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The Warlords of Kiev
Post Date: 2017-02-10 09:02:40 by Ada
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Ukraine militarists restarting conflict with separatists The warlords of Kiev are going on the offensive, violating the terms of the Minsk peace accords, and attacking separatist rebels in the eastern part of the country in a desperate bid to provoke open conflict with Russia. What motivates them is fear of President Donald Trump, who has often expressed a desire to “get along with Russia” and who has openly said Ukraine is not a vital US national security interest. What motivates their new aggression is the possibility that the US subsidies that have kept their vicious war on their own people going – 10,000 killed so far – will dry up. Ever since US and European ...
The President and the Courts
Post Date: 2017-02-09 15:45:51 by Ada
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Last week, in a public courtroom in the federal courthouse in Seattle, the states of Washington and Minnesota — after suing President Donald Trump, alleging injury caused by his executive order that suspended the immigration of all people from seven foreign countries — asked a federal judge to compel the president and all those who work for him to cease enforcing the order immediately. After a brief emergency oral argument, the judge signed a temporary restraining order, which barred the enforcement of the president’s order everywhere in the United States. The president reacted with anger, referring to the judge as a “so-called judge,” and immigrant rights groups ...
Has The American Establishment Opted for Thermo-Nuclear War?
Post Date: 2017-02-08 10:15:16 by Ada
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If you want to be an American TV talking head or a Western presstitute, you are required to be braindead and integrity-challenged like Bill O’Reilly, CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and all the rest. In an interview with President Donald Trump, O’Reilly said: “Putin is a killer.” O’Reilly is indifferent to the fact that thermo-nuclear war is a killer of planet Earth. For O’Reilly, President Trump’s desire to normalize relations with Russia is an indication that the President of the US is comfortable making deals with killers, as if America’s last three presidents have not been mass killers comfortable ...
Rand Paul: Do not let Elliott Abrams anywhere near the State Department
Post Date: 2017-02-08 07:33:16 by Ada
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I hope against hope that the rumors are wrong and that President Donald Trump will not open the State Department door to the neocons. Crack the door to admit Elliott Abrams and the neocons will scurry in by the hundreds. Neoconservative interventionists have had us at perpetual war for 25 years. While President Trump has repeatedly stated his belief that the Iraq War was a mistake, the neocons (all of them Never-Trumpers) continue to maintain that the Iraq and Libyan Wars were brilliant ideas. These are the same people who think we must blow up half the Middle East, then rebuild it and police it for decades. They’re wrong and they should not be given a voice in this administration. ...
Elliott Abrams Under Consideration for Deputy Secretary of State
Post Date: 2017-02-07 07:11:10 by Ada
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Notorious Neocon's Decades of Scandal Presented as Experience The Iran-Contra Affair happened some 35 years ago. A major black eye for the Reagan Administration, it was also the first in a long line of blotches on the record of then-Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, who was convicted of two counts of withholding information from Congress regarding the affair, pardoned in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush. As a Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, he was a supporter of the US invasion of Iraq, and played a major role in the failed military coup in Venezuela. But apparently that’s just another way of saying he’s experienced, and with the Trump ...
KILLER BLOW’ How a Geert Wilders victory in Dutch elections could cause the EU to IMPLODE (Celente say yes)
Post Date: 2017-02-05 20:19:45 by Horse
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THE European Union (EU) could face a bitter end over the next few months if Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders wins the Dutch election. Mr Wilders would be likely to take the country out of the bloc, Marine Le Pen the Front National leader would be likely to follow suit, leaving Germany faced with the prospect of funding the cash hole. The PVV leader has been placed first in the polls with 31 per cent of the vote, a month before the Dutch elections. If Mr Wilders does pull off a shock win, it could pave the way for the far right leader, Marine Le Pen to come to victory in France in May. This would leave Angela Merkel’s country as the only substantial economy left standing ...
