Crash Course: Who is CIA Director Bill Burns: Biden yes-man, Putin apologist or peacemaker?

Burns knows Russia well, and warned about NATO expansion decades ago. Could he help end the Ukraine conflict? [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm4Xg-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvczB2YnRtYXdiNi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTAyd3JiMWh0MWFXA3NwY0IKZPpB8_5kMEw1WVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm4Xg-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvd2I2Znk0NHY2MC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTAyd3JiMWh0MWEmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPpB8_5kMEw1WVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Who is CIA Director Bill Burns: Biden yes-man, Putin apologist or peacemaker? From Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies: It is hard to discern Burns' fingerprints on Biden's Russia policy or on the conduct of NATO's war in Ukraine, where U.S. policy has run headlong into precisely the dangers Burns warned his government about, in cables from Moscow spanning more than a decade. We cannot know what Burns tells the president behind closed doors. But he has not publicly called for peace talks, as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley has done. Admittedly, to do so would be highly unusual for any leading intelligence officer, let alone the CIA director. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm4Xg-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvczBveGJwbTN5eS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTAyd3JiMWh0MWEmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPpB8_5kMEw1WVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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Do animals feel shame or are they faking it? An expert unmasks what dogs and cats may really feel [Dr. Marc Bekoff](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm4Xg-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvanVvdWN3d3g3MC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTAyd3JiMWh0MWFXA3NwY0IKZPpB8_5kMEw1WVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has written extensively about the inner states of animals and is the author of the aptly-titled book "[The Emotional Lives of Animals](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm4Xg-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcHl2aHpmeW52eS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTAyd3JiMWh0MWFXA3NwY0IKZPpB8_5kMEw1WVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)" and "[Dogs Demystified: An A-to-Z Guide to All Things Canine](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm4Xg-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvemkwdzVzbXdnMy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTAyd3JiMWh0MWFXA3NwY0IKZPpB8_5kMEw1WVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)." He has also specifically delved into the question of [whether dogs are capable of feeling guilt](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm4Xg-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcTZpYmgyN3F1aS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTAyd3JiMWh0MWFXA3NwY0IKZPpB8_5kMEw1WVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) [or shame](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm4Xg-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMveGV1bjNibm16dS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTAyd3JiMWh0MWFXA3NwY0IKZPpB8_5kMEw1WVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), and is not afraid of being blunt in declaring his impassioned views on the subjects. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm4Xg-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvamplajR5Y21hNi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTAyd3JiMWh0MWEmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPpB8_5kMEw1WVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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