Inside the Secret, Strange Origins of Steve Bannon’s Nationalist Fantasia | Vanity Fair

Bannon’s reading eventually led him to the work of René Guénon, an early-20th-​­century French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia. There are many forms of traditionalism in religion and philosophy. Guénon developed a philosophy often called “Traditionalism” (capital “T”), a form of anti-modernism with precise connotations.

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Pentagon backs White House Syrian chemical weapon lies | UPI

Capt. Jeff Davis, a Defense Department spokesman, told reporters Tuesday that preparations activity has been seen at the Al Shayrat airfield in west-central Syria — and that it’s possibly a sign that President Bashar Assad is planning a chemical strike.

Davis said the information has been collected over the last few days, but has gotten “more compelling” in the past 24 hours.

“We have observed activities at Shayrat Air Base that suggest possible intent by the Syrian regime to use chemical weapons again,” another Pentagon spokesman, Adrian Rankine-Galloway, told Voice of America. “These activities are similar to what we observed prior to the regime[‘s] chemical weapons attack against Khan Sheikhoun in April.”

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The conference “From Atlantic to Pacific: for a common destiny of the peoples of Eurasia” | VIDEO

The international conference “From Atlantic to Pacific: for a common destiny of the peoples of Eurasia” has taken place on the 26-27 of May in the capital of Moldova. Among the participants there are the leading intellectuals from Moldova, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Georgia, France. The main goal of the conference is the the analysis of the crisis of European union and modernity and the development of the new political theory, which will be the the alternative to the liberal totalitarianism.

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Why Paul Wolfowitz Is Optimistic About Trump | PODCAST

“I think there is a fantastic opportunity here. It’s only a first step, it’s only an opportunity,” he says of Trump’s surprise decision to unloose an American Tomahawk missile strike in Syria after President Bashar Assad’s regime again unleashed chemical weapons on civilians, a strike that turned Wolfowitz and many of his fellow neoconservatives into unlikely cheerleaders for the actions of an administration they had previously viewed as a threat.

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The Wolfowitz Monster is BACK

“I would say in some ways it reminds me of 1995 in Bosnia. After three years of dithering by both U.S. administrations, President Clinton finally took military action that opened the door to a Dayton Agreement. You couldn’t have said right after that military action what shape the agreement would take. That’s diplomacy. It’s unpredictable. But I think it doesn’t happen without leverage, and we now have leverage.”

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Israel’s Arrow scores first hit — but against what? | Defensenews

In the aftermath of Israel’s early Friday morning airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Syria, the country’s Arrow anti-ballistic missile scored its first operational intercept — but against what, experts here are asking?

Israeli media are reporting that the Arrow intercepted an SA-5 surface-to-air missile, or SAM, and indeed it is logical that Syria’s air defense system launched against the intruding Israeli fighters in an attempt to down the planes. But given that the Israeli attack was hundreds of kilometers away from Israeli territory, why would Israel launch Arrow, which is intended to defend the homeland?

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North Korea’s Nuclear Year In Review—And What’s Next

In 2016, North Korea’s nuclear weapons program shifted in an important way, from developing a nuclear capability in the abstract to deploying a nuclear-armed force of ballistic missiles. North Korea conducted an unprecedented number of missile tests and conducted two nuclear explosions. A new 3D model of North Korea’s nuclear test site suggests many more may be on the way.

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Ukraine: a Possible scenario for an open and full-scale offensive of the Russian Federation | Vyacheslav Tseluyko

In our opinion, before the beginning of the offensive of the armed forces will be a massive missile attack on the territory of Ukraine (CD “Caliber” missile ships and diesel submarine of the black sea fleet, cruise and aeroballistic missiles missile brigades armed with Iskander PTRC and TRC Point, crwb Kh-101, Kh-555, Kh-55 strategic bombers Tu-95MS and Tu-160). Targets for missile strikes will be the control points, the position of the SAM, radar, aircraft on the ground in the Eastern and Central part of the country.

After missile strikes followed by a massive air offensive VKS RF, the conquest of the air (the final suppression of air defenses, airfields and aircraft of Ukraine) and insulation the area of the ATO from the rest of Ukraine, both in the air and on the ground, to interdict the transfer of armed forces of Ukraine reserves from other parts of the country, for this purpose you have destroyed all road and rail bridges across the Dnieper river and a large railway junctions (see the map).

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