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PUTIN THE PASSIVE IN PRESIDING OVER HIS PYRAMID OF CORRUPTION
In key global debates, Russia’s voice has been uncharacteristically timid lately. Various Russian domestic controversies are developing without the usual heavy-handed interference from the Kremlin—almost as if President Vladimir Putin has lost interes ...
PUTIN’S MIDDLE EAST TAR BABY OF FAILURE
Russia tries to maintain a finger in every conflict in the Middle East, with President Vladimir Putin seeking to cultivate connections with various parties in multiple quarrels. Presently, however, the Kremlin’s access is being curtailed: Moscow, for i ...
TRUMP FORCES THE WORLD TO BLOCK OIL FROM IRAN
On Monday (4/22), the Trump Administration announced full sanctions on all countries importing Iranian oil would be in effect next week on May 2. In announcing the decision, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: "The goal remains simple: to deprive the o ...
PUTIN LOSES HIS KEY TO HIS AFRICAN EMPIRE IN SUDAN
Sudan’s now former dictator Today (4/17), the Islamist dictator of Sudan for 30 years, Omar al-Bashir, was incarcerated in Kober Prison in Khartoum, the maximum security prison that held so many of the political prisoners Bashir put there. He was ov ...
ACROSS THE SAHARA
... end by exploring on foot an astounding region where Niger, Libya, and Algeria come together – it will blow you away. Read ...
SO MUCH HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER THANKS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
Not that President Trump will get any credit. The news obsesses over the recent government shutdown, the latest Robert Mueller arrest, and, of course, fake news — from the BuzzFeed Michael Cohen non-story to the smears of the Covington Catholic High Sch ...
ROMNEY THE RINO FLAKES OUT
Just as the Republican Party is purging itself of hackneyed lawmakers, bitter neoconservative commentators, and insatiable interventionists, along comes Mitt Romney to remind us of what we definitely are not missing. In a late New Year’s Day sermon pub ...
OUR EXHAUSTED AMERICAN MEDIOCRACY
The unlikely 2016 election of Donald Trump—the first president without either prior political or military office—was a repudiation of the American “aristocracy.” By “rule of the best” ( the Greek aristokratia), I mean the ancien régime was no ...
THE EVIL OF THE GLOBAL ELITE
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, April 27, 2016 Against what or whom is the contemporary Western public pushing back? The French non-Parisians against new green taxes on already unaffordable gasoline? Broke southern European Union nations against th ...
KHASHOGGIMANIA AND OUR ISLAMIST MEDIA
Jamal Khashoggi and his hero Osama bin Laden In 2014, Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post’s Tehran Bureau Chief, was arrested and spent two years in prison. Iran kept him in one of its worst prisons, he slept on a damp concrete floor, was denied medical ...
DONALD TRUMP BURIES THE OLD WORLD ORDER
Today (9/25), President Trump is in New York, meeting world leaders attending the latest UNGA (United Nations General Assembly) gathering. Tomorrow (9/26), he chairs the 15-member UN Security Council’s meeting on Iran. Should be fun to watch. The pr ...
THE AGEING OF THE DAWN OF AQUARIUS IN EUROPE
When every last Trudeau eyebrow has been scraped off the floor of the Manoir Richelieu, it's worth remembering that the divisions in the G7 are not quite as straightforward as the media would have us believe. For one thing, it's not G6 vs. Trump, for ther ...
WHY OBAMA OWNS THE DISASTER IN SYRIA
Obama owns the disaster in Syria in a way that no one else does. Three of his policies intersected to cause the bloodshed, devastation and horrors there. The Iraq Withdrawal The Arab Spring The Iran Deal Obama’s Iraq withdrawal turned the country ...
WHY OBAMA OWNS THE DISASTER IN SYRIA
Obama owns the disaster in Syria in a way that no one else does. Three of his policies intersected to cause the bloodshed, devastation and horrors there. The Iraq Withdrawal The Arab Spring The Iran Deal Obama’s Iraq withdrawal turned the country ...
JOHN BOLTON AND A REAGAN DOCTRINE FOR IRAN
Dear John, You’re going to preside over the imminent Iran policy debate, and I’m sure you’ll do it the way we used to do it in the Reagan White House: bring the president the fullest possible picture of the disagreements among the Cabinet secretari ...
CHANGING THE GEOGRAPHY OF POWER
... So why not move the United Nations to Haiti, Libya or Uganda? Liberals treasure the United Nations. Conservatives don't ...
CHANGING THE GEOGRAPHY OF POWER
... So why not move the United Nations to Haiti, Libya or Uganda? Liberals treasure the United Nations. Conservatives don't ...
THE TRUMP DOCTRINE OF STRATEGIC REALISM
The President speaking at the Ronald Reagan Bldg. Dec. 18, 2017 Presidential administrations by law must publish strategic manifestoes. Indeed, the Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of October 4, 1986 required every subsequent ...
THE LYING QUARTET: RICE, COMEY, BRENNAN, AND CLAPPER
Rarely has an intelligence apparatus engaged in systematic lying—and chronic deceit about its lying—both during and even after its tenure. Yet the Obama Administration’s four top security and intelligence officials time and again engaged in untruth, ...
MCMASTERS’ NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL IS BECOMING A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT
Derek Harvey was a man who saw things coming. He had warned of Al Qaeda when most chose to ignore it. He had seen the Sunni insurgency rising when most chose to deny it. The former Army colonel had made his reputation by learning the lay of the land. In I ...