Trump Has Inherited a Terrifying Problem
Post Date: 2017-02-05 17:25:23 by Ada
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Every president inherits something difficult. Some problems are simply out of the incoming president’s hands. Obama inherited a financial crisis. Reagan inherited double digit inflation. Kennedy, Nixon, and Ford each inherited the Vietnam War. For President Trump, it’s debt. Donald Trump enters the White House with a $19.9 trillion a headache. In percentage terms, that’s 107% of our GDP. Sure, every president inherits some kind of debt from his predecessor. But none of them had to follow the Borrower-in-Chief, Barack Obama. Obama doubled the federal debt during his tenure in the Oval. He pushed the total debt close to $20 billion – an 88% rise from when he first ...
Far-Right Official: Brexit, Trump Give French Reason to Vote
Post Date: 2017-02-05 09:15:11 by Ada
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LYON, France — Britain's decision to leave the European Union and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump have given the French a "reason to vote" because it can result in real change, the top lieutenant of far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen declared Sunday ahead of her long-awaited speech. Le Pen supporters were pouring into the congress center in Lyon on Sunday, the second day of a conference by her anti-immigrant National Front party. She will be speaking about her 144 presidential promises unveiled a day earlier, a nationalist agenda aimed at throwing off the European Union, NATO and the status quo. National Front official Florian Philippot ...
Ukraine Sabotages Trump’s Russia Detente
Post Date: 2017-02-03 07:54:45 by Ada
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Exclusive: A Ukrainian military offensive into rebel-held eastern Ukraine is giving Washington’s war hawks an excuse to demand President Trump escalate tensions with Russia, negating his hopes for détente, writes Jonathan Marshall. Less than two weeks into office, President Trump faces one of the first big tests of his non-confrontational policy toward Russia. As new fighting erupts in Eastern Ukraine, the Kiev regime and its U.S. supporters are predictably demanding a showdown with Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as he arrives for a metting in Kiev, Ukraine, on July 7, 2016. (State Department ...
Conservatism After Trump
Post Date: 2017-02-02 08:25:14 by Ada
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How the Right—and foreign-policy realism—can survive our populist moment. From one day to the next, President Donald Trump bulldozes his way through the American political scene, seemingly oblivious to or perhaps taking satisfaction from the resulting chaos. Were he alive, H.L. Mencken would no doubt find the entire spectacle vastly entertaining. The rest of us, conservatives especially, must view the ongoing demolition with dismay. Indeed, Mencken, ribald observer of American democracy, saw it all coming. Writing just shy of a century ago, the Sage of Baltimore took delight in deriding the dully submissive average American as “a pliant slave of capitalism, and ever ready ...
Yemen: America’s Shame
Post Date: 2017-02-01 07:37:59 by Ada
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Why are we helping the Saudis to commit war crimes? The ridiculous truth is that the imposition of a travel ban on Yemen – in addition to six other countries – has evoked more anguish than America’s major role in making that country unlivable. Here’s a very sad story about the plight of a young Yemeni girl who is being blocked from entering the US – but where is the outrage about what’s being done to her homeland with our tax dollars and in our name? And make no mistake: the Saudi invasion of Yemen on behalf of a “government” that has no popular support and was kicked out of office by its disgusted citizens is one of the worst atrocities in recent ...
Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-01-31 07:26:46 by Ada
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. In 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September, 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate – the once-again-beloved ACLU sued Obama to restrain him from the assassination on the ground of due process and then, when that suit was dismissed, sued Obama again after the killing was carried out – another drone-killing carried out shortly thereafter was perhaps even more significant yet generated relatively little attention. Two ...
Trump is the Perfect President
Post Date: 2017-01-30 10:01:58 by Ada
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A river of angst and anger is roaring, gushing, and flooding the country. Trump’s psychological state, ability, intelligence, actions and intentions, impact and ramifications — suddenly everyone is wide awake and nervous. Trump’s consistencies and inconsistencies are equally frightening, his exercise of power as the “most powerful man in the world” seem insane in so many ways. Like Captain Renault in a Casa Blanca gambling hall, I am shocked – shocked – to find that the exercise of state power is dangerous, evil, unfair, unlimited, and served up without finesse or human decency! Democrats and Republicans for decades eagerly created a massive currency ...
