US Strategic Command (or âStratcomâ if youâre trying to make a nuclear-capable arm of the US Defense Department sound cool) has issued an apology for a poorly received New Yearâs Eve tweet which has since been deleted. â#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by...
The decades-long US interventionist policy against Cuba failed to achieve its goal of removing Fidel Castro from power and replacing him with a pro-US regime, similar to the pro-US Batista regime that the Cuban revolution ousted from power in 1959. More important,...
President Donald Trumpâs announcement of an imminent withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Syria summoned a predictable paroxysm of outrage from Washingtonâs foreign policy establishment. Former Secretary of State and self-described âhair iconâ Hillary Clinton...
While Congress and the president fight over funding a border wall, they continue to ignore the coming economic tsunami caused by the approximately 22 trillion dollars (and rapidly increasing) federal debt. President Trump may not be troubled by the debtâs effect on...
Sources are everything to a journalist. Without them, their stories would be hollow. Imagine there was a ready-made list of experts always willing to bring that crucial air of credibility to any story about...Russia, for example. Well, it turns out there is â and that...
President Trumpâs foreign policy appointments have frequently been difficult to reconcile with the views he has often expressed. The most disappointing was the appointment of John Bolton as National Security Advisor. Bolton is a long-time and very vocal advocate of...
From the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the mainstream media and officialdom over General Mattis' (welcome) departure, you would think that the Rapture had come and Washington's ruling class was being unjustly left behind to eternal perdition. And if not that,...
The co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, has apologized to Republican Roy Moore for funding an organisation that faked a "Russian bot" involvement to mar his election campaign in Alabama. American Engagement Technologies (AET), which Hoffman gave $750,000 to, put...
The resignation letter of Secretary of Defense James Mattis that was published last Thursday revealed much of the Deep State mindset that has produced the foreign policy catastrophes of the past seventeen years. Mattis, an active duty general in the Marine Corps who...
On December 17, two reports detailing ongoing Russian interference operations commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee were made public. They generated a weekâs worth of headlines and sent members of Congress and cable news pundits into a Cold War frenzy....
President Donald Trumpâs order to withdraw from Syria has been greeted, predictably, with an avalanche of condemnation culminating in last Thursdayâs resignation by Defense Secretary James Mattis. The Mattis resignation letter focused on the betrayal of allies, though...
The idea Mattis was the âadult in the room,â the moral and intellectual restraint on Trumpâs evil wishes, is tired. Weâve been recycling that one for two years and more now, as various âadultsâ were christened as such and rose and fell in the eyes of the media â...
We all had a big shock this week when, seemingly out of the blue, President Trump announced that he was removing US troops from Syria and would draw down half of the remaining US troops in Afghanistan. The president told us the troops were in Syria to fight ISIS and...
President Trump's strategic decision to withdraw US troops from Syria creates some significant fallout. The US and international borg is enraged that Trump ends an occupation that is illegal under international as well as US domestic law. "That's un-American!"Defense...
This has been an extraordinary week. After two years of getting rolled by the Washington establishment, it seems that President Donald Trump woke up and suddenly realized, âHey â Iâm the president! I have the legal authority to do stuff!â - He has announced his order...
On December 17, Ankara was notified of President Trumpâs decision on troop withdrawal from Syria. During an earlier phone conversation between him and President Recep Erdogan on Dec 14, Trump had pointedly asked and elicited a positive response from the Turkish leader...
As western society moves from things you should not say to things you must say or face severe consequences, are we at war with freedom of speech and thought itself? What happens when the concept of "group rights" supplants the rights of the individual? Are we slipping...
President Trump shocked Washington this morning when he Tweeted confirmation of rumors that he would order the removal of US troops from Syria. According to his spokesperson, the order has already been given. The neocons are not happy, with Sen. Lindsey Graham...
Some anti-Russianites and Trump critics are saying that the guilty plea by 30-year-old Russian citizen Maria Butina confirms that the Russian government was meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Itâs true that Russia might well have been helping Donald Trump,...
George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel was right â Again: The only thing the human race learns from history is that it learns nothing from history.In 1914,the British Empire, largest in human history and one of the longest-lasting, charged into World War I to defend âgallant...
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