When Jim Kreindler got to his midtown Manhattan office on Friday, July 15, 2016, he had a surprise waiting for him. Twice in the previous eight years, Kreindler had been in the room as then-President Barack Obama promised Kreindler’s clients he would declassify a batch of documents that had taken on near mythic importance to […]
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Feds Promise to Protect Half a Million American Girls from Genital Mutilation…
An Indian-heritage woman doctor is facing a lifetime jail sentence for allegedly helping immigrant Somali mothers cut the genitalia from their two American seven-year-old daughters, and federal officials have promised to wipe out the imported practice which threatens more than half a million American girls and women. “The Department of Justice is committed to stopping […]
Chicago Rings in Easter with 34 People Shot…
Chicago saw 34 people wounded from gun injuries in a spate a violence over Easter weekend. Twenty-three were shot during just a seven hour period between Saturday night and early Sunday morning, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. The lone death over the weekend happened early Sunday morning. One man shot at two other men, one of […]
Trump Is Willing to Consider a Sudden Strike on North Korea…
In the wake of North Korea’s failed medium-range missile test this weekend, President Donald Trump is willing to consider ordering “kinetic” military action, including a sudden strike, to counteract North Korea’s destabilizing actions in the region, said a person familiar with the White House’s thinking. But Trump’s very strong preference is for China to take […]
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More Evidence of Spook Interaction With Boston Marathon Bomber?…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) just released previously unseen notes from a 2011 interview with Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The release puts a new wrinkle in the murky backstory of its relationship to the ringleader of the Boston marathon bombing. Tsarnaev told the agents that four men dressed in suits had previously come looking for him […]
Saudi Banks, bin Laden Companies Sued by U.S. Insurers Over 9/11 Terror Attacks…
Two Saudi banks, along with businesses related to the family of Osama bin Laden face more than $4 billion in lawsuits over the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Reuters reports the plaintiffs are more than two dozen US insurers. The defendants are the Al Rajhi Bank, National Commercial Bank, aviation contractor Dallah Avco, the Mohamed […]
Detroit Doctor Charged with Female Mutilation of 7-Year Old Girls…
In what’s likely to be a first for the US court system, an emergency room physician is alleged to have transported girls and performed female genital mutilation on them. If convicted of all charges, the doctor faces a life sentence in federal prison. Dr. Jumana Nagarwala of Northville, Michigan, was arrested Wednesday and arraigned on […]
NASA ‘Sting’ Operation Against 74-Year-Old Widow of Apollo Engineer Draws Court Rebuke…
Agents of the U.S. government are entitled to immunity from lawsuits for what they do in the line of duty, as long as they do it right, in accord with the Constitution. But what one NASA investigator did to Joann Davis, a financially distressed widow of an engineer on the Apollo program who was trying […]
New Trump Memo Promises “Dramatically More Efficient” Government; Lifts Federal Hiring Freeze…
On his first full working day in the White House, President Trump issued an executive order implementing a hiring freeze until such time that his Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, a position now filled by Mick Mulvaney, could recommend a “long-term plan” to reduce the federal workforce. While the initial EO allowed 90 […]
Trump Reverses Himself On 6 Major Issues in 2 Days…
President Donald Trump has reversed himself on at least six major issues this week, pulling back on long-held promises supported by his base. Four of these reversals alone came in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Wednesday…
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NY Supreme Court Judge Found Dead in Hudson River Was ‘Force for Good’…
A pioneering judge, who became the first Muslim woman in US history to serve on the bench, was found dead Wednesday — washed up on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River, sources said. Sheila Abdus-Salaam, 65, was discovered floating in the water near 132nd Street and Hudson Parkway around 1:45 p.m., according to police […]
FBI’s Comey and ‘Inexplicable’ Delays in Case of ‘Highest National Importance’…
The FBI’s renewed push to dismiss a Miami Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking records of the enigmatic 9/11 Review Commission and FBI activities “of the highest national importance” should be denied, court papers contend. The filings last week by attorneys for Florida Bulldog also say that facts obtained to date indicate that FBI Director James […]
‘Brilliant Negotiator’: How Rex Tillerson Compares to John Kerry…
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is a “brilliant negotiator” with “strong charisma” and is way ahead of his predecessor John Kerry, an unnamed Russian diplomat told Sputnik after attending Tillerson’s Wednesday meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. During their first-ever meeting in Moscow, Lavrov and Tillerson managed to get across to each other […]
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North Korea Said to Be Preparing Nuclear Device Detonation: Test Site Is ‘Primed and Ready’…
In a striking development involving the rapidly changing North Korean geopolitical situation, moments ago Voice of America reporter Steve Herman stated that according to US government and other sources, North Korea has “apparently placed a nuclear device in a tunnel and it could be detonated Saturday AM Korea time”…
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Family-Run Newspaper Wins Pulitzer for Exposing Big Ag Corruption…
The prize shed light on a small family-run paper in Iowa that tenaciously challenged large agricultural corporations over water pollution. The Storm Lake Times forced documents to be released that showed powerful agricultural interests were funding a local county’s attempt to quell a lawsuit over nitrogen runoff from farms contaminating drinking water…
Melania Trump Accepts Damages from Daily Mail…
Melania Trump has accepted damages and an apology over allegations about her work as a professional model. The action was against Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail, after it ran an article headlined “Racy photos and troubling questions about his wife’s past that could derail Trump”. The amount of damages was not disclosed in […]
Trump Withholds Syria-Sarin Evidence by Robert Parry….
After making the provocative and dangerous charge that Russia is covering up Syria’s use of chemical weapons, the Trump administration withheld key evidence to support its core charge that a Syrian warplane dropped sarin on a northern Syrian town on April 4. A four-page white paper, prepared by President Trump’s National Security Council staff and […]
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MIT National Security Expert Challenges White House White Paper on Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack (WHITE PAPER)…
My understanding from your note is that this White House intelligence summary was released to you sometime on April 11, 2017. I have reviewed the document carefully, and I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the US government has concrete knowledge that the government […]
United Airlines Barred From Russian Airspace ‘For Diplomatic Reasons,’ Pilot Announces…
A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Shanghai, China was diverted from flying over Russian airspace for “diplomatic reasons” early Wednesday morning, passengers on the flight say. Those diplomatic concerns forced the flight to refuel at Tokyo’s Narita airport, the flight’s captain told passengers, several of whom posted about it on social media…
Intelligence and Military Sources Who Warned About Iraq War Say that Assad Did NOT Launch Chemical Weapon Attack…
Former U.N weapons inspector Scott Ritter warned before the start of the Iraq war that claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction were false. Sunday, Ritter wrote that current claims that the leader of Syria launched a chemical weapons attack was false: Some sort of chemical event took place in Khan Sheikhoun; what […]
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