of power.
If we accept that the rot within the Russian domestic system has the potential to weaken the state as we know it, perhaps even to a point of collapse, then surely we must be asking what happens next? The scenario testing to grasp potential outcomes of a weak Russia ought to be a priority in the West.  
Consider one scenario: 2024 has arrived, and elites within Russia have broken ranks, splintering into fractions. Putin’s carefully crafted succession plan is no longer viable, and he loses control of his system. Oligarchs have spent the previous years prepping for fallout and doubled down on looting the Russian economy, securing their fortunes abroad. For the population, this is chaos.
The international community’s short-term priority of a Russian state failure will no doubt be accounting for Moscow’s cache of nuclear weapons. The ensuing humanitarian disaster will also necessitate action. The long-term challenge will relate to the question of what replaces Russia, who steers the Eurasian heartland, what becomes of the Eastern European buffer. China expands to fill the vacuum, swelling first to control the Russian Far East – rich in resources and arable land for the growing population. Beijing will then assume control of Eurasia’s critical infrastructure – pipelines, transit routes, and borders – now that the international community is increasingly beholden to China.
Simply lumping Russia in with China, North Korea or any other country among the axis of evildoers indicates governments are stuck in Cold War–era constructs when it comes to navigating the challenge of modern-day Russia. It is time to start seriously delving into the strategic intentions of Russia, understanding the limits of great-power strategy in the 21st century, and perhaps considering the idea that Russian strategy is not inherently anti-Western. To do so first requires a reassessment of how we think about ideology and interests.
Ideology was the name of the game during the Cold War. It simplified the security challenge: this was a battle between communism and capitalism. Here, principles of communist ideology framed Russian strategic intent. It was something tangible and predictable which enabled uniform policy responses from the West. Today, however, Russia no longer uses ideology as the sole vehicle for securing state interests. And the international system is not the same as it was in the Cold War era. Bipolarity turned to a unipolar moment for the US, and today we are watching a multipolar world order take shape.   
Interests are largely related to power, and rather than being fixed and inflexible, they are fluid and multidimensional. Influence – not imperialism – appears to be what drives Russia today. In a multipolar world order, Putin’s Russia seeks influence as a viable and legitimate pole of power. There are areas in which the West could capitalise on Moscow’s influence over states such as North Korea, working towards the mutual interest of a denuclearised Korean peninsula. We should figure out how contemporary Russia is of use to realising our own interests. This need not be an exercise in conforming to Russian interests or bending to Moscow’s will – the West could follow Russia’s example by having the policy agility to pick and choose collaborative ventures based on mutual interests, while maintaining divergent values systems elsewhere.
“Competitive coexistence” should be the new strategic framework the West uses to consider the challenge of Russia. One could even argue that the China-Russia relationship is already shaping up to be one of competitive coexistence. Far from a strategic partnership, Beijing and Moscow harbour unshakable historical suspicions and resentment. There are areas in which mutual interests overlap – such as the rejection of a unipolar international system and global US-centric finance model, as well as energy security imperatives (supply and demand security). For a start, Russia and the West could apply this model of coexistence based on the mutual interest of dealing with a rising China.
The notion of finding middle ground and seeking ways to constructively engage with Russia is not a new concept. As John Lewis Gaddis writes in Russia, the Soviet Union and the United States, it featured back in 1824, when US Governor Henry Middleton wrote to US President John Quincy Adams on negotiations with Tsar Alexander I: “We must endeavour to settle the differences … on the basis [of] our mutual interests”.
Peaceful coexistence is a naïve wish, and a worsening of relations is in nobody’s interest. Crafting a competitive coexistence is an alternative future both Russia and the West should be investing in. Western and Russian ideals and interests are likely never to align, but this cannot constitute deadlock or the default position of conflict, nor should we desire a failed Russian state as an outcome.
The contours of how to deal with the challenge of Russia in a manner which cultivates competitive co-existence with the West are yet to be determined. This will require compromise on both sides, and while it is possible we have missed the window for engaging, this does not mean we shouldn’t keep trying. The Russia-West dynamic is not an easy or straightforward problem. The challenge of Russia for the West (and vice versa) will require a deeper commitment to engaging on international matters. The art of strategy needs to be rediscovered and harnessed to jettison outdated theoretical constructs that curtail any real chance at crafting a competitive coexistence between Russia and the West.
Half of Israelis: Trump plan intended to help Netanyahu win

