Mark Zaugg

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What an absolutely incredible story on so many levels. Truly worth your time today. Featuring the RCMP, woodworking, family bonds across the ages, indigenous relations of the past century, and the race to save something that matters. nationalpost.com/feature/myst...

An RCMP legend and why it took decades to solve the mystery of the missing Mountie

When retired RCMP Supt. Joe Atherton died in 1988, his ashes went to Fairmont Barracks. Decades later sleuths finally found the burial site.

nationalpost.com

Day Three: the White House sacked 160 NSC officials, breaking the system that’s coordinated U.S. national security since 1947. The wreckage helped drive the disastrous Iran war. I was the Acting Senior Director for Intel. My new piece for Lawfare, on what political loyalty over expertise costs:

The Purge: How the White House Broke the NSC and How to Fix It

Dismantling the machinery that coordinates U.S. foreign policy led to disaster, from ill-conceived tariffs to the calamitous war with Iran.

lawfaremedia.org

"The ordinary 'horseless carriage' is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle." -- Literary Digest, 1899

My mother riding a bicycle, 1953

KASPAROV: As long as this Russian Empire exists, threat will remain. We need regime change, which won't happen without Ukraine winning. War has cost. I’m annoyed listening to complaints of Western Europeans. Yes, you have to pay more for oil. Ukrainians pay in blood every day.