An Infrastructure Fix
Post Date: 2017-01-26 07:59:17 by Ada
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The new president’s chance to write his name in history President Dwight Eisenhower wrote his name in concrete by building the interstate highway system. President Donald Trump has made infrastructure one of his signature issues, perhaps because he too likes to write his name on big projects. If the new administration approaches the need to rebuild America’s infrastructure armed with some innovative ideas, it can do more than pour concrete. It can write President Trump’s name in history. Infrastructure usually isn’t glitzy. Much of it, such as our water and sewer systems, should be neither seen nor heard—unless we’re talking about the Trumpian solid-gold ...
Trump administration to 'empower' US police forces
Post Date: 2017-01-23 07:11:05 by Ada
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Statement on the official White House website says US President Donald Trump will empower police departments. Trump's administration will 'empower' police officers, according to a statement on official website [Chris Kleponis/EPA] The administration of the US president, Donald Trump, condemned what it called the "anti-police atmosphere" in the United States and called for more law enforcement and more effective policing in a statement on the White House website after the new president's inauguration. "The dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump administration will end it," said Friday's statement on the White House's ...
Trump's Declaration Of War: 12 Things He Must Do For America To Be Great Again
Post Date: 2017-01-20 23:42:02 by Horse
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President Trump’s brief inaugural speech was a declaration of war against the entirety of the American Ruling Establishment. All of it. As Paul Craig Roberts details, Trump made it abundantly clear that Americans’ enemies are right here at home: globalists, neoliberal economists, neoconservatives and other unilateralists accustomed to imposing the US on the world and involving us in endless and expensive wars, politicians who serve the Ruling Establishment rather than the American people, indeed, the entire canopy of private interests that have run America into the ground while getting rich in the process. If truth can be said, President Trump has declared a war far more ...
Chelsea Manning, A Heroine for Our Times
Post Date: 2017-01-20 07:24:06 by Ada
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Obama does something good – for a change The commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence by President Barack Obama is bad politics – and, from my vantage point, the only moral act on his part that I can recall. It took balls to do this, and for that I have to give him credit. One has to also note that the timing here is significant: with his party currently in the midst of a campaign to smear WikiLeaks – and the President- elect — as a Russian tool, Obama’s merciful act undercuts the entire basis of the charge that both Julian Assange and Donald Trump are agents of a foreign power. After all, Manning’s revelations were published by WikiLeaks, this ...
Plan of neocon axis in Senate to spend $5 trillion on military could destroy
Post Date: 2017-01-20 04:58:22 by Tatarewicz
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Press PressTV... Former US presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul says there is a neoconservative axis in the Senate, made of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, which might destroy America by increasing the military spending up to five trillion dollars over the next five years. Paul, the founder of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, made the remarks on Thursday in an online weekly broadcast, called Ron Paul Liberty Report, which is co-hosted by Daniel McAdams. Senate Armed Services Chairman McCain has published a 35-page white paper, “Restoring American Power,” in which he says the US military must achieve the capability of waging and winning ...
Truth and Consequences
Post Date: 2017-01-19 06:51:46 by Ada
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The ground shifted in Washington and elsewhere with the news that Chelsea Manning’s 35-year sentence had been commuted in the outgoing president’s spasmodic burst of compassion. The head of an entrenched foreign policy characterized by equal parts force, arrogance and ignorance commuted the sentence of a lowly private who, in frustration upon witnessing the lies told by his employer to hide the nature of that foreign policy, provided raw material to Wikileaks. The feds tried to show that severe (or indeed any) damage had been done by the release of these documents and video. Instead, we have discovered only that the US government is cruel and frequently violates the domestic ...
Can Trump Tame the Pentagon?