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US President Donald Trump introduced his "
Deal of the Century
" plan last week in order to interfere in the March 2 Israeli election and help Prime Minister 
Benjamin Netanyahu
 emerge victorious, about half the respondents said in a new poll of the Israel Democracy Institute published on Monday.
The poll found that among the general public, 49:9% see the plan's presentation at the current time as deliberate interference in Israeli politics, 22.2% said they do not agree so much, 13.5% do not agree at all, and 14.4% said they did not know or refused to answer.
The sectors who most thought Trump was interfering were left-wing Jews (78%), centrist Jews (69%) and Arabs (68%). Only 33.5% of self-defined right-wing Jews saw the plan's announcement as interfering in Israeli politics.

The poll asked Israelis what issue would most affect their voting. Netanyahu's criminal investigations were in first place, with 32, followed by the cost of living and housing (21.3%), the security situation (17.1%), matters of religion and state (10.4%) and Jewish-Arab relations (7.2%). Ahead of the September election, the security situation came first followed by the cost of living and housing, and the Netanyahu investigations were third.
A segmentation by voting intentions in the approaching elections revealed that voters for Labor-Gesher-Meretz and Yisrael Beytenu are least satisfied with their party’s list of candidates for the Knesset. The most satisfied are voters of the Joint List and Blue and White.
Asked whether  people should vote for one of the large parties and not for a small one to bring about a decisive result in Israel's third election in under a year, 57.1% of the public agreed, 34.5% disagreed and 8.4% did not know or would not respond. Unsurprisingly, most of the support came from those who intend to vote for Blue and White or Likud and most of the opposition came from voters for the smaller parties.
Since the April 2019 elections, the IDI has been monitoring to what extent Israelis think the election results as publicized matched the actual voting or were manipulated in one way or another in the official reporting. The study found a considerable rate of people who do not believe in the propriety of the Israeli elections and do not believe that the results as published are the real ones. 
Among the general public, 17.7% said they had full trust in the results, 40.1% a lot of trust, 27.1 little trust, 9.7 no trust and 5.5% did not know or refused to answer.
A clear-cut majority of the Israeli public (68.8%) thinks the day of the elections should count as a vacation day only for those who can prove that they have fulfilled their civic duty and voted, while 25.5% disagree and 5.7 did not know or declided to respond. Support for this notion ran very high among the Jews (75%), while over half the Arab interviewees oppose it (51%). 
The survey results show that the Israeli public opposes fines for those who do not vote in the elections, 54.7%, while 38.3% support them and 7.1% did not know or would not respond.
The poll of 762 respondents representing a statistical sample of the Israeli adult population was conducted from January 26 to January 28, 2020. The maximum sampling error for the entire sample was 3.7%± at a confidence level of 95%. 
Kremlin: Netanyahu Requested Putin Meeting 24 Hours after Trump’s Announcement | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | David Israel | 8 Shevat 5780 – February 3, 2020

Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of orchestrating his stop in Moscow last week just so he could be there in time to pick up Israeli prisoner Naama Issachar who was being released from a Russian penal colony. It was all about the photo-op, Israeli media suggested, implying Netanyahu’s meeting with President Vladimir Putin was just an excuse. After all, Israeli commentators argued, Netanyahu and Putin had met only a few days before, in Jerusalem.
On Sunday, the Russians all but confirmed those accusations. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” on state-owned Russian television channel Rossiya-1 that Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow had been arranged within 24 hours before the PM landed in Putin’s backyard on January 30.
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According to Peskov, the visit “had not been discussed in advance and actually this was agreed within a day. … This was the Israeli side’s initiative and Putin was ready to support it, since this coincided with the declaration of US President Donald Trump’s initiative on the Middle East.”
Peskov explained that the request for the meeting was raised only three days ahead of time, to take place 24 hours after the White House declaration.
“Certainly, it was very important to receive first-hand information, in this case from Israel,” Peskov said, but reiterated it wasn’t the Kremlin asking Netanyahu for the scoop about Trump’s deal of the century, it was Netanyahu initiating the briefing.
As to the deal itself, the Kremlin spokesman noted: “We see the Palestinians’ reaction, we see the reaction of the whole number of Arab states, which show solidarity with the Palestinians in opposing this plan. This certainly raises doubts over its viability.”
“There is a whole number of respective resolutions of the UN Security Council,” Peskov added. “It’s obvious that certain points of this plan are not in full compliance with the UNSC resolutions.”
To sum up: Netanyahu certainly did not win hearts and minds in favor of Trump’s peace plan with his stop in Moscow. It remains to be seen whether the lift home he and Sara offered Naama and her mother has moved the needle among potential Likud voters.
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EU needs to expand sanctions to Russian elites who are flying below the radar – EURACTIV.com

