Former CIA director John Brennan is having trouble keeping his Trump-Russia stories straight. On Meet the Press this past Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked MSNBC’s new national security analyst about George Papadopoulos, a volunteer adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and his reputed ties to Russia. The question should have been a simple one […]
Was Christopher Steele Paid by Russian Oligarch and Putin Ally Oleg Deripaska?…
A release last week of texts showed that Christopher Steele, the former British spy whose memos regarding the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia are referred to as the Steele dossier, reached out to Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, through a Russian-linked Washington, D.C., lobbyist named Adam Waldman. […]
When Red Lines Are Crossed in Syria, Expect Israel to Be Shaken…
This Isn’t Good: Russian Fighters Killed in Clash with U.S.-Led Coalition Forces in Syria…RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CALLS THIS REPORT BY BLOOMBERG AND REUTERS FAKE NEWS…
With the calm of global capital markets shattered in the past two weeks, the ongoing military conflict in the Middle East has taken an understandable back seat to monetary matters. And yet, tensions involving Syria, Iran and Israel continue to escalate, most notably with this weekend’s outright attack by Israel on Syria, allegedly in retaliation […]
U.S. Kills over 100 Syrian Fighters in ‘Self Defense’…
Vladimir Putin Warns Netanyahu over Syria…
In the aftermath of the shooting down by Syria of an Israeli F-16 fighter bomber, President Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel had a telephone conversation with each other. The Kremlin’s summary of the conversation is even by its standards extremely short – “The discussion focused on the actions of the Israeli […]
A Game Changer?…
Israel Deploys Missile Defense Systems at Border with Syria…
U.S. Nuclear Posture Review: A Bigger Bang for the Buck?…
At the height of the Cold War, the United States and the then-Soviet Union possessed around 70,000 nuclear warheads between them — enough to destroy or poison every square centimeter of inhabited land on Earth several times over. Somewhat ironically, the concept of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD), whereby the full-scale use of nuclear weapons by […]
The Decline and Fall of General Electric, the Poster Child of Obamanomics…
Sometimes we look back a decade or so and reconsider our word choice. For instance, I used to call General Electric — with its heavy lobbying, its intimate ties to the White House, all its bets on green energy, on embryonic stem cells, on Obamacare, on industrial policy — the “for-profit arm of the Obama […]
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