Post Date: 2017-01-17 06:29:14 by Ada
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Will Donald Trump keep his campaign promise to end America’s wasteful wars overseas? Since he’s stated he knows more than America’s generals, will he rein them in? Will he bring major reforms to the military-industrial complex, or will he be nothing but talk and tweets? At Trump’s first news conference as president-elect, he had little to say about the military, except once again to complain about the high cost of the F-35 jet fighter program. The questions asked of him dealt mainly with Russia, hacking, potential conflicts of interest, and Obamacare. These are important issues, but how Trump will handle the Pentagon and his responsibilities as commander-in-chief are ...
WILL THE CIA ASSASSINATE TRUMP? RON PAUL WARNS OF “MORE POWERFUL, SHADOW GOVERNMENT”
Post Date: 2017-01-15 17:51:22 by Ada
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Trump is treading dangerous waters, and risks the fate of JFK It isn’t just that Donald Trump routinely thumbs his nose at the establishment, insults media figures he sees as unfair and bucks conventional wisdom. It is that President-elect Trump is defying the will of the deep state, military industrial complex base of ultimate power in the United States. That is why he is treading dangerous waters, and risks the fate of JFK. Trump publicly dissed the intelligence community assessments on Russian hacking; they retaliated with a made up dossier about the alleged Trump- Putin ‘golden shower’ episode. twitter.com/Cr azyGoose/status/818972364084015105 While it may be a silly ...
Trump may be a 'clown,' but he was right about the media: Rolling Stone journalist
Post Date: 2017-01-15 14:13:35 by Ada
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U.S. political journalist Matt Taibbi is very clear about the fact that he doesn't like Donald Trump. Still, the Rolling Stone columnist says the president-elect got more than a few things right during an election campaign that brought to the forefront America's struggles with racism, class divide and economic stagnation. Taibbi, author of Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus, which hits shelves Jan. 17, sat down with The National's Wendy Mesley to talk about the billionaire New Yorker's unexpected rise to power in an increasingly polarized United States. One of Trump's gambles that really paid off, according to Taibbi, was painting a target on the ...
CIA director warns Trump to watch what he says, be careful on Russia
Post Date: 2017-01-15 14:09:54 by Ada
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director John Brennan on Sunday had a stern parting message for Republican Donald Trump days before he assumes the U.S. presidency, cautioning him against loosening sanctions on Russia and warning him to watch what he says. Brennan rebuked the president-elect for comparing U.S. intelligence practices to Nazi Germany in comments that laid bare the friction between Trump and the intelligence community he has criticized and is on the verge of commanding. In an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Brennan questioned the message sent to the world if the president-elect broadcasts that he does not have confidence in the United States' own intelligence ...
D.C. National Guard Chief Fired Days Before Trump Inauguration: "The Timing Is Extremely Unusual"
Post Date: 2017-01-14 15:08:56 by Bill D Berger
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"It doesn’t make sense to can the general in the middle of an active deployment," rages D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) after Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz, who heads the D.C. National Guard and is an integral part of overseeing the inauguration, has been ordered removed from command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president. As The Washington Post reports, Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz’s departure will come in the midst of the presidential ceremony, classified as a national special security event — and while thousands of his troops are deployed to help protect the nation’s capital during an inauguration he has ...
Home About Antiwar.com Donate Blog US Casualties Contact Latest News Trump’s Enemies Pushing Him Toward Conflict With Russia
Post Date: 2017-01-14 06:36:29 by Ada
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"Fake news!" roared Donald Trump, the work of "sick people." The president-elect was referring to a 35-page dossier of lurid details of his alleged sexual misconduct in Russia, worked up by a former British spy. A two-page summary of the 35 pages had been added to Trump’s briefing by the CIA and FBI – and then leaked to CNN. This is "something that Nazi Germany would have done," Trump said. Here, basically, is the story. During the primaries, anti-Trump Republicans hired the ex-spy to do "oppo research" on Trump, i.e., to dig up dirt. The spy contacted the Russians. They told him that Trump, at a Moscow hotel in 2013, had been engaged ...
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