Michael_Novakhov shared this story from Comments on: EU needs to expand sanctions to Russian elites who are flying below the radar.
Just like the United States has done, the EU must sanction Russians who have become rich by breaking the law or using force in their country, writes Anna Talimonchuk.
Anna Talimonchuk is a Ukrainian researcher, activist and founder of Sanctions2020.
When I launched a campaign nine months ago to push for sanctions on dozens more Russian officials, oligarchs and other elites, I expected an equal buy-in from the United States and the European Union.
But it hasn’t turned out that way. The United States has slapped sanctions on Russian elites involved in the seizure of Crimea, who directed the dispatch of Russian mercenaries to Syria, Africa and elsewhere, and who led efforts to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Britain’s Brexit vote.
In addition to sanctioning these “clear and present dangers” to the West, it has also sanctioned Russians who have engaged in law-breaking and violence to amass fortunes at home.
One reason for sanctioning those who break Russian laws to become rich is that the Kremlin often presses them — and their fortunes — into engaging in mischief abroad, including dispatching mercenaries to meddle in other countries’ internal affairs.
Another reason is that unless these elites have been sanctioned, they can travel to the United States and elsewhere in the West to money-launder their ill-gotten gains. Their favourite tactics in this arena are stashing money in secret offshore bank accounts and using it to buy high-priced real estate in places like New York and London.
The United States imposed sanctions on Russia in 2014 for its seizure of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and its support for pro-Russian separatists in the Ukrainian civil war — support that continues to this day.
Washington has also imposed sanctions on elites involved in the use of mischief abroad, including the dispatching of mercenaries and assassinations of Russian dissidents living overseas.
One of the prime examples is Yevgeny Prigozhin, who started a notorious Internet troll farm that meddled in both the 2016 US election and the Brexit vote, and later dispatched Russian mercenaries to Syria — where they American forces ripped them apart in a battle there — and to several countries in Africa.
In the past two or three years, the United States has extended sanctions to Russians who have amassed fortunes because of their close ties to the Kremlin or have used intimidation, force and violence — including assassinations — to become rich.
The European Union joined the United States in imposing sanctions on Russia for its Ukraine transgressions, its meddling in Western elections, its dispatching of mercenaries to other countries and its overseas assassinations.
But unlike the United States, it has yet to sanction Russians who have become rich by breaking the law or using force in their country. This is despite the fact that some of these elites have already used their wealth to break laws in other countries, and others are certainly in position to do so.
The EU is shirking its responsibility by not extending sanctions to this group. A series of money-laundering scandals on the continent that involved Russian elites and criminals using European banks to illegally transfer hundreds of billions of dollars abroad should be proof enough of the danger this group poses to the West.
The list of EU banks facing allegations of failing to prevent Russian elites and criminals from laundering money through their institutions is huge: Latvia’s ABLV bank, Malta’s Pilatus Bank, Denmark’s Danske Bank, Sweden’s Swedbank, Norway’s Nordea Bank, Germany’s Deutsche Bank, France’s Credit Agricole, Holland’s Ing Groep, ABN AMRO and Rabobank, Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International, and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The effect of the combined allegations has been to rock the EU banking system to its core, undermining the populace’s confidence in a pillar of the continent’s financial system.
An example of a Russian elite who has not been involved in international geopolitical intrigue but who needs to be sanctioned is the London-based Russian oligarch and former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev, who owns the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and two UK newspapers, the Evening Standard and The Independent.
His intelligence background and financial wherewithal would seem to make him an ideal candidate for assisting the Kremlin with hybrid operations in the United Kingdom and Greater Europe.
One of the most vocal supporters of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, he has poured millions of euros in recent years into various business projects on the peninsula, while advocating for his Russian counterparts to follow suit.
His efforts to bolster the Crimean economy contradict strongly with the EU policy on Ukraine and strengthen the Kremlin’s hold on the region. At the same time, he is likely enjoying the high life in a penthouse on the Thames.
Another example is the Moscow-based real estate billionaire God Nisanov. To start with, he is a longtime partner of the already sanctioned Rotenberg brothers, who have been accused of embezzling billions from the Russian state and reportedly launder money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.
Russian news media have reported that just last year he used force to steal $50 million worth of Moscow-area high-rise apartments and office buildings from a partner.
When the two businessmen disagreed on how to run their business, Nisanov sent armed guards into their projects to seize them by force. Death threats forced his partner to flee to Switzerland and Germany.
A final example is Sergei Roldugin, a professional cellist who is a childhood friend of Putin. According to the OCCRP, he was at the heart of a scheme to move $2 billion from Russia, using shell companies, into Western bank accounts, property and other assets.
Most of those funds were assumed to be Putin’s. Some likely went toward financing Kremlin operations abroad.
Given that Lebedev is undermining Europe’s policy on the Ukraine conflict, Nisanov uses force and death threats to seize property, and Roldugin is openly referred to as Putin’s personal piggybank, all three should be top contenders for EU sanctions. But they don’t even seem to be on the radar.
Why should people who amass fortunes by shady means be allowed to travel to the West, buy luxury property, and live like czars there? The European Union needs to sanction Russians like these who break laws, use force in their country to become wealthy, or launder for the regime.
Streatham terror attack: What we know so far

