Commander of US Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, who oversees military operations in the Middle East, told the Senate Armed Services Committee this week that he "was not consulted" prior to President Donald Trump's December announcement that the US would withdraw troops from Syria. Is the Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces required to seek permission from his generals before moving troops in the theaters of combat? read on...
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) emerged from lunch with President Trump yesterday claiming that the president has agreed with him to scuttle an immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Syria. Is this another case of neocons playing fast and loose with facts? President Trump is yet to confirm that he's backed off of his plan and recent polling shows that a majority of Americans support a troop pullout. Will Trump hold up against the neocon and #Resistance barrage? Tune in to today's Liberty Report... read on...
President Trump sent out a red-hot Tweet last night threatening Iran with destruction if it does not stop threatening the US over US threats to change the Iranian regime. Round and round it goes, with the well-funded neocon think tanks pushing ever-harder for a US attack. Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is extremely close to one of the most bellicose of these, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which is staffed by many of the same people who gave us the disastrous 2003 war on Iraq. Is Trump being misled by his ill-chosen advisors...or are his war cries all his own? Tune in to today's Liberty Report... read on...
A new Gallup poll may spell trouble for Democrats hoping to cash in on what they believe is an anti-Russia feeling among American voters. The percentage of people who believe that Russia is a great threat to the United States is so low that it is almost unmeasurable. People are most concerned about the bad quality of government and about immigration. The elites continue to obsess about things that the average voters could not care less about. And they think this time it will pay off? More in today's Liberty Report... read on...
President Trump is making waves as he arrives in Europe for the NATO summit. Chiding Germany for benefitting from US protection against Russia while buying billions of dollars worth of Russian oil, he has captured the duplicity of European leaders. But the solution is not to browbeat them to spend more on their militaries. It's to shut down NATO once and for all. More in today's Liberty Report... read on...
