For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel. Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump has rejected and disavowed […]
Mick Mulvaney White House Press Conference – Announces 2020 G7 To Be Held in Trump Doral – UPDATE: Transcript Added…
Oh man, almost too much winning. President Trump Chief-of-Staff Mick Mulvaney brings the cold-fish slapper to a White House presser and pummels the narrative engineers. Cold-Fish Slapping is like whac-a-mole, only instead of a hammer you use a slightly unfrozen fish; and instead of mole-heads popping up, you get reporters stupid questions. First, Mr. Mulvaney […]
Lindsey Graham Dishes on Trump in Hoax Calls with Russians…
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has in the last year become something of a congressional point man for President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Turkey, leading discussions on everything from Ankara’s purchase of a Russian missile system over the summer to their more recent incursion into northern Syria. So when he received a call from a man […]
New Pentagon Chief Mark Esper Says U.S. Will Protect American Commercial Ships in the Persian Gulf…
The United States will maintain sufficient maritime and air assets in the Persian Gulf region to deter or, if necessary, prevent Iran from interfering with American commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the newly confirmed defense secretary said on his first day on the job. “We will escort our ships to the degree […]
Trump’s Latest Iran Sanctions Target $200B Economic Empire of Supreme Leader…
The Trump administration’s latest sanctions against Iran reinstate an embargo on some of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s front companies that President Barack Obama lifted as part of the nuclear deal and could further expose the Iranian dictator’s corrupt economic empire. Khamenei oversees a vast network of corporate and financial assets worth $200 billion, the Foundation […]
Operation Ayatollah Moneybags…
Why Would Sen. Dianne Feinstein Dine with Iranian Foreign Minister as U.S. Feud with Tehran Escalates..
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a top member of the minority party in the upper chamber, met recently with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at a time of escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran. The two had dinner around the end of last month when Zarif was visiting the U.S., sources told Politico. Feinstein’s team said […]
REPORT: Mossad Intel of Looming Iranian Attack Led U.S. to Send in Carrier Force…
Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency reportedly tipped off the United States on an impending Iranian attack on American interests in the Gulf, prompting Washington to deploy an aircraft carrier strike group to the region late Sunday, in a sharp escalation of US President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign. John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser who advocated attacking […]
Black Hawk Down Veterans Blast Rep Ilhan Omar for ‘Smearing’ U.S. Troops Who Died ‘to help her people’…
Veterans of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu have slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar’s, D-Minn., for accusing them of killing “thousands” of Somalis and ignoring the fact they were engaged in a United Nations mission designed to protect civilians from a murderous warlord following a devastating famine and civil war. Danny McKnight, who was the Ranger colonel […]
Armed Soldiers Heading to U.S.-Mexico Border After Mexico Disarmed National Guard on American Soil…
President Donald Trump warned Mexico’s government on Wednesday to keep its military from interfering with U.S. soldiers who now patrol the border in support of immigration enforcers. A Mexican military detachment disarmed an American soldier on April 13 after forcing him and another serviceman to get out of an unmarked Customs and Border Protection car, […]
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