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Anti-terror police are continuing their investigation into how two people were stabbed in Streatham.
Convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman is the man believed to have been shot by police as the attack and his background has revealed a man described in court as having a life goal to die a martyr.
Here is what we know so far about the incident:
  • The attack took place on Streatham High Road at about 2pm.
  • Police said two people were stabbed, while a third received minor injuries. All were taken to hospital by ambulance.
  • One man in his 40s is no longer considered to be in a life-threatening condition following treatment.
  • A woman in her 50s received treatment for non-life threatening injuries and was discharged from hospital.
  • Another woman in her 20s was believed to have been injured by glass following the discharge of a police firearm and continues to receive treatment.
  • Police are “confident” the suspect is 20-year-old Sudesh Amman, who was convicted of terrorism offences in 2018.  It is understood he was recently released from prison.
  • At his sentencing in December 2018 his fascination with carrying out an attack was revealed.
  • The suspect was wearing a hoax device when he was shot in a “proactive counter-terrorism surveillance operation” after being followed on foot by armed officers.
  • The attack was declared a “terrorist incident”, with police believing it to be “Islamist-related”.
  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would announce plans for “fundamental changes to the system for dealing with those convicted of terrorism offences” following the attack.
  • Two homes in south London and Bishop’s Stortford have been raided  by anti-terror police. No arrests have been made.
Additional reporting by PA Media
A month to election day, Netanyahu falls into an annexation trap

Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The Times of Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have had many long hours for contemplation during his flight Monday to Uganda.
Unlike his trip to Washington last week for the unveiling of the Trump administration’s peace plan, there won’t be advisers and aides rushing to and fro in the first-class cabin. The satellite phone won’t be working overtime. The laptops of Tourism Minister Yariv Levin and Ambassador Ron Dermer won’t be sending files flitting back and forth, and no journalists in the back of the plane will be haranguing the passengers up front in a never-ending hunt for a shred of information about an imminent landmark deal.
No, this flight will have been a quiet one for Netanyahu, with plenty of time to think. And he has much to think about.
How did it come to pass, the prime minister will likely have agonized, that he could deliver such a climactic crescendo in Washington, only to awkwardly stumble days later?
Why did he vow so publicly that he would immediately start to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and all settlements in Judea and Samaria in a cabinet meeting that was supposed to take place on Sunday, only to have to swallow the bitter pill and cancel that meeting, because he could offer no annexation plan for the ministers to vote on — and couldn’t even be sure he had a majority among ministers from his own Likud party?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud party campaign event at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on January 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
How did so much optimism turn to such bitter disappointment for the right?
Just last week, he was sitting in Blair House with all the heads of the Yesha Council, the umbrella advocacy group for West Bank settlements, who had come to Washington to support him. He convinced the settlers that this was the best plan for everyone.
And now the chairman of the Yesha Council, David Elhayani, says the entire plan —  which Netanyahu has worked on with the Americans for three long years and which was supposed to get Likud voters out to the ballot stations and grant him the long-awaited and decisive victory in the elections — is actually “kalam fadi,” or “empty words” in Arabic, and should be “thrown in the trash.” No less.
What’s a prime minister to do? The only option left that could rescue Netanyahu from his self-made nosedive with the right and the settlers, and rescue his election prospects, is to annex something
It is hard to overstate the melancholy on the ideological right. The rhetorical spectrum runs from “despair” and “disappointment” to “lies” and “deception.” Netanyahu is hearing these mutterings in Likud as well.
No one is speaking openly yet, because no one wants to confront the prime minister, who is still the unassailable king inside Likud.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud party rally in Tel Aviv on November 17, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
But privately, no one understands how Netanyahu ended up failing so spectacularly: how, despite his intimate working relationship with President Donald Trump and the US administration, and despite his promises of annexation, he is now in a desperate search for some half-decent strip of territory to which he can apply Israeli law before election day on March 2 – because the alternative would constitute one of the more resounding political farces in Likud history.
Netanyahu will have done some introspection on the flight to Uganda – and also some political calculus. What does he do now? He could bring the “deal of the century” to the cabinet and try to squeeze it through with a majority vote, but that would require enormous efforts on his part to pressure and cajole ministers from his own Likud party. They’re all spooked by the Palestinian state that lies on the other side of the equation put forward by Trump and Jared Kushner.
Ironically, Netanyahu’s fall this time came in the very area that is usually his greatest strength: marketing. All his explanations and protestations that the Palestinian state contained in the plan is merely “limited and conditional sovereignty” that is unlikely ever to coalesce into a state aren’t convincing his fellow Likud members. His many years of demonizing the very idea of a Palestinian state are now coming back to haunt him. No minister wants to see this “state” acquire 70 percent of Judea and Samaria, with Israeli enclaves inside it.
“This plan is bad for Israel,” one Likud minister told The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site Zman Israel on Sunday. “It has anti-rightist paradigms – this Palestinian state, the tunnel connecting Gaza [to the West Bank], the territory in the Negev [annexed to the Palestinian state], the capital in East Jerusalem. You’re talking to me about handing the neighborhoods in Jerusalem beyond the security fence to a Palestinian state? What is that? Take Shuafat – it lies between French Hill and Pisgat Ze’ev. What do we want to happen there? We want rockets on those two neighborhoods? That’s worse than the shooting at Gilo during the Second Intifada. It’s much closer.”

The Shuafat neighborhood in East Jerusalem. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Netanyahu may be able to pass the plan through the cabinet with the help of the ultra-Orthodox parties and some of the moderate Likud ministers. A quick calculation would put the group of possible supporters at 14 votes out of the 25 cabinet ministers in the current caretaker government. But the very fact that he would face vocal opposition in his own cabinet, from his own party members, would render the exercise politically useless. So he has given up on forcing such a vote.

