January | 2018 | Auribus Arrectis

What was an MSNBC reporter, who is normally based in New York and Los Angeles, doing at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency just hours before “mistake” was made in transmitting missile alert warning? Jacob Soboroff has close links to Israel and the Los Angeles Police Department.

NJ.com (Jan. 18) – TV crew tried to sneak fake explosive device through Newark Airport security, feds say

Live Science – Is America’s Spy Plane Back — and Hypersonic?

IS largely defeated in Syria, and yet the war continues…

RT – Russian army repels attack by 13 militant drones on its Syrian compounds – MoD

– Russia knows who staged attacks on Syrian base & it’s not Turkey – Putin

South Front – Russian Military Advisors Are “Attached To Nearly All Units” Of Syrian Government Forces – General Staff

Fort Russ – Turkey begins invasion of Kurdish-held Afrin in northern Syria as Russian personnel withdraw

Al Masdar News – ‘We saw them with our own eyes’ – SDF fighters share footage of IS convoys leaving Raqqa

Al Monitor – Is Islamic State back in Kirkuk?

– Is Turkey aligned with al-Qaeda affiliate in Idlib?

– Turkey is becoming new hub for Salafist-jihadi exodus from Syria

Israel National News – Erdogan: Assad is a terrorist

Antiwar – Syria Confirms Major Israeli Attack on Damascus

Sputnik (ФАН) – Russian Journalists Blow Lid Off Alleged US Terrorist Training Network in Syria

Times of Israel – Report: US, Israel sign secret pact to tackle Iran nuclear and missile threat

Israel and the United States have secretly signed a far-reaching joint memorandum of understanding providing for full cooperation to deal with Iran’s nuclear drive, its missile programs and its other threatening activities, an Israeli TV report said.

The document was signed on December 12 at the White House, culminating intensive talks between representatives of the major Israeli and American intelligence and defense hierarchies, headed by the US and Israeli national security advisers, H. R. McMaster and Meir Ben-Shabbat, respectively, the Channel 10 report said Thursday.

Independent – Why is Trump’s man in Iran, Michael D’Andrea, missing from conversations about the protests?

Sputnik – Iran Envoy to UN: Tehran Has ‘Hard Evidence’ Protests Incited From Abroad

Wall Street Journal (archive.is – June 2 2017) – CIA Creates New Mission Center to Turn Up the Heat on Iran

The Iran Mission Center will bring together analysts, operations personnel and specialists from across the CIA to bring to bear the range of the agency’s capabilities, including covert action. …

Trend News Agency (Dec. 13) – Iran’s intelligence forces disband counterfeit money gang

Moon of Alabama – Iran – Regime Change Agents Hijack Economic Protests

Consortium News – Intel Vets Tell Trump Iran Is Not Top Terror Sponsor

Mondo Weiss – A foreign leader — Netanyahu — set Trump’s agenda in Middle East, Michael Wolff book says

Reuters – Trump threatens to cut aid to U.N. members over Jerusalem vote

Al Monitor – Trump’s Jerusalem decision opens Israeli expansionism floodgates

– Israel seeks to revive long abandoned railway to Gulf

– Israeli nationalists’ messiah complex

Haaretz – Preacher Pence’s Speech to Israel’s Knesset Had Everything but Fire and Brimstone

Ruptly (Youtube) – Israel: Brawl disrupts Pence’s address to Israeli parliament

Times of Israel – Settlers filmed destroying 100 Palestinian olive trees as IDF appears to look on

Middle East Monitor – Israel assassinates more people than any Western country, concludes new book