White House Wavers on Hagel, Considers Others for Defense

By Jane Mayer of the New Yorker.  If you are wondering how far PBS is willing to go to placate David Koch to keep their funding?  It gives you a look into the special documentry "Citizen Koch" and its fall out.  The program was never aired except at Sundance.  David Koch resigned from WNET on May 16th. 

By Judith Durbin via vocativ.com 5/20

Syrian rebels under siege in a strategic city on the Lebanese border are increasingly turning to social media to wage psychological warfare, according to Vocativ analysts monitoring the region.

The town of Al Qusayr has become ground zero in the war between rebel fighters on the one side and the joint forces of President Bashar Al Assad and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the other. Some of the most intense fighting has taken place there over the last few days. The New York Times reports both sides consider this battle a turning point in the larger civil war that has been raging for more than two years.

With so...