Foreign Minister Israel Katz at a Likud election campaign stop in Jerusalem, September 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The key figure in these calculations is Foreign Minister Israel Katz, who is still considered a close ally of Netanyahu. Katz opposes the plan and will vote against it if it comes up in the cabinet. That alone ensures that no other major Likud figure looking to position themselves as a future heir to Netanyahu can afford to face the next Likud primaries with the stain of having voted in favor of a Palestinian state in the heart of the country – no matter how comically limited that state would be.
It’s been clear since Netanyahu’s jaunt to Moscow last Thursday after the spectacle in Washington that he has stumbled into an impossible situation. On Sunday evening, he showed up at a big family event for MK Miki Zohar, spoke for three minutes and then fled the scene. Anyone who spoke with the hundreds of Likud members who packed the event hall at the Doria compound east of Ashkelon heard the Trump plan referred to as “diplomatic sabotage.” And Israelis’ confusion is only growing.
One of the questions that has most vexed the disappointed Likud ministers in the days since Netanyahu promised them that annexation would begin this week concerns Ambassador Ron Dermer.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd from right) meets at his Jerusalem office with the ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer (right); White House adviser Jared Kushner (center); US Ambassador David Friedman (second left); and special envoy Jason Greenblatt, on July 31, 2019. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
“There’s something crazy going on here,” one minister told Zman Israel. “Dermer is Kushner’s best friend. They do everything together. So what happened here? How did Kushner flip on him and on us so abruptly?”
It was, after all, Kushner who last Wednesday declared flatly that the US would not support any Israeli unilateral annexation of West Bank territory until Israel has a properly functioning government after the March 2 elections — contradicting US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who had said on Tuesday that there was no impediment to immediate annexation. And it was Kushner who turned the screw still further by saying at the weekend that one of the goals of the deal was to ensure that Israel not expand its settlements any further.
What’s a prime minister to do? The only option left that could rescue Netanyahu from his self-made nosedive with the right and the settlers, and rescue his election prospects, is to annex something, and not just little Kfar Etzion or Oranit, but a significant stretch of land. The Americans would have to absorb the pressure from their Arab allies that would result from such a move – if only Netanyahu could be certain that even that would help.
No one is speaking openly yet, because no one wants to confront Netanyahu, who is still the unassailable king inside Likud
Actually, “his only real hope is to convince President Trump that a significant unilateral annexation would help Trump himself in the coming US presidential election,” one senior Likud minister said. The political pressure will now be turned on American Evangelicals.
The Israeli right believes that only they, Trump’s most important base, can force the American president to greenlight a significant Israeli annexation of West Bank settlements. Evangelicals are not interested in a Palestinian state – only in a Jewish state in the land of Israel, given to the Jews by God in the Bible. Massive pressure from them, Netanyahu hopes, might force Trump’s acquiescence.

US President Donald Trump walks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu down the West Wing Colonnade as he arrives for meeting at which he set out the US peace plan, at the White House in Washington, DC, January 27, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
“If that happens, we can argue that this is a historic moment of opportunity, and get an okay from the attorney general,” the Likud minister said, referring to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s repeated remonstrations to ministers not to advance major policy initiatives under the current caretaker government.
“In any other situation, the attorney general would oppose annexation, and then it’s all lost,” the minister added, brushing his palms in a gesture of defeat.
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Dan Haar: Trump, tolls, Weinstein and the chaos of democracy

