Soaring tensions of the past nearly two weeks paving the way for a potential direct military clash in the Persian Gulf between the US and Iran could be de-escalating as rapidly as they began as the president attempts to reign in hawks in his own administration, per a...
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Top British Commander In Rare Public Dispute With US Over Iran Intelligence
by Tyler Durden | May 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
An awkward public exchange unfolded between the US military and its closest allied military coalition force during a Pentagon press conference on Tuesday wherein a top British commander in charge of anti-ISIS coalition forces rebuked White House claims on the...
Pompeo Skips Moscow Trip To Pressure EU Officials In Brussels On Iran
by Tyler Durden | May 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
It seems for the State Department lately it's all Iran and Venezuela all the time, or perhaps there's just an aversion to real diplomatic work. After snubbing Germany's Merkel last week to make an unplanned stop in Iraq to pressure leaders there into resisting...
Bolton Held “Extremely Rare” Iran Meeting At CIA Headquarters
by Tyler Durden | May 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
NBC has revealed that national security adviser John Bolton convened what was described as a "highly unusual" meeting at CIA headquarters last week to discuss Iran among top intelligence, diplomatic and military advisers. The outside-the-norm nature of the meeting...
Biden’s Ukrainian Corruption Scandal Casts Ominous Shadow Over 2020 Run
by Tyler Durden | May 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
It looks like Joe Biden isn't the chosen one after all. After getting that whole "groping" thing out of the way and announcing his 2020 bid for the White House, Biden emerged as the Democratic frontrunner this week according to several polls. Alas for Biden, his past...
US Troops In Syria For ‘Long Haul’ Atop ‘A Lot Of Oil Resources’ – Pentagon Official
by Tyler Durden | May 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
A high level Pentagon official has admitted that US forces will be in Syria for "the long haul" and coupled his statement by declaring the territory contains “a lot of the oil resources and arable land.” The unusually frank remarks were made this week by Michael...
With Assad Victorious, US Oil Sanctions Now Strangle Entire Syrian Population
by Tyler Durden | Apr 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
The deep irony of the tragic Syria war is that after seven years of massive bloodshed, as the government has emerged victorious, it is only now with relative stability and ensuing calm over most of the country that an "economic siege" has hit the population with full...
Saudi Savagery: Kingdom Beheads 16-Year-Old For Sending Whatsapp Message
by Tyler Durden | Apr 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
The controversy over Saudi Crown Prince MbS's alleged orchestration of the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi has largely subsided since the government insider-turned-critic walked into the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul in early October and never walked out....
Democratic Senator: Assange Is ‘Our Property’ Now
by Tyler Durden | Apr 11, 2019 | Congress Alert
Sen. Joe ManchinBoth Democrats and Republicans celebrated the arrest of Julian Assange on Thursday. But amid the flood of praise for his arrest and detainment, which the UN has denounced as a violation of human rights, one lawmaker's comments stood out as particularly...
Germany Backpedals On NATO Spending Promise As France Goes Full Throttle
by Tyler Durden | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
Germany is poised to renege on its promise to boost NATO spending, backtracking on a public commitment last year by Chancellor Angela Merkel to increase German military expenditure to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2024 - bringing it closer to the 2 percent...
Pompeo Announces Ban On International Criminal Court Officials Probing US War Crimes
by Tyler Durden | Mar 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US has threatened to revoke visas for members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague should they so much as investigate any criminal actions of American military personnel. The United States has never been a member of the ICC and considers it...
Rubio Demands US Initiate ‘Widespread Unrest’ In Venezuela
by Tyler Durden | Mar 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
Predictably during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Thursday, Republican chairman Marco Rubio condemned Venezuela's Maduro as a "clear danger" and a "threat to the national security of the US." To be expected the hearing was filled with plenty of...
"Better 'No Deal' Than 'Bad Deal'": Walking Out Of Hanoi Summit Earns Trump Bipartisan Praise
by Tyler Durden | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
Though Kim Jong Un has a long train ride back to Pyongyang to ponder how the collapse of Thursday's talks in Hanoi might impact his relationship with Trump, senior officials in his government are already signaling that the detente between the two geopolitical rivals...
Death Knell For Syria Pullout: ‘We Have To Protect Israel’ Says Trump
by Tyler Durden | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
After approaching two months of talk of a "full" and "immediate" US troop withdrawal from Syria, first ordered by President Trump on December 19 — which was predictably met with swift and fierce pushback from beltway hawks including in some cases his own advisers — it...
Twitter Bans 2,000 Pro-Maduro Accounts As Demands For Regime Change Escalate
by Tyler Durden | Feb 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
On the evening before National Security Advisor John Bolton reiterated that "all options [including, presumably, military intervention] are on the table" regarding the situation in Venezuela, Twitter announced that it had joined the US-backed coup by taking down 2,000...
Pence Urges Venezuelans To Rise Up Against ‘Dictator’ Maduro After Failed Military Revolt
by Tyler Durden | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
It appears the White House is ready to stoke the flames of anti-Maduro unrest following Monday's dramatic failed military revolt launched by 27 low-ranking officers and their subsequent arrests in the Cotiza neighborhood of Caracas, which sparked overnight protests...
Bolton Had Pentagon Draw Up “Far-Reaching Military Options To Strike Iran”
by Tyler Durden | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Wall Street Journal published an Iran bombshell Sunday morning, confirming the White House had the Pentagon prepare "military options" to strike the country last year. The sudden request, seen as an unprecedented Iraq-style "shock and awe" attack on Iran, caught...
LinkedIn Co-Founder Who Bankrolled Russian Bot “False Flag” Also Funded Left-Wing Midterm Meddling
by Tyler Durden | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
An online disinformation campaign conducted by a former Obama administration official leading up to the 2018 midterm elections was bankrolled by left-wing tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, according to the Daily Caller's Peter Hasson. Hoffman, who co-founded LinkedIn,...
Cuban Crickets Blamed For Brain-Melting Sonic Embassy Attacks
by Tyler Durden | Jan 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
Forget Vladimir Putin and hi-tech microwave weapons, the mystery behind US Embassy workers in Havana suffering from "sonic attacks" has apparently been solved. The culprit of the mystery ailments which include damaged hearing, vision, cognition, balance and sleep?...
‘Secret’ Evidence Vindicates Michael Flynn’s ‘Treasonous’ Dinner With Putin
by Tyler Durden | Jan 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
Over the last month we have learned much more about the circumstances surrounding the departure of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about a conversation with then-Russian ambassador to the...
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