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, […]
Mexican Troops Disarmed American Soldiers on U.S. Side of the Border…
Armed Mexican troops disarmed two United States soldiers while they were on the American side of the border, U.S. defense officials have said. U.S. Northern Command said in a statement that “five to six Mexican military personnel questioned two U.S. Army soldiers who were conducting border support operations” this month. The U.S. soldiers were in […]
Armed Border Militia Member Accused of Detaining Illegal Migrants Arrested in New Mexico…
A New Mexico man belonging to a militia group accused of detaining migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border at gunpoint was arrested Saturday on charges of firearms possession by a felon, authorities said. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, was arrested in the border community of Sunland Park with the help of local authorities, the FBI said in […]
Holding Obama Accountable for Syria…
Like so much else in the last two years, the three-week political Sturm und Drang over American troops’ withdrawal from Syria says less about a fissuring present and more about a fractured past. Donald Trump’s now-modified withdrawal order (four months, not 30 days, unless he changes his mind again) was another sloppy policy move, but […]
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