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Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., talks to reporters as he walks past the Senate chamber prior to the start of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on Friday.
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Dan Haar: Trump, tolls, Weinstein and the chaos of democracy
Justice and democracy are messy, chaotic things at their core.
We saw that in high-profile abundance Friday at the Trump impeachment trial in Washington; at the Harvey Weinstein rape trial in New York; and at a public hearing on tolls in Hartford, where the governor and two top Democrats quietly agreed to hold a vote as partisans duked it out in front of lawmakers.
My understanding of how these three events tie together started decades ago in Hackensack, N.J., in my senior year of high school. My buddy David Black and I had internships at the Bergen County courthouse, where we followed the trial of an accused cocaine dealer named Napoleon Crafter.
Judge Gould called us into his chambers before he gaveled the trial into session. “This guy did it,” he tells a couple of shocked schoolboys, in my rough memory. “I know that, the prosecutor knows it, the defense lawyer knows it and the jury knows it. The only question is whether the state can prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt. If not, he goes free.”
Likewise, guilt is clear in President Donald Trump’s impeachment. Reasonable people — including some Republicans in the U.S. Senate — can agree that Trump held up military aid to Ukraine in an effort to prod an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden.
Even Republicans Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Marco Rubio of Florida said as much, though Rubio’s account read like it came from Rufus T. Firefly, Groucho Marx’s character in Duck Soup.
Alan Dershowitz, Trump’s celebrity lawyer, basically conceded the president’s guilt in his argument that the Senate can’t convict Trump for advancing his own reelection.
The question was whether that guilt would come out in Senate testimony for the world to see, perhaps leading to an impeachment conviction. The answer is no. Friday’s 51-49 vote to call no witnesses and introduce no documents — with Alexander and Rubio joining the majority — flouted the will of a clear majority of Americans, an average of 73 percent in several polls.
Flouting the will of the people is OK in this democracy if it’s the right moral choice, per the founding fathers (and mothers, though they had to offer advice on the sly from home).
Likewise, reasonable people can agree and a majority of Americans believe that Weinstein, the film mogul, did sexually assault a number of women. Strong circumstantial evidence and the public claims of some 80 alleged victims points in that direction.
Whether he faces judicial punishment or goes free depends on the state of New York’s ability to persuade a jury that at least one of two women — the second of whom gave lurid and emotional testimony Friday — is telling the truth.
That’s no slam dunk, as these women spent some time in consensual relationships with Weinstein, who wielded influence over their careers.
In the Connecticut tolls debate, the will of the people is modest tolling of trucks, if and only if the money is used strictly for the road and bridge upgrades. Gov. Ned Lamont won office on a strong promise of it.
Even if that’s not a mandate, the failure in the state House and Senate to hold any votes on tolls would seem a slap in the face of Democracy, the one with the capital D.
Why such a comic-tragic farce over the last year, with at least three plans, each weaker than the one before it, and no votes? Because democracy, the one with the small d, is necessarily messy and chaotic, the better to hear voices that will not, ultimately, carry the day.
And because politics does not reward risk the way business does, especially in steady-habits Connecticut.
The state Senate has trodden so lightly on tolls, despite the need and the apparent support, that first-term Sen. Alex Bergstein, D-Greenwich, is slamming her fellow senators at huge risk to her own political career.
“The messaging and the public handling of this has been wildly mishandled,” Bergstein, a strong supporter of tolls for cars as well as trucks, told me. “The public...was never educated about the real options.”
She called the latest version, which bans car tolling for a decade, “intellectually dishonest and fiscally irresponsible,” and added, “I expect our elected officials to do what they were elected to do, which is lead the state.”
The irony is that it took a closed meeting of three men in Lamont’s office to make it happen. It now appears votes will come this month on Lamont’s plan to toll trucks at 12 locations around the state.
Lamont’s 40-minute confab with Marty Looney, the Senate president pro-tem, and House Majority Leader Matt Ritter, the likely speaker in 2021, with no aides present, could not have been a genteel afternoon tea. His governorship hits an iceberg if he doesn’t get these votes.
These guys have the power to make it happen and he has the power to make their lives hellish if they don’t.
Maybe all he had to do on Friday afternoon, as the tolls hearing unfolded in the next building, was remind them that he signed the bills they wanted last year — the minimum wage hike, paid family and medical leave and a favorable budget — and that he’s not giving up on his tolls plan.
Maybe he had to mediate between them, as we know there’s mistrust between the House and Senate, both of which want the other chamber to cast the risky tolls vote first.
Whatever Lamont said, we’re likely to see those votes and it’s a decent bet we’ll see a trucks-only tolling plan raising $172 million a year after expenses, which is just 7.5 percent of the amount the state will raise for transportation upgrades.
Then again, we won’t know until we know.
Trump will win acquittal, and probably re-election. The economy remains strong and he’s a master at planting lies about his opponents, speaking of messy chaos.
Weinstein’s fate is anyone’s call. And by the way, the jury found Napoleon Crafter not guilty of selling cocaine in that long-ago New Jersey trial.
Justice and democracy are messy, chaotic things at their core.

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The real Coup was in 2016, and it was performed by the corrupt, pro neo-Nazi oriented, Abwehr bought and subverted, the Rightist wing of the GOP, the Broidy-Manafort ring in its latest reincarnation; and by the other alumni of the Abwehr Law School, a.k.a. Roy Cohn’s Law Firm: Little Duce Giuliani, “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, and their circles, climbing and clawing their ways to Power and Money. And apparently, some officers of the New York Branch of the FBI were their ideological and operational “stormtroopers”. Search the Anthony Weiner sexting affair scandal as FBI operation, much under-researched, under-investigated, and under-publicized. 
If only a part of all these legitimate and well based suspicions and accusations against the New York branch of the FBI are proven or sufficiently demonstrated, this question would be quite legitimate: Was at least a part of the NY FBI branch corrupt, rotten, in Trump’s pocket, and under possible influences of the foreign agents? 