TRUMP AND VENEZUELA
Venezuela’s oil industry is at risk of sudden collapse as funding dries up and the US tightens sanctions, threatening to shatter the beguiling calm in global crude markets. West Texas crude briefly spiked above $50 a barrel for the first time since lat ...
THE MEDIA MELTDOWN OF TODAY STARTED TEN YEARS AGO
Between 2008 and 2016, the media were unapologetic about their adoration of President Barack Obama. Now, they are energized by their thorough loathing of President Donald Trump. In tragic fashion, the Hubris of deifying Obama has now come full circle to t ...
THE PLOT AGAINST TRUMP EXPLAINED
A considerable portion of America’s permanent bureaucracy, including elements of its intelligence community, is engaged in an illegal and unconstitutional mutiny against the elected commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump. Most of the Democrat Party ...
A NEVER TRUMP DOOFUS GETS OWNED
[This letter to Rich Lowry, Editor of National Review, was sent today] Dear Rich: You should be ashamed of having published “The President Can Be Put On Tilt” on June 9. Even cash-strapped conservative journals of opinion should have editors and fact ...
THE CHOICE BETWEEN TRUMP’S TRAVEL BAN AND MORE ISLAMIC TERRORISM
Faces of Evil: The London Bridge Moslem Terrorists “2,000 plus cases.” That was the most overlooked revelation to come from the May 3 Senate testimony of the then-FBI director. While the media parsed every Comey hiccup to bolster its election conspi ...
PUTIN IS LEFT OUT IN THE COLD
... dramas, from the French elections to the civil war in Libya, is not a part of it. Given that Russia borders North Korea—the ...
PUTIN IS FINDING OUT WHAT MAGA MEANS
... Ukraine? No problem. Open military bases in Syria and Libya? You bet. We wouldn’t challenge him. That has all changed with ...
CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF THOUGHTLESS ACTIONS
April 6 marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I — a war that claimed the lives of about 38 million people. It is correctly known as the “war about nothing,” so why was it fought? The United States entered the war near the end ...
DOES TRUMP HAVE A STRATEGY TO WIN THE GLOBAL WAR?
Mullahs with Nukes The Trump administration’s national security policy was to have been much more muscular than Obama’s, as incarnate in the appointments of notoriously tough military leaders at the National Security Council (first General Flynn, then ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/03/17
... 90-day travel ban on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen? “Kudos to President Trump for his brave ...
SANDSTORM OVER THE HOUSE OF SAUD
Sandstorm over Riyadh Saudi Arabia has injected $5.3bn of liquidity into the banking system to stave off a financial crunch as the oil slump drags on and capital continues to leak out the country. This just as the US Congress overrides Obama’s veto al ...
AMERICA NEEDS A FOREIGN POLICY AS SERIOUS AS IRAN’S
Let’s state it clearly: Washington’s policy regarding state sponsors of terrorism is schizophrenic. As a result, our government is failing in its duty to protect Americans from terrorism. It is not as if we need evidence of what nations are sponsori ...
IS THIS THE MAN WHO COULD PUT HILLARY IN JAIL?
Hillary Clinton thinks she has little to fear from Donald Trump. But she may be casting nervous glances over her shoulder at Preet Bharara. You may not have heard of Mr. Bharara. Sheldon Silver, former speaker of the New York State Assembly, a Democrat, a ...
OBAMA’S WAR ALLIANCE WITH IRAN EXPOSED
For those who thought that America was stealthily pulling out of the Middle East in pursuit of a policy of gradual disengagement pursued by Obama, a shocking truth is beginning to unfold. Far from disengaging, the Obama administration has for some time now ...
OIL IS HERE TO STAY AND SO IS THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Oil rigs in the Permian Basin of Texas are still being built even at $45 oil, defying shale skeptics Oil prices have tumbled to a three-month low as surging supply once again exposes the chronic global glut and threatens to perpetuate the energy slump f ...
ROGUE TRUCKS KILL
“Scores die in Nice, France as Truck Plows into Bastille Day Crowd,” said the headline in the New York Times. “Tune in to MSNBC for continued live coverage of the deadly truck crash in Nice, France,” the network tweeted. I hadn’t been aware tr ...
HOW CAN ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND VOTE FOR HILLARY?
... and deliberate deceit. Ousting Muammar Khadafy has turned Libya into a base from which ISIS infiltrates Europe and other countries in ... more security. The Diplomatic Security Service staff in Libya was cut from 34 to 6 the month before the attack. “This was a suicide ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/01/16
Three ISIS suicide bombers killed 43 and injured 239 at Turkey’s Ataturk International airport Tuesday (6/28). The three-part attack “was carried out in a way that suggests the kind of advance intelligence, careful study of a target, and cool execution ...
WHY IS ISLAM VIOLENT?
Islamic violence is nearly impossible to deny. But why is Islam violent? The usual answer is to point to Koranic verses calling for the conquest and subjugation of non-Moslems. That certainly covers the theological basis for Islamic violence. But it fails ...
WHAT IS HILLARY HIDING?
Like millions of avid news readers, I’ve been trying to sort out the Hillary Clinton scandals. You know, all that stuff about classified material on her “private” server, sensitive national security secrets that have most likely been lifted by host ...