Investigate the “STORMTROOPERS” – the alleged “pro-Trumpists” within the NY branch of the FBI, and look into the general health of the whole branch. 

Investigate James Kallstrom and others! 

Investigate the Abwehr – Roy Cohn Law School and all its “graduates”. 

Investigate the political corruption in both parties. Investigate the corruption and failures within the FBI, and their root causes. The proof is in the pudding, sadly but undeniably. 

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... 12 news reported that Haspel assured them Washington would seek to prevent Israel from annexing West Bank land before the March 2 election , ... Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: On Eve Of Pompeo Visit, A Shakeup In Belarus's Military And Snap Drills. What Gives?
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Michael_Novakhov shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Belarus's longtime ruler ordered a major shake-up of the country's military and security command on January 20, installing a new defense minister, a new general s...
» Saved Stories - None: Russia halts oil exports to Belarus
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Russia has halted deliveries of crude to the two Belarusian oil refineries, a representative of the Belarusian State Petrochemical Industry Concern (Belnaftachim) told BelaPAN. Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Lukašenka introduces tax on oil transportation
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Aliaksandr Lukašenka on January 10 signed a presidential edict introducing an “environmental tax” on oil transportation by pipeline. Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Belarus’ GDP reported up 1.2 percent in 2019
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Belarus’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by an estimated 1.2 percent in 2019 to total 132 billion rubels, the National Statistical Committee (Belstat) reported on Thursday. Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Lithuanian foreign minister to visit Minsk on February 3
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Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius will visit Belarus on February 3, Andrej Šupliak, the Belarusian foreign ministry’s spokesman, told BelaPAN, without giving any details of the coming visit. Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: RFE/RL: On eve of Pompeo visit, a shakeup in Belarus's military | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post
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» Saved Stories - None: Pompeo in Belarus to push better ties, counter Russia, China - Washington Post
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» Saved Stories - None: Pompeo: U.S. producers ready to provide Belarus with oil at competitive prices - Reuters Africa
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» Saved Stories - None: Reuters: Pompeo visits Belarus as Minsk's ties with Moscow fray | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post
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» Saved Stories - None: Pompeo: Belarus Needs To Not Take Sides Between Russia and U.S. - Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
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Pompeo: Belarus Needs To Not Take Sides Between Russia and U.S. US Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "Elections 2016 Investigation" - Google News: The Putin defense: How far will Donald Trump go now to stay in power? - Salon
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The Putin defense: How far will Donald Trump go now to stay in power?    Salon "Elections 2016 Investigation" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "former FBI agents power influence" - Google News: ‘Angels’ in Hell: The Culture of Misogyny Inside Victoria’s Secret - The New York Times
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» Saved Stories - None: "trump russia ties" - Google News: Abbas says Palestinians cutting all ties with Israel, US - FRANCE 24
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» Saved Stories - None: "Donald Trump" - Google News: President Donald Trump Tweetstorm – The Saturday Edition - Deadline
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» Saved Stories - None: FoxNewsChannel's YouTube Videos: Sen. Bob Casey says blocking impeachment witnesses would be clear indication that Trump is dictating
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From: FoxNewsChannel Duration: 05:59 The best way to get to the truth is to put witnesses under oath, says Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee. FoxNewsChannel's YouTube Videos Saved Stories -...
» Saved Stories - None: "former FBI agents power influence" - Google News: 10 things you should know about socialism - NationofChange
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» Saved Stories - None: Iranian Envoy Lambasts 'Deal of the Century', Compares US to Satan
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... presented the long-touted peace plan for the Middle East, also known as the "deal of the century", and crafted by his son-in-law/aide Jared Kushner , ... Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "donald trump russia" - Google News: Russia's difficult balancing act between Iran and Israel - Aljazeera.com
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NPR News: 02-01-2020 12PM ET Download audio: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-500005/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/newscasts/2020/02/01/newscast120817.mp3?awCollectionId=500005&awEpisodeId=801876869&orgId=1&d=300&p=50000...
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